NATE DELGALLEGO: OWNER

Yo. I'm Nate. Not a fan of the third-person-writeup-professional-pitch bullshit, and this is my own site so I'm gonna break it down like I'm talking to you:

Forever Ending Records is a DIY all-genre record label & recording studio based out of my home in San Diego, California.

I'd been an aspiring musician & producer throughout most all of my teenage years & always thought starting some sort of indie label or music group would be sick. I wasn't super thrilled on the idea of going to college after high school, and at this point I'd already been playing in bands & writing/producing enough music to care to look back on that decision.

Eventually one day the name clicked, and ideas for a record label started to take shape with the release of my first 4-track beat tape in 2022 along with the Hereditary demo later that year. Cassette tapes were the coolest & most readily available option to distribute physicals, so I dug up a busted ass 4-track Tascam Portastudio and got to dubbing tapes.

Later the next year, I'd start releasing tapes for friends' bands, and what began as an umbrella to house all my own creations became one for a lot of my homies as well.

Tapes are sick. Preservation of music in any form of physical media is especially important in a day and age of fleeting session files, compatibility, etc. Owning the rights to other's creations & royalties, to me, is not. Certainly not why I started or continue to run this label. It's pretty simple:

Forever Ending Records operates on a nonprofit distribution model in which the artist covers the cost of raw materials (blank tapes, cases, J-card printing) and I handle the labor for free. Artists make every dime in return from their physical & digital releases, and are encouraged full creative control over the direction, distribution & ownership of their music.

With thirty-eight releases & counting, I'm grateful to get to host a platform for other like-minded artists to navigate their own trajectory & thrive independently. Not only do I not wanna handle all that shit for your band—I can't stress enough how important it is for creatives to knowledgeably own & access their shit. Educate yourself a bit before jumping the gun & signing away your life's work with these predatory ass companies.