Free-Will

Free-Will

Infobox record label
name = Free-Will


image_bg =
parent =
founded = 1986
founder = Hiroshi Tomioka
status = Active
distributor =
genre = Rock
country = flagicon|Japan Japan
location =
url = [http://www.free-will.co.jp www.free-will.co.jp]

Free-Will is a Japanese independent record label founded in 1986. It manages, among others, several visual kei themed rock bands and also continues to co-manage many of its artists after they have signed recording contracts with one of the major record labels. During the visual kei boom in the 1990s, the phrase "East Extasy and West Free-Will" was coined ("Extasy" referring to Yoshiki Hayashi's Extasy Records).cite web
title = "Free-Will and Groove Productions Press Release"
work = nanopro.jp
url = http://www.nanopro.jp/newsrelease/pdf/20070626.pdf
accessdate = 2007-08-16] Free-Will currently has branches in Japan, and the United States and previously in Europe as well.cite web
title = Free-Will Europe Home Page
work = web.archive.org
date = 2007-04-04
url = http://web.archive.org/web/20070404165604/http://www.free-will-europe.com/
accessdate = 2007-09-23]

On September 14, 2007, the label's founder Hiroshi "Dynamite Tommy" Tomioka was arrested, along with fellow Free-Will official Kazunori Murasaki and Koichi Kaku, a former employee of the Asatsu-DK advertising agency. The trio is accused of defrauding the agency of 324 million yen (approximately US$ 2.8 million) by ostensibly ordering the agency to produce music videos, which were then delegated to subcontract firms. Kaku has since confessed to the charges, while Tomioka denies any involvement.cite web
title = "3 Arrested for Defrauding Ad Company"
work = japantoday.com
date = 2007-09-15
url = http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/418315
accessdate = 2007-09-15] cite web
title = "３億２４００万円詐欺、広告代理店元社員ら逮捕"
work = sankei.co.jp
date = 2007-09-14
url = http://www.sankei.co.jp/shakai/jiken/070914/jkn070914011.htm
language = Japanese
accessdate = 2007-09-23] cite web
title = "ＡＤＫから３億円詐取、容疑の元社員ら３人逮捕"
work = nikkei.co.jp
date = 2007-09-14
url = http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/shakai/20070914AT1G1401C14092007.html
language = Japanese
accessdate = 2007-09-24]

ub-divisions

The company operates several sub-divisions, some of them for a single band or purpose only. For example, Firewall Div. solely handles material which is released in collaboration with Sony Music.
* Firewall Div. – Baroque, Dir en grey
* Ism – Kannivalism
* Lizard – Kagerou
* PS Company – Alice Nine, The Gazette, Miyavi, Kagrra, Kra
** Indie PSC – Screw, SuG
* S'Cube – Eile de Mu, Puppet Mammy, Ruvie, Tokyo Michael

Bands managed directly

;Current
* Rentrer en Soi
* BIS;Past
* Color
*Kamaitachi
*By-Sexual
*Billy & The Sluts
*Decameron
*Genkaku Allergy
*Seamonkey
*Amphibian
*Youka
*Red Tail Cat
*Lovemania
*Speed-ID
*Vogue

References

ee also

* List of record labels

External links

* [http://www.free-will.co.jp/ Free-Will Japan]
* [http://www.free-will-america.com/ Free-Will America]
* [http://www.pscompany.co.jp/ PS Company]
* [http://www011.upp.so-net.ne.jp/scube/ S'Cube]


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