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Who is Hear No Evil?

Hear No Evil is an electronic and dance music specialist, partnering with independent labels and artists to deliver world-class operational support.

Helping you to realise your creative vision and business aspirations with clarity, consistency and professionalism.

What We Offer

While you focus on music output and creativity, we bring 25 years’ of experience and credibility in label management to take your releases from studio, to market and beyond.

A dedicated management team offering professional, detailed services that are scalable and modular.

Some of our past & present happy clients

Services:

Label Operations

  • Building release schedules

  • Product management

  • Distribution set-up

  • Metadata management

  • Delivery of releases to the DSPs

  • Rollout strategies

  • Marketing/promo plots

Digital Strategy

  • Navigating releases through an ever-changing digital landscape

  • Strategy and growth plans for artists and music releases

  • Pre-release planning to enable the strongest landing on the DSPs

  • Concerted pushes for streaming/download growth

  • Managing Bandcamp channels and implementation strategies for D2C sales across music, merch and other fan incentives.

Royalty & Accounting

  • Comprehensive, accurate and thorough royalty accounting for artists and licensors

  • Tracking income streams and recoupable costs

  • Managing royalty deals and split deals connected to releases

  • Multi-artist and licensee compilation accounting

  • Delivering statements in a timely fashion.

  • Essential release campaign planning and rollout support

  • Implementing promo and marketing strategies to fit releases

  • PR campaigns, radio plugging, social media advertising campaigns, content & sound seeding

  • Influencer campaigns across TikTok, Instagram & Facebook

  • Access to VIP DJ promo pool for essential club & radio support

Marketing & Promotional Support

Catalogue Management

  • Full catalogue transfers across distribution companies

  • Back catalogue reactivation

  • Physical product re-issues/re-presses and digital restoration of catalogue

  • Ensuring optimal lifespan and continued financial turnover for music and releases

Digital Distribution

  • Unbeatable and preferential deals for global distribution of your label and releases

  • Unparalleled service to all DSPs including Spotify, Apple Music, Beatport, Amazon and Deezer

Brand Building

  • Helping you to develop strong brand awareness with your label, leading to a higher profile within your scene.

  • Increase your booking volume & value, build your label brand and create label event/club takeovers for you and your label artists.s

  • Turn your label into a revenue engine for your artist business.

Some of our most recent highlights

Aphex Twin-Digeridoo (R&S Records)

Working closely with the artist we produced a double 12” vinyl pack, featuring unreleased versions of classic tracks, and accompanying digital release, securing a strong Bandcamp presence and major support from Apple Music and other DSPs enabling this landmark release to celebrate its 30th anniversary in style.

You&me.

We supported rapid-release growth for Josh Baker’s label by implementing release schedules, strategies and structures, alongside industry insights and best practices, enabling increased streams & downloads, DSP recognition and support.

Abracadabra.

Supported global DJ & producer BLOND:ISH with her label set up in 2018, providing a full service for the label, including locking in distribution deals, clearance of samples & copyrights, management of artwork & creative assets for 60+ releases. Amassing 95 million streams to date, #1 chart positions on Beatport and other download DSPs, ensuring continuous growth for the label.

Our story
(so far)

Hear No Evil has been developed and launched by NERD Label Services, ushering in a new era for the label services company set up by Nick Harris in 2016.

Having cut his teeth on the punk rock & indie scene in the late 1980s, Bristol born Nick Harris got turned on to the burgeoning house, techno and rave scenes after a move to London in 1992 where he turned his passion for music into his career.

Setting up the NRK DJ booking agency in 1993, handling the bookings for revered DJs such as Derrick Carter, Dimitri from Paris, Angel Moraes, Ian Pooley and many more, Harris went on to set up the NRK Music label in 1996.

Over 15 years, the label released singles, albums and compilations from the creme de la creme of the dance music world. Albums with Louie Vega, Joey Negro, Seth Troxler, DJ Sneak, Ron Trent, Ame, Kerri Chandler, Dave Clarke and Joe Claussell became essential records in any discerning music lovers’ collections. The NRK label also worked extensively with producers such as Miguel Migs, Peace Division, Nick Holder, Ian Pooley and many more. In 2012, Harris took on the role of label manager for Cadenza Records, the legendary imprint owned by Swiss/Chilean DJ Luciano, and also became label manager for Hypercolour Records and Futureboogie. Harris launched NERD Label Services in 2016 to facilitate the management of multiple label clients.