{"id":10368,"date":"2006-06-28T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/28\/tokyopop-announces-new-music-label\/"},"modified":"2006-06-28T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T14:15:00","slug":"tokyopop-announces-new-music-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tokyopop-announces-new-music-label\/","title":{"rendered":"TOKYOPOP Announces New Music Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYOPOP has announced a partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrightsagency.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Rights Agency<\/a>, &#8220;the leading worldwide digital music distributor,&#8221; to launch TOKYOPOP Music. The label premiered with 3 albums, now available from I-tunes and other digital music retailers:<\/p>\n<p>Drift 2 Die is a mix of electronica and hip hop from the American Initial D soundtrack, produced by b_nCHANt_d and D.J. Milky.<\/p>\n<p>Anime Trax Volume One is a collection of American music tracks by D.J. Milky and b_nCHANt_d from &#8220;hot anime properties&#8221; including GTO, Rave Master, and Princess Ai.<\/p>\n<p>Beats 4 Riderz features hip-hop music from Street Fury, Initial D and various other properties. Music produced by D.J. Milky and b_nCHANt_d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a rising thirst amongst fans to access this niche music category and now TOKYOPOP is the exclusive company to quench that thirst,&#8221; says TOKYOPOP music supervisor Ben Chan. &#8220;We have plans to release more than 20 albums per year featuring the coolest music from Asia and we feel that DRA&#8217;s excellent technology platform, worldwide reach and marketing expertise will serve TOKYOPOP Music very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In line with its expansion into a fully integrated media entertainment company focused on the &#8216;manga lifestyle&#8217;,&#8221; TOKYOPOP CEO and CCO Stu Levy says, &#8220;The launch of TOKYOPOP Music marks the beginning of our move into the music space&#8230; In the near future, TOKYOPOP will be producing anime and manga soundtracks, mangapods (audio books), ringtones, manga podcasts, and much more. We are currently considering building a satellite radio manga channel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYOPOP has announced a partnership with Digital Rights Agency, &#8220;the leading worldwide digital music distributor,&#8221; to launch TOKYOPOP Music. The label premiered with 3 albums, now available from I-tunes and other digital music retailers: Drift 2 Die is a mix of electronica and hip hop from the American Initial D soundtrack, produced by b_nCHANt_d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}