About

Our Philosphy

A Record Company For The New Era Of Digital Music

Shark Meat Records is an independent record label, digital distributor and artist service company. We offer digital distribution, marketing, consulting, artist development, graphic design and online web services. Our focus is to support independent songwriters, artists and bands across many music genres in reaching their target audience.

Being musicians, producers, and fans ourselves, we have witnessed and been a part of the radical changes in the music business during the past decade. From digital music production and computer-based sound technologies to digital distribution and online music communities, we strive to understand and quickly adopt technologies that will help our artists connect in more ways with their fans while helping our business operate more efficiently.

We value fair and open relationships with our artists, provide fair and structured payment to our artists, and invest in the continued development of our current artist roster while continuing our search to discover new promising talent.

As a small indie label, we can provide the personal attention that new and developing artists need in order to reach their full potential, while at the same time we have developed relationships with other companies to offer a full suite of services and global capabilities that you would expect from larger organizations.

We digitally distribute our artists in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan via major digital services including iTunes, Napster, eMusic, Yahoo Music, HMV and more (see Distribution section below). Additionally, we are one of the few indie labels with the ability to sell music videos on the iTunes Music Store. We maintain direct contact with the editorial staff at each of these services in order to gain maximum exposure. To date, our artists have been featured on the front page of the iTunes Music Stores in the U.S. and Canada, in national magazines and on music websites.

If you are interested in our personalized digital distribution offerings and artist services,  we can design an approach that will work for you. Visit our SonicBids page to submit your electronic press kit.

Are you ready to take your music to the next level?

MySpace
MTV Urge
iLike
Pandora
HMV
Y Music
YouTube
Walmart Downloads
iMesh
Zune

Online & Satellite

Targeted online and satellite music services include:

  • Pandora
  • Last.fm
  • iLike
  • YouTube
  • SonicBids
  • MySpace
  • XM Satellite Radio
  • Sirius Satellite Radio

Digital Distribution

The releases in the Shark Meat Records catalog are available digitally via the leading digital download services. Additionally, physical CDs can be purchased directly from the Shark Meat Records Online Shop, via CDBaby.com, via Amazon.com. Worldwide music and video digital distribution services include:

  • iTunes Music Store (US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan)
  • Napster (US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan)
  • eMusic (US, UK, Europe)
  • Zune Marketplace by Microsoft (US, UK/Ireland-2008)
  • Y! Music Unlimited by Yahoo
  • Walmart Music Downloads
  • Urge by MTV
  • HMV Digital (UK)
  • iMesh
  • FYE Downloads Unlimited (UK)
  • Road Runner Music (Time Warner Cable)
  • RCN Music
  • Sonictap

Licensing & Publishing

If you would like to license or record any of the songs in our catalog please call or contact us via email to request a syncronization, master or mechanical license:

SHARK MEAT MUSIC PUBLISHING (ASCAP)

Shark Meat Records ASCAP publishing company established in 2005 to administer publishing for our ASCAP artists.

BLUE SHARK MEAT MUSIC PUBLISHING (BMI)

Shark Meat Records BMI publishing company established in 2005 to administer publishing for our BMI artists.

Owners

Armando Ortiz

Co-President & Founder

Armando is a songwriter, musician and producer with experience in pop and electronic music production and a business background with ten years experience managing multi-million dollar international projects for major music companies and other entertainment businesses.

Darren Ockert

Co-President & Founder

Darren is a songwriter, musician and producer with experience in pop music production, live performance production and producing music for television and film. With twelve years music and entertainment industry experience in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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