Mokum Records

Mokum Records is a Dutch independent record label specialising in early hardcore and hardcore releases. They have released about 100 single and EP vinyl records between 1993 and 1999 and more than 80 since 2004. Fred Berkhout (Freddy B) created Mokum Records in 1993 as a joke response to another record label, Rotterdam Records. Mokum is a Yiddish term for the city of Amsterdam, and there has been a longstanding rivalry between the two cities, including among Rotterdam-based and Amsterdam-based hardcore fans, who each wanted their "own" label.