{"id":559,"date":"2024-06-13T17:46:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetpainttools.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:15:28","slug":"music-we-truly-believe-in-1000-releases-later-hardwells-vision-for-revealed-label-remains-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wetpainttools.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/music-we-truly-believe-in-1000-releases-later-hardwells-vision-for-revealed-label-remains-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"“Music We Truly Believe In”: 1,000 Releases Later, Hardwell's Vision for Revealed Label Remains the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to Hardwell<\/a>‘s Revealed Recordings, it’s all in the name. Over a decade since its inception, the label’s legacy is crystallizing not only for its deeply influential music, but also what it’s since revealed about the EDM community.<\/p>\n

Revealed launched back in 2010, a time when the relentless kickdrums of big room house uprooted tooth fillings at every major EDM festival. Its 22-year-old founder, Hardwell, emerged at the time as a buccaneering beatsmith intent on changing the fabric of the genre with unconventional mainstage anthems like “Spaceman.”<\/p>\n

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But the heyday of big room house disintegrated by 2018, the genre’s popularity cratering due to rampant saturation. Citing the pressures of a grueling tour schedule, Hardwell’s shocking indefinite hiatus threw another wrench into the Revealed rotor.<\/p>\n

The label, however, flourished. It continued to act as a magnifying glass on the dance music zeitgeist, highlighting the importance of fresh talent and strong branding. If you frequented EDM blogs at that time, odds are a large portion of the music releases bore the iconic Revealed Recordings triangle.<\/p>\n

The brand became a beacon of resilience as its proprietors refocused, signing young, hungry producers who were channeling the euphoria of electro and progressive house to mutate the genres into sounds all their own. Transformative Revealed anthems from Dyro, Paris Blohm, Thomas Newson and countless others continued to decimate every festival mainstage.<\/p>\n

A thousand releases later, there’s perhaps no one better with whom Hardwell can savor the milestone than KAAZE<\/a>, a Revealed ride-or-die who now counts a staggering 102 releases on the imprint. That means the Swedish producer is responsible for roughly a tenth of the label’s entire catalog.<\/p>\n

The mighty song that opened the floodgates of Revealed’s next era? “Move,” a mainstage banger from Hardwell and Kaaze that turns the clock back to the label’s golden era.<\/p>\n

We caught up with Hardwell to pull the yarn of his storied record label and discuss what the future holds.<\/p>\n