How to Get Signed to Innervisions

To get signed to Innervisions you need a record the label could build a year around. Dixon and Âme founded it in Berlin in 2005 and it has stayed deliberately small ever since — very few releases, each one a decision. That scarcity is the entire brief: Innervisions is not looking for a good record, it is looking for one that justifies being one of the handful it puts out.

This guide covers what the A&R listens for, what the catalogue tells you, and how to submit.

The Label

Innervisions is a Berlin electronic music label founded in 2005 by Dixon and Âme (Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann). It is the most curated operation in deep house and one of the most influential labels of the last two decades — a catalogue small enough that regular listeners know all of it.

Unusually for a label at this level, Innervisions runs a public demo portal. That is a genuine open door, and it means the odds are less about access than they are about the record.

What Their A&R Wants

A record with a long arc. Innervisions releases are built to be played across a set rather than dropped into one. Arrangement over eight or ten minutes, with patience, is the house style — the closest thing the label has to one.

Emotional restraint. The catalogue's signature is tension that never fully resolves. A euphoric peak is usually the wrong instinct here; a record that stays slightly unresolved is much closer.

Sound design that stands up to scrutiny. With this few releases, every element gets heard. Thin pads and generic presets are exposed immediately.

Something you could not have made by following a template. This is the label that broke "Howling — Hunger" and Âme's "Rej". Those records were not obvious when they arrived, and that is the standard.

What the Catalogue Tells You

Deep house is the label's genre tag but the catalogue reaches well beyond it — melodic, atmospheric, sometimes closer to song than to club music. Listen to a full recent release rather than a chart clip: the arrangement is the thing being judged and it does not show up in ninety seconds.

For the wider German market see German record labels accepting demos, and for the melodic lane melodic techno labels accepting demos.

How to Submit

Open the label's profile — Innervisions in the directory
Upload a finished master — WAV, release-quality. Send the full-length arrangement, not an edit — the arc is what is being assessed.
Write three sentences, not a biography — name a recent release, say why your record sits next to it, and stop
Submit for €2 — the demo goes to A&R with a 7-day feedback deadline
Read the feedback — production quality, originality and marketability scores, plus written notes

If they pass, you still get the notes. That is the part cold email cannot give you.

Submit your demo to Innervisions →

FAQ

Does Innervisions accept demos?

Yes. Innervisions accepts demos and is one of the few labels at its level to run a public submission portal, which is linked from its profile in our directory. The access is genuinely open; the bar is the record.

What kind of records does Innervisions sign?

Deep house in the broadest sense — melodic, atmospheric, long-form, and emotionally restrained. The label releases very little, so what it does sign tends to be distinctive rather than functional.

How long should an Innervisions demo be?

Full length. Eight to ten minutes is normal for the catalogue, and the arrangement is a large part of what is being judged. A radio edit removes the thing they are listening for.

Where to Go Next

German record labels accepting demos covers Diynamic, Keinemusik, Afterlife and Moon Harbour — several of which release far more frequently than Innervisions and are correspondingly more realistic targets.