Collection Development at DRAM

DRAM's current focus is building and maintaining a core collection of recordings from a distinctive set of small independent labels and archives. Among the many factors that go into the selection process, DRAM gives priority to originality, artistic merit, historical interest, relevance to the existing collection and the opportunity to preserve, restore and disseminate music that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to obtain from any other source.

DRAM Content by Label

Label Number of Albums Currently on DRAM* Number of Albums Coming to DRAM**
Albany Records 944 All upcoming releases
Artifact Recordings 25 (Complete Catalog) All upcoming releases
Cedille Records 111 All upcoming releases
Cold Blue Music 32 All upcoming releases
Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) 344 400+ LP's never released on CD
Dartmouth Archive 16 All upcoming releases
Deep Listening 27 13
Frog Peak Music 10 (Complete Catalog) All upcoming releases
innova recordings 211 100
Lovely Music 65 3
Mode Records 164 75
Mutable Music 32 All upcoming releases
New World Records 475 All upcoming releases
Open Space 24 All upcoming releases
Pogus Productions 44 15
XI 31

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Totals: 2555 616


*As of July 1, 2009
**Timelines for release of this content are still being developed.

Interested in submitting a collection to DRAM?

If you are interested in contributing content to DRAM, please contact us at answers@dramonline.org.

If we are unable to include you at the present time, we will keep your information on file for future collections. We welcome your thoughts about future additions to our resource.