Fantastic Friends brings its vinyl archive into digital circulation
Classics Vol. 1 collects twelve catalogue tracks, including music previously available only on records.
Lausanne label Fantastic Friends Recordings has opened another route into its back catalogue with Fantastic Friends Classics Vol. 1. The compilation, released on 4 September 2026 and announced by the label on 7 September, assembles twelve tracks. The label says the selection includes recordings making their first appearance in digital form after vinyl-only releases.
A catalogue, not twelve new tracks
The collection includes work by Daniel Meister, Nicolas Duvoisin, Lukea, Christian Burkhardt and Cesare vs Disorder, alongside further contributors to the label's minimal-house catalogue. Vern's remix of Duvoisin's Black Market also appears in the sequence.
The distinction matters: this is an archive release, not a claim that all the music was newly recorded for September. Its value lies in making parts of a Swiss label's history easier to obtain and revisit without tracking down individual pressings. For DJs and listeners discovering Fantastic Friends now, the compilation provides a broad introduction to existing work and its network of collaborators.