Institution · aka Perfecto, Perfecto Fluoro
Perfecto Records
Perfecto Records is the London label founded in 1989 by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne. It was the first British label to treat trance as a crossover pop format — releasing Grace's 'Not Over Yet' (1995), BT's 'Flaming June' (1997), Planet Perfecto's 'Bullet In The Gun' (1999) and countless Oakenfold remixes — and its Perfecto Fluoro sub-label (launched 1996) is where the harder, Goa-inflected end of the catalogue lived.
Perfecto is the vehicle through which almost every Oakenfold-era classic-trance record reached the public. The main label chased the pop chart (Grace, Planet Perfecto, Oakenfold's own vocal singles), while Perfecto Fluoro handled the peak-time and psy-adjacent material for the clubs. The Perfecto Presents… mix compilation series (Another World, Great Wall Of China, Ibiza) doubled as a curatorial statement: this is what Oakenfold thinks trance sounds like right now.