Dancing Turtle Group
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Dancing Turtle Group is a British company founded by Dominic Brown in 2005. It incorporates a record label and artist management group, a digital production agency, and an independent film company.
was launched in 2005, with a remit to produce music from emerging artists around the world. It has released music from artists coming from countries including Japan, West Papua, Brazil, Italy and the UK. The label's management division looks after the interests of The Lani Singers
and Inkliing.
With a growing demand from companies seeking development and management of their digital presences, Dancing Turtle Media was launched in 2008. Acting as a digital production and social media agency, its client roster includes music group Asian Dub Foundation
, the music festival Green Man
, dub music label On-U Sound, music website DJhistory, as well as Strawberry Fields in Ethiopia. The agency's audio-visual department has worked with companies including the BBC and Channel 4 News.
Dancing Turtle Films was launched in 2010, seeking to produce films that explore and expose current affairs stories that are not usually picked up by mainstream media. The company's first production, an undercover documentary called Forgotten Bird of Paradise
, was awarded the Best Documentary prize at the 2011 Dam Short Film Festival in the United States.
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Dancing Turtle RecordsDancing Turtle Records
Dancing Turtle Records is a London based independent record label set up in 2005. Their releases have a strong leaning towards the genres of indie folk, electronica, experimental, downtempo and world music....
was launched in 2005, with a remit to produce music from emerging artists around the world. It has released music from artists coming from countries including Japan, West Papua, Brazil, Italy and the UK. The label's management division looks after the interests of The Lani Singers
The Lani Singers
The Lani Singers are husband and wife, Benny and Maria Wenda. They come from the Baliem Valley in the remote central highland region of West Papua in the south-west Pacific, and play songs that are rooted in the sacred rituals of the Lani tribe...
and Inkliing.
With a growing demand from companies seeking development and management of their digital presences, Dancing Turtle Media was launched in 2008. Acting as a digital production and social media agency, its client roster includes music group Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...
, the music festival Green Man
Green Man
A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit...
, dub music label On-U Sound, music website DJhistory, as well as Strawberry Fields in Ethiopia. The agency's audio-visual department has worked with companies including the BBC and Channel 4 News.
Dancing Turtle Films was launched in 2010, seeking to produce films that explore and expose current affairs stories that are not usually picked up by mainstream media. The company's first production, an undercover documentary called Forgotten Bird of Paradise
Forgotten Bird of Paradise
Forgotten Bird of Paradise is a 2009 documentary film produced by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the Papua conflict. The film was shot undercover, and includes interviews with human rights victims and political prisoners, as well as footage of rebels in their jungle...
, was awarded the Best Documentary prize at the 2011 Dam Short Film Festival in the United States.