# About Brian 404
Brian 404 is an independent record label. Brian Crumrine handles creative direction, production and release support.
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## The Exposure Gym
Anxiety was a background process I didn't even know was running — not until my late 40s. Meds in my early 50s helped lower the volume, but the signal was still there. Then I found TikTok Live.
That's the exposure gym: just doing it. Going live for the first time — heart racing, voice shaking, the whole human error log. But I didn't close the terminal. And by the second or third stream, something shifted. The anxiety that had run my whole life started losing its grip. The music became the vehicle, the live streams became the breakthrough, and what emerged wasn't just confidence — it was presence. Less wound tight inside, more actually here.
## The Label & Artists
Different sounds, one home. Meet the label and the creative identities behind the records.
Brian 404
pid: 404 — label.exeAn independent record label bringing music together through creative direction, production and release support.
> explore →Snacks Not Found
pid: 404 — chaos.exeSeasonal electronic music for the party and the drive home. Melodic house, festival EDM and emotional future bass, built around holiday memories.
> explore →Brian 200
pid: 200 — peace.exeExperimental genre explorer. The grounding signal — Safe Mode. Kirtan fusion, world instruments, spiritual EDM, and genre departures with no constraints. Frequency & Solidarity.
> explore →Wrong Aisle
pid: 302 — misfile.exeConcept-album warehouse. Albums about things nobody makes concept albums about — blind-bag reveals, hockey, geometry, a medieval quest that keeps going sideways — each played with the full weight of a record that believes in itself. Nothing winks.
> explore →Subjects
pid: 200 — portrait.exePortraits of real people, rendered as songs. Subject first, genre second. The TTLive collection is released under the Brian 200 artist name on streaming services.
> explore →## Production Credits
The Heartstringers brings RT Wright's songbook to record. RT writes the songs. Brian 404 produces and arranges them.
Explore The Heartstringers releases →