WM Recordings is a Heerlen

Heerlen

Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the province of Limburg. It forms part of Parkstad Limburg, , an agglomeration of about 220,000 inhabitants.After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen...

, the Netherlands based 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 in 2004

2004 in music

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 by Marco Kalnenek, who was also involved with Comfort Stand Recordings.
Kalnenek also is the webmaster of Weirdomusic.com, a website nominated for a Webby Award in 2004.

WM Recordings focuses on music that is, in their own words, "a little different".
They do not specialize in one style, but release anything from free jazz

Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

 to experimental soundscapes

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

, world music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

 and other styles that are often neglected by other netlabels.

Initially most releases were freely available in MP3

MP3

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 format. These include downloadable artwork, liner notes and other relevant information. More than ninety free albums have been released so far.

In 2007 WM Recordings started adding commercial releases to their catalog. These are available from most major download stores.
August 2008 saw the release of their first physical CD: "Handle With Care - Might Panic" by Danish band Panicphobia.

Artists

• The Aperion Project
• Century of Aeroplanes
• CobSOn
• daghoti.
• Barbara de Dominicis
• D'r Sjaak
• Elfferich Four
• Gitarrenarmee
• Gorowski
• Happy Elf
• Keshco
• Klaz*
• konstruKt
• Jack MacDonald & The Hotel Faces
• mr melvis
• Nambavan
• Panicphobia
• Sid Peacock
• The Rabbits
• Lee Rosevere
• Ton Rückert
• Jan Turkenburg
• Weirdomusic
• Zloty Dawai

CD releases

• Panicphobia - Handle With Care - Might Panic [WMIT1009. august 2008]
• Jack MacDonald & The Hotel Faces - Funky On Up [WMIT1011. december 2008]
• konstruKt - Akustikelektrik [WMIT1015. january 2009]