Disclosure Debut Underground EDM Label “Method White”
Yesterday, Disclosure announced the creation of Method White, their own personal label under which music that appeals to “the best of the best of underground electronic music” will now be released.
Method White’s first official song was “Wolfsbane” by Swedish DJ Jonas Rathsman, a deep disco track characterized by a synth bassline that has already garnered more than 33,000 plays on Soundcloud.
The creators of hit songs “Latch” and “You and Me” debuted the single on Pete Tong’s BBC Radio 1 show on Friday night, thus announcing the beginning of the new label. Method White will be an imprint of the already existing Method Records, Disclosure’s other label.
Listen to Jonas Rathsman’s “Wolfsbane” below and let us know what you think of Method White’s first release:
https://soundcloud.com/method-white/jonas-rathsman-wolfsbane
Here’s the official announcement on Disclosure’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/disclosureuk/posts/933017336731859
Disclosure is also busy curating WILDLIFE Music Festival along with Rudimental. The festival, whose lineup has brought rave amongst the music industry, will take place June 6 and 7 at Brighton City Airport in England.
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Why Disclosure Wanted A Second Label In The First Place
Method Records had already given Disclosure a way to put out their own material and champion friends in the scene, but Method White was built specifically as an outlet for rawer, club-focused underground music that didn’t necessarily fit the poppier, radio-ready sound the Lawrence brothers had become known for after “Latch” and “You and Me” blew up. Handing the label’s first release to Jonas Rathsman made sense, too, since his deep, disco-tinged house sound was exactly the kind of underground energy Disclosure wanted the imprint to represent from day one.
Debuting “Wolfsbane” on Pete Tong’s Radio 1 show was also a smart move. Tong’s show has been one of the most respected launchpads for new dance music in the UK for years, and getting a brand new label’s first single played there gave Method White instant credibility with tastemakers before it even had a chance to build a catalog.
Jonas Rathsman went on to keep building his own catalog of house and disco cuts in the years after “Wolfsbane,” continuing to work with labels across the scene. Disclosure, meanwhile, kept splitting time between their own headline-grabbing releases and using platforms like Method White and Method Records to put a spotlight on the underground artists they genuinely wanted to see win.
