Independent record label · Bristol · est. 2019

Dead
wax

Music pressed to last. Six releases a year, cut on our own lathe, signed in the runout groove.

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Vera Lindqvist · DWX-006 · 2026

Catalogue

The roster

Three artists.
No filler.

Vera Lindqvist

Vera Lindqvist

Gothenburg-born, Bristol-based. Writes in the hour before sunrise; records everything live to tape, mistakes included — that's where the songs live.

Okko Salmi

Okko Salmi

Builds slow-burning machine music from a wall of patched cables in Tampere. Two albums with us; neither has a single edit.

The Marlowe Division

The Marlowe Division

Three-piece from the harbourside. Songs about buildings, rain and the last bus home. Louder live than the records let on.

The deadwax

Every record leaves signed.

The deadwax is the silent band at the end of the groove, where the lathe stops cutting music and starts keeping secrets. Ours carries a hand-scratched message on every pressing.

  • DWX-001"PLAY LOUD, DRIVE SLOW"
  • DWX-002"REPETITION IS A FORM OF CHANGE"
  • DWX-003"FOR THE ONES WHO WALKED"
  • DWX-004"WE WERE NEVER ON AIR"
  • DWX-005"CUT IN FOG"
  • DWX-006"ONE WINDOW WAS ENOUGH"
The Deadwax cutting lathe engraving a lacquer disc
THE LATHE · UNIT 12, HARBOURSIDE · WHERE EVERY DWX BEGINS