Germany’s RIFT Recordings Relaunches On New Channel After Abrupt YouTube Takedown

Germany’s RIFT Recordings has suffered a setback after its YouTube channel was abruptly taken down by the platform.

“We are deeply saddened to share that our YouTube channel has been removed without any copyright strikes or prior warnings,” organizers of the Dortmund-based DJ mix series wrote in a statement posted to Instagram yesterday.

The burgeoning broadcast outfit known for spotlighting emerging hardgroove and schranz DJs confirmed that each of its previously published mixes and its entire community of 45,000 subscribers vanished from YouTube over the weekend. Despite the takedown, they’ve reuploaded…