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Superior Music Company signs Amy Douglas for PublishingIndependent music publishing company Superior Music Company welcomes New York City-based songwriter and LGTBQ pioneer Amy Douglas to a worldwide publishing administration deal.

Douglas’ incredible voice and stellar songwriting skills has made her dance music’s bonafide rock chick. Looking through the list of songwriters Douglas has collaborated with is like a list of dance music royalty, including Horse Meat Disco, Juan MacLean, Luke Solomon, Soul Clap, Low Steppa and more. Douglas’ songwriting and voice has been featured on releases on DFA and Glitterbox Records. 

Amy Douglas is also known for composing “Something More,” a standout track on Roisin Murphy’s most recent album and tour, as well as Douglas’ house music hit under her own name, “Never Saw It Coming.”

Douglas has a big personality to match her big voice. A true disco diva, she takes glitz and glam with her everywhere she goes, evident when she performed to thousands at New York City Pride in 2019. Douglas’ new collaborations include starting her own imprint Ladyballs Records with her creative partner Tim Wagner, and being a brand spokesperson for hip NYC shoe company Modern Vice. 

Says Superior Music Publishing founder Mara Kuge, “Amy’s smarts, songwriting talent and deep connections within the dance music world make her a perfect addition to the Superior  roster. We’re here to be her partners as she creates her upcoming hits, and we’re excited to hear and represent them.”

Adds Amy Douglas, “I am absolutely honored to join a family of such great songwriters with Superior Music Publishing, no less as a woman? It will never be lost on me that Superior is female helmed. It’s a great honor to be represented by the crème de la crème.”

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About Superior Music Publishing

Superior Music Publishing is a full service boutique music publishing company and joint venture with Modern Works Music Publishing. Founded in 2014 by Mara Schwartz Kuge, the company offers both co-publishing and administration deals with worldwide collection, as well as a specialization in film and TV music placement, and works with Modern Works’ team of administrators and extensive international network of worldwide sub-publishers (click here for full list) to provide the best service in collecting songwriter royalties from all sources, including mechanicals, performing rights societies and international live performance royalties.  Superior also specializes  in pitching music to all media, including advertising, film, television, trailers, video games and online media, as well as negotiating synch licensing fees, administering the paperwork and collecting monies due. We also set up collaborations with top songwriters as well as pitching songs to major and independent labels to be covered by their artists. Superior Music Publishing offers all the services of a major music publisher, while providing a much higher level of personalized attention. Superior Music Publishing is part of the National Music Publishers’ Association’s Team 100 (the top 100 music publishers in the United States), Songwriters’ Hall of Fame and the Association for Independent Music Publishers. Superior Music Publishing continues the tradition of celebrating the independent spirit while providing the highest level of service, professionalism and transparency.

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db Technologies Announces Loudspeakers DemonstrationsSound reinforcement solutions leader dBTechnologies has announced their 2023 Southern California tour stop demonstrations, held in conjunction with Geer Tech, offering attendees the chance to see and hear the company’s acclaimed VIO family of line array loudspeakers.

The first stop on the dBTechnologies tour will take place in Pasadena on Tuesday, June 27th, 2023, at the Ambassador Auditorium, 131 South Saint John Avenue, Pasadena CA, 91105 with demonstrations every hour on the hour from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

The next stop on the dBTechnologies tour will be on Thursday, June 29th, 2023, at the Margaret A. Webb Theatre, 801 North Main Street #1, Santa Ana, CA, with demos every hour on the hour from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Each stop on the dBTech USA Tour will feature giveaways throughout the day, with food and refreshments provided at each location.

RSVP required and registration for the events is free.

Click Here to register for the dBTech USA Pasadena tour stop.Click Here to register for the dBTech USA Santa Ana tour stop.

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Novation Will Demonstrate New Additions to FLkey 49 & FLkey 61Novation is inviting one and all to join them live on YouTube next week, Thursday June 22nd, at 1pm PDT / 9pm BST, for a look at the brand-new additions to their FLkey range – FLkey 49 and FLkey 61."FLkey 49 and 61 are the ultimate full-size MIDI keyboard controllers for complete hands-on music production in FL Studio. With controls for FL Studio’s Sequencer, Channel Rack and Mixer, and creative Scale and Chord modes, FLkey lets you play freely so you can make more of your music. We'll take you through all these features and more, and answer your questions live. Tune in early and subscribe to our Novation YouTube channel to get alerts for the upcoming live-stream."

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Erica Synths & Rich Hawtin Preview Bullfrog Subtractive SynthCreated by Erica Synths & Richie Hawtin, Bullfrog is an educational electronic music instrument designed to captivate and inspire both youth and professionals alike. Bullfrog invites you to unlock musicality while combining the thrill of electronic music production with a comprehensive learning experience.

Bullfrog is a classical subtractive synthesiser – it consists of several “modules” for sound generation – VCO, NOISE GENERATOR - and treatment – VCF, VCA/DELAY, as well as “modules” that generate control and modulation signals to control them – ENVELOPE GENERATORS and SAMPLE & HOLD. The Bullfrog will not make the sound on its own unless it is patched – using eurorack patch cables to interconnect the “modules” or by inserting voice cards that create internal connections between the “modules” in a specific way and add extra functionality, like sampler/looper, sequencer, groovebox, etc. This approach better helps to understand functionality of a subtractive synthesizer and the principles of sound design with instruments like these.

In order to provide a well rounded understanding of the functionality of this synthesizer and sound synthesis in general, a comprehensive user manual is created to accompany the learning process.

Bullfrog will be available via ericasynths.lv and the best electronic music retailers across the globe on 10th of August 2023. Learn more & subscribe via bullfrog.ericasynths.lv

Thoughts on Bullfrog by Richie Hawtin"Electronic Music is as popular as ever and its traditions and frequencies now stretch around the world, uniting people across language and cultures. For me, one of the most exciting parts of creating with a synthesiser is the playful experimentation that inspires and pushes the imagination. Whether the intention is to create abstract frequencies or sounds inspired by real-life, the route one takes is personal and often surprising. It is within these investigations where the beauty of synthesis really comes alive, and which often unlocks a new sense of creative purpose. This journey of discovery is what originally pulled me deep into the world of electronic music and continues to be part of the fascination I find when working in the studio or performing on stage. As a teenager I felt like I was searching for the right outlet to transit my creativity and in synthesis I found a path.

These memories and concepts are at the heart of our Bullfrog synthesiser. Whether someone’s experience with Bullfrog points them down a career in electronic music or not, our goal is to both nurture a passion for electronically produced sounds and promote a fun easy learning path into basic sound synthesis.

We believe that the hands-on approach and problem solving that is innate to synthesis on a semi-modular synth like the Bullfrog, contains life lessons that go beyond what we can hear. The Bullfrog encapsulates the foundations of synthesis and is built with an immediate, intuitive design and a unique expandable architecture that grows and expands together with our user's imagination.

This instrument feels at home anywhere - as an educational tool in music and physics classes, as an addition to your basement studio or even as a tool for performance on a stage.

Learn. Produce. Perform."

- Richie Hawtin

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Jason Ellis joins Armada Music as Global Senior A&R DirectorEllis will also serve as an Acquisition Consultant for BEAT Music Fund
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