This Week in Music w/Ian Rogers of Topspin – Craig Kallman, CEO of Atlantic Records, 2012 – #46

Ian Rogers (@iancr) interviews Craig Kallman, dance DJ and CEO of Atlantic Records, at the Electronic Dance Music Biz conference 2012. Craig discusses his early days as a DJ in NYC, starting his own record label, and discovering the latests artists Atlantic.

Listen to Ian’s favorite tracks exclusively on MOG at http://bit.ly/ianplaylist

00:00 – Intro. Craig Kallman, CEO of Atlantic records

00:35 – How Craig got into music – Early days as a DJ

02:40 – Starting Big Beat Records

04:10 – Favorite music before Big Beat

05:10 – Why he focused on House music with Big Beat – Selling to Atlantic

08:00 – Sonos… with DeadMau5! Thank you Sonos for supporting TWiMusic. Follow Sonos @sonos on Twitter

11:50 – What working at Atlantic Records means to him

14:40 – Who discovers talent first, Atlantic or fans?

17:00 – Defining success in 2012 (as opposed to 1999)

21:10 – Rebooting Big Beat Records. Why now? (Finding Skrillex, Martin Solveig and DJ Chuckie)

23:45 – Thanks MOG for sponsoring TWiMusic! Follow @mogdotcom and @twimusik and tweet at us your playlist. Let us know you like the show!

26:00 – Craig’s thoughts on the dance music explosion and going from DJ to music executive

30:00 – Branding artists

31:45 – What’s really changed in music?

via - Music – Craig Kallman, CEO of Atlantic Records, 2012 – TWiMusic #46 – YouTube.

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