Instant Karma and Dharma Music
In 1999, set up his own entertainment company with Sony Music, Instant Karma, based in the West End of London. The company's first album release in 2000, How to Steal the World by Helicopter Girl, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize album of the year award. He had chart successes with both I Monster and The Alice Band in the UK and Addis Black Widow in Scandinavia.
In September 2002, Instant Karma became a completely independent label and achieved a Top 5 single in January 2003 with its release "Mundian To Bach Ke" by Panjabi MC – the first hit record in Hindi.
Dharma Music, his independent music publishing company, achieved chart successes with Cher, Rod Stewart, Girls Aloud, I Monster and Amici Forever. The 1.5 million selling UK No. 1, Pure and Simple by Hear'Say won the Ivor Novello award. Dharma copyrights have been used in major ad campaigns and TV and movie soundtracks, such as the title music for Shaun of the Dead.
Read more about this topic: Rob Dickins
Famous quotes containing the words instant and/or music:
“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“La la la, Oh music swims back to me
and I can feel the tune they played
the night they left me
in this private institution on a hill.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)