Angel City Archives is a forthcoming independent record label run by Mesmé, focused on narrative-driven electronics—mostly pressed to vinyl and cassette, sometimes released digitally, always built to last.
The concept began in November 2017 as a weekly Wednesday night at Paper Tiger Bar in LA’s Koreatown called Misfit—a lounge for loners, heads, and deep listeners. When the pandemic killed the party in 2020, it resurfaced as a dublab radio show called Mise-en-Scène—a couple hours a month to explore mood, pacing, and cinematic tension. What began as a party and a radio show now arrives as a label: part tribute, part archive, part transmission.
The music isn’t about genre. It’s about narrative and mood. Slow burns. Late-night drives. Evocative atmospheres. Hushed intensity. Sometimes a banger slips through, sometimes it’s just smoke and pulse. Every release is curated to hit like a scene.
Rooted in the Los Angeles underground but reaching far beyond, Angel City Archives is a long-play letter to after-hours culture—moody, raw, and inimitable.
Angel City Archives is a forthcoming independent record label run by Mesmé, focused on narrative-driven electronics—mostly pressed to vinyl and cassette, sometimes released digitally, always built to last.
The concept began in November 2017 as a weekly Wednesday night at Paper Tiger Bar in LA’s Koreatown called Misfit—a lounge for loners, heads, and deep listeners. When the pandemic killed the party in 2020, it resurfaced as a dublab radio show called Mise-en-Scène—a couple hours a month to explore mood, pacing, and cinematic tension. What began as a party and a radio show now arrives as a label: part tribute, part archive, part transmission.
The music isn’t about genre. It’s about narrative and mood. Slow burns. Late-night drives. Evocative atmospheres. Hushed intensity. Sometimes a banger slips through, sometimes it’s just smoke and pulse. Every release is curated to hit like a scene.
Rooted in the Los Angeles underground but reaching far beyond, Angel City Archives is a long-play letter to after-hours culture—moody, raw, and inimitable.