About
New York City-based label founded in 1991 by Mike Weiss and his father Sam Weiss (2). Mike had revived his father's Sam Records label in 1989 before he took Frankie Crocker's advice to start a label in his own identity. The name came from WBLS radio DJ Chuck Chillout who nicknamed Mike 'Captain Nervous' due to his hyperactive, wiry energy while promoting hip hop records. The famous logo was created by EMI/Chrysalis art director Marc Cozza who had designed a few covers for Sam Records. The updated logo, unveiled in 2004, with the figure set against a brick wall, included graffiti writing by Blake Lethem.
Sub-labels
Nervous House Beats
Instrumental compilation series of [l=Nervous Records].
Nervous Gold Series
Series from [l=Nervous Records]. See also [l=Nervous Old Skool].
DJs Love Us
_NRV
Series of [l=Nervous Records] founded in 2024.
Nervous Lab
Nervous Rewind
Yearly compilation series of [l=Nervous Records].
Deep Soul
, and Nervous head ' label. Manufactured and distributed by [l=Nervous, Inc.]
Sorted Records
[l=Nervous Records]' progressive house, acid and techno subsidiary. Relaunched in 2023.
Strapped Records
[l=Nervous Records]' breaks subsidiary. See [l=Wreck Records] for their hip hop label.
Nervous Chill
[l=Nervous Records]' jazz-based subsidiary. Relaunched in 2022.
Weeded
[l=Nervous Records]' dancehall subsidiary. Listed on some releases as Weeded Records.
Wreck Records
[l=Nervous Records]' hip hop subsidiary. See [l=Strapped Records] for their breaks label.
Nervous Dog Records
USA [l=Nervous Records]' hard house subsidiary.
Disco Dolly Records
[l=Nervous Records]' disco reissue sublabel. The releases from 1995 were originally issued on [l=Sam Records].
Nervous Old Skool
[l=Nervous Records]' digital reissue label. See also [l=Nervous Gold Series].
Nurvous Records
Nurvous Records is the nu-disco/indie-dance imprint of New York’s [l=Nervous Records]. Launched in 2011, the label was created as a home for fresh, left-of-center disco, boogie, and house hybrids, ...
Nervous New York
Made In Miami
House label run by .
Contact
Nervous Inc. 150 Broadway Suite 1007 New York, NY 10038 Tel.: 212.227.0095 Fax.: 212.273.1148 Email: info@nervousnyc.com