Haute Magie
Featured Artists
Selected releases from the Haute Magie roster
- 5 Little Elephants
- Mike Bruno
- Mushy
- BATHAUS
- Jen Paul
- No Lakes
- Pierre Laporte
- My Education
- Bad Braids
- Ross Major
- The Black Magic Family Band
- Alex Tedesco
- Bestovitch
- Black Church
Distribution Partners
Labels we carry and distribute
About the Label
A brief history
Haute Magie was originally formed in 2009 and ceased operations in early 2010 before reopening on May 30th, 2011. Based in Austin, TX, the label operates as a multi-format private press, releasing music across vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats.
Prior to 2010, the label released eleven CD-Rs, tapes, and a 3″ CDr under the HM000 catalogue system. After reopening in 2011, Haute Magie went on to release two CDs, two 7″ singles, a double cassette, sixteen cassettes, a digital compilation, and seven 12″ records.
Haute Magie ships worldwide. Find our releases through distributors and partner labels across the globe.
Haute Magie operates as a boutique record label and media publisher dedicated to the esoteric and the overlooked. The catalog spans vinyl, cassette, and CD formats, each release chosen for its singular character rather than commercial calculation. From full-length twelve-inch LPs to compact seven-inch singles, the physical editions are produced with an attention to materials and presentation that honors the music they contain. This is a private press micro label in the truest sense, where each title represents a deliberate act of curation rather than a catalog entry.
The label’s roster brings together artists whose work resists easy classification. Musicians working across ambient, experimental, folk-adjacent, and heavy modes find a home here, their recordings issued in editions that feel closer to artifacts than standard product. The visual identity of each release receives the same scrutiny as the audio, with cover art and packaging treated as integral components of the whole. Haute Magie cultivates a sensibility where sound and object merge, producing relics meant to be held as much as heard.
Beyond its own imprint, Haute Magie maintains a distribution network that carries titles from partner labels and like-minded operations. This distro arm extends the reach of the catalog while introducing listeners to adjacent currents in underground physical media. Bundles and curated sets offer entry points for those new to these sonic territories, grouping releases by theme or format. Apparel and totes carry the label’s visual language into everyday life, marking a quiet affiliation with a community built around shared aesthetic values.
The label’s publishing activities mirror its musical concerns, issuing printed matter that explores parallel themes of ritual, landscape, and inner experience. Books and art editions sit alongside the audio catalog as equal partners in a broader cultural project. Whether through a vinyl LP, a cassette demo, or a printed volume, the underlying impulse remains consistent: to circulate work that operates outside prevailing currents, reaching those who recognize something of their own searching in these transmissions.