July 15, 2010 – 11:23 am

World Cup Wrap

ADIDAS WORLD CUP – WRAP

So, it has been a busy 2 years of production, sourcing, licensing, clearance, emailing, corresponding, chitchat, meetings etc, and now it concludes with the final production, a nice little film about the fact that the f50 boot scored the most goals in the competition.  A sound and successful conclusion.

Well done to the adi crew, Joe Togneri, Andy Fackrell, Chayenne De Witte, the Skinner Bros, the Brute Chorus and everyone else who was involved, and I’ll finish this post off with the movie….

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June 28, 2010 – 4:05 pm

VIRGIN RACING

whilst i am on a roll here with this blog update i may as well take the opportunity to announce some new consulting work with Bransons virgin racing team… we’ll be helping them out with some music

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June 28, 2010 – 4:00 pm

New biz

NEW BUSINESS – OLYMPICS:

We have just begun working with the esteemed London2012 committee, very happy about that, first bonus was the view from their office, looks like the park is coming on well… thanks Aya.

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June 28, 2010 – 3:50 pm

adi – world cup music

ADIDAS WORLD CUP MUSIC

We recently cleared the publishing and re-recorded Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Man With The Harmonica for adidas stunning world cup ad…

Thanks to The Butchers Shouters Bottomless Pit Orchestra, yup, for the recording and to Joe at 180 for the patience.

Also, on the subject of the world cup, we worked with 180 and adidas to score this:

thanks to Hazlitt for the composition and olga for the engineering!

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January 30, 2010 – 4:19 pm

New composition work

Adidas / Football World Cup.

Here is a new piece of composition work that we have been managing. Its been on tv / cinema etc. Creds to our producers, the Skinner Brothers.

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January 19, 2010 – 10:24 pm

Young Music Entrepreneur 2010 Awards

Welcome to 2010. It started off on a very delightful note with my being long listed for the UK Young Music Entrepreneur of the year awards.

The field proved too strong and unfortunately I didn’t make it down the last 5, congratulations to:

Jack Horner (frukt Music)
Ian Hogarth (songkick)
Nikhil Shah (mixcloud)
Karen Piper (radar maker)
Storm Withby-Grubb (Little Touring ltd)

…. who are all of to China to check out the market and meet people working out there in the music business, after which they will be analysed, prodded, examined and interrogated until one is nominated for the award – good luck all!

Off to Midem on friday, so if you are reading this and are going and fancy a beer drop me a line.

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December 17, 2009 – 11:23 am

Record-Play on the years ‘top’ albums:

Everyone else does it, so why not us? So, heres our biased list of the top albums of the year, the criteria being that we really like them.  Fair enough, its out opinion piece after all!  Anyway, without further ado, here’s what we reckon you shouldn’t have missed, and if you did, its not too late to complement your collection, indeed, we’ll even help you, there is a link to download a zip file with a track from each artist.
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First Place:
The Phantom Band.  Scotland’s answer to a electro dance rock crossover.  Stirring stuff.
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First Place equal:
Friendly Fires.  Mercury Nominated, major force in dance / rock.  Big things for 2010
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First Place equal:
The XX.  London bright young things, still in their teens, oozing cool and promise. 19…
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First Place equal:
The Low Anthem.  Provincial lost blues and folk from the East Coast.  Stripped back.
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First Place equal:
Department of Eagles. Part of Grizzly Bear, four years of writing in producing the album. Lush productions..
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First Place equal:
King Creosote.  Big talent, scottish songwriting folk genius.  From Fife.
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First Place equal:
Florence and the Machine.  A huge year, a major signing, a mercury nomination.  Dont mess.
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First Place equal:
The Very Best. Putting Londons grotty Clapton on the map, africa meets electro.  Collaborators met in a bike shop
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First Place equal:
Fever Ray. Singer from the Knife, twisted and dark, late release but momentum building for ‘10.  Some voice.
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First Place equal:
The Brute Chorus. Rawkus East London four piece.  Reviving rock and roll.  2010 sees new album
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Download tracks HERE
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December 16, 2009 – 6:50 pm

Its been ages but heres why…

I have been pretty busy with things here at the office. In case you are interested, here are some of the projects we have been working on:
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This is the first of its kind, its an online multi-genre database of music from indie labels. Our clients can go here and find a huge amount of excellent music for their media productions. We have around 3,500 tracks and around 70 labels involved (incl. Tirk, Stones Throw, Tru Thoughts, Sunday Best). So far we have had around 60 licenses (adidas, reebok, skoda, metrodome films).
Its been alot of work but its going well and seems to have some value amongst labels who want to generate revenue from their back catalogues as well as amongst our clients who often have limited budgets but dont want to compromise on music.
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PROJECTS COMPLETED
its been a busy year, but here is a small overview of whats been going on….
adidas – music consultancy
We have been working on media for the World Cup 2010, mostly in composition. Approximately 10 soundtracks developed for adidas in the past 4 months, its been rather intense, but working out well.
Sourcing
- We have sorted out the soundtrack for the latest climbing film from Big Up Productions, called Progression, there will be a soundtrack available to download soon. Their films keep getting better!
- Rimmel have used Steven Crayns ‘Another Cold Beer’ again, this is the third time its been licensed, which is great news, thanks to JWT for that!
- We used the Music Hub to source and clear tracks for Metrodome films, Tube Lines, Reebok, adidas, constellation Group, footlocker and skoda… all good on that front.
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I set up a label as well, its called TAPE, in conjunction with SPZ group, (you might have heard of Sarm studios, Perfect Song and ZTT, well they are all part of SPZ). I am running it with Aaron Horn and Jo Meava, and its going well, though has taken up a lot of time. Artists on the label include:
Robots with Hearts,
Theo Bard,
Super Luckies
YoMundo,
The Brute Chorus
We have some more bands coming through….
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NEW PEOPLE
The Music Hub is co-owned with my old friend Silja Hertel, who is responsible for managing client and artist relations, this, as you can imagine, keeps her very busy. She is excellent.
Dan Garber is now co-writing on Exposure, our music blog, he is doing a great job, he is also getting involved in some new business we have with the Independent
Telmo Dias, well, Telmo has been working more or less full time on the hub, exposure, TAPE and a big SEO overhaul that it would be rude not to give a nod to his unending coding / web development prowess that has certainly helped us grow.
Jo Maeve, supporting on Record-Play day to day as well as working on TAPE business…
We hope to expand a bit more but will see what happens as the recession loosens its grip here in the UK.
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So, thats about it for now, next time interesting stuff happens, I’ll make a bit more effort to write it down….
Daniel
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July 23, 2008 – 9:26 am

New Happenings

Some good stuff been happening here this summer:

Artist Development Programme:
We are going to co-release the new Animals On Wheels E.P together with A Future Without. It will be vinyl and download only.

Consultancy Work:
We have been helping Reebok with some sourcing and some music marketing consultancy, you can see some of our work here.

Supervision Work:
Bigupproductions have just finished their most recent film, Dosage 5, I supervised on the soundtrack and placed some tracks by artists including: A String, Emu, Jon Kennedy and Up, Bustle and Out.
The Age of Stupid is going from strength to strength, it had a parliamentary screening in London on the 21st July and it has been sweeping up awards, including Best Green Doc, and film most likely to get cinema release at Sunny Side of the Doc fest.

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July 23, 2008 – 9:08 am

New Client


Over the past month we have been pretty busy, working with a new client called RAWRIP. RAWRIP a digital music sales platform that gives 100% royalty back to the artists. Now, if that wasn’t enough, they also give the cost of sale to the artist as well.

We will be opening correspondence with labels to introduce them to the new model and encourage them to participate by placing their artists on the platform.

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