Starwave Records (formerly Darkest Labyrinth and Cure) is a Tokyo based record label, distributor, and web store specializing in gothic and visual kei artists in genres such as Electro-industrial, darkwave, gothic rock, EBM, and industrial metal.

First called Cure, Starwave Records started as an Osaka-based project to release works by label-owner Kiwamu's own band BLOOD. The label changed names to Darkest Labyrinth and expanded to distribute music by international Gothic and Post-Industrial artists in Japan. In 2007 the label started to sign other artists, making its first deals with international groups such as Virgins O.R. Pigeons (Greece), Spectrum-X (Italy) and GPKism (Australia). That same year they released their first compilation record "V.A. - Darkest Labyrinth" featuring tracks from Japan's dark underground music scene.

Darkest Labyrinth reached its heyday in 2009, releasing works by a variety of international and Japanese artists. As of March 2009 Darkest Labyrinth had released 50 titles from the label and distributed 280 titles from other labels for Japanese major distribution.^[1]

In 2010, the web store rebranded itself as Starwave Records and opened a new facebook account.

The most successful artist on the label was BLOOD who had sold over 20 000 CDs.^[1]

Roster

• BLOOD
• GPKism
• Spectrum-X
• Noir du'Soleil
• SUICIDE ALI
• 2 Bullet
• Rose Noire
• Labaiser
• Seileen
• Marlee
• Takuya Angel^[2]
• Angelspit

Note: some artists are only signed to Darkest Labyrinth for Japanese releases, while they are signed to other labels for Europe, North America, etc.

Labels distributed

• Alfa Matrix
• Aural Music
• Deadscarlet Records
• Decadance records
• Sound Base Music
• Thorntree Records
• Subsound Records
• Urgence Disk
• HTD Records

See also

• List of record labels
• List of electronic music record labels

External links

• Official Site

Notes