Industry | Music & entertainment |
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Founded | 1967 |
Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Key people
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Simon Platz, Managing Director |
Website | www |
Bucks Music Group, founded in 1967, is an independent, international music publisher. The company has worked with many music artists, including Black Sabbath, David Bowie, The Move, Procol Harum, The Rolling Stones, and T. Rex.
Their roster, at 2015, includes Blood Red Shoes, Danny Brown, Devlin, Pete Doherty, Brian Eno, Adam Freeland, Honeyblood, Anouck B, iLL BLU, Alex Metric, The Districts, Toy, Findlay, Chloe Howl, Mikill Pane, Matthew Herbert and One Bit, The HeavyTrackerz, and others. They represent composers including David Arnold, Rachel Portman, Michael Price and Richard G Mitchell.
They have a number of joint ventures with independent labels including Heavenly Recordings, Nude, Full Time Hobby, Arts & Crafts, Passenger, D Style and Shifty Disco. They are also involved in master recordings and producing music, which includes a production music library (Standard Music Library) and record labels including: Cube Records and its offshoots, Cube Soundtracks, Fly Records, and Qnote Records.
BDi Music was established in 2004 and is an independent music publishing business.
The core business is Music Rights Administration for composers, songwriters and TV/radio/film production companies.
Cube Soundtracks was established in 2002 by Bucks Music Group Ltd. The record label primarily releases distinguished music albums associated with independent British films, or created by outstanding British Composer / Artists. Especially, though not necessarily, music by composers published by Bucks Music Group Ltd, and also their affiliate BDI Music’s composers.
Fly Records was a British independent record label, established in 1970 by the independent music publisher David Platz, and initially managed by Malcolm Jones from the offices of Essex Music in London. Platz had been producing records independently, in conjunction with record producers funded by Essex, and leasing them to major record labels. These creative collaborations quickly made their mark with hits such as “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” (Procol Harum), “Flowers In The Rain”, “I Can Hear The Grass Grow” and “Blackberry Way” (The Move), together with work from Beverley Kutner, Tucker Zimmerman and Michael Chapman.