BMG strikes deal with hitmaker Stefan Dabruck to target pop streaming market

25 April 2017 - Press release

BMG STRIKES DEAL WITH HITMAKER STEFAN DABRUCK TO TARGET POP STREAMING MARKET

BMG has entered a partnership with crossover dance and EDM-hitmaker Stefan Dabruck. He will team up with BMG to discover and develop up-and-coming talent internationally. As a consultant to BMG´s A&R team, Dabruck will support the signings and releases of electro, pop and DJ acts to BMG. It adds a heavyweight pop A&R source to BMG’s already strong German local repertoire.

As a producer and manager, Stefan Dabruck has been in the music business for over 20 years. With his infallible instinct for talent and potential, he has discovered and launched the careers of leading DJs in the genre – most recently Robin Schulz, one of Germany´s top DJs. As an international manager, Dabruck has worked with artists like Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello. As a producer, he has developed hits from Panjabi MC, Boogie Pimps, Tocadisco, Moguai, Global Deejays, Faul & Wad AD`s ‘Changes’ to legendary signings like Mylo, Green Velvet, Malaria. Overall, Dabruck has generated over 200 platinum and gold certified records and singles worldwide – in the last four years only.

Yet, the track of successful signings and records has not given him any reason to slow down: With his agency called “SDM” (Stefan Dabruck Management) based in Frankfurt, he keeps on looking for – and developing – promising new EDM-talents.

BMG scored the deal against significant competition.

While the partnership is a new step, the collaboration between Stefan Dabruck and BMG is not so recent. For almost a year, BMG and Dabruck have been connected on the publishing side: Dabruck has worked with BMG as part of the songwriter team Junx, known for their work with Robin Schulz and David Guetta. BMG has also invested in Dabruck´s agency SDM to further solidify the relationship with the chart-topping producer.

From now on, Stefan Dabruck will serve as a consultant to the BMG Artists and Repertoire -team. He is looking forward to working even closer with BMG: “The partnership with BMG will further the creation of exciting new projects and collaborations between BMG artists and talents in the electro genre internationally. I am very impressed by the creative output generated by the BMG team. Be it in Los Angeles, Berlin or Sydney, the teams are incredibly well-connected and forward-thinking”, says Dabruck.

BMG Head of A&R Sina Wahnschaffe agrees: “I´m super excited to work with Stefan and his crew. We will develop great artists and tracks together. Also, what we were able to create on the publishing side over the last seven months is an indicator of how great we can work together and what we can achieve with joined forces”.

It is the first major deal struck by BMG Germany since Dominique Kulling was appointed with a brief to grow its German recordings business.

BMG GSA managing director Dominique Kulling adds: “Stefan is not just a German hitmaker, he is someone who identifies and shapes global hits: He is one of the best and most established EDM producers and artist managers worldwide. To say that we are excited to welcome him to our team is an understatement. We are already working on promising projects with him and our artists and expect to release first tracks in the coming weeks”.