From the old indie folk label site to the new guide
The old site on this domain was an indie folk and world music label site, and the new site you are reading is the guide that stands in its place, a new, unaffiliated project built in 2026 that documents the same independent scene without claiming the old site's catalogue. The earlier site ran from 2002 to 2023, a span of 22 years, and its homepage title in the earliest capture was the plain name of the label, and the successor page for the old label topic is the independent labels guide on this site. The line between the two is the line this page draws: the old site was the label, the new site is the reference on the scene the label was part of. This page follows the path from the old label site to the new guide, from the archive record and the 2026 build, and it is clear that the new project did not exist before 2026 and does not own the old catalogue.
This is the bridge: it names the old label site, explains what the new guide is, and shows how the old label topic now lives in the independent labels guide rather than in a rebuilt old catalogue.
What the old label site was
What the old label site was is the address that ran from 2002 to 2023, and the capture record is the source for what it was. The homepage title in the 2002 capture was the plain name of the label, and in 2013 the title carried a Japanese home page marker, which is the sign of the import side of the site. The old site documented the world, folk and jam music of the small label scene, and it was a label site, the kind of address that carries the catalogue and the news of the scene. The 3535 captures and 400 paths in the record are the whole of what is documented, and the old label site is the era those numbers describe. The old site was the label, and it is the thing the new guide stands in for, with the line between the two kept where the record puts it.
What the new guide is
What the new guide is is the 2026 project, and it is a standing reference on the independent world, folk and jam music and the small label scene that releases and distributes it. The new guide is not the old label, and it does not present itself as the former owner of the old site, and it makes no catalogue claim, because no artist on the old site is presented as a release the new site owns or sells. The new guide is built in 2026, and it did not exist before 2026, and it is a new, unaffiliated project on the same domain. The guide covers the genres, the labels, the distribution, and the circuit of the scene, and it is the reference that stands in the place the old label site once held. The new guide is the scene, and the old label was one part of it, and the guide documents the scene without taking on the old catalogue.
How the old label topic lives in the new guide
How the old label topic lives in the new guide is in the independent labels guide, which is the successor page for the old label topic. The old label site was an independent label, and the new guide's page on the independent record label is where the label topic now lives, as one part of the small label scene rather than as the whole of the address. The new guide maps the scene with the city labels, the genre labels, and the distribution, and the old label's place in that map is as one of the independent labels the scene carries, not as the owner of the site. The topic moves from the old address's whole to the new guide's part, and that is the bridge this page draws. The old label topic is now a section of the guide, and the guide is the new home for the subject the old site was built on.
The line between the old site and the new site
The line between the old site and the new site is the 2026 build, and it is the line this page keeps clear. The old site ran from 2002 to 2023, and the new site was built in 2026 as a new, unaffiliated project on the same domain, and it did not exist before 2026. The new site is not the old label, it does not own the old catalogue, and it does not present any of the old artists as a release it sells, and it carries no notice tied to the old site's events. The line is the difference between the label that was and the reference that is, and the new guide stands on the same address and writes about the same scene, with the old site's catalogue left where the record and the 2026 build put it. The bridge is the move from the old label topic to the new guide, and the line is the thing the bridge crosses without blurring, which is the role this page plays.