Nocturne Records

A label site that plays like a record.

Overview

An independent label with a deep back catalogue and a website that listed it like a spreadsheet.

01
The challenge

Releases needed to feel like objects, not rows. The site also had to stay fast for people on phones at festivals with two bars of signal.
02
The approach

We built a release index that unfolds in place, with artwork driving the colour of the entire page. Audio previews stream on demand; nothing loads until you ask for it.
03
The result

The catalogue became browsable for the first time, on a page that still ships under 200KB.

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