AVA joins Armada

[a98]

probably old news for people but..

AVA Recordings is proud to announce that it has formed a partnership with Armada Music for distribution rights and management.

Andy is passionate to find classy electronic dance music of the highest quality, which shapes new sounds and reinvents boundaries. He states "I have always been extremely impressed with the professional manner in which everybody at Armada conducts their business. AVA recordings have a certain music policy that I feel fits under the Armada umbrella and I feel that now is the right time to join forces. I am expecting this alliance to provide a better service to the music industry, allowing the label to grow more rapidly and therefore increasing the amount of quality music available." Both Armada Music and AVA Recordings are looking forward to working together and have high expectations for the future of the label.

source: avarecordings.com

i don't know how this will change things, or affect on my position at ava. but i've been feeling for months now that i have no space in ava. mostly because i've been so inactive with music lately. the new remixes on tricky waters / winter leaves were completed like 3 months ago already and they wanted to sign them, but i never heard from them after that.

[Rohit]

damn ! what will happen to those remixes then ? will you get them signed to a different label ?

[a98]

that's not possible, rights are with ava. i guess i'll just have to polish them more and keep offering every now and then maybe someday they actually put them for release. and who knows maybe ava will actually start to function now under armada, and not keep 4 month breaks and then suddently release 3 tracks all at once.

[pablo]

Finally I registered...

But, I don't think this was a good change. Yes, Armada is big and things _may_ get easier for AVA but not for the ppl who are signed by them. Anssi may be right that they could have breaks and so on, but to me this smells like that another competitor has been bought out. On the other hand, AVA may just continue functioning as usual. More tracks to release under Armada collections...

Btw, does labels pay for the producer as much from these re-releases as they pay from the original ones?

[a98]

i don't know really, i would guess most of the time it goes under the old contract, meaning same royalties as with the original mixes. but i guess at times there'll be a new contract too.

[a98]

Dec 14, 2008 17:21:33 GMT 3 Rohit said:

damn ! what will happen to those remixes then ? will you get them signed to a different label ?

finally got a confirmation that these new remixes will see a release on ava, andy seemed pretty excited about them aswell

[Rohit]

thats awesome news ! looking forward
can you tell the name of the remixers, if possible ?