Today, 6 August, 2008, we support good bands with fun ideas, like this one by Deerhoof: http://deerhoof.cashmusic.org/. Submit your own go at on of their songs. We know Jorg did: http://www.laterax.com/freshborn.mp3


Welcome to Laterax web v.4.1. We are still applying finishing touches to our new virtual home, but little by little we hope it’s becoming the exciting online base our artists deserve.

For one, it is possible to order most recent releases online again.

We hope to have the entire back catalog up and running very soon.

While we recently added short pages about some of our acts, we still advise you to go to their pages on MySpace to find out about them in great detail. These are here:

Boxes // Cheeseberger // Doktor Schnitt // Nanko // Piaz // Politics

You can also visit our profile on MySpace and join the Laterax group on Last.fm.


Laterax was founded in 2001, in the burgeoning era of web-based music access and distribution, grasping possibilities to bring music to the world-wide public. We seem to be drawn to music that would, in an earlier time and place, never have been able to make it through the maelstrom of distributors, publishers, middle men, and profit margins, but that represents an undercurrent well worth exploring.

Never afraid to make things difficult, we decided to combine this with the paradoxical and somewhat quixotic mission to salvage the inherent beauty of the touchable artifact; i.e. the actual shining silver disc or plate of wax with their accompanying covers, sleeves, booklets, stickers, and so on.

On a minimal budget, we began by releasing limited numbers of handmade CD-Rs. By the end of 2004 we apparently began to make a name, attracting the attention of a unique an varied collection of ambitious musicians and bands.

Staying true to our original vision, through perseverance and stubbornness, both Gonzo (circus) and OOR - undercurrent as well as mainstream - now call us a quality label, of which we’re incredibly proud.

We like to call ourselves a boutique label, not consistently releasing, but releasing something consistent, whenever there’s something worthwhile exploring.

Thank you for visiting our site.