Pantone Music is an independent record label

Independent record label

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 and music publisher based in Brighton

Brighton

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, UK. It was founded in 2004

2004 in music

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 by Gav Smith

Gav Smith

Gav Smith is a global DJ, manager of Pantone Music and former manager of the Disorient and Mr Bongo record labels.-External links:* *...

. Pantone Music currently specialise in broken beat

Broken beat

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, nu jazz

Nu jazz

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, and hip-hop from Japan

Japan

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 and The West

Western world

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. Their roster includes Jazztronik

Jazztronik

Jazztronik is the Japanese Tokyo-based DJ/producer Ryota Nozaki.As one of Japan's leading DJs, Ryota Nozaki is known not only in Japan, but also in Europe, New Zealand and the United States...

, Jafrosax, Yukihiro Fukitomi, Bun and Breakthrough (Music Group). As a testament to the label's mission of bringing East and West together, artists that have featured on recordings with the Pantone Music roster include Amp Fiddler

Amp Fiddler

Joseph "Amp" Fiddler is an American keyboardist, singer, songwriter and record producer from Detroit, Michigan, U.S.. His musical styles include funk, soul, dance and electronica music. He is probably best known for his contributions to the band Enchantment, and as part of George Clinton’s...

, Phife Dawg

Phife Dawg

Malik Isaac Taylor , better known by his stage name Phife Dawg, is an American rapper of Trinidadian descent, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad...

, Grand Visitor, Break Reform, Count Bass D

Count Bass D

Dwight Conroy Farrell , better known by the stage name Count Bass D, is an American rapper, record producer and multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Tennessee...

, Bembe Segue, Maspyke, Jneiro Jarel

Jneiro Jarel

Jneiro Jarel is a United States-based music producer. For over a decade he has provided listeners with an eclectic mix of sounds ranging from hip hop, to electronica, to electro-pop, to Brazilian funk, to bass music. Noted for his abstract style, he is also known for his beat-making alias Dr...

, Ovasoul 7, Gagle, Yukumi Nagano, Vikter Duplaix

Vikter Duplaix

Vikter Duplaix, is an American singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and DJ. Duplaix has traditional soul singer’s beginnings – being raised in both Philadelphia and Augusta, Georgia singing in church choirs, and later took work programming drum tracks while working at a Philadelphia...

, Nicola Manevsky and DJ Mitsu The Beats.

External links

• Official site
• Myspace site
• Visit Fly to read an interview with the founder of Pantone Music