Talk:Om Records

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What about People Under the Stairs? They were on OM..

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Here're more sources! Please update accordingly w/ text below. Your page is out of date and incorrect in some areas. Please see below for the update w/ change requests for each section. Thanks. https://celebrityaccess.com/2020/07/24/interview-gunnar-hissam/ https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/om-records-hits-25-years-keeping-sf-and-beyond-dancing https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/industry-insider-om-records-label-manager-partner-gunnar-hissam/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakocay/2020/07/10/exclusive-track-by-track-om-records--25-years-anniversary-compilation/#219bb3a973ce https://www.sfweekly.com/music/san-franciscos-om-records-celebrates-25-years/ https://www.spin.com/2020/06/kaskade-gets-nostalgic-for-om-records-golden-days-on-when-im-with-you-with-colette/

New Bio for 25th Anniversary below...please update!

Om Records – 25 Years (The Story Thus Far)

1995 – 2000

Om Records started on San Francisco’s Haight Street above Tweekin’ Records by founders Chris Smith and Steve Gray as a response to the cross pollination of music happening in San Francisco at that time with the mission to find, release and promote music that was refined, innovative and always pushing boundaries. Originally created as a record label and multimedia company, Om was one of the first electronic music labels in the world and one of the first in America. The first seven Om releases had a music and digital enhanced media component including the critically acclaimed ‘Mushroom Jazz’ album that put Om officially on the map. Originally released as one of the first ever continuous DJ mixes on CD by Mark Farina, Mushroom Jazz introduced Blue Boy’s Remember Me to a massive audience and also included a bonus CD Rom with a remix program and in-depth interviews with like-minded DJs and artists of the day including James Lavelle and Gilles Peterson. The success of Mushroom Jazz enabled Om to grow and branch out beyond the little bubble of cool that was San Francisco in the 90’s.

Moving into a larger office on Minna Street in downtown San Francisco, Steve Gray left Om in the hands of Chris Smith who hired two partners, John Cornett and Kiri Eschelle, to help him grow the label into more than just a tech and music entity and into a full-fledged record company signing artists and putting out original singles and albums. John helped build up Om’s robust music licensing department and Kiri launched the distribution arm getting Om’s music readily available worldwide. It was around this time that Kiri met Gunnar Hissam in Tampa, FL on the original Mushroom Jazz tour. Gunnar (then a student at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg) was a hip-hop program director at the local college station and had relationships with all the record stores in the area. An idea was born to create the Om rep program which helped get representatives for Om in all the major markets throughout the country. These reps worked to promote the artists and helped grow the label as they dove deeper into signing their first roster including Eighty Mile Beach, Naked Music NYC, Terra Deva and Soulstice.

2000-2010

At the turn of the century Om moved into the eclectic office at the now infamous Post Tool Building on Van Ness and Duboce in San Francisco. It was at this time that Gunnar (now a college grad) officially came on board as the in-house publicist and Om commenced its years of steady growth signing its first hip-hop group, People Under The Stairs and commencing to release a prolific amount of artist projects and developing mix compilation brands including Sounds of Om and Om Lounge. Both of which were formed from club nights in SF and morphed into national tours.

It was around this time that Chris hired a young man from Chicago named Ryan Raddon to be his production assistant. Ryan would go on to slip his demo into the stack of new stuff to listen to which would eventually become Kaskade’s debut album ‘It’s You, It’s Me’, another milestone for the label that had now reached 100 releases and counting. Numerous shows, including a monthly SF residency at DNA Lounge and a legendary weekly happy hour at Wish, helped further imprint Om into the landscape of San Francisco. Om became synonymous with club culture and very much a heavyweight in the global dance scene. Massive Sounds of Om Tours and showcases around the world began happening, with the crown jewel each year happening in Miami at the Winter Music Conference. It was around this time that John and Kiri left the day to day duties at Om and Gunnar and Chris kept on going with Chris manning the A&R duties and Gunnar handling publicity and marketing. This was a time of introspection for the label as they branched out into sub labels including Om Hip Hop under the direction of label manager Jonathan McDonald as well as signing breakbeat juggernaut Bassnectar and shifting from physical to digital in the era of Napster and iTunes changing the landscape for what a music company meant at the turn of the century. It was at this time that social media was born and artists began being signed by their numbers online and a whole new era began

2010-2020

The most recent decade has had Om jumping around SF three more times, once on third Street near the Giants Ballpark and a short-lived office / event space in the Dogpatch aptly nicknamed Om Studios and landing at their current home on Bryant Street in an artist studio space in the old Best Foods Mayonnaise Factory. It is this era where Om’s development of artists has grown even more diverse signing Brooklyn’s Body Language off a Myspace demo and San Francisco’s Blackbird Blackbird as well as earning their first Grammy nomination for Groove Armada’s ‘Black Light’ album. Concentrating more on the clubs and promotions side, Chris stepped away from Om to focus more time on opening up three new venues in San Francisco, including night clubs Monarch and The Great Northern and launching a restaurant The Pawn Shop. Gunnar, now head of A&R and label manager / partner signed Atlanta’s Reptile Room after they submitted a demo of their hit song ‘Talk’ through the label’s website. Other artists releasing acclaimed music during this era include TWINKIDS, Rocket Empire and The Jazzual Suspects. Now 700 releases and counting Om celebrates 25 years in the game. Before labels like Dirtybird, OWSLA, Monstercat, etc there was Om. Legends in the game and survivors of the past twenty-five years, Om has withstood 911, the Dot Com bubble and burst, Napster, the birth and impending death of downloads, the recession and now a global pandemic. Still here releasing great music!

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Need to add the following artists to artists section: TWINKIDS Reptile Room The Jazzual Suspects Body Language Blackbird Blackbird Shiny Objects

Need to remove: Indiana Taurus (not an Om artist) Matt Edwards (not and Om artist)

Need to add to key people: Kiri Eschelle Gunnar Hissam

Please add link to discography: https://www.om-records.com/discogs

20:28, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * - Completely unsourced. Please provide relieable sources next time. Victor Schmidt (talk) 12:50, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

please update. thanks!
Here're more sources! Please update accordingly w/ text below. Your page is out of date and incorrect in some areas. Please see below for the update w/ change requests for each section. Thanks. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/om-records-hits-25-years-keeping-sf-and-beyond-dancing https://celebrityaccess.com/2020/07/24/interview-gunnar-hissam/ https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/industry-insider-om-records-label-manager-partner-gunnar-hissam/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakocay/2020/07/10/exclusive-track-by-track-om-records--25-years-anniversary-compilation/#219bb3a973ce https://www.sfweekly.com/music/san-franciscos-om-records-celebrates-25-years/ https://www.spin.com/2020/06/kaskade-gets-nostalgic-for-om-records-golden-days-on-when-im-with-you-with-colette/

New Bio for 25th Anniversary below...please update!

Om Records – 25 Years (The Story Thus Far)

1995 – 2000

Om Records started on San Francisco’s Haight Street above Tweekin’ Records by founders Chris Smith and Steve Gray as a response to the cross pollination of music happening in San Francisco at that time with the mission to find, release and promote music that was refined, innovative and always pushing boundaries. Originally created as a record label and multimedia company, Om was one of the first electronic music labels in the world and one of the first in America. The first seven Om releases had a music and digital enhanced media component including the critically acclaimed ‘Mushroom Jazz’ album that put Om officially on the map. Originally released as one of the first ever continuous DJ mixes on CD by Mark Farina, Mushroom Jazz introduced Blue Boy’s Remember Me to a massive audience and also included a bonus CD Rom with a remix program and in-depth interviews with like-minded DJs and artists of the day including James Lavelle and Gilles Peterson. The success of Mushroom Jazz enabled Om to grow and branch out beyond the little bubble of cool that was San Francisco in the 90’s.

Moving into a larger office on Minna Street in downtown San Francisco, Steve Gray left Om in the hands of Chris Smith who hired two partners, John Cornett and Kiri Eschelle, to help him grow the label into more than just a tech and music entity and into a full-fledged record company signing artists and putting out original singles and albums. John helped build up Om’s robust music licensing department and Kiri launched the distribution arm getting Om’s music readily available worldwide. It was around this time that Kiri met Gunnar Hissam in Tampa, FL on the original Mushroom Jazz tour. Gunnar (then a student at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg) was a hip-hop program director at the local college station and had relationships with all the record stores in the area. An idea was born to create the Om rep program which helped get representatives for Om in all the major markets throughout the country. These reps worked to promote the artists and helped grow the label as they dove deeper into signing their first roster including Eighty Mile Beach, Naked Music NYC, Terra Deva and Soulstice.

2000-2010

At the turn of the century Om moved into the eclectic office at the now infamous Post Tool Building on Van Ness and Duboce in San Francisco. It was at this time that Gunnar (now a college grad) officially came on board as the in-house publicist and Om commenced its years of steady growth signing its first hip-hop group, People Under The Stairs and commencing to release a prolific amount of artist projects and developing mix compilation brands including Sounds of Om and Om Lounge. Both of which were formed from club nights in SF and morphed into national tours.

It was around this time that Chris hired a young man from Chicago named Ryan Raddon to be his production assistant. Ryan would go on to slip his demo into the stack of new stuff to listen to which would eventually become Kaskade’s debut album ‘It’s You, It’s Me’, another milestone for the label that had now reached 100 releases and counting. Numerous shows, including a monthly SF residency at DNA Lounge and a legendary weekly happy hour at Wish, helped further imprint Om into the landscape of San Francisco. Om became synonymous with club culture and very much a heavyweight in the global dance scene. Massive Sounds of Om Tours and showcases around the world began happening, with the crown jewel each year happening in Miami at the Winter Music Conference. It was around this time that John and Kiri left the day to day duties at Om and Gunnar and Chris kept on going with Chris manning the A&R duties and Gunnar handling publicity and marketing. This was a time of introspection for the label as they branched out into sub labels including Om Hip Hop under the direction of label manager Jonathan McDonald as well as signing breakbeat juggernaut Bassnectar and shifting from physical to digital in the era of Napster and iTunes changing the landscape for what a music company meant at the turn of the century. It was at this time that social media was born and artists began being signed by their numbers online and a whole new era began

2010-2020

The most recent decade has had Om jumping around SF three more times, once on third Street near the Giants Ballpark and a short-lived office / event space in the Dogpatch aptly nicknamed Om Studios and landing at their current home on Bryant Street in an artist studio space in the old Best Foods Mayonnaise Factory. It is this era where Om’s development of artists has grown even more diverse signing Brooklyn’s Body Language off a Myspace demo and San Francisco’s Blackbird Blackbird as well as earning their first Grammy nomination for Groove Armada’s ‘Black Light’ album. Concentrating more on the clubs and promotions side, Chris stepped away from Om to focus more time on opening up three new venues in San Francisco, including night clubs Monarch and The Great Northern and launching a restaurant The Pawn Shop. Gunnar, now head of A&R and label manager / partner signed Atlanta’s Reptile Room after they submitted a demo of their hit song ‘Talk’ through the label’s website. Other artists releasing acclaimed music during this era include TWINKIDS, Rocket Empire and The Jazzual Suspects. Now 700 releases and counting Om celebrates 25 years in the game. Before labels like Dirtybird, OWSLA, Monstercat, etc there was Om. Legends in the game and survivors of the past twenty-five years, Om has withstood 911, the Dot Com bubble and burst, Napster, the birth and impending death of downloads, the recession and now a global pandemic. Still here releasing great music!

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Need to add the following artists to artists section: TWINKIDS Reptile Room The Jazzual Suspects Body Language Blackbird Blackbird Shiny Objects

Need to remove: Indiana Taurus (not an Om artist) Matt Edwards (not and Om artist)

Need to add to key people: Kiri Eschelle Gunnar Hissam

Please add link to discography: https://www.om-records.com/discogs

20:28, 15 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunnarhissam (talk • contribs)
 * ❌ More sources please. {&#123;3125A &#124; talk &#125;} 02:19, 17 July 2020 (UTC)


 * There are no sources in your text, What we mean by "no sources" is no sources in the text, not outside.

{&#123;3125A &#124; talk &#125;} 18:26, 29 July 2020 (UTC) There are links above the bio that all contain sources. You can update as you see necessary. Regardless, your bio is out of date and missing new artists and has incorrectinformation listed. Up to you if you'd like to rewrite the post so it's accurate and user the links above to the sources or not. No conflict of interest, I'm just sending you info to help you out so you have an accurate page. Do with it as you see fit. I'll keep sending you outside links to press so you have everything you need to update. Thanks!


 * "There are links above the bio that all contain sources. " No, put the sources inside the text. And "No conflict of interest" are you sure? You said "Need to add to key people: Kiri Eschelle Gunnar Hissam". "Gunnarhissam" is your wikiname. {&#123;3125A &#124;  talk &#125;} 15:20, 30 July 2020 (UTC) Plus, you are NOT adding sources INSIDE the text.  {&#123;3125A &#124;  talk &#125;} 15:20, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Do you see how they are outlined in the existing bio? Just added the link to the article that came out in the SF Chronicle today. I added referenceces but not sure if I did it correctly. Would appreciate your help there. I'm just passing the info your way so you have an update page. Feel free to not include my name if it's a conflict of interest. I'm just helping you all out by passing along press sources so you can update the page. Thank you! ]I added it but not sure how to do it, I appreciate your help with that please. Thank you!

Can you PLEASE stop adding content inside my message? That's called changing talk page messages and it is NOT allowed. You are so annoying. I bet you will add one on the inside of this, too! {&#123;3125A &#124; talk &#125;} 13:18, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Sources previously listed here
For some reason some sources I found four years ago in the AfD discussion were removed from this talk page by


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 * Anyway, they may be of use.  78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 13:26, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * He is very annoying though. Keeps changing my talk page messages by adding content, and not in a clear way as well. {&#123;3125A &#124; talk &#125;} 13:19, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

References for updating Article on Om
Hi Gang,

Just passing these references your way. Please feel free to update the Om article accordingly.

Billboard - https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/9439717/om-records-label-spotlight SF Chronicle - Web (version): https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/om-records-hits-25-years-keeping-sf-and-beyond-dancing SF Chronicle - Print (version): https://www.dropbox.com/s/2k8x3ii151kvist/SFChronicle_080320_Print.pdf?dl=0 SPIN - https://www.spin.com/2020/06/kaskade-gets-nostalgic-for-om-records-golden-days-on-when-im-with-you-with-colette/ Celebrity Access - https://celebrityaccess.com/2020/07/24/interview-gunnar-hissam/ Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakocay/2020/07/10/exclusive-track-by-track-om-records--25-years-anniversary-compilation/#324d949873ce Magnetic Magazine - https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/industry-insider-om-records-label-manager-partner-gunnar-hissam/ SF Weekly - https://www.sfweekly.com/music/san-franciscos-om-records-celebrates-25-years/

Cheers, G — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunnarhissam (talk • contribs) 22:00, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but there is not enough references. {&#123;3125A &#124; talk &#125;} 15:37, 2 September 2020 (UTC)