Xque Records: 27 records that have passed through the crate

The story of Xque Records

Xque Records is another of the sublabels that came out of Bit Music, and the only one carrying the name of a club: Xqué, in Calafell, one of the big rooms of the Spanish hard scene.

That is not a branding detail. A label named after a room releases what plays in that room, which is why the catalogue that has passed through here mixes Makina, hard trance and happy hardcore without jarring: it was the repertoire of a whole night, not of one style.

It shares numbering with the parent house

The twenty-seven references that have passed through our crate run on the 72- prefix, the same one Bit Music used in that stretch. So the catalogue number alone does not tell the two labels apart: you have to read the centre label.

Among the names you'll find the British happy hardcore of the era — Scott Brown, Hixxy & MC Storm — which is the sign that the room was pulling in imports too.

The record to start with

How Xque Records sounds in our crate

27 different releases on Xque Records have passed through beatdo, 42 copies counting duplicates, pressed between 2002 and 2007.

What comes up most often, in this order: Makina, Hard Trance, and Happy Hardcore.

Nothing is left in the crate right now, but the listings stay published with their condition, their year and their catalogue number.

How to recognise a Xque Records release

The catalogue numbers we have seen follow the pattern 72-. It is the first thing to check on the centre label when a record comes with no sleeve, which in this repertoire is the norm.

The archive: 27 releases on Xque Records