AtomTM - The NGO Years (2013-2021)

The years 2020-21 marked the end of many things, as has since become evident. Among them were some of the music industry’s most carefully maintained illusions: so-called “record labels” that, behind the scenes, had long become dependent on opaque funding structures and concealed financial affiliations. While outwardly presenting themselves as supporters of the “electronic music scene,” many of these entities had effectively transformed into politically and ideologically driven NGOs, operating less as cultural institutions than as instruments serving external agendas.
Between 2022 and 2024, AtomTM severed all remaining ties with these organizations and successfully reclaimed the associated master rights.
“The NGO Years” is presented here as a musical document of that period - an archival reconstruction of a time shaped as much by hidden influence and institutional capture as by the music itself.