Where to Send Your Progressive House Demo
A Label-by-Label Guide for 2026
Six underground progressive, melodic house and melodic techno labels — what each one signs, their official submission channel, and which ones aren't taking demos at all.
Knowing how to prepare a demo is only half the problem. The other half is knowing where to send it — and most producers get this wrong, blasting the same WAV to forty labels that have nothing in common except a genre tag on Beatport.
This guide covers the labels that genuinely operate in the underground progressive, melodic house and melodic techno space: what each one signs, how they want to receive music, and — just as importantly — which ones aren't open to unsolicited demos right now. If you haven't prepared your master yet, start with our demo submission guidelines first — a great track sent in the wrong format still gets deleted.
Why There Are No Email Addresses in This Guide
We've linked each label's official submission channel rather than publishing inboxes. That's deliberate, and it's worth explaining.
Label contact details go stale constantly, and a producer who emails a dead address assumes they were ignored rather than misrouted. More to the point, most of these labels are small operations already buried in submissions — publishing their inboxes on a page built to rank would make that materially worse. We're not interested in being the reason a label closes its doors to unsolicited music.
Third-party "label directory" sites list contact addresses that are user-submitted and frequently years out of date — including Bedrock addresses, when Bedrock's own site states it isn't accepting demos. Always confirm on the label's own site before sending anything.
Before You Send Anything: The 3-Label Rule
Pick three labels. Not thirty. For each one, be able to answer:
- Which release from the last six months does my track sit next to?
- Would the label boss play this in the first hour or the last hour of a set?
- Does my track's arrangement length match what they release — six minutes or ten?
If you can't answer all three, you don't know the label well enough to submit to it. That's not gatekeeping — it's the difference between a demo that gets opened and one that doesn't.
One demo-routing service rates Sudbeat's realistic listen rate at close to zero, purely on submission volume. That specific figure is an estimate, but the direction holds across this entire tier: the better known the label, the more your odds depend on genuine fit rather than persistence. Three well-chosen submissions beat thirty scattered ones every time.
Sudbeat Music — Buenos Aires, Argentina
The reference point for modern long-form progressive. Sudbeat releases lean deep, patient and heavily textured — tracks that build over eight or nine minutes rather than resolving early. If your track has a drop in the first ninety seconds, it isn't a Sudbeat record.
Send if: your arrangement is 7+ minutes, the groove is subtle, and the emotional payoff is in the back third.
How to reach them: Sudbeat doesn't publish a dedicated demo address. Contact details are listed on the label's official Facebook page, but that inbox is general business correspondence rather than A&R. Expect very long odds and no reply. Realistically, the better route into this world is releasing consistently on smaller labels the Sudbeat camp already plays.
Bedrock Records — London, UK
Running since 1999 and still one of the most consistent homes for progressive that works in a long set. Bedrock's range is wider than people assume — driving progressive, melodic techno, and deeper breaks-adjacent material.
Bedrock is not currently accepting demos. Their official site lists a demos section, and it states they aren't taking submissions at the moment. There is no form and no address to work around it.
In practice this reflects how the label operates rather than a queue that's temporarily full. At Bedrock's level A&R runs in the opposite direction: they're already across what's being played, charted and supported, and they approach artists directly.
What actually works: release consistently on labels Bedrock's orbit already supports, get your records into the hands of DJs who chart them, and build a body of work that shows up repeatedly. Artists end up on Bedrock because they were already unavoidable — not because they found the right inbox.
Selador Recordings — UK
Probably the most stylistically open of the established progressive imprints. Selador signs quirky, characterful records that other labels find too odd. If your track has an unusual vocal, a strange lead sound or a structure that breaks the rules, this is a better bet than the safer options.
Send if: your record has genuine personality and doesn't fit neatly anywhere else.
How to reach them: Selador publishes both a general enquiries address and a separate demos address on its official contact page, along with a stated policy. Their own words: they welcome demos, but with hundreds of tracks arriving daily they can't promise to hear everything. Use the demos address, not the general one.
Hope Recordings — Bristol, UK
One of the longest-running names in UK progressive, with Nick Warren long involved on the A&R side. Useful for producers whose material sits between progressive house and deeper, more melodic territory.
Send if: your track is melodic and considered rather than peak-time.
How to reach them: Hope runs a demo submission form rather than taking email, and they're specific about format — WeTransfer download links or SoundCloud links only. Use the form. Emailing a label that asked for a form is exactly the kind of instruction-ignoring that gets a demo deleted unheard.
All Day I Dream — Global
Built around a very specific mood — warm, daylit, melodic, unhurried. It is not a general melodic house label, and submissions that ignore that atmosphere get filtered out immediately. Listen to a full ADID compilation before deciding whether your record belongs.
Send if: your track would work at sunrise, outdoors, with no drop at all.
How to reach them: ADID routes contact through its official website and link-in-bio channels rather than a published demos inbox. Check alldayidream.com for current details. Addresses circulating on third-party label directories are user-submitted and unverified.
Pangea Recordings — Tampa, FL
We sign progressive house and melodic techno with a strong arrangement and a real payoff — what we've written about elsewhere as the euphoric finale. We read every submission and we reply, including when the answer is no.
How to reach us: everything you need is on our submission guidelines page. Listen to the catalog first.
When a Label Isn't Taking Demos
Bedrock isn't unusual. A meaningful share of the most established imprints in this genre either close submissions or never open them — A&R driven entirely by what the label's principals are already hearing and playing.
Producers read that as a wall. It's more useful to read it as information about where your effort should go.
📀 Release Where You Can
A catalogue on smaller labels is the raw material. Nobody gets approached on the strength of unreleased demos nobody has heard.
🎧 Get Into DJ Bags
Promos to DJs who actually play your tempo and mood. Charting with trusted DJs is the signal top-tier labels read.
🔁 Be Consistent
One good record is luck. Five over two years is a body of work — and that's what gets noticed from above.
⏳ Play The Long Game
The artists on invite-only rosters spent years being visible first. The approach came last, not first.
Reading a Label's Demo Policy Properly
Every published policy is telling you something specific. The most common instructions, and what ignoring them costs you:
| What the policy says | What it actually means |
|---|---|
| "Use the form" | Email goes to a different person, or nowhere. The form is the only route that reaches A&R. |
| "SoundCloud or WeTransfer only" | Attachments get blocked and Drive links need a login. Send what they asked for. |
| "We can't reply to everyone" | Silence is not rejection, and not an invitation to follow up three times. |
| "Not accepting demos at the moment" | Believe it. Sending anyway doesn't get you an exception — build visibility instead. |
| No published policy at all | Usually means closed to unsolicited demos. Build visibility instead of hunting for an address. |
What to Expect After You Send
| Situation | Realistic timeline | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Established label, open submissions | 4–12 weeks | One polite follow-up after 6 weeks. That's it. |
| Smaller independent label | 1–4 weeks | Follow up once after 3 weeks. |
| No reply at all | Assume no after 12 weeks | Move on. Don't re-send the same track. |
| "Not for us, send more" | — | A genuine win. Send the next one. |
The Five Mistakes That Kill Submissions
📧 Mass BCC Emails
Visible instantly. Deleted instantly. If the label name is find-and-replaced in — and especially if it's the wrong one — it reads as spam.
🔗 Links That Don't Play
Most first listens happen on a phone. A private SoundCloud link works. A Drive folder demanding sign-in doesn't. Nor does an expired WeTransfer.
🎵 Sending Three Tracks
Send one. Your best one. Sending the whole EP reads as uncertainty about which record is strongest. If they want more, they'll ask.
📁 No Name in the Filename
Use Artist - Track Name (Original Mix).wav. Every time. A file called final_v8.wav tells a label exactly how much care went in.
An unmastered mix with the loudness pushed to compensate. A squashed master sounds smaller, not bigger, and removes every option a mastering engineer has. Send a clean pre-master with real headroom, or get it properly mastered first.
🎽 Less Talking. More Mixing. — Official DJ Merch
Rep the culture while you wait to hear back. The official Pangea Recordings DJ merch collection — clothing built for DJs. Print-on-demand, ships worldwide.
One Last Thing
Labels sign relationships, not tracks. The producers on most rosters got there by submitting repeatedly over a year or two, improving visibly each time, and being easy to work with. The first submission is rarely the one that lands — it's the one that starts the conversation.
For a wider view of who's operating in this space right now, see our roundup of the best underground progressive house labels in 2026.
Ready to Submit? — Pangea Recordings
Progressive house, melodic techno, and deep techno. Underground intent only. Every submission gets listened to.