MODULARHABIT 2026 · Labels & magazine
FOUNDATION RECORDS
- Name
- FOUNDATION RECORDS
- Location
- Seoul, Korea
- Founded
- 2005
- Field
- Independent record label · Artist management · Brand consulting
- Releases
- Sunlight (Smells), 서울숲 (AJC), wheel (등, 2023), [1] (DOKKAEBI, 2025), 신바람
- At the event
- Participating label
Introduction
FOUNDATION RECORDS is an independent record label founded in Seoul in 2005, discovering notable artists across a wide range of genres.
It creates with talented artists across music and its surrounding culture, including vocalists, music producers, DJs and visual artists. Drawing on a network of artists in Korea and abroad, it also provides brand consulting in industries including fashion, mobile and alcoholic beverages.
The label releases music by leading Korean progressive artists worldwide and manages each artist.
Label head smells is a producer and musician who released Sunlight and took part in wheel (2023), an album by the project 등(deung) with robineggpie and yoorae. The label held its thirteenth-anniversary event in August 2018 and released DOKKAEBI's debut album [1] in September 2025.
FOUNDATION RECORDS joins MODULARHABIT 2026 as a participating label.