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Ridiculous Records

About Me


MISSION STATEMENT
To provide the highest quality Australian independent music to the world through recording, promoting, selling and distributing compact discs through our physical and digital distribution networks.
Ridiculous Records is dedicated to creating long-term relationships with industry members of high integrity to usher new growth of Australian music for global recognition.
Born out of pure musical passion in mid 2006, Ridiculous Records is a full time label based in Brisbane. Ridiculous Records was founded by Katrina Alberts and Zoltan Campbell who both have a long and varied history in the music industry. Jennifer Anderson and Jaclyn Hayward joined the label in January 2007 so to contribute their passion for the music industry via their respective individual skills and knowledge. The label aims to record, promote and present the untapped plethora of talented musicians from South East Queensland to the world. Ridiculous Records has a combined 65 years of Music Industry, Music Publishing, Business and Finance expertise and experience.
Ridiculous Records has recently signed a worldwide digital distribution deal enabling the distribution of Ridiculous Records artists’ work to over 300 digital sites including iTunes, eMusic, Telstra Bigpond, MSN, Rhapsody and Napster, placing Ridiculous Records artists at the forefront of global distribution.
Ridiculous Records is run out of a studio situated on the city fringe of Brisbane. All Mastering is outsourced to Dave Neil of Modern Mastering. All outsourced work is kept in Southeast Queensland – encompassing every aspect of fully supporting Southeast Queensland and its fervent and exceptional emerging artists.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/03/2007
Band Website: www.ridiculousrecords.net
Band Members: Katrina Alberts is the CEO and is an established music professional. Her accomplishments are extensive and varied including; the establishment and running of ‘Jazzykat Music Publishing’ which compiled and published “The Female Vocal Real Book”. Kat has been a committee member on the Jazz Queensland and Jazz Australia Board, and has been on the Arts Queensland peer assessment panel for performing arts. Kat is a Queensland conservatorium graduate, has a Bachelors Degree in Politics and Ethnomusicology and a Post Graduate Degree in Business Administration.

Zoltan Campbell lives, eats and breathes music. He is essentially a Bass Player / Singer / Songwriter and Producer, who dabbles in Percussion and Guitar. Zoltan performs in the following bands - gods girlfriend, The Funknuckles, The Asa Broomhall Duo / Band, Zoltan’s Funktet, The Zone, DJ Bacon & The B-Funk Allstars. Bands that Zol has previously played in are Nevasaurus, Phoebus, Von Gherkin, The Business, The Pincer Movement, The Ten Lorraines, and Sweetlip. Zoltan produced both gods girlfriend and the ‘Funknuckles’ debut albums.

Influences: Other well run record companies, Richard Branson, Sebastian Chase, Michael Gudinski, and anyone else who has put Australian music on the global map.
Sounds Like: God's Girlfriend, The Funknuckles, Phoebus, Von Gherkin, Justine, Sugarburn, The Zone, DJ Bacon and the B-Funk Allstars.
Record Label: Ridiculous Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

gods girlfriend CD Launch aftermath

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WEREN'T AWARE, GODS GIRLFRIEND'S LAUNCH WAS LAST NIGHT AT THE BEAUTIFUL UBER NIGHTCLUB IN WEST END. WITH AN AMAZING SOUND AND LIGHTING SYSTEM, THEY WERE BIGGER THAN...
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