Avatar Records

Avatar Records is an independent record label founded by Larry Robinson with offices in Los Angeles and London, England. The company was founded in 1987 in the garage of his family home in South Los Angeles. Projects released on Avatar include The Oz Soundtrack, Planet Asia, Fear of a Black Hat Soundtrack, Bishop Don Magic Juan, the NVA Straight from the Crates compilation, the soundtrack to the television show Girlfriends, and others. Avatar has digitally distributed over three hundred record labels with songs by artists including Anya Marina, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Wu-Tang Clan, Mary J. Blige, Amy Winehouse, Erykah Badu,and others.

History

Early years: 1987–1996

Larry Robinson started Avatar as a music publishing company in the mid-1980s, and opened its first office on the corner of Sunset & Vine street in Hollywood in 1989. Avatar publishes songs recorded by artists including Tony Toni Tone, DMX, Brandy, Tupac, Redman, Foxy Brown, Vanessa Williams, Bell Biv Devoe, Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men, Ja Rule, Guy, Vinx, Keith Murray, and others. The company licenses music it owns into film and television programs and commercials. Avatar administers and collects royalties around the world through a network of leading publishers on behalf of their writer and publishing partners. In 1999 Avatar bought the Whole Nine Yards music publishing catalog which owned the musical copyrights to songs recorded by many R&B recording artists.

Avatar Records (Electronic)

Avatar Records is a Tel Aviv-based independent record label and digital distributor specializing in electronic music, providing music to online retailers including Apple's iTunes Music Store, Beatport and more The company was founded by Avichay Avigal and Peter Eibenschutz in 1997. According to the label's co-founder, the label initially had an alliance with NMC Music, when it first started as its subsidiary. Later, Avatar was in collaboration with BNE, before finally becoming a fully independent label.

Projects released on Avatar include albums from Asia 2001, Goa Gil, Nimba, The Nommos,Electric Universe, Toi Doi, Thomas Leer, Lumen, Ocelot, Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris, Jupiter 8000, Overdream, Enichkin, Celtic Cross, Becoming.Intense & Pharmacore, Prana, Sandman, GMS, Hux Flux, Orion, Indoor, The Infinity Project, Cydonia, Synchro, Psychoz, Astropilot, Elysium, Reflex.

History

Early Years: 1997 - 2003

During the first years, Avatar focused on releases from big names. Later, Avatar became more interested in discovering new names. Names like Toi Doi, Overdream, Psychoz and Astropilot have all started with Avatar.
Avatar was the first label to release psychedelic trance music locally in India, Mexico and Poland.