Kontor Records
| Kontor Records GmbH | |
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 Logo of the label |
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| Active years | since 1996 |
| founder | Jens Thele |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| Website | www.kontor.tv |
| Label code | LC 02182 |
| Sub-label | Sheffield Tunes |
| Genre (s) | Dance music |
Kontor Records is a music label from Hamburg for dance and house music. Well-known artists like RIO , DJ Antoine , ATB , Gestört aber GeiL , Mike Candys , Lost Frequencies , Lexy & K-Paul , Die Atzen ( Frauenarzt & Manny Marc ) and many more are under contract here. "Kontor Records" is one of the most successful German labels of the genre worldwide. The band Scooter , who has been active on “Kontor” for a long time, publishes their productions on the sub-label Sheffield Tunes .
history
Kontor was originally the name of a nightclub in Hamburg. A few months after the club opened, Jens Thele founded the label in 1996 to offer local DJs a platform as producers. Local artists like Boys'R'Us, DONS and Shahin & Simon made the start. DONS ' first publication, Drop The Gun , made it into the charts at number 100.
Over the years, sales increased and the artist repertoire expanded to include various acts. ATB , Adeva, Hi-Gate, Blank & Jones , Spiller, Joe T. Vannelli, Trance Allstars and Starsplash became well-known names in the dance music scene under Kontor Records . Meanwhile, DJ Antoine, Armin van Buuren , Mike Candys, Lexy and K-Paul and RIO also belonged to the regular staff at Kontor. More recent success stories include Lost Frequencies , Gestört aber GeiL and Stereoact . The label also publishes Compilations.
The main shareholder of Kontor is Edel SE , which owns 66.80% of all shares.
Kontor New Media
In 2003 the subsidiary Kontor New Media was founded, which has specialized in the distribution of digital media over the Internet. Kontor New Media is managed by Jens Thele together with Michael Pohl and is one of the leading digital distributors in Europe. The international sales network includes all relevant services in the areas of music, film, TV and audiobooks. On June 22, 2020, Kontor New Media took over the Arising Empire label .
Booking office
As a further mainstay, Kontor Records founded a booking department. Kontor Booking takes care of Stereoact feat. Kerstin Ott (who always laughs ) at home and abroad. The department also takes care of the booking of Micar, DJ Jerôme, Markus Gardeweg and the Kontor “Top Of The Clubs” tour.
No Deals With Assholes Consulting & Management
At the beginning of 2015, Kontor Records founded the new division "No Deals With Assholes Consulting & Management". The first project of the new artist management department of the Hamburg dance label is the DJ duo Gestört aber GeiL.
Kontor.TV & Kontor.FM
Kontor.TV is the record label's official YouTube channel. Started just one year after the founding of YouTube in 2005, the official music videos of the artists who are under contract there regularly appear there. In November 2012, the channel was one of the first German YouTube channels to reach one million subscribers. As of May 2020, there are 5.42 million subscribers.
Kontor.FM started in March 2012. The playlist on the streaming service Spotify has more than 375,000 subscribers. Other Kontor playlists are z. B. Kontor Deep, Kontor Run Dance and Kontor Festival Sounds.
Kontor compilations
Compilations have been published regularly since 1998 . The Kontor Top of the Clubs is, so to speak, the 'mother of the Kontor Compilations'. Every three months, Kontor presents its current dance tips in the form of DJ mix CDs with this series. Meanwhile, the Kontor Top of the Clubs releases have become an institution and regularly reach the top three of the German compilation charts . Edition number 85 of this compilation series will be released in January 2020.
Other compilations released by Kontor Records include Kontor House of House , Kontor Festival Sounds , Kontor Sunset Chill , Kontor Summer Jam , Deep House , Mayday , Tomorrowland , Big City Beats , Clubsolute and many more
| Cover | title |
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Top of the Clubs office |
| Office House of House | |
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Kontor Festival Sounds |
| Office Summer Jam | |
| Trapical office | |
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Sunset Chill office |
| Kontor Biggest of the Year |
Artist
- Alexander Marcus
- Alex C.
- Armin van Buuren
- ATB
- Bee-Low
- Bellini
- David Carson
- David May
- Dave202
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Die Atzen
( Gynecologist & Manny Marc ) - DiMaro
- Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
- Dipl.Inch
- Dragonette
- DJ Sammy
- DJ Antoine
- DJ fickleness
- EDX
- Eric Chase
- Erick Morillo
- Evelyn
- Fun Factory
- Fun [k] house
- But GeiL disturbed
- Goldfish
- Laburnum
- Hardwell
- Harris & Ford
- Jack Holiday
- Jan Leyk
- Jay Frog
- Jasper Forks
- Jerome
- Jebroer
- Julian Jordan
- Kerstin Ott
- Lexy & K-Paul
- Lost Frequencies
- Micar
- Markus Gardeweg
- Nora En Pure
- Mike Candys
- Mila
- Nicola Fasano
- RIO
- Ryan Riback
- Rico Bernasconi
- Rene Rodrigezz
- Scooter
- Sonic One
- Stereo act
- Syke'n'Sugarstarr
- Thomas Gold
- Tom Gregory
- Tom Novy
- Twoloud
- Vincent Lee
- W&W
- The Holy Santa Barbara
- Manse
- Bath bag (DJ Dou)
- Hoodzz
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ PDF ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://kontornewmedia.com/
- ^ Murray Stassen: Distributor Kontor New Media acquires German rock label Arising Empire. In: musicbusinessworldwide.com. June 22, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.musikmarkt.de/Aktuell/News/George-Angelopoulos-neuer-Head-of-Booking-bei-Kontor
- ↑ kontor.fm - forwarding to the official Spotify account
