Downtown Music LLC

Downtown Music LLC
Founded	2006
Founder	Josh Deutsch and Terence Lam
Distributor(s)	Fontana Distribution Universal Music Group
Genre	Various
Country of origin	U.S.
Official Website	Downtown Music Mercer Street Records Downtown Music Publishing Downtown Music Services Downtown Music Studios RCRD LBL

Downtown Music, LLC is an independently owned company which operates Downtown Records, Downtown Music Publishing, Downtown Music Services (Licensing Group), Downtown Digital/RCRD LBL and Downtown Recording Studios. Downtown was founded in January 2006 by Josh Deutsch, former Senior Vice President of A&R at Virgin Records, Terence Lam, foremerly a senior executive at VH1, and John Josephson, a Managing Director at Allen & Company LLC. Offices are located in New York and Los Angeles. Downtown Records is distributed by Universal Music's Fontana and has a joint venture with Atlantic Records in North America for specific releases. Downtown Records consists of its Downtown and Mercer Street Imprints and joint venture partners Dim Mak, Fool's Gold, and Mad Decent Records.^[1][2][3][4]

Partnerships

Downtown has a series of strategic investments in the digital space, including a partnership with Engaget founder Peter Rojas in RCRD LBL, the critically acclaimed online singles label in blog format.^[5]

Downtown Music has also launched joint ventures with Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Records^[6], A-Trak's Fool's Gold label^[7] and Diplo's Mad Decent Records^[8].

In 2008, the company signed marketing/promotion deal with Interscope which covers Downtown's three distributed labels Dim Mak, Fool's Gold and Mercer Street.^[9]

See also

• Downtown Records
• Mercer Street Records
• Downtown Music Publishing
• Downtown Music Services
• Downtown Music Studios
• RCRD LBL
• Songtrust

References

1. ^ "Downtown Records Rides Crest of Paradigm Shift", Lee, Chris, Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2008.
2. ^ "They Signed Gnarls Barkley: How upstart record labels score big-name acts, make download music history and compete with the majors" Gangemi, Jeffrey, Businessweek, June 28, 2006.
3. ^ "Gnarls Barkley to the Rescue", Leonard, Devin, Fortune, November 27, 2006.
4. ^ "New Label 'Crazy' Like a Fox", Lauria, Peter, The New York Post
5. ^ "Music Test: Can a Firm Profit from Free Tunes?", Smith, Ethan, The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2007
6. ^ "Downtown and Dim Mak Labels Join Forces", Mills, Fred Harp, January 28, 2008.
7. ^ "Fools Gold Inks Joint Venture with Downtown Music" Press Release, July 16, 2008
8. ^ "Diplo Takes Mad Decent Downtown"
9. ^ "Downtown Links with Fontana, Interscope", Harding, Cortney, Billboard, September 5, 2008.