Abridged Pause Recordings is an independent record label founded by Alexandre Julien in February of 2008, after an initial plan to end his first record label Mortification Records. Originally started as a post-black metal, post-metal, post-rock and ambient record label, Abridged Pause Recordings has since shifted its focus to solely releasing music from Alexandre Julien's bands.

Abridged Pause Recordings is one of the many imprints under the Abridged Pause Enterprises umbrella company, which also includes Abridged Pause Publishing, Mortified Studios, Abridged Pause Apparel, Abridged Pause Productions and Abridged Pause Blog. Abridged Pause Blog, hosted on the Abridged Pause Recordings website, has achieved fame on its own for publishing lengthy archival retrospective biographies and interviews of defunct bands and record labels, all written by founder Alexandre Julien.

Abridged Pause Recordings has released post-metal, post-black metal, atmospheric black metal, psychedelic black metal, depressive black metal, sludge metal, sludge-core, atmospheric sludge metal, screamo, avant-garde metal, math metal, math rock, post-rock, experimental post-rock, ambient, dark ambient, black ambient, shoegaze, dream pop, minimalism, ethereal, melogaze and artbient.