LOS ANGELES, CA (Top40 Charts) Long a believer that "good music is good music" no matter the genre, Dito Godwin 's career as a multi-platinum producer includes sessions with an enviable slate of artists: No Doubt,
Motley Crue , KISS members
Ace Frehley and
Peter Criss , Jack Russell and Great White , late Warrant frontman Jani Lane and country music legend Charley Pride.
The multi-talented award winning musician brings the same open-minded, progressive aesthetic to his exciting latest endeavor, the new London based label EC3 Records , which he is launching with London businessman
Martin Quick . The company, named for the postal code for the financial district where their office is located, has a distribution deal with Bungalo/Universal , which Godwin has been affiliated with for a number of years.
According to Godwin, "The label will not specialize in a particular genre of music, but will sign great artists with great material and concentrate on each release as it happens. We are currently considering artists in the UK , but will soon expand our search worldwide."
EC3's flagship artist will be UK alternative guitar-driven rockers The Brink , an emerging four-piece band whose members are from Cambridge and points north. Godwin got wind of them on a recent trip to London from his friend, onetime Geffen and MCA promotions man Pete Bassett . The producer was so impressed with their powerful musicianship, dynamic image and loyal, growing local fan base that he immediately began co-writing and producing nine new songs with them.
The Brink's self-titled album, to be released later this year, was produced at Sensible Sound in London, a renowned facility, where the late
Amy Winehouse , among others, had recorded.
Godwin adds, "Martin is a relative of one of the band members who began attending the sessions as an observer and we became fast friends. Over many lunches and dinners, we realized we had a mutual love for the same kinds of music and fast cars, and had a similar style of doing business. I certainly didn't come to London to discover a band and start an independent record company, but everything came together very quickly and naturally and I couldn't be more excited."
