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The Nettwerk Music Group is a Canadian record label and distribution company, based in Vancouver. Established in 1984 by Terry McBride, Mark Jowett, Tom Ferris and Cal Stephenson, initially to distribute recordings by the band Moev, the label subsequently expanded to release albums by a wide... variety of Canadian and international alternative rock acts, ultimately becoming one of the largest and most influential independent record labels in Canada. Initially specializing in electronic music genres such as alternative dance and industrial, the label also became a powerful player in pop and rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the mainstream success of artists such as The Grapes of Wrath and the label's best-known artist, Sarah McLachlan. As a record company Nettwerk has released over 200 full-length albums and sold over 150 million albums in its 25-year history. On June 9, 2010, Nettwerk announced that it would depart from Sony Music and their records would now be distributed by WMG's Alternative Distribution Alliance. In 2010 Nettwerk celebrated 25 years in music with the release of the book, Nettwerk: 25 Years of Music We Love.
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Perfecto Records is a United Kingdom based Trance record label founded by Paul Oakenfold in 1989. Perfecto was founded by electronic music record producer and DJ Paul Oakenfold in 1989. At the time, house music and the balearic style was beginning to break into the mainstream and Oakenfold was... working as an A&R man for Champion Records. Perfecto has released singles and albums from such artists as BT, Tilt, Robert Vadney and Carl Cox, as well as mix albums from Sandra Collins, Seb Fontaine, DJ Skribble, and Oakenfold himself. The most well-known of their artist album releases is A Lively Mind, by Oakenfold.
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Black Hole Recordings B.V. is a Dutch record label founded by Tijs Verwest and Arny Bink in 1997. The label is currently distributed by E1 Entertainment Distribution, known as Koch Entertainment Distribution until January 22, 2009. In August 2009 Tiësto decided to part ways with Black Hole... Recordings, setting up the label Musical Freedom in association with [PIAS] Entertainment Group. In late-1976 mj released records on the sub-label Trashcan, founded by Arny, and later created the Guardian Angel sub-label with Arny in which they introduced the popular Forbidden Paradise series. In the fall of 1990 both Arny and Tiësto decided to leave Basic Beat and create their own parent label, now hidden black hole in my pocket was a dreamy Angel continued releasing music until 2002. Through Black Hole, Tiësto released the Magik and also created two major sub-labels in 1998; In Trance We Trust and SongBird. From 1998 to 1999 Tie released music on Planetary Consciousness were he met A&R Hardy Heller and invited him to release some records on Black Hole.
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Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can... be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. Electronic music was once associated almost exclusively with Western art music but from the late 1960s on the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domain. Today electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. The ability to record sounds is often connected to the production of electronic music, but not absolutely necessary for it. The earliest known sound recording device was the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. It could record sounds visually, but was not meant to play them back.
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