More Sessions Than Ever! Visconti, Giddings, Presencer with Keynotes

The keynotes of legendary producer Tony Visconti, promoter heavyweight John Giddings, and Ministry Of Sound´s CEO Lohan Presencer are spearheading this year´s programme of Reeperbahn Festival Conference, that will feature nearly 300 speakers and include 125 sessions – more than ever before. The complete programme with all details is available online.

In the news below we present some of the latest confirmed topics and participants.

Music & Taking a Stand –  Office of Offensive Culture

Policy

We are pleased that the starting signal for the Office of offensive Culture will be given at Reeperbahn Festival, personally introduced by the initiators and well known german Songwriters Heinz Ratz and Konstantin Wecker (photo).
The aim is a pacifist, anti-fascist network of artists, sound engineers, operators and local associations that will make an immediate reaction to human rights violations, rights threat or environmental offenses possible. We ask all artists, industry representatives and guests of the Reeperbahn Festival for their support and encouragement at this occasion.

Lohan Presencer – Interviewed by Ralph Simon

Recorded

Lohan Presencer (photo) is the Chairman of Ministry of Sound Group, the world famous nightclub and dance music business. We are very happy to welcome him and the highly esteemed Ralph Simon for this keynote interview at this significant moment in Ministry’s history, having recently sold its recorded music operations to Sony Music. Ralph and Lohan will discuss the future for Ministry of Sound, its continuing operations as well as its new relationship with Sony, and how this new move will continue to keep the company relevant and right there in the zeitgeist of the modern entertainment industry.

Different Aspects of German HipHop

Marketing, Policy, Recorded

Deutschrap has shaped German language, culture and entertainment like no other subculture of the past two decades. We have great sessions prepared for you covering different aspects of the genre:
– Sexism vs. Rap – a dicussion beyond the boundaries of morality, taste, politics and art in rap,
– The HipHop Lying Press – a discussion of the status quo of music journalism in the digital age.
– Läuft bei uns – What can we learn from German HipHop.
– Get out of the Grubby Corner – The marketing of HipHop in Germany.
Amongst the speakers you find the artists
Frauenarzt, Chima Ede, ÉSMaticx, or Amewu (photo), journalists Falk Schacht, Dennis Sand (Welt), Fréderic Schwilden (Focus), Niko Hüls (Backspin), business representatives like Davide Bortot (A Color Bright, DE), Erfan Bolourchi (83MGMT, DE) and Uwe Hoffmann (Deutscher Schutzverband gegen Diskriminierung, DE).

From Smart Data To The Ageing Industry
These three session are dealing with some of the most challenging issues the music industry is facing:
– Music Made Smarter – Music Creation Really Made Smarter With Smart Data? with Paul Gathercole (Universal Music, GB), Helena Kosinski (Nielsen Music, US), and Michael Krause (Deezer, DE)
– Help the Aged – Do We Look at an Ageing Industry Playing to an Ageing Market? with Katja Kullmann (Der Freitag, DE – photo), Simon Napier-Bell (Snap-B Music, GB), Alison Wenham (AIM, GB), and Johnny Haeusler (re:publica, DE)
– Europe’s Streaming – Facts, Figures and Future Perspectives of Subscriber-Based Music Streaming with Sebastian Buss (Statista, DE), Annabella Coldrick (MMF, GB),
Charlie Lexton (Merlin, GB), or Michael Pohl (Kontor New Media, DE)

Digital Marketing for Your Music Event

The digital space is increasingly crowded, with a myriad of Facebook events, ads and countless Snapchat stories and festival videos on Youtube.
So how do you cut through the noise to reach your audience to stand out from the competition? And how can you measure the impact of your marketing campaigns?
This session will highlight marketing approaches and tools for music events together with Sandro Spiess (Eventbrite, DE – photo), Ewelina Yildiz (Facebook, DE), and host Ivana Dragila (former editor Musikmarkt, DE).

Music Rights Across the Border

In recent years, the European music market witnessed the birth of so-called “one-stop shops” for music rights licensing like International Copyright Enterprise, Armonia and MINT. In this session a group of experts will discuss the following questions:  Who do these multinational cooperation initiatives appeal to?  What are the benefits for the participants in the licensing cycle of cross-border coalitions?  What are the future challenges of music rights management and how can European “hubs” contribute to a fairer market for creatives? Speakers: Virginie Berger (Armonia, FR), Prof. Dr. Rolf Budde (Budde Music, DE), Thomas Theune (GEMA, DE – photo), and host Helienne Lindvall (Auddly, SE).
This session is presented by GEMA.

Come to MaMA!

Attracting more over 4,300 French and international delegates from the music industry, MaMA (12 – 14 October) is a major international event in Paris. With conferences, networking and concerts in the heart of Pigalle and Montmartre, MaMA seeks to provide answers about the future of the music industry, to develop business opportunities and to discover 120 French and international artists. For the second year and throughout the 3 days of the event, MaMA will dedicate an entire space “M@MA Invent”, to start-ups and innovative services of the music industry, developing business opportunities between the various actors of the industry.
Register now for the gateway to the French market!

Get Your Registration

Music2Deal members can obtain a discounted registration code for a Reeperbahn Festival Conference Ticket by sending an email to registration@reeperbahnfestival.com mentioning “Discount Music2deal“ (deadline Sept 16). They will then receive a discount code including instruction to register online.

The discount will be €155,00 net (plus 19% VAT and sales fee) instead of regular fee €230,00 net (30% off).

Tell us a bit about yourself?

I have been working in the music industry since 1994 started at the Swedish Radio as a music programer, went on to work as a sound engineer in a music studio but was never good enough . So when studio formed a record label I was sent in to the office , to handle PR and marketing and administration :-) So from there I went on to work for a huge indie publisher in Sweden and learnt the publishing industry from inside out . After that I was recruited to a huge German publisher and acted as their international A&R for a 2 and a half years .  Now I am running my own Voiceman Music where I do promotion, marketing and artist strategy as well as I am a co-owner of 2 small publishing companies . But into days music business I focus on promotion and marketing.

 

 

Have you licensed your music / signed your artists internationally? Which country do you think is the best to license music to? Why?

I have place music in many different countries of course in the Nordics where my base is but also Asia, USA and all over Europe . Being a publisher is all about finding the right home for the songs and for the artists . Don’t know if any country are better or worse to get placed in it is more about finding the right song for the right artist or movie and make a match making . When it comes to artists it is all about finding the right label for them no matter what territory we are talking about.
 

If you were to partner with someone to license his music / sign up his artists for your region, what sort of music are you looking out for? Why?

I am not really looking into signing any artists or license any music in my region, I am more looking for artists and labels which needs promotion in the Nordics and UK . Of course I will also try to help them get their music placed here , but the main focus is promotion towards radio, press and playlists on streaming services like Spotify .

 

Notable projects you have completed

The one I am most proud over is www.sexdrugsandhiv.com

Then I have placed songs on artists like Sunrise Avenue , Befour, Carola, Percy Sledge etc so have had allot of proud moments .
 

Your artists/ projects are….

Right now I am working with DJ Janousek and Debbie Ray . Janousek is working with EDM and Debbie Ray is a very cool rock band . Then I have a few writers I help placing music for.

 

Upcoming projects

In September we will see a new sigle from Debbie Ray. We will release the single in the Nordic Countries to start with .  Dj Janousek is constantly writing and releasing songs over here .

 
What do you think is the single largest problem faced by the music industry today? How do you think it can be resolved?

The problem I see is that is harder and harder for us small companies to compete with the majors and that the income from streaming to songwriters are too low . Hopefully the copyright organizations and the streaming company will sit down and negotiate a new and fairer deal .

 
Your plans for 2016/17?

I need to get more clients in on the promotion side of the comapny that is what pays the bills , also I hope we will see Debbie Ray releasing a fulllength album later on in 2016 or early 2017 . And I am also looking for a label to relase Janouseks up coming album .

 
A good word on Music2Deal.com

Music2Deal as been very good for me I learnt to know a few persons on the site that I will work with in the future . It is a great networking tool on the internet . But then again meet here but also meet up IRL :-)

 

Tell us a bit about yourself?
PC : My name is Patrick Cohen an entrepreneur , music lover , blogger, writer, songwriter, transformational activist from London UK . I am the founder of Yinc Ltd a group of business trading in varied industries and YZ Records is arm operating the music industry alongside Yjukebox the recently added marketing and Video distribution branch.

Have you signed your artists internationally? 
PC : Yes although we relatively new on this market I have signed and licensed an artist internationally ,I would say worldwide in 2013 .

Which country do you think is the best to license music to? Why?
PC : Commonly the US is the best to license music to because of the size of the market and the importance of the opportunity in the entertaiment industry, but I personally deal a lot with the UK because o the variety ad flexibility of the demand, however countries such as Germany France and the scandinavia , Japan, New Zealand as well as Australia have good niches if you want to expend.

If you were to partner with someone to license his music / sign up his artists for your region, what sort of music are you looking out for? 
PC: For the UK Pop music and urban music in general but I work almost in all style excepted Heavy metal and gangster rap which I have not exploited yet for parental advisories reasons . I am also working on experimental musics such urban classic , and Reggazz (Jazzy Reggae ) because the UK is one of the most open when it comes to innovation , experimental music.

 

 

Notable projects you have completed??
PC : I have released a single titled Liberator with the premier Afro- European Jewish hip hop act in 2013 who developed under YZ Records; but I got seriously burnt by some so called independent music industry professional who supposedly want to help the independent music . As you can notice no release since then and the business almost closed down, thanks God the business has more than one leg. The reason why we added our own distribution in partnership with well established company to prevent this big scam going on right now in the music industry.

Before the restructuration of our business the Record label lost all of the artists in the course of resolving the infrigement of our copyrights resulting in non payment of royalties , As matter of fact we are still in litigations on that issue.

The coming projects are Elle the princess of Life Music from London UK . 22 years old who work on vintage soul music with urban flavour coupled with substantial lyrics . Life Music is about bringing back to like the vintage musically and souls which are buried in dead hopes. Release late this year.

Then Jahmarya who is a Reggae artist from South London to be reeased next year .

Haute Gam is the haute music band working on making world Music luxurious . The band led by Lazare Gaman aka music factory the former keyboard player of the international Reggae artist Alpha Blondy , to be released late this year as well .

Then have the 3G who are 1 twin(brother and sister) James 13 years old and Martha 13 years old and their younger sister Faith 11 years old , James is a Genius producer, drummer, Martha plays bass guitar , keyboard and does backing vocals, Faith plays keyboard , a bit of violin and is lead singer, We also have their older brother  the already legendary Percussionist, Drummer, producer, Music teacher Steven G Legend who worked for;Rihanna, Rita Ora, Ghetts and Kano to name a few. His main

influence is his father Lazare Gaman, a producer, who he saw making music as a young child. At the age of 8, his parents bought him his first ever drum kit and since then he’s never looked back. His musical styles include jazz-fusion, RnB, Funk, Neo-Soul and Gospel. In February 2011 Steven performed for Rihanna at the Brit Awards and the following year went on to work with Rita Ora and Ghetts. In April 2013 he completed his first European Tour with Conor Maynard and
also supported Will.I.AM in December later that year.Steven is a co-founder of the CUPC Charity who attend the needs of privileged children in Africa. He will be Launching his own Music Academy very soon and releasing his own music. on YZ Records .

He is currently touring worldwide with Kwabs (Atlantic Records),

Steven G Legend has become too heavy for the size of the label so we are looking for major to take over his coming projects with his collective Legend City .

I am meanwhile open to collaborate with any artist on various projects since I am partnering with 4 production companies.

What do you think is the single largest problem faced by the music industry today?
PC: The largest single problem we face is of moral order , “Greed” which birth, deceit , corruption , envy ,as I said earlier we were burnt by people who pretended to help the independent music professional survive the cannibalistic environment of the industry yet they happen to be worst than the majors . Some conspiration theorists believe such people were sent by the major to create an atmosphere of insecurity and fear so the only safe way for music would be the majors . I do not know but something is sure I am right now partnering with major or sub major who seem safer.

How do you think it can be resolved?
PC: Organisations such Music2Deal could be a way to resolve this issue by exposing the rotten apples get them to fix themselves or else have the same sanctions as criminal or sex offenders . Through this strong network of morally fit real music lovers who understand the power of shared economy we can make a big change at the point of influencing the music industry worldwide . If we have a well organised professionally and morally competent group of Music2Deal ambassadors we can influence  bigger organisation and governments to implement change.

Your plans for 2016/17?
PC: As I pointed out previously I have few releases coming up at the end of 2016 and in the spring 2017 music wise .

A good word on Music2Deal.com
PC: What if Music2Deal was the hope of the independent Music industry ? We can make it happen, if to change the world we need to change our mentality Music2Deal has done a bit more than that by putting in the hands of Independent music professional the tool to make a change. And I am not only wishing all the best in succeeding in that task but I am dedicated to be involved to make it happen. All the blessings to Mario Christiani and his collaborators .

 

Link: Patrick Cohen (ZY Records, UK)