Urban Sedated was founded by Chief in 1999 to help support and promote independent musicians, artists and DJs. In 2007 Neil Wetherall, founder of Afro Promoter a Hong Kong based company set up to promote African music in Asia returned to London and joined up with Urban Sedated. We instantly started work on restructuring Urban Sedated into a fair trade record label based in London, promoting Reggae and Roots influenced music from around the world.
URBAN SEDATED PROMOTES NEW AND HARD TO FIND MUSIC
Urban Sedated is committed to promoting music from around the world. As well as Urban Sedated releases we also sell and promote new and hard to find music from all over in our online shop . We work on the principal of paying the artists upfront for a small amount of cd's or vinyl and sell them in our shop, once we have sold out we buy more.
URBAN SEDATED RECORDS IS DEDICATED TO FAIR TRADE
As a label we operate an equal exchange policy, giving the artist 50% of the sales, directly opposed to the 7-12% from a standard record contract. The artist retains the copyright of their music (Authors rights) and enters into a non-exclusive agreement allowing us to promote and sell their music.
In almost all cases we work and communicate with the artists directly with no middle men. This method helps build a good relationship between us and the artists and allows us to get loads of input and share ideas.