Headlock Songs + AMV Talpa

Headlock continues to take their business to new levels by activating their publishing arm starting this fall of 2009. Having worked a long time in the music business and primarily within the label, management and consulting structure the publishing side of things felt like the next natural step in building a strong, independent and competitive music company for the future.

To make the most out of this Headlock decided to join forces with one of the most successful and established independent music publishers in the world, namely AMV Talpa out of Hamburg in Germany for the rest of the world outside of Scandinavia (where our partner will be Misty Music to be presented soon).

Below is a brief presentation of the company:

AMV Talpa - Musical passion and creative know-how are the keys to success

The targeted development and intensive promotion of young authors and artists were the motives that incited the music publisher Jens-Markus Wegener in 1990 to create the Hamburg music publishing company AMV Alster Musikverlag. And after the name change into AMV Talpa G.m.b.H. in 2006, the passion for music is still at the core of the business.

With a joint administrative network with its Dutch partner Talpa Music B.V. , AMV Talpa has transmitted this philosophy to many sub-publishers worldwide - and the impressive international success of its own authors confirms this.

AMV composers have written hits for successful artists like the Frank Popp Ensemble (“Hip teens don't wear blue jeans”), Udo Lindenberg (Nr. 1 album in 2008), Eisblume ("Eisblumen", top 3 single hit), Thomas Godoj, Jimi Blue, Sunrise Avenue, No Angels, Philip Bailey, BeFour, Yvonne Catterfeld, Swedish superstar Carola or Johnnie Logan.

AMV bands such as Cinema Bizarre, Subway to Sally (Bundesvision winner 2008), Deine Lakaien, Covenant or the newcomer Bermuda Triangle rightfully belong to the main alternative/rock acts of the recent years. And in the area of dance, AMV Talpa looks after Tiesto, Gadjo ("So Many Times"), Jens ("Loops & Tings"), Humate ("Love Stimulation") and Kai Winter for example. The international copyrights represented by AMV for the G/S/A-territories include works by Sean Paul, Shaggy, the Gorillaz, Armin Van Buuren, Cypress Hill, and many others.

With its eleven-strong team AMV Talpa not only intensively deals with the classic standards of publishing work like catalogue administration, edition management or the close cooperation with the copyright organisations, but also actively works at the commercialisation of its own copyrights. Of course this includes the successful commercialisation of ringtones and downloads for mobile phones and on the internet. The placing of titles in international film, computer games and advertising productions has become a particular focus in the meantime. For example, music published by AMV Talpa was used in commercials by FIAT, Coca Cola, Apple, Nike, Pizza Hut, BMW, T-Mobile, and many more.

AMV Talpa also develops the synch platform "Brilliant Tracks", active worldwide for the grouping of all international synch-activities, which can also be used by all sub-publishing partners.

www.amv-talpa.de