Marsh (@marshmusician) is starting Marshan Records with the kind of statement most artists spend years working toward: a fourth studio album, two major headline shows, and a label name drawn from the fan community that has helped carry the project this far.
Home, out November 3, marks his first fully independent album after a decade closely tied to Anjunadeep, and it opens a new chapter built around ownership, melodic identity, and the audience that has made the Marsh project feel less like a one-way artist brand.
The album is a 14-track project that moves across ambient passages, progressive house, trance emotion, acid detail, and flashes of drum & bass. Returning collaborators ALLKNIGHT, Phenoir, and Leo Wood appear again, while Lyves adds a darker underground edge to the record’s wider emotional palette. Alongside the album announcement, Marsh has released “Too High,” paired with the ambient opener “Aloft,” as a two-track sequence that gives listeners another entry point into the world of Home.
There is a clear and obvious symmetry to launching Marshan Records with a project called Home.
Marsh describes the label as the “forever label home” for the project, while the album’s title reaches toward something larger, more spiritual, and more final. In the interview below, he talks about why “Home” was the right first record for the label, what Anjunadeep taught him about audience and self-trust, how involved he plans to be in Marshan’s creative direction, and what he hopes this album represents in the label’s catalog years from now.
Interview With Marsh
Why was “Home” the right track to launch Marshan Records?
I think the Marsh project has found its forever label “home,” so there’s a nice symmetry to launching Marshan Records with a track called “Home.” It also feels quintessentially Marsh; melodically, in the way it floats along, and in what it points towards.
For me, the title ultimately speaks to heaven, and the vocal gives me a glimpse of how I imagine it might feel when I finally get there. It felt like the perfect record to begin this new chapter with.
What did your decade with Anjunadeep teach you about releasing music and developing an audience?
Anjuna obviously has one of the best fan communities in music, let alone dance music. I’ve met some of the most welcoming and kindest people through it, many of whom have become close friends.
More than anything, I’ve learned to be myself. Musically, that means following my gut, making the choices that move me most, and putting out music that feels real to me and genuinely makes me feel something. I’ve been incredibly blessed that, almost as a by-product of that, the music has connected with and spoken to so many other people too.
Did you write “Home” and the album with your new label in mind, or did that connection emerge later? Did you approach the album any differently, knowing it would be coming out on your own label?
I did write “Home” and the album with the new label in mind.
I loved the idea of launching Marshan Records with one of the biggest musical statements you can make as an artist: an album. That said, I don’t think I approached the writing itself any differently. I still felt the weight and pressure of wanting the music to be the very best I could possibly make.
But I’ve learned to let that thought simmer somewhere in the background. Once I’m in the studio, I try to relax, have fun, follow what excites me and forget everything else.
How involved do you plan to be in each release, from A&R through artwork and presentation?
Perhaps because it’s still so early, I want to be as involved in every aspect of the label as possible.
That could mean suggesting ways a demo might be shaped to reach its full potential, thinking about how the music is presented, or developing the visual identity for the releases that follow the album. There’s a lot still to establish, and I’m excited by that. I’m sure I’ll bring my inescapable perfectionist tendencies to all of it!
What qualities will you look for when signing artists to the label?
I’ll be looking for music that I can’t stop listening to.
Records that I’d be eager to play in a set. I’m definitely a hard man to please, but every now and then something comes along that just grabs me and feels like it could be timeless. It will definitely be melodic, but beyond that I don’t want to put too many boundaries around it. If I love it and believe in it, that’s the most important thing.
When listeners look back on the album several years from now, what do you hope it represents for Marshan Records?
Hopefully it becomes one of those foundational, must-listen releases in the Marshan Records catalogue.
Something that captures what the label was created to represent and helps set the path for its musical direction for years to come.
Closing Thoughts
The important thing in Marsh’s answers is that independence does not seem to alter the music’s emotional standard. He is not describing Marshan Records as an excuse to rebuild himself from scratch or to make a hard break with the past, but rather saying that the writing still has to move him first. The label gives him ownership over what surrounds the music: how it is presented, what follows it, which demos get shaped, and which other artists might eventually share the catalog.
That makes Home feel less like a departure from Anjunadeep than a natural next step after it, especially for anyone who has been following our coverage of Tom since back when he did the How It Was Made feature on his track Lailonie which caught him working deep within the melodic-progressive language that helped define his rise,
The label name is doing a lot of work here. “Marshans” started as a fan-community term, and Marshan Records turns that relationship into infrastructure. That connects with our piece on the best melodic house sets of all time, where Marsh’s role in the long-form melodic house space sat beside artists whose fanbases are built as much on patience and trust as on individual singles. His audience has never been incidental to the project. In this case, it is literally written into the label.
The album-as-label-launch move also puts Home in conversation with the broader progressive and melodic scene around Enhanced and Colorize. Our interview with Will Holland on the Enhanced Progressive refresh dealt with the challenge of honoring a sound with deep roots while still pointing it toward the future. Marsh is taking a more personal route to the same problem.
Instead of refreshing an existing label identity, he is building a new one around the emotional logic that already made people care.
That is why Home has to carry more than the usual album weight. It introduces Marshan Records, sets expectations for future signings, and gives the fan community a physical place to gather around the project. Marsh is clear that the label will be melodic, but he is careful not to narrow it too much too early.
That restraint feels right because the smartest version of Marshan Records will probably be the one that follows his own answer: music he cannot stop listening to, records he wants to play, and releases with enough feeling to still make sense years from now.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
