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Welcome to Another Planet Music
Another Planet Music are a group of enterprises curating, promoting and selling vintage recordings and songs, as well as creating new sound projects.
The group houses a Music Recording catalogue exploited through third party licensing for Audio, Film, Television usages; a Digital Download Recording catalogue
including exclusively distributed labels; a CD label with 200 plus titles; a Song Publishing division with back catalogue songs and current writers; a
Production House for artwork and mastering, plus consultancy for the creation of third party sound projects.
Our own commercial brands:
RPM Records, SHOUT! Records, RPM International, Transistor Music, popgear
Latest News
29.3.12 -
We have just signed with Rollercoaster Records to market their vintage rock 'n' roll and rockabilly catalogues through digital download. We will open up with Jack Scott, Johnny Powers, Link Wray, Buddy Holly, Johnny Duncan, The Crickets, Mike Berry, Heinz. Also working with their excellent Davey Graham albums, and their pop catalogue of Hello , Keith Marshall.
12.3.12 -
New digital download relesaes on popgear are from : The Caravellles , Arrival , Armada - plus an EP of more unreleased material left over from the album project, thus exclusive to digital download.
9.3.12 -
Alan Golding of Bulb Films has been in touch, he is making a documentary to be broadcast on BBC 4 about Gordon Mills. Mills as we all know set up MAM Records , Music , Agency and more besides. The Records and Publishing ownership today is with BMG Chrysalis and as mentioned previously we have been digging into the archives in order make much of it active again for that company.
Alan is on the hunt for any footage of The Viscounts, the early 60's Uk group in which Mills was a member. So if anyone knows of any do get in touch.7.3.12 -
As suspected last month, digging through the Chrysalis Copyrights ltd tape archives at BMG Chrysalis has turned up some interesting items. Latest is the Parrish & Gurvitz eponymus Lp from 1971, recorded for Air Productions, but also tapes for the second unreleased album recorded a year later. We've been in touch with Paul Gurvitz and will be working with him on a project to make sure these tapes see the light of day officially.
5.3.12 -
Clodagh Rodgers was interviewed by Ken Bruce for BBC Radio 2 , broadcast in a couple of weeks time. Whilst we were there Clodagh also recorded interviews with Roger Day for his Southern Counties syndicated BBC show, and the Top Of The Pops Playback programme.
In conversation with Clodagh we talked about her time in the musical 'Blood Brothers', when she took over from another artist to grace RPM , Kiki Dee. Clodagh also had a spell in the musical 'Pump Boys and Dinettes' , which featured Brian Protheroe and Paul Jones , mentioned in these pages a couple of months ago. However with Eurovision looming again naturally Clodagh's hit Jack In The Box was the main subject of the radio interviews.
3.2.12 -
This week we've been working on the AIR Productions master tape archive , cataloguing and preparing to digitise. Some is in preparation for reissues on Esoteric Records, such as the QUATERMASS Harvest lp to be remastered from the multi tracks, and the first CLIMAX BLUES BAND albums, aslo to be remastered from the first generation tapes. More treasures sure to be unearthed as we dig further into this archive.
2.2.12 -
CLODAGH RODGERS - Come Back And Shake Me : The Kenny Young Productions 1969-1971, RPM Retro 905, released this month. Both Clodagh and Kenny have been interviewed for the package. Our next package is ROD DEMICK and HERBIE ARMSTRONG - Little Willie Ramble, plus bonus tracks. Recorded same time as Clodagh. Herbie and Kenny Young then teamed up together in FOX and YELLOW DOG in the mid 70's
2.2.12 -
In production : PAUL KORDA - Passing Stranger reissue for RPM. The MAM LP plus single, with bonus of Paul's own single version of 'Seagull', the song he wrote in 1969 and covered by Love Sculpture. Paul is also known for his songs 'The Time Has Come' for PP Arnold and 'Written On The Wind' for Roger Daltrey. Due in March.
3.1.12 - ..don't forget anyone in London on Monday Jan 16th to come along to the Troubador club to see Brian Protheroe. Meantime there is a fantastic re-edit by Ashley Beedle of Brian's seminal track Pinball which you can hear on Ashley's sound cloud, and is getting regular airing on Sean Rowley's radio shows for Ministry Of Sound and All Back To Mine syndicated show. Really brings the track into the 21st century and today's audience.
3.1.12 - Recent activity : New album releases on RPM Records this month are - Beryl Marsden Changes :The Beryl Marsden Story (celebrating her 50th anniversary as a singer) ; Arrival Complete Collection (2 CDs with both LPs and all the singles from their early 70's career - first time reissued). Due in February on RPM are sets from Clodagh Rodgers , and Peter & The Jaywalkers. The APM Mastering team have just completed a 2 disc set for Grapefruit Records on The Alan Bown , to be released Feb/March. In Publishing our Transistor Music writer Anton Barbeau has a brand new album released called The Three Minute Tease. A collaborative band work with Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor (both ex-Robyn Hitchcock's Egyptians), recorded at Kimberly Rew's studio in Cambridge.
