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Killing Moon launches new companies enterprise and membership community for impartial music firms

Killing Moon launches new services business and membership network for independent music companies

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By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday, August 12th, 2021

The Killing Moon Group yesterday launched a new label and artist services business called The Music Federation.

The new company is essentially a member network that gives participating independent labels and music companies access to a wide range of sales, marketing, studio, content, merchandise, events, legal and other services. Labels within the network will also interact with and support one another – with some also bringing services to the table – and each member will contribute to the development and development of the broader company.

Akhal Dhillon, CEO of Killing Moon, told CMU about the motivation for founding a music service company that is run as a member network: Music and a lot of things that Killing Moon has done over the past three years with a Soho-based member club called The House Of St Barnabas has made.

At St. Barnabas, he adds: “The element of the membership club is the income generating unit that supports the central charity that aims to lift people out of homelessness. These places and their regular activities have taught me to value people in this business well beyond their catalog value. This may seem like childlike thinking, or at least that’s what I’ve been told over and over. But here we are. Fun”.

Regarding the way new music companies will join the network, Dhillon says, “The inclusion is based, like any other member club, on you and your organization sharing the same values, community and common Gathering and sharing skills, knowledge and, ultimately, services … First and foremost, we need to know that you are a personal fit: a demonstration of how you try to improve things or bring about change in society in your own way is a good way of doing this to achieve. This is how the House of St Barnabas takes in members and we like the way these people do things. “

Each member will then identify which services they want to access through The Music Federation and an agreement will be made on how the company will bill for those services. The distribution and streaming service relationships will be handled by Believe, which will also support the new company.

Regarding the Believe connection, Dhillon continues: “We are a new distributor and had to find allies whose delivery pipes we could use and some friendly faces given our recent experience with certain distributors. I think I really feel like the last real big indie distributor that’s left, and that feeling was very much felt during the negotiations with my good friend Ben Rimmer [Believe’s Director Of Artists & Labels Solutions for the UK, Ireland and Benelux] who were also active on the AIM board and knew exactly what we were trying to do. “

“I think we gave each other the money we needed to get this thing going,” he continues. “The agreements we have made with them also mean that we can sign anyone we wish to sign at the association, and we have their full support from the conception stage onwards with regard to any member or person who becomes a member would like. It’s nice to feel supported since the conception of the project and to let our sales business grow in another one that has flourished with a good heart.

The Music Federation’s founding members include Metropolis, Fierce Panda, Export Quality Records, Native.fm, Elephant Music, Polarface, Perceptible Records, and Wild Paths. In addition to Dhillon and Rimmer, Siofra McComb from the label management consultancy Positive Subversion is also involved in founding the new company, which will also be the general manager of the new company.

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