Independent record label Est. 1998

Made with feeling
Released on our own terms

A home for the sounds that stay with you. MadeBackwards Records is an independent label building a catalog with care, curiosity, and no shortcuts.

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Why we exist

Good things take
time

We believe in the long way around: making room for instinct, protecting the process, and putting records into the world when they’re ready. Small on purpose. Here for the music.

MadeBackwards Records is home to TSR2, the electronic music project of Gary Johnson.

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Our Journey

Originally named “Suck My Deck Recordings”, MadeBackwards was formed as a production company to oversee the mid-to-late ’90s musical output of Gary Johnson and Russell B Hurley, often produced at their own custom facilities of QueDex and Studio B in East Sussex, England.

In early 1998, the owner of Berwick Street Studios on London’s world-famous Berwick Street heard a MadeBackwards demo, and the offer was made to sign to the recently formed Fishtail Records. Signing as System Exclusive, Johnson and Hurley’s debut 12" release appeared soon after, initially as unbranded white labels and then ultimately as Fishtail’s second release FT-002 - “Psychopath”.