Rinse FM reveals Ingram, its newest record label

After dominating the capital’s airwaves for over three decades, London-based community radio station Rinse FM is once again branching out with the unveiling of Ingram, their newest in-house label. The fifth imprint from Rinse, Ingram promises to venture beyond the station’s known brand of bass-heavy garage, grime, and dance and instead focus on the more niche corners of electronica. 

The label is making its first splash with a launch party at 100-capacity Dalston basement club Cu on Wednesday 9th July, followed by the release of its first single ‘Business’, a heavy, brooding track from prolific producer Fold, on Thursday 10th July. Geeneus, the station’s co-founder, suggested that Ingram’s direction will differ from Rinse’s previous imprints, and “will go into more of what we see as a future sound.” 

Founded by Geeneus and DJ Slimzee in 1994, Rinse FM operated as a pirate radio station until 2010 and has helped popularise some of the defining sounds of the last three decades, from grime to dubstep. The station’s first broadcast took place in Tower Hamlets at Ingram House, the namesake of the new label. 

Tickets for the launch party at Cu are accessible via sign-ups here. 

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