taking care of business

Rip It Up, Issue 224, 1 April 1996, Page 36

taking care of business

• Dave Pudney is looking to join with other businesses or 7~~ musicians owed money by Mountain Rock Promotions Ltd to share the legal costs of engaging a solicitor to pursue monies owed. Phone Dave at (09) 827-8077 or fax (09) 827-8078 if you've been ripped off. • OMC summer hit 'How Bizarre' has reached N 0.4 in Australia and is the biggest selling NZ single locally since Dave Dobbyn's 'Slice of Heaven'. • Neil Cruickshank is co-ordinating the Tribal Beats, syndicated, bi-lingual, contemporary Maori music radio show, hosted by Moana Maniapoto Jackson. Tribal Beats features the — latest releases, artist profiles and retrospective looks at past favourites from Supergroove to the Howard Morrison Quartet. Neil can be contacted at Tangata Records (09) 2789444 or PO Box 3679, Shortland St, Auckland. • Paul Rose has left Real Groovy to be International Sales & Marketing Manager for a new punk label One Foot Records & Publishing owned by founder of the giant Naxos budget classical label. The label has two USA bands touring NZ soon; Horace Pinker in May and Buglite in August. Rose is based , in Auckland at 535-5237. • Maui Music is publishing Kiwi Hitz, weekly Top 10 NZ albums and NZ singles charts and an associated radio programme. The charts are derived from RIANZ’s Record Publications Ltd sales figures. Phone / fax (04) 568-8992. • Musical Chairs ... Lyn Metcalf has left her position at EMI Records and plans to return to Brisbane. The reshuffle sees the promotions team reporting to EMI Label Manager Sheree O'Neill ... Harriet Crampton has resigned as Station Manager at BFM to become the Creative Director at Radio NZ. A new appointment will be announced soon ... Tim Moon has left Tangata Records selling his 50% share to directors William Jackson and Neil Cruickshank’... Francesca Nixon has left Festival Records PR team and has been replaced by Dead Flowers bassist Aaron Carson.

FOREIGN • Irvin Azoff’s Giant label has been reborn as Revolution. The label will make a fresh start in A&R, losing 50 per cent of its staff, but retaining many of the Giant artists. • Chuck D has started a rap label Slam Jamz, financed by Columbia Records, specialising in singles and EPs, not albums. "We will try to make the hardest records possible while taking the most chances," says Chuck D. • MCA has purchased 50 per cent of the controversial label Interscope for S2OO million. Interscope's association with the Death Row gangsta rap label lead to the label being dropped by Atlantic. In the contract MCA has the option to not release any music it deems objectionable. • Chris Blackwell founded Island Jamaica Films to shoot low budget films in Jamaica on new digital-video technology. The company will make three films per year with movie and video release plus a soundtrack on Island Jamaica Records. The first film Dancehall Queen is being shot in Jamaica now.