Started by long-time friends and DJs; Earl Von Bye and DJ Lithium in 2002, Black Tiger Recordings is known throughout the underground dance music scene for delivering amazing DJ mixes causing them to headline with or open alongside many of the biggest DJ legends of Trance, House and Techno genres over the years. Later, through the label, they began releasing tracks from several up-and-coming producers internationally, giving them a start to their careers in many cases and helping to launch them onto larger labels, including JOOF and Armada. This culture of “uplift” continues to this day.
Both DJs have a long history of releasing some of the best-known underground mixes, centered primarily around the sounds of trance, techno and electro/breaks side of club and rave culture, of the last 30 years. With regular slots on various radio stations and podcasts internationally, Earl Von Bye and DJ Lithium gained recognition through the original “streaming” audio era of shoutcast/winamp technologies. Black Tiger Recordings also operated its own radio station, which was listed in the iTunes radio station directory before it even “iTunes” Radio. Apple bought it from a small company called Kerbango for placement inside of the iTunes program and that listing of the station really kicked things into gear, exposing BTR and its DJs to millions of people worldwide literally overnight. The small capacity streaming station, dedicated to BTR DJs mixed sets and live sessions exclusively, ran continuously for over 20 years, having first gone online in December 1998 (predating DI.FM by about a month or so) and finally went “off the air” in July 2019 as the decision was made to shut it down to focus on more track production. It may, however, make a reappearance in the not-so-distant future.
In 2013, DJ Lithium and Earl Von Bye finally started producing as a team known as Earl & Majors. Their first project was to produce remixes of DJ Lithium’s tracks that appeared on Black Tiger Recordings in 2014, digitally and on vinyl (BTR-013). Soon after, they completed their first full album “Sonar. Radar. Rockets” which was released in 2017. No small feat considering they live in totally separate countries with completely different production set-ups and stlyes. Over the years, new original tracks under the Earl & Majors alias, along with new production projects started by DJ Lithium, including the Mars Resistance Front, beginning in 2015, continued to form, with releases consistently being licensed for re-release on dozens of compilations. Now in 2025, with the Mars Resistance Front project evolving as well as new tracks from DJ Lithium and others in the Las Vegas and So-Cal scenes being brought into the fold plus a new studio build having being completed in the fall of 2025, we are growing. Earlier this year we partnered with some of our old friends Vancouver, Canada and now have a lovely studio housed there to service artists in that region in addition to Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world.
In the fall of 2025, Las Vegas DJ phenomenon Tris Tiffany joined Black Tiger Recordings and will serve as a label partner and function as our new A&R director. In addition, Tris continues to throw down banging tracks DJing at events across the US and here at home in Las Vegas nearly every week. When not in the DJ booth or flying to gigs, the rest of her time is spent in the Las Vegas production studio working on her own tracks, and various business initiatives.
We still press and play vinyl and release tracks for other artists. We would love to hear your stuff. We are also interested in DJs mixed sets, but we will get into that later. For now…
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