Emanon is a small, selective, Tulsa, Oklahoma based record label. The label was founded in 1999 by Mike Busch and Trevor Lane in Lane's Sapulpa Oklahoma studio, initially to provide beats for Lane's old friends in Wu Tang Clan and Kid Rock

Kid Rock

Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...

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Producers, Mixers and Studios

Emanon uses renowned producers and mixers such as Al Schmitt

Al Schmitt

Al Schmitt is a recording engineer and record producer.-Early career:Schmitt grew up in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy he began working at Apex Recording Studios at the age of 19. In the late 1950's Schmitt moved to Los Angeles and became a staff engineer at Radio Recorders on Santa...

, Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers is an American musician, producer, composer, arranger, and guitarist.-Biography:...

, Steve Ripley

Steve Ripley

Steve Ripley is a recording artist, songwriter, studio engineer, guitarist, and inventor. He has been active in the music business since 1977...

, Jay Baumgardner

Jay Baumgardner

Jay Baumgardner is an American record producer, engineer and mixer. He has worked on albums by Ugly Kid Joe, Helmet, Papa Roach, Endwell, Coal Chamber, Godsmack, Three Days Grace, New Found Glory, Spineshank, Alien Ant Farm and Orgy....

⁴, Kevin Churko⁵, Mitch Allan

Mitch Allan

Mitch Allan, is the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of punk rock band SR-71, and the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of power pop project Satellite.-Biography:...

, and David Teegarden (musician)

David Teegarden (musician)

David Teegarden is a member of the 60's and 70's psych-rock group Teegarden & Van Winkle. He is a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma. David has worked with many musicians including J. J. Cale, Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh and Bob Seger...

. Emanon also uses recognized studios such as Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio located at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music company EMI, its present owner...

, Capitol Studios

Capitol Studios

The Capitol Studios complex opened in the Capitol Records Building, a futuristic new building in the heart of Hollywood, in 1956. It has since hosted some of the most treasured recordings in music history, from Frank Sinatra to the Beastie Boys. It is owned by Capitol Records whose parent company...

, Tree Sound Studios, Sunset Sound Studios, NRG Recording Studios

NRG Recording Studios

NRG Recording Studios is a recording facility located in North Hollywood, California that was created by producer and mixer Jay Baumgardner in 1992.- Facilities :*Studio A console: custom vintage Neve 8068 built by Pat Schneider...

, The Church Studio⁹

Artists

Artists who have recorded on the label include John Corabi

John Corabi

John Corabi is a heavy metal singer and guitarist who has worked with such bands as Angora, The Scream, Mötley Crüe, Union and ESP , Ratt , Twenty 4 Seven , Zen Lunatic, Brides of Destruction, and Angel City Outlaws John Corabi (born on April 26, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a heavy...

, Jenna Drey

Jenna Drey

Jenna Drey is a female singer/songwriter who is a dance-pop, adult contemporary and dance music artist. She was born in Los Angeles, California and currently resides in Miami, Florida...

, JParis

JParis

Formed in the summer of 2001, JParis is a pop-punk band out of the Maryland/Delaware area. The band went on a promotional tour, with 86 performances in FYE stores across Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, DC in support of their Six Sixty CD.The band self-financed...

, Leanne Harte

Leanne Harte

Leanne Harte is an Irish musician, composer, singer and songwriter. Harte has been fronting her own band since she was in her mid-teens and first rose to prominence after an appearance on RTÉ at the age of sixteen...

, Jura, Cardinal Trait, Fanzine, Lorenzo, and Brandon Cooper.¹⁰

Emanon and the RIAA and Music Downloading

Emanon is not a member of RIAA. Emanon believes the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 is to today's youth what the radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 was to the generation before. Emanon sells MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 music files from its artists thru Independent Online Distribution Alliance. They also distribute their product through Independent Online's on the iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 store. Emanon also has the latest songs by JParis

JParis

Formed in the summer of 2001, JParis is a pop-punk band out of the Maryland/Delaware area. The band went on a promotional tour, with 86 performances in FYE stores across Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, DC in support of their Six Sixty CD.The band self-financed...

 available for free download on the artists website, without any digital rights management

Digital rights management

Digital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...

. Hence, unlike files purchased from iTunes or Napster, these files allow consumers the freedom to copy the songs they download to other devices of theirs.

Notable Accomplishments

• Fanzine's Roundabout is the fastest selling CD ever in Texas and Okahoma in 2005.
• Jenna Drey's Just Like That, Reverse the Curse is adopted by the Boston Red Soxs in their World Series Winning 2004 season as the Soxs crowd exciter.¹¹
• JParis' Here We Go Again reaches #1 on Clear Channel Radio Stations in 2005.
• Lorenzo's Love Shaped Bruise is voted Rock Album of the Year at The Independent Music Awards in 2006.¹²

External links

• http://www.emanonrecords.com Official Site
• http://www.myspace.com/emanonrecords Myspace Site