Describe Credit: Above Board
The Orchard acquires dance distributor and tag products and companies company Above Board.
Expertise-pushed distribution and products and companies group The Orchard has purchased UK digital dance company Above Board, giving Above Board get right of entry to to The Orchard’s paunchy suite of world distribution, artist, and tag products and companies. Above Board has performed an integral impartial in rising digital acts be pleased Peggy Gou, Charlotte de Witte, Patrick Topping, Jamie Jones, and Maceo Plex.
The Orchard’s infrastructure will beef up Above Board’s already sturdy carrier offerings, including cutting-edge abilities and present chain, digital and bodily distribution, analytics, industrial improvement opportunities, promoting, publishing administration, neighboring rights, and world attain with groups running in 45 territories worldwide.
Founder and Managing Director of Above Board, Dan Hill, will proceed to signal and create world dance and digital ability for Above Board, including to The Orchard’s roster as the corporate grows its world footprint within the genre.
“The Above Board team is engaging with this fresh chapter of our company, and we are in actuality fully immersed into The Orchard’s ecosystem,” says Dan Hill. “The fresh relationship offers Above Board the realm infrastructure and resources to match our artists’ and labels’ ambition, plus offers them the platform to compose definite they take care of the rights to their tune.”
“We’re satisfied to welcome Dan and his team to The Orchard. Their standing and trip on this genre of tune are 2d to none. It became once an foremost to The Orchard that we partnered with a company entirely immersed within the custom of dwelling tune,” adds Ian Dutt, Managing Director at The Orchard.
“Collectively, we are making an are trying to compose a obvious affect on this dwelling by providing animated and future-going by strategies for producer and DJ-owned impartial labels globally. The importance of this sector is on the entire overpassed in conversations addressing the energy of impartial tune. We’re making an are trying to commerce that myth.”
“Dan and Above Board’s roster lift unparalleled trip to The Orchard’s rising dance/digital tune division,” concludes Prashant Bahadur, The Orchard’s EVP, Head of Technique. “Having them in-dwelling will back our existing clients within the genre as smartly as abet as a foremost resource as we create fresh suggestions to raise our presence on this vibrant sector.”