Knee Deep In Sound

Knee Deep In Sound is Hot Since 82's label. Discogs files it as a UK label by Hot Since 82, established in 2014, and the label's own SoundCloud bio is five words, "Record label from Hot Since 82". Apple Music's curator page for the label, the one its linktree links, calls it "an independent British record label specializing in house music singles, albums, and events", established in 2014 by Hot Since 82, and that line is where the house tag comes from. Clash covered the launch on 10 april 2014, Robin Murray writing that Daley Padley, the man behind Hot Since 82, was launching "his own imprint Knee Deep In Sound", with the first release, Don't Touch The Alarm, due on 5 may. the name echoes his own "Knee Deep In Louise", per the same piece. one date sits against the rest: Mixmag, in july 2016, called Hot Since 82 "Knee Deep in Sound's label master since 2011", while Discogs, Apple Music and the Clash launch story all say 2014, so most sources give 2014. it is a UK label, London on its Mixcloud. that same Mixmag piece called Hot Since 82 "The Leeds-based DJ", which is about him, not the label.

...have a quality underground label that also keeps the vinyl dream alive.

— Daley Padley (Hot Since 82), founder, Clash

the catalogue runs deep. Discogs lists 306 releases and Deezer carries the label's name on 274 albums. the 100th release was Hot Since 82's own Make Up in 2020, per Electronic Groove, and the compilation 10 Years followed on 21 july 2024, per Discogs, with Beatport hosting a "Hot Since 82's '10 years of KDIS' Chart" that the label's linktree links. the newest album is Hot Since 82's Obsessions, out 4 september 2026, and the latest releases on Beatport around it are Hot Since 82 and Lydia Kaye's Another Life, Life's Too Short and its MK remix, Wow, Shaded with Shades Of Rhythm, TVRNER's Tonight, Hot Since 82 and Avision's In The Air, and a Us Two remix of Kuuda's Time. three series run alongside the singles and albums. the 8-Track album series launched in july 2016 with a first edition from Cristoph, per Mixmag and Dancing Astronaut. the yearly "The Review" compilations are continuous mixes, 2015: The Review, 2020: The Review and 2023: The Review among them on Deezer and Discogs. and there is the guest mix series, "Hot Since 82 Presents: Knee Deep In Sound with ...", published on the label's own SoundCloud, on its Mixcloud, where the newest is with Alan Nieves from 8 december 2022, and as DJ-mix albums on Apple Music, the newest with LondonGround on 23 april 2026. before it there was a Knee Deep In Sound Podcast on Mixcloud, 031 with AJ Christou on 4 september 2020.

a few things share the name without being the label. Labyrinth is Hot Since 82's own party, not a label event, per Mixmag and BroadwayWorld coverage. a 2014 Hot Since 82 mix album called Knee Deep In Sound, a joint release with Ultra per Resident Advisor, is a mix CD under the same name. and Toronto's Knee Deep Records is unrelated. no parent or distributor turned up in any source, so none is named here.

Oden & Fatzo are here as remixers, on Calling Out Your Name (I Can't Sleep) (2 december 2022). Piem, Sidney Charles and Steve Lawler first appeared on the label's own samplers, Piem on the BPM 2017 Sampler (13 january 2017) before Snappy (2022) and Sabor (2024), Sidney Charles and Steve Lawler on the Ibiza 2015 Sampler (10 july 2015), with Steve Lawler also remixing Ajala (2017), as Jansons did next to his own Killer Key (2017). Jamie Jones is on a track of Hot Since 82's album, Body Control with Hot Since 82 and Boy George on Recovery (2020). the rest are on their own releases: CamelPhat with April / One Summer (july 2021), Franky Rizardo with Sprinkler (22 may 2020), Franky Wah with Passion / Take A Flight (24 october 2025), Jeff Sorkowitz with Bad Reputation (8 september 2023), Josh Butler with Roskill (15 october 2021) and Something Like Dis! (25 april 2025), Juliann with Long Kiss Goodnight (7 june 2024), KinAhau with Pronosticos Cachito (1 september 2023) and Nos Faniamos (december 2023), Mason Collective with Let's Get It (11 february 2022), RSquared with Brown Eyes (1 july 2022) and Hey You (2022), Shimza with Kings and Queens (20 september 2019), Us Two with Hollistic (12 may 2023), Never Enough alongside Hot Since 82 (17 november 2023) and the Time (Us Two Remix) (30 october 2026), Vintage Culture with Nirvana alongside Layla Benitez and Max Milner (23 may 2025), and Hot Since 82 himself, from Don't Touch The Alarm (2014) to Obsessions (2026). 19 artists we track have released on it, a confirmed floor from a catalogue sweep, not the full roster: CamelPhat, Franky Rizardo, Franky Wah, Hot Since 82, Jamie Jones, Jansons, Jeff Sorkowitz, Josh Butler, Juliann, KinAhau, Mason Collective, Oden & Fatzo, Piem, RSquared, Shimza, Sidney Charles, Steve Lawler, Us Two, Vintage Culture