NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/18/06 -- Giant Step announces the formation of a music licensing and music supervision department. http://www.giantstep.net/musicsupervision/ will serve as a place where music supervisors, advertising agencies, film companies, and directors can find Giant Step endorsed music for their projects. It will introduce companies to the music and help with music clearance for usage in film and TV projects.

The new department will offer music from Giant Step Records, which includes artists like Donnie, Carl Hancock Rux, Jiva, and RSL. It will also administer music from other artists and catalogs including Ben Watt's Buzzin' Fly, Gilles Peterson's new Brownswood label, David Byrne's Luaka Bop, Dorado Records and artist like Zap Mama, Tom Ze, Susanna Baca & Jim White, DJ Cam, Jody Watley, Bugz In The Attic, Los Amigos Invisibles and many more.

Giant Step started as a weekly underground dance party in New York City that featured live musicians with DJs. Over the last 15 years it has grown into an internationally respected brand. The company is now a leading concert promoter, music and lifestyle marketing company, and independent record label.

Giant Step will only work with projects that they are passionate about, a fact which has not gone unnoticed in their community. Whether it is Giant Step's own releases and parties or work with other record labels, media companies, and consumer brands; Giant Step develops grassroots marketing campaigns targeted at its audience. These campaigns reach lifestyle tastemakers (key boutiques, restaurants, bars and select individuals in advertising, film, fashion, and music), DJs, Giant Step fans, and national urban audiences.

Giant Step CEO Maurice Bernstein states, "This is a natural progression for Giant Step, our events, website and music marketing services have for a long time been the place to discover the very best in new music. Now we can fully facilitate the many requests we get to license and place the music. Our goal is to start with a small select catalogue and grow, adding new artists weekly."

A leading independent concert promoter since the company's early days, Giant Step events are associated with having fun and introducing new music to an eclectic audience. Giant Step has produced hundreds of memorable shows, concerts, and events, like debuts by Macy Gray, Air, Jamiroquai, Lily Allen, The Fugees, Brand New Heavies, Jill Scott, Fatboy Slim, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Bebel Gilberto, Massive Attack, and Zero 7.

Giant Step Records was founded in 1995 as the logical growth out of its shows and marketing. From the earliest releases by Nuyorican Soul and Groove Collective to recent releases from Gilles Peterson, Donnie, Jody Watley, Nickodemus and Ultra Nate, Giant Step Record's catalog crosses boundaries and defies categorization. With elements of soul, jazz, and electronica, Giant Step Records reflects co-founder and CEO Maurice Bernstein's vision of releasing "simply good music."

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