The label was apparently established in 1998 with its first release, a CD remaster of a 1995 vinyl previously from Mego Records. They have since slowly but regularly published 15 releases from 1998 to 2003. They sign with the motto "it's a or".

Their peculiar catalogue numbering scheme use a different word for each release, followed by the actual number of the release in the catalogue: "UNLESS 1", "ORCDR 2", "ONLY 3", etc., up to "JUST 13". Their audio magazines use the more regular "ISSUE 1" and "ISSUE 2" scheme.

Published artists alphabetically include: CD_Slopper, Earth, Farmersmanual (a.k.a. Farmers Manual or Farmer's Manual), Gescom, Zbigniew Karkowski & Helmut Schäfer (a.k.a. Helmut Schaefer), Francisco López, MAZK (Masami Akita & Zbigniew Karkowski), Daniel Menche, Shirt Trax (a.k.a. Shirttrax), Stützpunkt Wien 12 – plus (on anthologies) Hecker, and Incapacitants.

They also sometimes issue an "audio magazine" (a CD with the magazine for booklet) about new computer music:

• (1999) Or Some Computer Music - (featuring Aphex Twin, Beautyon, CD_Slopper, General Magic, Kevin Drumm, Stephen Travis Pope, Trevor Wishart, Ubik, Zbigniew Karkowski & Kasper T. Toeplitz)
• (2001) Or Some Computer Music 2 - (featuring Albert de Campo, Atau Tanaka & Eric Wenger, Curtis Roads, Farmersmanual, Jim O'Rourke, Phoenecia, Tom Wallace)

• List of independent UK record labels

• Official site
• Discography of Or Records at Discogs