Perfecto Records is a United Kingdom based Trance

Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...

 record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 founded by Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold

Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...

 in 1989.

History

Perfecto was founded by electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 record producer and DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold

Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...

 in 1989. At the time, house music

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

 and the balearic

Balearic Beat

Balearic Beat or either Balearic House and Balearic Trance is an eclectic blend of DJed dance music that originally emerged in the mid-1980s. It later became the name of a more specific style of electronic dance music that was popular into the mid-1990s...

 style was beginning to break into the mainstream and Oakenfold was working as an A&R man for Champion Records

Champion Records

The name Champion Records has been used by at least four record labels.An early Champion label was produced by Gennett Records as an inexpensive label that featured country or "hillbilly" artists, as well as popular bands, hot jazz and blues...

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Perfecto has released singles and albums from such artists as BT, Tilt

Tilt (producers)

Tilt is a British group of electronic record producers, composed of Andy Moor and Mick Parks.Tilt was started in Coventry, England by Mick Parks and Mick Wilson. They became resident DJs at Eclipse, one of the early 1990s rave dance clubs. During their time at Eclipse, they met Sasha, who...

, Robert Vadney and Carl Cox

Carl Cox

Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...

, as well as mix albums from Sandra Collins

Sandra Collins

Sandra Collins is an American DJ.She got her start on the West Coast of the U.S. in Phoenix, Arizona and into residencies in Los Angeles, and eventually moved towards trance. She used American producers to give herself a unique sound...

, Seb Fontaine

Seb Fontaine

Seb Fontaine is an English house music DJ.Fontaine had his first DJ gig at Crazy Larry's on the Kings Road, London, but he soon progressed to residency at the Fridge in Brixton in 1989....

, DJ Skribble

DJ Skribble

DJ Skribble is an Italian-American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor.In the early 1990s he teamed up with Kamron, ATA, Firstborn, and Tommy Never in Young Black Teenagers, who released two albums before splitting up.In 1996 he worked with Bill Irwin on the musical Hip Hop Wonderland...

, and Oakenfold himself. The most well-known of their artist album releases is A Lively Mind

A Lively Mind

A Lively Mind is the second artist album from the British dance music DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold. The album is the follow-up to Oakenfold's 2002 debut Bunkka...

, by Oakenfold.

Artists

• Adam White
• Amoeba Assassin
• Astrix
  Astrix
  Astrix is a Psychedelic trance DJ and producer specialising in the sub-genre of Full On Psychedelic Trance....
  
  
• Beatman and Ludmilla
• BT
• DJ Skribble
  DJ Skribble
  DJ Skribble is an Italian-American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor.In the early 1990s he teamed up with Kamron, ATA, Firstborn, and Tommy Never in Young Black Teenagers, who released two albums before splitting up.In 1996 he worked with Bill Irwin on the musical Hip Hop Wonderland...
  
  
• Dezarate & Michel Manzano
• Dope Smugglaz
• Elucidate
  Elucidate
  Elucidate is a trance duo based in the US. The Elucidate DJ and record producer team is made up of Ken Loi and Sean Beckwith. Since 2005 they have produced and performed together, releasing numerous trance songs and remixes on a wide variety of labels....
  
  
• Emjay
• Grace
• Hernan Cattaneo
  Hernán Cattáneo
  - Biography :Hernán Cattáneo was born in Buenos Aires, where he grew up listening to bands like Simply Red, Level 42, Depeche Mode and New Order while carefully studying Billboard magazine, the only source of information that was readily available at the time. In 1987, one of his friends visited...
  
  
• Infected Mushroom
  Infected Mushroom
  Infected Mushroom is an Israeli psychedelic trance DJ act and electronic group originally formed in late 1997 as a duo by producers Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani in Haifa...
  
  
• Jan Johnston
  Jan Johnston
  Jan Johnston is an English professional singer, best known for collaborating with some of the world's top trance music DJs.-Career:...
  
  
• Jelle Boufon
• Kenneth Thomas
• Liam Shachar
• Magnif
• Man With No Name
  Martin Freeland
  Martin Freeland, also known as Man With No Name or M.W.N.N., is a British Goa trance artist and one of the defining artists of the Genre. Originally a techno record producer, Freeland changed style at the beginning of the 1990s....
  
  
• Minds of Men
• Mystica
  Mystica (band)
  Mystica are Avi Peer, Joseph Master and Charlie Ben-moha, a Goa trance project from Israel.Mystica are Avi Peer, Yossi Master and Charlie Ben-Moha, all around the age of 30 and working together making trance music since 1996. They come from the town Ashdod in the south of Israel...
  
  
• Nat Monday
• Paul Oakenfold
  Paul Oakenfold
  Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
  
  
• Perfecto Allstarz
• PPK
  PPK (group)
  PPK is a notable Russian trance duo that was based primarily in Rostov-on-Don.The group consisted of Sergei Pimenov and Alexander Polyakov. PPK name is the acronym of founding members' initials, K was for short-time member DJ Kordj ....
  
  
• Quivver (John Graham)
  John Graham (producer)
  John Graham is a British record producer, songwriter, vocalist who is also known under the pseudonyms "Quivver" "Skanna" "Stoneproof" and "Space Manoeuvres". He was a former member of music production team Tilt. More recently, he has recorded and toured with the Welsh electronic group,...
  
  
• Robert Vadney
• Sandra Collins
  Sandra Collins
  Sandra Collins is an American DJ.She got her start on the West Coast of the U.S. in Phoenix, Arizona and into residencies in Los Angeles, and eventually moved towards trance. She used American producers to give herself a unique sound...
  
  
• Seb Fontaine
  Seb Fontaine
  Seb Fontaine is an English house music DJ.Fontaine had his first DJ gig at Crazy Larry's on the Kings Road, London, but he soon progressed to residency at the Fridge in Brixton in 1989....
  
  
• Teexie Deexie / Zdenek
• The Fraction
• Tilt
  Tilt (producers)
  Tilt is a British group of electronic record producers, composed of Andy Moor and Mick Parks.Tilt was started in Coventry, England by Mick Parks and Mick Wilson. They became resident DJs at Eclipse, one of the early 1990s rave dance clubs. During their time at Eclipse, they met Sasha, who...
  
  
• Timo Maas
  Timo Maas
  Timo Maas is an electronic music DJ/producer and remixer.-Career:Maas bought his first set of turntables at the age of 17, and played his very first DJ set in 1982 at a party in his friend's home...
  
  
• U2
  U2
  U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
  
  
• Wild Colour

External links

• Perfecto Records — official website
• Perfecto Records discography at Discogs
  Discogs
  Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...