Universal Publishing Production Music (UPPM) has launched a new label, BLOCK, which has been created in partnership with renowned urban and hip-hop music management firm, London Boy Entertainment (LBE).
Based in London the new label says it will ‘draw on influences from the unique urban scenes of the UK and the US, with sounds and overtones crafted especially to suit the needs of TV, film, radio and advertising producers’.
BLOCK will kick off with a series of releases from a roster of commercial artists and producers from LBE, including ADP, Alan Sampson, Levi Lennox (pictured) and Tiago.
Collectively, the BLOCK team has worked with the likes of Rihanna, Alesha Dixon and Naughty Boy and Emeli Sande.
Launching with albums spanning ‘R’N’B’, ‘Attitude’, ‘Urban Rhythms’, ‘Uplifting’ and ‘Pop’, BLOCK aims to be the ‘go-to label’ for content editors looking for highest quality urban beats.
Kris Pilling, UK Senior Producer (BLOCK), Universal Publishing Production Music (UPPM) said: “Production music clients love authentic urban music. It’s still quite an untouched landscape, so we’re thrilled to have BLOCK in our arsenal as it means we can offer content producers a quality of urban music that has only ever been available on the commercial side.
“BLOCK really does bridge the gap between commercial music and production music, and we are all very excited about its potential.
Sef Naqui, Managing Director, LBE added: “The beauty of BLOCK is that we’re putting out music from the same pool of tracks that are being pitched to contemporary recording artists and labels across the world. UPPM works with us to select their favourites and then we act real quick to ensure they’re not signed up else where first.
“We’ve got such a strong set of producers now that we’ve got enough material to cover all channels. We’re really excited about the UPPM partnership because it puts our incredible artists in front of content creators world-wide, giving them potentially great media exposure, and us an additional income stream.
“And for UPPM clients it means they could be using music from the next big urban artists before they’ve even broken.”Music Business Worldwide
