2009 Ah well that would be telling, there are up to 5 releases on the imminent horizon, all from within camp. As for naming names or promising deadlines… you’ve got to be kidding. We may be ‘taking you places’, but we never said we knew where we were going or when we might arrive!

2008 A brace of storming 7”s kicked off the busiest year yet, for the hard toiling RTMbots up at the Simplex. Jefferson Belt joined forces with a re–upped Unitone HiFi for the skankworthy ‘Gold Dust/Up To Eleven’ 45. New addition to the family The Naked and Famous chipped in with ‘Serenade/Kill The Little Black Dots’ on wax, before delivering the six–track CD smack of the ‘This Machine’ EP. That was swiftly followed by its shady companion ‘No Light’, before SJD rounded the year out dabbling his neon crayons all over the musical landscape on his 5th shockingly good album, ‘Dayglo Spectres’.

2007 SJD’s ‘Songs From A Dictaphone’ was once again warmly received by all and sundry, with songs like ‘Beautiful Haze’ and ‘I Wrote This Song For You’ leading the charge, alongside slow burners like ‘Lucifer’ and ‘Two Bodies’.

2006 Jefferson Belt saves us from a release–free year with his mid December musical meltdown ‘Table Manners’. Don’t panic it’s organic, the fruit and veg vibes of Mr Belt are essential for a good digital diet.

2005 ‘Southern Lights’ is remixed and re–released in a ‘Pic‘n’Mix’ version with tweakology from Kid Loco, Phelps & Munro, Mood Unit, SJD himself and others. SJD’s guitarist James Duncan lets off the moody majesty and twisted sweetness of his ‘Mirror Minor’ EP, and to complete the late year frenzy International Observer shoot off a full-length dubwise broadside with the ‘All Played Out’ album.

2004 ‘Southern Lights’ from SJD wins universal acclaim from the press with almost total 5/5 star reviews, massive public support and the Tuis in the NZ Music Awards for Best Engineer and Producer.

2003 Phelps & Munro unfurls the magnificent ‘Slowpoke’ album which would find favour in odd pockets of the globe like Norway and Japan, and rabid local fanmanship far and (very) wide.

2002 ‘Sideways Too’ is unleashed featuring five new artists and the crème de la crème of the RTM friends and fam. The labels first three albums are released in Australia through Creative Vibes.

2001 SJD’s ‘Lost Soul Music’ heads out the gate, including the singles ‘Tree People’ and ‘A Boy’. Somewhat appropriately it scrapes into the album charts at #50 for one week, the laziest position, though it was no slouch in the end of year ‘Best Of’s. ‘Sideways’ and ‘Space Bar’ released worldwide by Different Drummer with accompanying 12”s.

2000 The Phase 5 ‘Space Bar’ CD and Auckland artists compilation ‘Sideways’ are released simultaneously, garnering 5 star reviews, a multitude of press features and allsorts else.

1999 The inaugural label release from Phase 5, the ‘Space Bar’ 12” picks up international play from the likes of Coldcut, Kid Loco and Thievery Corporation. ‘Box Juice’ and ‘Bag Juice’ ooze Hammond and Cheese all over the stereophonic sandwich.

1998–99 Round Trip Mars founded (or stumbled upon) by Phase 5 (Angus ‘Mo Delay’ McNaughton and Stinky Jim) primarily, ostensibly and originally to release their own music, that didn’t last long.