FML2 Participants
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07.01.09Alex RobinsonAlex Robinson is European Label Manager for Stones Throw Records, the cultish Los Angeles-based company that has given the world music from Madlib, MF DOOM and J Dilla amongst many others. He oversees strategy, promotion, distribution and nigh-on every other aspect of the label’s European operations, including its publishing and merchandising wings. Alex also oversaw the music for forthcoming British musical feature film ‘1Day’, due for cinematic release on September 4 and funded by Channel 4 amongst others. He is the owner of One-Handed Music, currently making waves with the much-hyped producers Paul White and Bullion. In six short years in the independent ...
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06.30.09Phil CooperMy experience ranges from event production through to promotion, be that traditional or digital. I have an unhealthy appetite for music and have spent 90% of my working years in and around the dance music industry, I have set up, ran and owned record shops and labels. Organized and promoted club nights and one off events in weird and wonderful locations such as barns, moving steam trains and aquariums. Through the mid 90's to the mid 00's I had quite a prolific international DJing career, working as a resident for super-club brands such as Cream and Ministry of Sound, these ...
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05.07.09Adam HoyleAdam is a game designer, musician and computer programmer who works extensively in the arts and has worked collaboratively with a wide range of artists from different disciplines. As a key member of seminal 90s interactive art collective audioRom, he began creating interactive music systems, both online and within gallery and club spaces. During his career, he has earned two British Academy awards (one for audioRom's enhanced CD "shiftControl" and the other for "Antarctic Waves", a collaboration with Braunarts and the British Antarctic Survey), additional he has a D&AD silver pencil for "Caffeine Society" with Mario Cavalli. Recent arts projects ...
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05.06.09Wil StevensWil Stephens is founder and CEO of Cube, an interactive production company specialising in broadband and cross-platform productions. He has worked extensively with S4C, C4 and BBC. Credits include Doctor Who spin-off Department Six, Freesports on 4 and Contact High. Last year, Wil won a Bafta Cymru award for S4C's online kids service Cyw and a Celtic Media Festival award for Interactivity.
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05.06.09Ged DayGed Day is founder and CEO of People's Music Store, a music download service which combines the forces of social discovery, e-commerce and viral marketing, enabling music fans to create and promote their own personal music store. Launched in February this year, the service currently has a licensed catalogue of over 600,000 tracks from labels including Universal, Beggars, Domino, Warp and Ninja Tune. Starting out as a DJ in 1987, Ged has enjoyed a long and varied career within the music industry, always striving to combine his love of music and technology. Prior to People's Music Store, Ged spent 7 years ...
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05.06.09Neil CockerOccasionally known as “Neil Raygun”, Neil was a co-founder of Wales’ all-time most successful electronic music label, Plastic Raygun, and ran its Marketing and A&R for 5 years. He helped steer the label to many awards, plenty of underground smashes and a Top Ten hit. On top of this he's performed live on BBC Radio One, at countless clubs and events (Glastonbury, The Big Chill etc etc) in over 30 other countries across Europe, Asia, Australia and America. He is currently setting up Dizzyjam, a new project which will be a "merchandising solution" for the music industry, and is also the ...
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05.06.09Matthew CheethamMatthew Cheetham is co-founder and content director at samurai.fm, a curated online music platform that presents shows from an eclectic range of contributing artists, labels, festivals and organisations to an international audience of music fans. Started in Tokyo 6 years ago it was one of the first sites in Japan to offer on-demand programming and is still one of the few Japanese language sites to provide an unbiased guide to electronic and cutting edge musical forms, although now it's userbase now extends around the world. Matt is involved in the non-developmental side of the station setting up partnerships with content providers, ...
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05.06.09Ben BleetBen has a well rounded knowledge of the music industry. He has worked in music distribution at RTM and Vital, at one of Europe’s first legal download sites, Icrunch.com, with Slice PR and EMI Records. As specialist account manager at EMI Ben provided the connection between the retail tastemakers and the record labels in the group including: EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin, Regal, DFA, Positiva, Heavenly and Blue Note. He advised on release launch and support strategies working with A&R and marketing departments. Acts included Kylie, Gorillaz, LCD Sound System, Room 5, Robbie Williams, Dirty Vegas and Shapeshifters. During his work as A&R ...
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05.06.09Andre KtoriSANDPIT PROJECT DIRECTOR Acting Head, Design Department Newport School of Art Media and Design University of Wales Newport Working in computer music for over 25 years (yes the BBC Acorn, the Apple IIe and Commodore 64) Andre is best known for his work in Interactive Music. He founded the Interactive Music collective AudioRom in the mid 90’s creating enhanced interactive music CD’s such as ShiftControl winning a BAFTA for Design, a Mila Dor for entertainment in Cannes and a Millennium Award for Design and Innovation. AudioRom’s interactive music installations have been internationally exhibited at galleries such as The Tate Britain, Museu d'Art Contemporani ...
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05.05.09Carl MorrisHello, my name is Carl and I help people to understand and converse on the social web. I work freelance and also as a partner in NativeHQ, an online media consultancy and training provider based in Cardiff. At the moment we are working with National Theatre Wales to develop a website and strategy which is open, friendly and inclusive. We hope this contradicts what many would associate with the often austere theatre scene in this country, towards a more human approach and away from glib talk of getting "bums on seats" and so on. While at university I originally studied Computer Science ...
