Armada’s $100m BEAT Music Fund strikes series of rights deals in the UK, including the entire catalog of Sola Records

Armada Music‘s BEAT Music Fund’s marketing campaign to speculate $100 million in dance music rights within the first two years of its existence continues apace, with the fund asserting on Thursday a collection of latest acquisitions, together with all the again catalog of Sola Information.

The Netherlands-headquartered funding fund has additionally acquired “a good portion” of the catalog of VIVa MUSiC, the UK-headquartered label launched in 2006 by DJ Steve Lawler. Moreover, BEAT Music Fund has acquired the grasp recordings of Ran-D’s Zombie and Human Useful resource’s Dominator.

BEAT Music Fund didn’t disclose the worth of the acquisitions.

UK-headquartered Sola Information was based in 2017 by manufacturing duo Mark Richards and James Eliot, aka Solardo. BEAT’s acquisition of Sola’s catalog consists of works by Solardo, in addition to artists equivalent to Biscits, Hannah Laing, Shermanology, CamelPhat, SOSA, Piero Pirupa, Ben Hemsley, Martin Ikin, Hannah Desires, Franky Rizardo, Will Clarke and Secondcity.

BEAT didn’t specify which components of the VIVa catalog it acquired, however acts launched by the label embody Anek, Audiofly, David Pher, Detlef, LEON, Livio & Roby, Radio Slave and Simon Baker.

Human Useful resource’s 1991 single Dominator broke into the Prime 40 in each the UK and the Netherlands, marking the beginning of the hardcore/gabber subgenre of EDM.

DJ Ran-D launched a canopy of the Cranberries’ seminal observe Zombie on Armada Music in 2017. It was licensed gold within the Netherlands in 2019.

“It’s really an honor that Sola Information, VIVa MUSiC, Ran-D and Human Useful resource are entrusting us to breathe new life into their unimaginable music,” Maykel Piron, CEO of BEAT Music Fund and mum or dad firm Armada Music, stated in an announcement.

“As BEAT continues to develop, these partnerships present us with a primary alternative to collaborate with one of the best and the brightest in dance, bolster their legacies, and convey these tracks to the forefront.”

Launched by Armada Music – the indiebehind dance/techno artists equivalent to Chicane, Ferry Corsten and Paul Van Dyk – this previous spring, BEAT Music Fund has set an bold goal of constructing a $500 million music funding portfolio, together with in that $100 million in investments in its first two years.

The funding firm is backed by Pinnacle Monetary Companions, a Nashville, Tennessee-based monetary companies agency with $42 billion in property as of the top of 2022, together with $2 billion in entertainment-related property.

BEAT’s launch “provides a brand new dimension to the work we’re doing with Armada Music, and we’re tremendous excited to herald extra unimaginable labels, artists and songs to spice up and complement our present catalog of 40,000 tracks,” Piron stated on the time.

“As BEAT continues to develop, these partnerships present us with a primary alternative to collaborate with one of the best and the brightest in dance, bolster their legacies, and convey these tracks to the forefront.”

Maykel Piron, Armada Music/BEAT Music Fund

BEAT, which stands for “Finest Ever Acquired Tracks,” introduced on the time of its launch that it had acquired the grasp recordings catalog of KMS Information, based by home and techno legend Kevin Saunderson, in addition to the grasp and publishing catalogs of musician, DJ and producer ARTY, a.okay.a. Alpha 9.

Just a few months later, it announced the acquisition of the grasp and catalog rights of Chocolate Puma, the duo consisting of Dutch producers Rene ter Horst and Gaston Steenkist, a.okay.a. Dj Zki & Dobre, or The Good Males. The acquisition coveeds ter Horst and Steenkist’s releases from 1991 to 2011, and included seven tracks that charted within the US, UK or Netherlands.

On the identical time, BEAT introduced it had acquired New York-headquartered indie dance label King Avenue Sounds, which was based within the Nineties by Hisa Ishioka, whom BEAT described as a “trailblazer” within the New York dance scene.

BEAT Music Fund says its mission is “to accumulate and exploit the easiest of recording and music publishing catalogs from a spread of dance-related genres.”

Armada Music bills itself as “the most important impartial dance musicon this planet”. Based in 2003, its identify derives from the primary two letters of the names of its founders, Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron and David Lewis (“Ar-Ma-Da”).Music Enterprise Worldwide