MELBOURNE, Australia — Gaga Music, the impartial Australian publishing and sync specialist, kinds a brand new partnership with London-based Warp Publishing.
Each impartial music companies have labored collectively since 2017, with Gaga Music initially representing Warp Publishing’s catalogue throughout Australia and New Zealand, adopted by Warp repping Gaga’s catalogue in the UK.
Associated
Introduced Monday, Aug. 31 on the eve of the 2026 BIGSOUND convention in Brisbane, the brand new association extends that alliance, with Warp now an energetic companion in Gaga Music alongside the Australian enterprise’ founder Grant Gillies. On the similar time, Warp Publishing director Theo Seffusatti and common supervisor Nadine Riezouw be part of Gillies on the board of Gaga as administrators.
The brand new deal ought to “broaden world alternatives” for songwriters, composers and represented catalogues, reads a press release.
Monetary phrases weren’t disclosed.
“In a local weather more and more formed by consolidation and exterior funding, it’s necessary that impartial music firms proceed to supply a genuinely artistic and moral various in rights administration,” feedback Gillies. “Warp is an iconic title within the world music group, with a unprecedented historical past and forward-thinking roster. It’s a privilege to be working extra intently collectively.”
In a joint assertion, Seffusatti, director of Warp Publishing and New Zealand writer Heard & Seen feedback: “This partnership displays a shared dedication to independence, artist-focused improvement and long run artistic progress via sync, rating and songwriting alternatives. It additionally alerts a continued funding in constructing significant worldwide pathways for songwriters and composers throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific area.”
Provides Nadine Riezouw, GM of Warp Publishing and former GM of Gaga Music: “Having been a part of each firms, I do know that they share the identical values and unwavering help for impartial artists. Having the ability to strengthen this ethos now collectively, is a proud step in providing additional alternatives in a manner that’s really impartial, clear and sustainable for our songwriters.”
With the brand new association, Gaga Music splits from its former companions and stakeholders at Inertia Music. Gilles saluted the corporate and its workforce, noting “their contribution will all the time stay an necessary a part of our story.”
Established in 2007, Gaga Music administers and pitches over 100,000 titles and operates via places of work in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland. At the moment, its catalogue contains works from Third Facet Music, Arts & Crafts, Secretly Canadian, PIAS, Thrill Jockey, Metropolis Slang, Low Profile, Erased Tapes and others.
Warp Publishing has been in enterprise for 15 years, and counting, with places of work in London and Los Angeles. The enduring model gives music publishing providers for such artists as Kelvin Krash, Danny Brown, Yves Tumor, Kelsey Lu, Daniel Lopatin, Khruangbin, Dying Grips, Caterina Barbieri, Kwes, Dry Cleansing, Bibio, Boards of Canada and plenty of others.
