Early years (2013-2014) Disciple was founded by Ross Jonathan Burr ( Myro, and a member of Astronaut: an
electro house duo) and Arthur Robin Talbott ( JVST SVY YES, and a member of Dodge & Fuski: a dubstep duo). Burr and Talbott became friends six months before Dodge & Fuski would be dropped from
Never Say Die Records. Burr had prior experience running a record label, so Talbott repeatedly asked him to create one initially as a place for Dodge & Fuski to release music. With
financial backing and
networking help from Never Say Die's two co-founders:
SKisM and Nicholas Sadler ( Mobscene), the label was incorporated, in
London, as a
limited company (LTD) on October 25, 2012. The
etymology behind Disciple's logo and brand was "drawn over a
pint in the
pub one day" that communicated "in a dark and sinister way" where the fan is "part of the clan for life and there's no escape" once one becomes a fan of the label. In 2013, the label moved locations twice: First from London to
Bristol, and then from Bristol to
Los Angeles. The reason for the move to the US was to capitalize on the growth of the dubstep genre in North America, a scene that was simultaneously declining in the UK. In 2014, Disciple was nominated for
UKF's Label of The Year Award.
Peak years (2015-2020) Despite Burr and Talbott
emigrating to the US with "$100... and a seemingly valid US working visa", "crash[ing] on a friend's couch for about six months", and "living off of 7/11 dollar slice pizza just to survive.", the duo have built the label from the ground up. Between 2015 and 2020, the record label was at its peak such as selling out the
Hollywood Palladium twice and a creating a nationwide tour called "Disciple Kingdom". In 2018, Disciple was nominated as one of eighteen "most exciting imprint[s]" by UKF. In January 2019, Disciple filed
Articles of incorporation to the
California Secretary of State to become an
incorporation. In September 2019, Disciple
dissolved its business entity in the UK. According to an April 2024 statement of information, Founder and
Chief executive officer of Create Music Group: Jonathan Strauss was listed as the CEO of the label and as one of the two employees on the statement. All this suggests that both Burr and Talbott relinquished all shares and control of the label to Create Music Group as early as September 2019. In 2020, the record label has hosted "virtual festivals" within popular video game
Minecraft due to the
COVID-19 pandemic preventing in-person attendance to
music festivals. Instead of participants attending and tuning into the
DJ's performance in-person, the participant would, instead, join the record label's Minecraft server and partake in the identical amount of festivities there. The label advised its artists to use their own music and "only music released by [the record label]" to ensure that the label doesn't encounter any copyright problems.
Disciple Round Table In 2017, Disciple launched a
sublabel called Disciple Round Table with
12th Planet as the head
A&R. The label was founded to "spotlight many underground producers". In other words, it served as an outlet for underground artists to release music, while the more established artists would release on the primary label. 12th Planet used to run his own record label called SMOG Records which used to put out bass music from bass music artists, so Disciple Round Table serves as an extension of him to "champion the artists he believe[s] in". The etymology behind and the amount of branding for the sublabel and its
album covers drew references to the book
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. == Artists ==