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LTE Distribution

Updated 11/4/22 LTE Music Distribution   is a Music Distribution firm managed by service provider, Lee Thorp Entertainment.  Model -   As music distributor our model is to provide a low cost service to producers and labels who can do most of the marketing and preparation work themselves, utilising our experience and contacts and systems to get their music to the different markets. Digital/Physical We offer a full digital distribution service for a flat percentage of all revenue we manage to be part of securing. Here are the basics. 1 -  No fixed costs on each release, no storage costs, no encoding or metadata management costs as well as a free full data service for your royalty accounting and trend data for marketing use. 2 - No long term contracts on repertoire with fixed term licenses on individual songs. However we reserve a limited option to one new song in the case of a new act from producers. 3 - If you don't have a publisher we offer music publishing through our sister

Lesley Rae Dowling - Spaniard remixed.

Great news. Producer, Terence McCullagh, who produced most of Lesley Rae Dowling's hits has been working on the old master tapes of her recordings.  A re-issue album featuring the singer's classic songs is planned for later this year. Lesley is something of an enigma in the South African (SA) entertainment scene. Critics hailed the release of her debut recordings in 1981, as a ground breaking moment in SA pop music history. She had a meteoric rise in media profile and then disappeared from the business after four albums. More of that story later. Some of the multitrack tapes from the original recording sessions have deteriorated beyond rescue but fortunately this is not the case with all of them. It is still possible to restore parts of the missing or damaged sequences, with the aid of digital technology employed in current music production. Lesley Rae Dowling circa 1984 (c) Songwrights  The first re-issue will be Lesley's classic song, The Spaniard, which Ter

Jazz Funk Merchants or Boy Band?

Wow. When I was given a pre-release copy of the music at a jazz expo last year, I was not quite sure that the work of four good looking French boys was going to be my bag. Funny how we have programmed ourselves to expect certain images for serious jazz artists. The photo accompanying the music was not what I thought a jazz quartet would look like. (c) Critical Quartet Experience 2019 Well how wrong could I be? Four young French jazz musicians who can really play, compose and look good. It's funk, jazz and fusion, sometimes with a retro feel, but these guys rock! Their debut release, titled Mental Distortion , is out tomorrow on all digital platforms. There are 6 tracks on the digital package. All original. I have a feeling we are going to hear more from these guys. Some links for your entertainment - https://music.apple.com/es/album/mental-distortion-ep/1489141653?l=en https://www.facebook.com/CriticalQuartetExperience/ The band is called, Critical Quartet Exper