How to get signed to Hot Creations
Hot Creations is the boutique house label founded by Jamie Jones and Lee Foss, a gateway to the underground house and tech house scene. This is the real path — the labels producers actually released on before reaching Hot Creations, built from thousands of Beatport release histories.
Build your Hot Creations ladder →The stepping-stone labels
Based on real artist careers, producers who reached Hot Creations typically moved through these labels first — starting at micro level and building toward the dream.
- Whippin
- Airtime Records
- OVRDOSE DEEP
- Obvious Records
- PUSH
- PIV
- Eastenderz
Artists who made this climb
These artists from our database took real paths through the label ecosystem before landing Hot Creations:
- Jamback — found their path to Hot Creations
- James Poole — found their path to Hot Creations
- Luuk Van Dijk — found their path to Hot Creations
Why this path works
Labels like Hot Creations sign artists who already have a track record — releases on smaller labels that prove the music connects with real audiences. The labels above frequently share artists with Hot Creations, which means A&Rs at Hot Creations are already watching them.
Ladder Label maps these co-occurrence relationships across thousands of artist release histories to show you the most statistically likely path from where you are to where you want to be.
The tool also overlays the current Beatport Hype 100 — so your first two rungs are always labels with active momentum this week, not just historical data.
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