{
 "name": "Portuguese psytrance labels",
 "description": "Labels and imprints filed as Portuguese psytrance, with release counts as the source index states them, founders where a source names one, and the conflicts between databases.",
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "attribution": "Cyberculture — cyberculture.pt",
 "verified": "2026-09-03",
 "note": "All release counts are PsyDB's, read on 3 September 2026. Founders, cities and founding years appear only where a source states them; where there is no source the field is left empty rather than estimated.",
 "rows": [
  {
   "name": "Flow Records",
   "releases": 34,
   "active": "2000–2009",
   "founded": 2000,
   "founder": "João Garcia (Pena)",
   "city": null,
   "note": "The label describes its own path from psychedelic and progressive trance into house and techno, and states \"over 50\" releases in total — the PsyDB figure covers only the psytrance period.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "key": "psydb-flow",
     "title": "Flow Records — catalogue",
     "publisher": "PsyDB",
     "url": "https://www.psydb.net/label/flow-records/74",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    },
    {
     "key": "flow-about",
     "title": "Flow Group — About",
     "publisher": "Flow Records",
     "url": "http://www.flow-records.com/group/about",
     "kind": "primary",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Crystal Matrix",
   "releases": 13,
   "active": "2003–2006",
   "founded": 2003,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": "13 CDs, 112 tracks, 44 artists. Digital Oracle is a Crystal Matrix sublabel.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "key": "psydb-crystal",
     "title": "Crystal Matrix — catalogue",
     "publisher": "PsyDB",
     "url": "https://www.psydb.net/label/crystal-matrix/401",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    },
    {
     "key": "discogs-crystal",
     "title": "Crystal Matrix Records",
     "publisher": "Discogs",
     "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/17437-Crystal-Matrix-Records",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Ketuh Records",
   "releases": 12,
   "active": "2001–2006",
   "founded": 2000,
   "founder": "DJ P_Mac",
   "city": null,
   "note": "SOURCE CONFLICT: PsyDB files it as Portuguese; Discogs files it as Austrian and describes it as \"Portuguese-born and Austrian based\", with a Vienna address. We publish both.",
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    {
     "key": "psydb-ketuh",
     "title": "Ketuh Records — catalogue",
     "publisher": "PsyDB",
     "url": "https://www.psydb.net/label/ketuh-records/276",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    },
    {
     "key": "discogs-ketuh",
     "title": "Ketuh Records",
     "publisher": "Discogs",
     "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/13894-Ketuh-Records",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Flow Vinyl",
   "releases": 11,
   "active": "2006–",
   "founded": 2006,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": "Flow Records sublabel, EP-driven.",
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    {
     "key": "psydb-pt",
     "title": "Portugal — psytrance labels index",
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     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    },
    {
     "key": "flow-about",
     "title": "Flow Group — About",
     "publisher": "Flow Records",
     "url": "http://www.flow-records.com/group/about",
     "kind": "primary",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Spectral Records",
   "releases": 9,
   "active": "2004–2009",
   "founded": null,
   "founder": "Menog & XRC",
   "city": null,
   "note": "Discogs states \"inactive since circa 2015\", which extends the label's life well beyond the period PsyDB covers.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "key": "psydb-spectral",
     "title": "Spectral Records — catalogue",
     "publisher": "PsyDB",
     "url": "https://www.psydb.net/label/spectral-records/478",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    },
    {
     "key": "discogs-spectral",
     "title": "Spectral Records",
     "publisher": "Discogs",
     "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/24477-Spectral-Records",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Fungi Records",
   "releases": 8,
   "active": "2004–2007",
   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": "Discogs describes it as a \"Full-on trance label from Portugal\". House artists appear credited on a documented party at Aldeia do Trebilhadouro, 1 October 2005.",
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    {
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     "title": "Fungi Records — catalogue",
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    },
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     "key": "discogs-fungi",
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     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    },
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     "key": "goabase-fungi-party",
     "title": "For Music Lovers, 1 October 2005 — Aldeia do Trebilhadouro",
     "publisher": "Goabase",
     "url": "https://www.goabase.net/party/for-music-lovers/20417",
     "kind": "database",
     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Digital Oracle Records",
   "releases": 5,
   "active": "2005–2006",
   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": "Sesimbra",
   "note": "Five various-artists compilations. The self-titled first in 2005 (DOCD001); Life Stream, compiled by DJ Mixtec, in 2006 (DOCD005).",
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    {
     "key": "psydb-oracle",
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     "key": "psydb-lifestream",
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     "accessed": "2026-09-03"
    }
   ]
  },
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   "name": "Hypergate Records",
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   "active": "2007–2009",
   "founded": null,
   "founder": "Nuno Santos (Audiocrafting), DJ Eksco, Eternal Flight, Sidhartha",
   "city": "São João da Madeira",
   "note": null,
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    {
     "key": "psydb-hypergate",
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    },
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     "key": "discogs-hypergate",
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    }
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   "name": "Goagadar Magazine",
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   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": null,
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    {
     "key": "psydb-pt",
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    }
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  },
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   "name": "Sin Records",
   "releases": 3,
   "active": null,
   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": null,
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    {
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    }
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   "name": "Vortex Records",
   "releases": 3,
   "active": null,
   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": null,
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    {
     "key": "psydb-pt",
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    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Apocalypse Records",
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   "active": null,
   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": null,
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    {
     "key": "psydb-pt",
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   "name": "Hyperflow Records",
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   "active": null,
   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": "Flow Records psytrance sublabel.",
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    {
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    },
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     "url": "http://www.flow-records.com/group/about",
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    }
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   "name": "Odd Records",
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   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": null,
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    {
     "key": "psydb-pt",
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  {
   "name": "Quest4Goa Records",
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   "city": null,
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    },
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     "key": "goabase-fungi-party",
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   "name": "Trance Karma Records",
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    {
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   "name": "Urban Antidote",
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   "note": "The city comes from Bom Shanka Music's labels map, not from PsyDB.",
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   "name": "Fractal Species Records",
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    {
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    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Good Mood Records",
   "releases": 1,
   "active": "2002",
   "founded": null,
   "founder": null,
   "city": null,
   "note": "One release: Various Artists — TPP Ready To Take Off (GMR001, 2002).",
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   "name": "MidwayStation Records",
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    }
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  },
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   "name": "Quantic Chill Records",
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    {
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   "name": "604 Freaks Records",
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   "founder": null,
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   "note": "Outside the PsyDB index, whose Portugal coverage ends around 2009. Grew out of the 604 Freaks Productions collective; the label describes itself as a platform for new Goa producers. Runs Union of Freaks.",
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    }
   ]
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}