SynGate Records

Main label is called SynGate. Use SynGate Records only for roles that are mentioned exactly as SynGate Records. SynGate Records (SynG@te) was originally an internet fanzine founded by Lothar Lubitz July 1, 2001, which focused on the presentation of electronic music preferably of Berlin School style. Sabine Lubitz was official owner until August 2011. In September 1, 2011 the label was sold to Kilian Schloemp-Uelhoff. SynGate organized the annual festival of electronic music at Satzvey Castle in the Eifel since 2002. Lothar Lubitz was still working as creative director after September 2011 and was the organizator of Satzvey Castle festival till 2012. In January 2013 festival was discontinued. From the beginning till mid 2010 label used the format of catalogue numbers CD-R 20XX and CD-R 21XX. Over the years some of releases were discontinued and their catalogue numbers and artwork were reused for newly arrived artists. July 1, 2010 label discontinued nearly whole catalogue of previous releases and started from scratch calling it "remastering of label". As announced on their site it was made to focus efforts on less artists working in Berlin School style only. The rest of releases were renumbered in new format CD-R XX(X)00, where XX is an abbreviation of musician's/project's name and 00 is a sequence number of release in catalogue of author or label. Manikin renumbered reissues got numbers in format CD-R MR00, where 00 is last two numbers in original MRCD catalogue number, where available. Over the years distributed releases received various internal numbers on site, they were not printed on releases.