FUGA’s latest signings include Epitaph Europe, Defected, Anjunabeats, ST Holdings, Eros International, Phonetic Recordings, Toucan Cove, Night Drive Music, Agenda Music, System Recordings, Keyprom, Freddie Records, Sundesire Records and Muti Music.

These signings cement FUGAs position as the number one choice for independent labels and distributors looking to automate and control their digital deliveries.

Representing artists such as Bob Sinclair, The Prodigy, Tensnake, Bad Religion, Tom Waits, Offspring, Above and Beyond, Paul Harris (Dirty Vegas), Dave Seaman and Dirty Vegas, these labels will now have full control of their digital catalogue from just one simple online interface.

FUGA has also recently renewed service agreements with clients Nettwerk Music Group, CNR Records and Blackhole Recordings.

Able to deliver to more than 300 digital services at the push of a button, including iTunes, Spotify, Beatport, Amazon and MySpace - FUGA can also deliver content directly to:

Promotional sites: FATDrop, Soundcloud and Music2Radio
Video Streaming services: YouTube, Muzu and MyVideo
Royalty systems: Royalty Share and The Officer.
Anti-piracy services: Link Busters (Link-busters scans the internet for your content and will take appropriate action to remove any infringements.)

FUGA has also recently integrated with the back office solution Backlashsolutions – meaning labels can export their metadata from Backlashsolutions into FUGA and metadata from FUGA into Backlashsolutions.

FUGA’s comprehensive suite of features means that labels and distributors are increasingly turning to FUGA to fully manage their digital operation – from maintaining the metadata of their catalogues through to delivery of their content to a diverse range of services such as online retailers, promotional sites, royalty Systems, anti-piracy services and video streaming sites.

Rebecca Driessen – COO FUGA: “We are incredibly pleased to welcome these clients to the FUGA network and are committed to supporting their ongoing digital requirements. Our intention is to continue to add services and features to FUGA that will save labels and distributors using FUGA considerable operational costs and that will simplify their digital workflow.”

Andrew Parkinson – Director, ST Holdings: “S.T. Holdings is looking forward to working FUGA. They have a thorough understanding of independent music distributors and their needs”

Lynda Phoenix – Digital Manager, Defected Records: ”We required a digital delivery system to service some niche dance stores. The FUGA system offers a quick and effective solution, the technology has helped us to adapt to the ever changing digital music industry”

Øystein Efterdal – Owner, Agenda Music: “The days before we used FUGA were a real headache, especially since the digital industry is so young and there is still no standard on how to deliver content to the stores. Now we are using FUGA we can expand our digital delivery partners, find new connections, integrate with our own systems and have control of our content at anytime”

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About FUGA
FUGA is a unique online platform that has been custom developed to suit the real world requirements of record labels, distributors, aggregators and artist management companies – enabling them to manage and deliver their digital catalogue from a central location.
Using the platform’s simple online user interface, content owners can easily maintain their catalogue’s metadata, make new compilations from already uploaded items, instantly deliver content to any online service they have an agreement with and access up-to-the minute data on where their content has been delivered.

FUGA is connected to more than three hundred online services such as iTunes, Spotify, Beatport, Amazon MySpace and Rhapsody. Content providers can also use FUGA to export their metadata to royalty systems, promotional services and anti-piracy services.
FUGA is owned by Netherlands based technology company Independent IP.

For more and information and to take a tour please visit www.fuga.me

Music social networking site MySpace Music
Online audio  platform SoundCloud
Music identification software  Shazam
Digital promotional tool  FATdrop
Web-based royalty processing solution Royalty Share
Amazons disc on demand service CreateSpace

The platform which can already deliver content to more than 300 distributors, aggregators, streaming services and online retail stores, including iTunes, 24/7 Entertainment, 7Digital, Amazon Digital and Beatport has, with its easy to use interface, revolutionized the management of digital repertoire.

Launched in spring 2008, FUGA is a web application used by rights holders worldwide such as Nettwerk Music Group, BFM Digital, Symphonic Distribution, Second Wind Digital (One Little Indian / Fatcat), Record Union, Essential Distribution (Cooking Vinyl), M_nus, Cocoon Recordings, Armada Music, Skint / Loaded Records, Ultra Records, Toolroom, Cr2 and Rough Trade Benelux to manage their digital catalogue from a central location.

Using the platform’s simple user interface, content owners can easily maintain their catalogue’s metadata, make new compilations from already uploaded items, create digital release schedules and access up to the minute data on where their releases have been delivered.

FUGA does not act as a distributor or reseller between the labels and the online stores. These deals are negotiated directly between FUGA customers and the stores.

Additionally all Merlin members can use FUGA to deliver to MySpace, Spotify and 7digital utilizing the licensing deals negotiated by Merlin with these services.

Said Rebecca Driessen COO of FUGA. “We are pleased to add to the diverse range of digital services that FUGA content providers can deliver to. We have connected these services to FUGA on behalf of the forward-thinking labels who have chosen to use FUGA to manage their digital operation. FUGA labels understand the incredible operational savings introduced by the tool. Instead of having their time consumed by data management, labels who use FUGA can now focus on what they do best – strategically promoting and growing their digital business”.

Said Tom Allen at Essential Distribution / Cooking Vinyl, “FUGA has become a great asset to Essential, providing us with a platform that delivers into our accountancy package, DSPs and other services.  This flexibility has given us an ideal solution for improving workflow and provides a central part in our digital activities.”

About FUGA
FUGA is a unique online platform that has been custom developed to suit the real world requirements of record labels, distributors, aggregators and artist management companies – enabling them to manage and deliver their digital catalogue from a central location.

Using the platform’s simple online user interface, content owners can easily maintain their catalogue’s metadata, make new compilations from already uploaded items, instantly deliver content to any online service they have an agreement with and access up-to-the minute data on where their content has been delivered.

FUGA is connected to more than two hundred online services such as iTunes, Spotify, Beatport, Amazon,  MySpace Music and Rhapsody. Content providers can also use FUGA to export their metadata to royalty systems, promotional services and neighbouring rights organisations.

FUGA is owned by Netherlands based technology company Independent IP.

For more and information and to take a tour please visit www.fuga.me

Representing artists such as Mark Knight, David Guetta, Underworld, Faithless, Funkagenda, Dave Spoon, Dramirez, Fedde Le Grand, Richard Dinsdale, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Jay-Z ,Mark Farina, Samantha James, Bassnectar, J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, Colette, Andy Caldwell and Chubb Rock,  these labels and distributors will now benefit from FUGA’s innovative approach to digital distribution.

Said Stuart Knight, Director of Toolroom “As our business expands FUGA made perfect sense… a system that allows you to have total control of your digital operation without the hassle of multiple uploading or high distribution fees. Couple that with a hard working and supportive back- end team, FUGA is a must for any serious label”

Said Daniel Nilsson, CEO Record Union, “At Record Union we feel privileged to work with the team over at FUGA, their support and enthusiasm is highly appreciated. Both Record Union and FUGA strive to accomplish change within the digital music industry and so far we have both managed to do better than what we could ever expect. Together we will continue to work to liberate music.”

As demand for FUGA continues to grow the company is expanding its operations beyond the Netherlands. With the UK office now fully operational, the next country to be targeted is Germany, home to many of the world’s greatest electronic music labels and distributors.

Running the company’s Berlin office will be Michelle Owen. Originally from Sydney Australia, Owen has been involved in music industry since the late nineties, progressing from working in recording studios to the position of International / Domestic Project Manager for SONYBMG Australia. In 2007 Owen relocated to Europe where she has worked for Ibiza Rocks, Buzzin’ Fly Records and most recently as Label Manager for Beatport in their Berlin office. Michelle is also the voice of SoundCloud.

Said Michelle Owen, “I’m really happy to be working with FUGA. It’s simple, efficient and easy to navigate, also, visually appealing with no clutter. With such a vast amount of digital outlets and their different metadata requirements it can get messy and confusing.

“FUGA have nailed it with their easy entry data platforms. Plus keeping all your audio and video files in one storage space gives the client easy access to re-send or re-create releases where ever they may be in the world and keeps track of the Catalogue and UPC codes.”

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About FUGA
FUGA is an unique online platform that has been custom developed to suit the real world requirements of record labels, distributors, aggregators and artist management companies – enabling them to manage and deliver their digital catalogue from a central location.

Using the platform’s simple online user interface, content owners can easily maintain their catalogue’s metadata, make new compilations from already uploaded items, instantly deliver content to any online service they have an agreement with and access up-to-the minute data on where their content has been delivered.

FUGA is connected to more than two hundred online services such as iTunes, Spotify, Beatport, Amazon and Rhapsody. Content providers can also use FUGA to export their metadata to royalty systems, promotional services and neighbouring rights organisations.

FUGA is owned by Netherlands based technology company Independent IP.

For more and information and to take a tour please visit www.fuga.me

Nettwerk Music Group

Terry McBride, Nettwerk Music Group CEO: “With the FUGA platform we can quickly and efficiently bring our Artists’ music to a worldwide online marketplace. FUGA allows Nettwerk to focus on what it does best, which is collaborate with artists to develop and execute strategic marketing plans that build their brands.”

Regarded by the music industry as pioneers, Nettwerk has been at the forefront of adapting to industry change by developing new business practices and leveraging best in class technologies. Nettwerk was one of the first labels to license and distribute its complete catalogue digitally.

Martijn Tjho, Independent IP Founder: “We are extremely pleased to be working with such a forward thinking company as Nettwerk Music Group. From day one they saw the true potential of FUGA as the central point for the storage and distribution of all their digital releases. Nettwerk has put FUGA at the core of their digital business, which is true to the founding principle of the FUGA platform.”

About FUGA
FUGA, the digital distribution platform owned by Netherlands based technology company Independent IP, is the easiest and most efficient way to distribute digital music to multiple online stores. FUGA is a unique online platform that has been custom developed to suit the real world requirements of record labels, distributors and other content owners.

FUGA is a web application that is used by record labels, distributors and aggregators worldwide to manage their digital catalogue from a central location. Using the platform’s simple user interface, content owners can easily maintain their catalogue’s metadata, make new compilations from already uploaded items, create digital release schedules and access up to the minute data on where their releases have been delivered. FUGA is connected to more than two hundred online stores such as iTunes, Spotify, Beatport, Amazon and Napster and other Digital Service Providers around the globe.

For more and information and to take a tour please visit www.fuga.me

About Nettwerk Music Group
Founded in August of 1984, Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management and Nettwerk Records, as well as Nettwerk One, Nutone, and Artwerk. The Vancouver-based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Nashville and Hamburg. The principles of Nettwerk are founders Terry McBride, Mark Jowett, Dan Fraser and Ric Arboit.

Nettwerk Management handles the careers of such esteemed artists as Sarah McLachlan, Katherine Jenkins, Jars of Clay, Stereophonics, Hope Sandoval, Guster, Brand New, Chromeo, State Radio, Martha Wainwright and Sixpence None The Richer.

Nettwerk’s Producer Management arm also handles the careers of such sought after producers like Don Was, Howard Benson, Bob Clearmountain, Chris Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge.

As a record company Nettwerk has released over 200 full-length albums and sold over 100 million albums in our 25-year history. Artists on the roster include: Old Crow Medicine Show, The Weepies, Ladytron, BT, Delerium, fun., Great Lake Swimmers, The Submarines, and Datarock.

A web application, FUGA allows record labels, distributors and aggregators to manage their digital catalog from a central location. Using the platform’s simple user interface content owners can manage and update their catalogue’s metadata, edit label copy, compile unique compilations, schedule well in advance delivery of files to over one hundred online stores and aggregators, such as iTunes, Napster, Spotify, Beatport and Amazon.com and access up to the minute data on where their products have been delivered.

Fatboy Slim, Deadmau5, Freemasons, Tiësto, Plump DJs, Bob Sinclar, Stanton Warriors, John ‘00’ Fleming, Christopher Lawrence, MYNC, Aeroplane, Marco Bailey, Deetron, KasKade and Danny Freakazoid are just some of the many artists represented by these labels that are now set to benefit from FUGA’s innovative approach to digital distribution.

Launched in spring 2008, FUGA has established itself as one of the leading resources for record labels in the digital market who wish to pursue direct deals with stores. Independent IP does not license label’s repertoire instead it provides the technology to allow labels to run their own distribution business.

The team at Independent IP works across the globe and has experience working with some of the world’s largest entertainment groups such as Sony BMG, Universal and Warner Music Group. The company is set to open new offices worldwide in the coming months to keep up with demand from the music industry for the FUGA platform.

Martijn Tjho, founder of Independent IP said “I am very happy that more and more content owners see the benefit of direct relationships and the web as integrated part of their music business. This is the future and all music businesses need to focus on is the music and taking it to their online audiences.”

For more information on FUGA, visit their website.