rx:tx was launched in april 2002 in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, with the presentation of the first two editions, Signal Territory: Signal Territory I (rxtxcd001) and Jadviga: Nonim (rxtxcd002) during the opening of the Gwangju Biennale. The label was established by a group of Slovenian conceptual /sound artists, computer engineers and architects, working mainly in the electronic music field and is formally a division of the Projekt Atol Institute (zavod Projekt Atol), a non-profit art/concept production institution, founded in 1994 and managing diverse artistic and scientific projects, among others the makrolab (makrolab.ljudmila.org), the insular technologies initiative (www.insular.net) and working closely with space related institutions, such as the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre Zvezdni Gorodok (GCTC), TsUP Korolev, (Centre for Flight Control, Korolev), State Rocket Centre “Academician V.P.Makeyev Design Bureau” and the M.I.R. European initiative in facilitating art/technology/science collaborations in space and zero gravity related fields. At the first glance, far from electronic music, but at the deeper level, with the aim of providing state of the art soundscapes and reflection for state of the art spiritual and scientific spheres. One of the main decisions behind the founding of the label was, for all involved quite simple, to enable access to production facilities and the editing and distribution of material to artists from all over the world, but with the specific focus on post-communist countries, with a lively but larger unknown production of new electronic beats, grooves, clicks, cracks and infosphere noise. rx:tx is well aware that it is joining primarily a very dense and not very transparent market of electronic music production and distribution, but with strategies in production that will involve events, such as the Wardenclyffe series (started together with Raster/Noton in 1997) and the Signal-Sever! series, involving an even larger array of artists and scientific collaborations, which are bridging the narrow field of label and music production with the art world and performance distribution channels. The plan is to edit 4 projects in 2002, 6 in 2003 and to settle at 8 editions per year in 2004. rx:tx is interested an even wider distribution and non formal distribution possibilities, together with the promotion of GPL licenses for parts of the editions, that involve digital data.