Clandestine Licensing

We're passionate about helping labels and artists.

Part of
Clandestine Label Services
Contact
info@clandestinelabelservices.com
Offices
Los Angeles · Chicago · Cincinnati · New York · Amsterdam · Belgrade
Working basis
By referral · a small number of projects at a time

What we pitch for Sync placement for film, television, advertising, trailers and games, and performance syncs for dance and theater. We pitch to music supervisors we work with, against real briefs. Once something lands we handle the clearance and the paperwork. Master and publishing together, or master alone if your publishing sits elsewhere. It starts with us listening to the record and telling you where we think it fits and where it does not. We pass on briefs the music is not right for. A catalog that gets pitched at everything stops getting opened. The team You work with these people directly — there is no account manager forwarding your email to someone else. Tom Abbs — Co-owner · Business Affairs Adam Downey — Co-owner · Head of A&R Catie Moore — General Manager · Design Specialist David Drucker — Director of Licensing Who we work with Label clients (47) Zum · Elevator Bath · Torn Light Records · Rope or Guillotine · Colorfield Records · Funeral Party · The Garrote · Mumbling Eye · Infrequent Seams · Ideell Edition · CROUX Records · Xol Meissner · NNA Tapes · Fantastique · LA Dark Records · Gilgongo Records · East Meets West Music · Good Neighbor · LILA · True Panther · Beso de Muerte · Ceremony of Seasons · Suction Records · Northern Spy Records · Difficult Interactions · Fixed Rhythms · Egghunt Records · Figure Eight Records · Leaving Records · Aurora Central · Alter Records · Forward Music Group · Whited Sepulchre Records · Avant! Records · Black Day In July · Redscroll · Bliss Point · International Anthem · Omni Sound · AKP Recordings · American Dreams Records · a La Carte Records · Orange Milk Records · Skin Graft · Raw Culture · In the Pines · Floorjazz Recordings Artist clients (97) Amirtha Kidambi · Anne-Claire · Alyssa Gengos · TALsounds · Convinced Friend · Greg Jamie · Masma Dream World · Amir ElSaffar · Sam Gendel · Pauline Oliveros · Kalbells · Allegra Krieger · Sam Hoyek · Fay Victor · Matt McBane · Kalia Vandever · Nicole McCabe · Horse Lords · V.V. Lightbody · Benny Bock · Lukas Ligeti · Tyler Sabbag · Shuta Hasunuma · Emily Kuhn · Abby Huston · Guerilla Toss · Lea Bertucci · Odetta Hartman · Katherine Perkins · Doug Wieselman · Psymon Spine · Alex Dupree · O'Death · Arto Lindsay · Kenneth Gregory · Kyle Bruckmann · numün · Shoko Nagai · The Necks · Bentley Anderson · Deniz Cuylan · Adam Schatz · Alexander Noice · Josh Johnson · Will Epstein · Cuddle Magic · Hannah Mohan · Yuka Honda · Beauty Pill · Takeshi Nishimoto · Lizzie Loveless · Andrea Parkins · Benjamin Lazar Davis · Micah Thomas · Angel Bat Dawid · Stephen Becker · Balmorhea · Rubblebucket · Sarah Pagé · Maurice Louca · Rachika Nayar · Shilpa Ray · Chuck Johnson · Jeremy Cunningham · Christopher Donaldson · Mat Ball · Phillip Golub · Elliott Sharp · SUSS · Sonny Singh · Alan Sparhawk · Jeff Parker · Jon Daly · Mare Berger · Rhys Chatham · Gregory Uhlmann · Alex E. Chávez · Ziemba · JJJJJerome Ellis · MIZU · Shane Parish · Darius Jones · Nick Schofield · Hannah Frances · Wilder Maker · Pan American · Cole Pulice · Asher Gamedze · Tristan Cappel · Senior Citizen · Renata Zeiguer · Alex Kmet · Luke Elliott · Tōth · Marvin Tate · Jeremiah Chiu · LEYA

Our services

  • Clandestine Label Services — Clandestine Label Services — boutique press, radio, distribution, manufacturing, fulfillment, licensing and label management for a select group of labels and artists.
  • Clandestine PR — Clandestine PR — boutique press campaigns for labels and artists, with an honest read on whether a record has a press story before we take it on.
  • Clandestine Radio — Clandestine Radio — college, community and specialty radio promotion, with weekly adds tracked and reported and an honest read on where a record can chart.
  • Clandestine Distribution — Clandestine Distribution — wholesale into independent record stores and curated mail-order direct to fans, across vinyl, CD, cassette, print and merch for around forty labels.
  • Clandestine Fulfillment — Clandestine Fulfillment — warehousing, pick-and-pack and direct-to-fan shipping from Cincinnati and Amsterdam, with stock synced across every store you sell through.
  • Clandestine Manufacturing — Clandestine Manufacturing — vinyl, CDs, cassettes, flexi discs and apparel since 2010, with instant itemised quotes, a digital proof before anything is cut, and lead times that are real ones.
  • Clandestine Management — Clandestine Management — label and project management for a single record or a whole catalog: schedule, budgets, royalties and the daily decisions, held by one person.

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