LTE Distribution

LTE Distribution
is a Music media distribution firm managed by service provider, Lee Thorp Entertainment.

The evolution of the German distribution activities under the management of Patrick Lee-Thorp, means that Lee Thorp Entertainment (LTE), is still producing (live concerts and studio recordings), marketing, distributing and publishing music.

The lapse of restraints of the trade arrangements, allowed Patrick to move part of his digital catalogue to The Orchard in 1997. To begin with it was only the Mountain and Sea Records labels as they charted new waters with Scott Cohen and his colleagues. Physical distribution was with New Music Distribution from their start in 1996.

By 2006 LTE was running a distribution business offering services to selected Indie labels from France, Benelux, Germany the UK as well as taking care of the six in-house labels of Songwrights Publishers. It was also exporting finished product to these same countries, which continues.

Today LTE Distribution still represents different chosen labels and even single artists, in physical and digital distribution though with some territorial limitations. The historic association with the successor of Newmusic Distribution, NMD Distribution (now owned by Membran Entertainment) and the association with The Orchard (now a wholly owned SONY satellite), means the firm is a full service distributor with over 20 years experience.

LTE was started in Cape Town, South Africa in the mid-1970s, with a distribution alliance with EMI. That endured some 30 years until taken over by Universal Music, through whom the African CD catalogue is still available. LTE still represent certain South African producers world-wide.

All inquiries - LTE - email - leethorpentertianment@gmail.com

post - Postfach 762334, 22070 Hamburg, Deutschland

Link to some history - https://newmusicpublishing.blogspot.com/2020/01/newmusic-distribution.html

P.S. - Producers and Artists be warned, aggregators are not distributors. You still need the skills of a distributor to fully exploit the potential of your music. And if possible a distributor with some experience of both the analogue and digital world. LTE Distribution, is one such music distributor.

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Zayn Adam - Power Ballad Remixes - A Birthday Reminder

Zayn was not just a good singer, he had a great voice. He is remembered with this EP, which has been in the pipeline for over a year now. It reminds us of just what a great vocal stylist he was. Terence (Tully) McCullagh sent me a remix of a Zayn duet with Terri Lynn in February 2019. He had recorded the song with Zayn in the 1980s. We subsequently issued the track, I won't cry , as a single in April 2019. The sleeve of the EP (c) Mountain Records Zayn used to keep a ear open for local (South Africa based) writers for his releases. This EP includes two such songs, scouted by him. Cape based, Martin Wolf wrote I won't cry for Zayn. The updates and improvement in sound on the first remix were a real surprise for me. We agreed to select a handful of ballads that Tully had produced and he would remix these with contemporary sounds and some new instrumentation. The result is a five track EP titled - Power Ballads . This will go live on the late Zayn Adam's birth

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Niki Daly is a refugee from the 60s. A hippy and a real artist. Best known for being an international award winning children's book author, he is also a songwriter of off the wall love songs. (c) Niki Daly He spent time in the 1970s in the UK, where he was signed to a music publisher, writing songs for the pop stars of the time. On his return to South Africa (SA) he went back to his art and writing, but occasionally ventured out to the music studio to record his own compositions. Insiders will recall the the quirky track, Is it an Ism or is it Art. The work produced and recorded by Terence (Tully) McCullagh in 1983, is now a classic of SA Pop Music. Here a music link - Ism or Art ? Video - Niki clip ---------- 2/7/20 There is one Niki Daly album in our catalogue LINK HERE - WHITEY

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