Juxtaposed Music Launches Online Music Licensing Platform: JuxMusic.com

NEW YORK, USA – Juxtaposed Music, LLC., today announced the launch of their ground-breaking online music licensing platform at www.juxmusic.com. The JuxMusic Licensing Agency provides top music supervisors and directors with the music of highly-acclaimed established and leading-edge independent artists, bands, composers and songwriters. All tracks are pre-cleared and hand-picked by the company's founder and CEO, record producer/engineer and music supervisor Brandon Mason, whose album credits include David Bowie, Secret Machines, Shooter Jennings, and film soundtracks to Across The Universe (Grammy-nominated),
The Runaways, and The Tempest.

"I decided to start this company when I realized that my independent-artist friends and clients were sitting on catalogs of great music. They owned the masters and publishing, yet had few means to put their copyrights to work," says Mason. "Most artists find it difficult to make solid connections for synch placements, while music supervisors often struggle to discover independent music that is truly exceptional. Our mission is to help production clients infuse their film, television and branding projects with the authentic emotional impact of great independent music while also propelling the careers of artists whose work deserves greater notoriety."

Since the company's soft startup in October 2011, the JuxMusic Collection has amassed tracks by an impressive selection of artists including Hazy Malaze, rock band alter-ego of the great Neal Casal (whose credits include Ryan Adams, Chris Robinson Brotherhood) and Jeff Hill (Rufus Wainwright, Shooter Jennings, Teddy Thompson), composer Jeff Mercel (Mercury Rev), composer/songwriter/guitarist Jason Crigler (Goats In Trees, Teddy Thompson), James Brown's original Funky Drummer Clyde Stubblefield, jazz great Ben Sidran, songwriter/guitarist Ann Klein (Natalie Imbruglia, Joan Osborne), drummer/percussionist Danny Frankel (k.d. lang, Lou Reed, John Cale), guitarist/producer/songwriter Scrote (Daniel Johnston, The Stripminers), Grammy-nominated children's music band Milkshake, composer/keyboardist Erik Deutsch (Charlie Hunter Trio, Shooter Jennings), "antique garde" band Kill Henry Sugar, pop singer/songwriter Emily Zuzik (Moby), electronic dance music phenoms Trash Yourself, Gosteffects, Kids At The Bar, and Glasnost, hometown heroes Loomis and The Lust, Hilary Hawke, Joy Dragland, and the extraordinary, incomparable artists 101 Crustaceans, and Dr. Snitch.

"All artists are invited to upload their tracks for consideration via the 'Submit Music' page at juxmusic.com, but we're very selective about who makes the cut. The JuxMusic Collection ultimately has to reflect the integrity and aesthetic of a great record label… this is the level of excellence that our clients need and expect for their projects," says Mason.

JuxMusic also offers music production services: custom/original music composition (by many of the artists from the JuxMusic Collection), music supervision, editing, sound-alike production, and remixes.

The intelligent, interactive technology at juxmusic.com makes the online environment a "from-start-to-finish" music licensing experience available to anyone in the world, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Here's how:

* Production clients can mine through vast amounts of music in seconds by conducting an accurate Google-like track search, selecting criteria fields for genre, subgenre, tempo, mood, instrumentation, vocal type, and key, as well as artist, song title and open-ended keyword entry. Each artist has a sleek and informative public profile page where every song can be streamed in real time.

* Clients can use JuxMusic's innovative online video compositor application, SynchStage, to produce video synchs of their own uploaded video content with any track from the JuxMusic Collection without ever leaving JuxMusic.com.

* Clients can license their selected tracks with JuxMusic's automated "click to pay" licensing modules and PayPal gateway. Clients receive 16bit .wav audiofiles and .pdf files of Master Use/Synch License Agreement documents via automatic download upon completion of their transactions.

"Alternatively, clients are always more than welcome to call, email and provide us with project briefs for personal service. We can turn around music requests incredibly quickly," adds Mason.

Music Dealers: Live Nation - House Of Blues, Coming Showcase Results

Website: http://www.musicdealers.com/

Music Dealers is happy to announce that Live Nation has listened to all submissions and has picked the Top Ten Finalists to play in their exclusive February 25th showcase at the House of Blues!

The finalists are:
Joerg Kohring
Family of the Year
Seejai
Kajmir Royale
Catch 22
Bosco
Coco O'Conner
U-N-I
Entice
Verity in Stereo

Stay tuned to hear who they'll choose as the final winners for this contest- Music Dealers will be notifying the winning artist/band this weekend! Congratulations to the finalists and stay tuned for more opportunities coming up the pipeline.

about Music Dealers, LLC-
Music Dealers, LLC is a global music community focused on helping the best of Indie bands and breaking artists get their music heard for music licensing opportunities in movies, television, video games and more. promotional events are intended for helping artists to gain maximum exposure and to "put your music to work(tm)." More Music competitions, Music Licensing and sync-licensing opportunities can be found at http://www.musicdealers.com/.

Artist and Press Contact
John Williamson
info@musicdealers.com
888.584.0005
www.musicdealers.com

Well-Produced Independent Music Now Available For Licensing At Music For Film And Television Website

Url: http://www.musicforfilmandtelevision.com/
Sound: http://www.djquestionmark.com/mp3s/soulspaceship_djquestionmark.mp3

Ventura, CA -- Music for Film and Television announces plethora of new music recently added to growing library of songs available for film and television music licensing. Well-produced independent music is ready for placement in film and television productions. Variety of genres include orchestral, jazz, piano, blues, indie rock, alt rock, pop, dance, smooth jazz, country, ambient, new age, electronic beats, hip hop instrumentals, industrial, singer songwriter, alt country, traditional, big band, rock instrumentals, punk, acoustic, and more.

New additions to the Music for Film and Television website include...

- Allan Soberman: Traditional Prayer Melodies in Beachboy/Queen style Choral
- Alex Bovicelli (AXBV): Dance, Trip hop, Downtempo, Progressive Rock
- Central Services: Upbeat Acoustic Indie Pop, Retro Rock, Singer Songwriter
- Collin Robinson: Ambient, Rock, Alt. Rock Inst
- Crying 4 Kafka: Punk Rock Heavy Alt Rock
- Dan Griffith: Celtic Instrumental, Classical, Country Rock
- Dave Klotz: Orchestral Score, Multi-Instrumental, Piano
- DJ QuestionMark: Hip Hop Funk Rock, Hip Hop Inst
- E.L. Mahon: Smooth Jazz, Orchestral Jazz, R&B Funk
- Eric Goetz: Score, Piano, String Instrumental
- James Shepard: Rock and Roll, 50s Rock, Rockabilly Blues
- Jukebox Serenade: Indie Rock, Female Vocals, Alt Rock, Power Pop
- Geoffrey Keezer: Jazz, Blues Piano, Ambient Score
- Kama Linden: Pop, Dance
- Lawrence Blatt: Acoustic Guitar New Age Jazz Inst
- Mark Allan Wolfe: Score Compositions, Rock Guitar Inst
- Mark Monwid: Electronic Beats, Score, Industrial, Ambient
- Michelle Katz: Indie Rock, Singer Songwriter, Alt Rock, Alt Country
- Midnight Moon Ensemble: New Age, World, Piano, Female Vocal
- Mike Goudreau: Traditional Jazz, Blues, Big Band
- Robin Munson: Country, Adult Contemporary Music
- Rob Johnson: Pop Rock
- Russell Chudnofsky: Ambient Guitar, Acoustic Slide Blues Inst
- Shannon Fayth: Adult Pop Contemporary Singer Songwriter Music

Music for Film and Television is a collective networking resource for film makers and musicians to combine talents through the art of placing music to film and TV. The MFTV website features an organized selection of quality independent music ready to license for television and film music usages including: scene music, background music, score compositions, source music, themes and trailers. Music is available for convenient stream and download, without any sign-ups or fees.

Located in Ventura, CA, Music for Film and Television works with Buzzard God Publishing (ASCAP) to market independent music for publishing opportunities in film music licensing and television music licensing. The official Music for Film and Television web address is http://www.musicforfilmandtelevision.com

Kussu Music Publishing Enters Into An Exclusive Publishing Deal With The Super German Alternative Techno Duo "BlackIsBeautiful"

The masters of "Realtime Art", the way BlackIsBeautiful describe their electronic music art, are going to celebrate their debut EP due out September 25th on cologne based label "200".

Inspired by the aesthetics of analogue music devices, DJing and live band experiences, BlackIsBeautiful production and live shows are sensational and unforgettable events. Both artists/producers met two years ago at VRSTCK Club in Dortmund-City (Germany). Ever since Uemit Han and Tim Dicke have been working together to create and develop a special live-performance as well as a "realtime production style" that both describe as "Alternative Techno".

Tim Dicke has paved his way into the electronic scene through being a drummer, bassist and solo artist in Punk and Hardcore bands in the 90s and later on as a DJ, while Uemit Han has been working as a DJ for the last 15 years including 9 years of music production experience. In 2006, Uemit won the remix contest to Gabriel Ananda's "Gluecksmelodie" and also released tracks on Karmarouge, Meerestief, Harthouse and other labels.

BlackIsBeautiful have created two real handicrafted tracks "Alerion and Purpur": mesmerizing and enthralling at the same time! Music that invites you to dance and yet puts you to rest for a closer listen. Attention to detail and experiment-happiness get you addicted to BlackIsBeautiful - Occasional street recordings of sounds in everyday life and sampling of snap-shots run through their dynamic sound images.

About Kussu Music Publishing
Kussu Music Publishing, a leading independent company with catalogues of songwriters, composers and producers from all around the world, was founded in 1994 as a publishing arm of Kussu Productions Inc., a music content company with global businesses in music publishing and recorded music, including artist development, management and music library as specialties. Since the launch of Kussu Music Licensing Network (www.kussu.net), KMP has positioned itself as one of the main music licensing destination on the internet to assist music supervisors, film directors, advertising agencies and other industry professionals find the right music for their projects.

http://www.kussu.net
http://www.kussu-productions.com

About 200
200 was founded as a Techno label for vinyl and digital releases by Kai Sasse and Dirk Middeldorf in Cologne, Germany. 200 releases albums for the club and defines itself as open-minded label that is striving to provide a platform for both established and new artists. They are putting an emphasis on connecting with their artists musically and personally. The motivation behind starting 200 label was Kai and Dirk's love for the electronic music; the will to contribute a piece to its development - to give back - and the desire to create something new together.

Free License Use Program "Flup" Aim To Help Reduce Film Production Budget

"Exclusive interview with Didier Kussu"

By Robyn Young for Film Music Magazine

FMM: Who founded Kussu Music Publishing in 1994?

DK: Kussu Music Publishing was founded in 1994 as a publishing arm of Kussu Productions Inc. a music content company with global businesses in music publishing and recorded music, includes artist development, management and music library as specialties.

FMM: What services do you provide?

DK: For Music Users: Since we own or control both the masters and publishing rights from several catalogues, we are in a unique position to provide Pre-cleared music for any project. This makes our company more attractive to clients, because we are fast and our Sync and Master Use Licensing process is simple and easy. We also work closely with agents and partners in many countries including the US, such as Crucial Music, Noma Music among others. These partners license portion of our music catalogue to third party users.

For Music Creators and Copyright Holders/Owners: With our deep relationships, experience and knowledge in music and film industries, we of course offer many avenues of exposure to songwriters, artists, indie labels and publishers for their songs through television shows, motion pictures, soundtracks, multimedia, commercials etc. as well as global administration incl. worldwide registration of songs, making royalty payments to songwriters and composers in respect of the usage of their music, tracking the use of the music they own and ensuring that proper payment is made for all licensed uses, sub-publishing worldwide and other music rights management activities.

FMM: How large is your database of artists?

Actually, we have over thousands artists and songwriters from around the globe, that's including both exclusive and non-exclusive roster. And over hundreds of music producers, publishers and indie labels.

FMM: When was KMLN launched?

DK: Kussu Music Licensing Network was officially launched on May 4, 2009, and we are still adding new music everyday.

FMM: What is FLUP?

DK: FLUP simply means, "Free License Use Program", this program is designed to help reduce film production budget by licensing music from established and indie artists "free of charge".

Listen, dear Robyn, it is just the fact that nearly every sector of the economy has been affected one way or another by recession. But the music and film industry have already been hit so hard by internet piracy over Peer‐to‐Peer (P2P) networks prior the economic slowdown. However, the digital revolution does also present new opportunities for the entertainment industry. With the introduction of new media technologies, greater opportunities for film producers emerge as well as for the distribution etc.

But lets face the reality, the 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was not what it used to be. The market isn't booming and overall prices for movies have remained low. New research form NPD and Nielsens reveal that 63 percent of Americans have played video games within the past six months, while only 43 percent admitted to having gone to see a movie in the theater. The new strategy of "FLUP", Free License Use Program introduced by Kussu Music Publishing, through Kussu Music Licensing Network's website (KUSSU.NET) is a natural reaction to help both our larger community of affiliated songwriters, labels and publishers as well as the film industry to cut production costs of TV Shows, Series, Movies etc. It is a win‐win situation, songwriters and publishers will receive performance royalties, artists get promoted and the production companies save money and have less headaches.

FMM: How does one qualify for FLUP?

DK: Any project that will help promote the artist through the placement of his or her song. And when it airs the writer and publisher will get their performance royalties. As I've already mentioned, it is a win-win situation, the industry is not in a good shape now. Therefore such concept is needed. To be concrete about how does one qualify for FLUP, it is mostly made for established projects such as Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, CSI, Ugly Betty, WEEDS, Valentine, Sex And The City, Saturday Night Live, Dexter, Brothers and Sisters, Supernatural etc. but also new independent or major projects, shows, films with good concept. It is not about how successful a project is or will be you know, we are very flexible and open and every License under FLUP will be decided on case by case basis. However, we are focusing on project that will help our artists and writers get more exposure and generate future royalties.

FMM: What kind of technology are you using for your work process?

DK: The technology behind KUSSU.NET has been implemented by "YOULICENSE", we are grateful to be working with them, they have an excellent team of experts. The song search engine has been built like "GOOGLE", Music users will be able to search by Genre, Mood, Subject, Language, Instruments, Style, Lyrics, Similar Artist, Vocal Type, Writer, Composer or any other individual Keyword(s) of their choices. Full track preview available for all songs and clients will be able to license and download (wav files), CD quality tracks online.

All tracks are Pre-cleared and ready for use in your project. Beside indie and established artists and genres such as Pop, Hip Hop, Dance, R&B and Rock, Kussu Music Licensing Network offers "Hard To Find Specific Music"; such as Oriental/Middle Eastern music, different types of African, Eastern European music, French Pop, Hip Hop, Russian Pop, Hip Hop, Rock, German Pop, Rock, Hip Hop, Electro as well as a variety of Latin music.

FMM: Are there any specific film or TV productions that you would like to quote as "successfully licensed to"?

DK: The songs from our music catalogues are used by different production companies, advertising agencies etc. on a regular basis worldwide including TV productions such as My Boys/Sony Pictures, Ugly Betty/ABC Family, WEEDS/Lionsgate, Dexter/Showtime, Lincoln Heights/ABC Family, Fat Girls/FOX Searchlight, Greek/ABC Family just to name a few.

About Didier Kussu
Didier is a low profile business consultant, entrepreneur and music executive. He is the founder of companies such as United Entertainment & Media Limited (UEM, London), Kussu Productions Inc., Indie Songs Publishing Scandinavia and Indie Songs Publishing UK, African Music Publishing, the world largest African music publisher, Indie Distribution, Latin Music Publishing Group USA and Latin Music Publishing Group Europe, Universoul Vibes, Murder Riddims Records and Murder Riddims Publishing, among others.

For further information, please contact:
Email: flup(at)Kussu.net
http://www.kussu.net

For other licensing inquiries, please send email to:
licensing(at)Kussu.net

For press inquiries, please contact:
Fax: +49 208 6942 240
Email: press(at)Kussu-productions.com

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Soundwrx Gets Into The 'Groove'

Soundwrx is delighted to welcome Gregory J Bennett, aka 'Groove Generator'© into the Soundwrx family. He brings with him an established catalogue of music and has an impressive list of credits to his name.

Gregory, who lives in Louisiana USA, is an award-winning innovator of 'funkafied' and hard driving rock music with a pop under-current. He has already released CD's that demonstrate his versatility and the urban dance grooves that he is known for. His musical apprenticeship began in a New Orleans school band that lead to performing with local bands and his first taste of the big time came with an invite as opening act for a Chaka Khan concert. His self-imposed education into every style of music from R&B to pop, jazz to hip-hop and easy-listening to orchestral is evident in his very individual musical style. Gregory describes this as "a delightful synthesis of sensual, seductive and provocative gumbo!" A 'Listen & Exchange Award' as one of the Top 20 Indie Composer/Producers in 2003 affirms this.

His commercial credits include music for mobile music licensing and distribution, TV advertising and U.S. cable TV soundtracks for VH-1, MTV, E! and HBO among others. He has also enjoyed success with film soundtracks, most notably 'Cain & Abel' (released by MercuryRising Films 2005 & to DVD 2007).

Soundwrx Creative Director, Craig Hopkinson: "Gregory approached us recently as another avenue to distribute his material. On auditioning his tracks it was an easy decision to invite him to join us. The music he brings both complements and expands the Soundwrx range. The power and production quality behind rock tracks such as 'Anticipate me' can't fail to evoke a response!

"Our further research informed us that he had lost most of his possessions in the wake of the Katrina hurricane, not least his music equipment. Anyone who can bounce straight back into work & production after that experience as he did, shows great strength of character – a trait that will only serve to bolster his future success.

"We are currently working on producing a compilation album for release under the Soundwrx label to include some of the 'Groove Generator' back catalogue coupled with some recently submitted material of a more ambient style that will illustrate Gregory's diversity and the continual evolution of his music."

About Soundwrx: soundwrx Limited is a new label specializing in writing music for use as stock, background music and soundtracks suitable for film, radio or television. A small independent production company working out of Portugal with connections to musicians from the UK and Europe, the United States, Russia, China and South America, their first commercial album & EP by EATcha Tribe are available on Amazon, iTunes HMV and others via their distribution partner, BFM Digital.

http://www.soundwrx.net

License To Thrill Music Signs Award-Winning Composer Michael McCann

Las Vegas, NV - May 5th, 2009 - License To Thrill Music LLC (www.licensetothrillmusic.com), an independent music publisher providing one-stop music synchronization and licensing for advertising, films, television, radio, movie trailers, video games and new media, today announced a music publishing partnership with highly acclaimed Canadian composer Michael McCann. License To Thrill Music will represent original works by Michael McCann available for use in advertising, film, TV and other media productions.

Michael McCann's broadcast and composing resume includes some of the biggest companies in entertainment and advertising such as Deutsch Inc., Fox, MTV, Ogilvy & Mather, NBC, Alliance Atlantis and Ubisoft. His music credits range from national branding spots, (BP, The Gap / Old Navy); title music for multiple television series including ReGenesis (nominated for Best TV Theme at the Hollywood Music Awards); film and videogame trailers (Tom Clancy's EndWar, The Law of Enclosures); full game scores (including his award-winning music to Ubisoft's Splinter Cell: Double Agent); and original / licensed music for TV programs from VH1, LifeTime TV and Alliance Atlantis.

"License To Thrill Music is proud to partner with leading composer Michael McCann to promote and service his latest original works for placement in multimedia," said Valerie Vickers, A&R/Licensing Manager for License To Thrill Music. "Michael already has many internationally renowned commercial projects to his name and his music portfolio asserts an engaging appeal that is undeniably unique, identifiable, and commercially compatible on a global scale."

License To Thrill Music offers a boutique roster of commercially-driven and imaginative-thinking music and artists that enables a company, brand or medium to enhance, inspire and transcend their messaging. The team behind License To Thrill Music has worked on platinum selling records, films, #1 hit singles and critically acclaimed album releases by some of the biggest names in music, spanning a period of over 25 years in the music business with innovative artists such as Bjork, The Cure, Kraftwerk and Happy Mondays, and a decade of interactive entertainment marketing for global markets promoting soundtracks from the world's top video game companies including Microsoft, Sony and Ubisoft. For more information please visit http://www.licensetothrillmusic.com

E1 Entertainment Distribution U.S. (Formerly KOCH Distribution) Partners With RightsFlow For Mechanical Licensing And Royalty Services

Port Washington, NY - April 30, 2009 - E1 Entertainment Distribution U.S. (formerly KOCH Distribution), the USA's leading and fastest-growing independent music company in the U.S, and RightsFlow, a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced today that E1 will offer its distributed labels the ability to utilize RightsFlow's proprietary mechanical licensing 'FLOW' system to license, account, and pay publisher royalties for DPD, interactive streams and limited downloads, including subscription and ad-supported models.

"Partnering with RightsFlow allows E1 to provide its distributed labels with access to RightsFlow's unique, cost-saving, bulk mechanical licensing program" stated Michael Rosenberg, President of E1 Entertainment Distribution U.S. "In RightsFlow, we have a proven partner who can manage this important area of our distributed labels' business. By relieving themselves of the burden of this time-consuming and increasingly complex task, our labels have more time and energy to do what they do best - produce content for E1 to distribute - and publishers and songwriters rights are properly licensed and compensated."

"RightsFlow is delighted to enter into this relationship with E1 Entertainment," adds Duncan Hutchison, Chief Content Officer of RightsFlow. "We are excited to demonstrate how RightsFlow's proven one-stop solution can provide E1's labels the cost-saving benefits of off-loading their mechanical licensing, accounting, and royalty needs."

Under U.S. Copyright Law, mechanical licenses are required for music to be distributed through online music services. The current U.S. statutory mechanical rate for permanent downloads is 9.1¢ for songs five minutes or less and 1.75¢ per minute for songs over five minutes. Limited download and interactive streaming services generally pay a mechanical royalty of 10.5 percent of revenue, less amounts owed for performance royalties. To ensure publishers and songwriters are properly compensated under U.S. law, RightsFlow's licensing service utilizes the bulk licensing system of The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), a leading U.S. music rights licensing organization, as well as bulk licensing systems used by the thousands of publishers not represented by HFA.

About E1 Entertainment:
E1 Entertainment (AIM: ETO) is a leading independent entertainment content owner that acquires film, television and music rights and exploits these rights in all media in more than 190 countries. The company currently operates in Canada, the U.S., the UK, Holland and Belgium through its four primary businesses units: E1 Television, E1 Films, E1 Music and E1 Distribution. These businesses collectively represent E1's extensive expertise in film distribution, television and music production/distribution, Kids content, Licensing and Distribution. E1's content library includes more than 3,700 feature films, 2,700 hours of original television programming and 15,000 music tracks. For more information, visit us at: http://www.kochdistribution.com.

About RightsFlow:
RightsFlow offers Mechanical Licensing & Royalty Solutions for labels, distributors, and online music services. We specialize in obtaining bulk mechanical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited downloads rights. Our proprietary "FLOW" system allows us to license, account, and pay royalties directly to the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) and the thousands of publishers not represented by HFA. Today, RightsFlow services over 1,500 labels for mechanical and DPD licensing. Some of the many clients we service include marquee companies such as Muzak, EMI Music, Active International, CD Baby, IODA, Audible Magic, YouLicense, Constellation Wines (Blackstone), X5 Music Group, Zebralution and Disc Makers, among others. For more information on RightsFlow's services and management team, visit http://www.rightsflow.com.