Kashikesh Productions

Starting a label in India

The unglamorous layer nobody writes about: the entity, the registrations, the memberships, and the order to do them in so each one does not block the next.

Posts

  1. What a label actually needs to exist

    Two registrations are unavoidable, one is optional and free, and the rest is downstream. What each one is for, and which doors it opens.

    3 min read

  2. Partnership, LLP or private limited: choosing a form for a label

    The one real decision in setting up. What separates the three forms, what it changes downstream, and why it is worth deciding once rather than migrating later.

    4 min read

  3. The order to set a label up in

    Several of the registrations depend on each other, and one of them depends on having already released music. Sequencing it wrong means waiting.

    3 min read