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The Nettwerk Music Group is a Canadian record label and distribution company, based in Vancouver.^[1] Established in 1984 by Terry McBride, Mark Jowett, Tom Ferris and Cal Stephenson,^[1] initially to distribute recordings by the band Moev, the label subsequently expanded to release albums by a wide variety of Canadian and international alternative rock acts, ultimately becoming one of the largest and most influential independent record labels in Canada.^[1]

Initially specializing in electronic music genres such as alternative dance and industrial,^[1] the label also became a powerful player in pop and rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the mainstream success of artists such as The Grapes of Wrath and the label's best-known artist, Sarah McLachlan.^[1]

History[link]

As a record company Nettwerk has released over 200 full-length albums and sold over 150 million albums in its 25-year history.^[2]

On June 9, 2010, Nettwerk announced that it would depart from Sony Music and their records would now be distributed by WMG's Alternative Distribution Alliance.^[3]

In 2010 Nettwerk celebrated 25 years in music with the release of the book, Nettwerk: 25 Years of Music We Love.^[4]

Nettwerk Music Group Artists[link]

This list was compiled based on information found on the Nettwerk website.^[5]

Label Roster[link]

• Admiral Fallow
• Aliqua
• Ash Koley
• BT
• Bad Boy Bill
• The Be Good Tanyas
• Jay Brannan
• Conjure One
• Datarock
• Delerium
• DJ Dan
• Family of the Year
• William Fitzsimmons
• Frazey Ford
• Great Lake Swimmers
• Hadouken!
• The Hampdens
• Hanne Hukkelberg
• Joshua Hyslop
• Ivy
• Junkie XL
• Kidstreet
• Kinky
• Ladytron
• Sarah McLachlan
• Peter Murphy
• Old Crow Medicine Show
• Morgan Page
• Radical Face
• The Rifles
• St. Lola in the Fields
• State Radio
• Angus and Julia Stone
• Julia Stone
• Styrofoam
• The Submarines
• Liam Titcomb
• Wanting
• Matt Wertz
• Young Liars

Past artists[link]

• Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet
• Autour de Lucie
• The Cardigans
• Margaret Cho
• The Clumsy Lovers
• Download
• Felix Da Housecat
• Neil Finn
• The Finn Brothers
• The Format
• fun.
• Ginger
• Gob
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Griffin House
• Hem
• Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
• Katzenjammer
• Lava Hay
• Lhasa
• Matt and Kim
• MC 900 Ft. Jesus
• Erin McKeown
• Mediaeval Baebes
• Moev
• Alexi Murdoch
• Nathan
• Oh Susanna
• The Perishers
• Po' Girl
• Rose Chronicles
• Sensefield
• Severed Heads
• Ron Sexsmith
• Single Gun Theory
• Skinny Puppy
• Maria Taylor
• The Tear Garden
• Tiësto
• Trespassers William
• Uh Huh Her
• Paul van Dyk
• The Weepies
• Jenny Owen Youngs

Management Roster[link]

• Alexi Murdoch
  
• Ash Koley
  
• Avalanche City
  
• Bridgit Mendler
  
• Dispatch^{[disambiguation needed ]}
  
• Family of the Year
  
• fun.
  
• Guster
  
• Hem
  
• Hey Ocean!
  
• Ina^{[disambiguation needed ]}
  
• Joshua Hyslop
  
• k-os
  
• Katherine Jenkins
  
• Liam Titcomb
  
• Marié Digby
  
• Matt Wertz
  
• Meaghan Smith
  
• Nneka
  
• Radical Face
  
• Shiny Toy Guns
  
• State Radio
  
• Stereophonics
  
• The Colurs
  
• The LeeVees
  
• The Pierces
  
• The Rescues
  
• Wanting
  

Producer Management Roster[link]

• Bob Clearmountain
  
• Cameron Webb
  
• Chris Badami
  
• Chris Lord-Alge
  
• Clif Magness
  
• David Bottrill
  
• Greg Wells
  
• Holly Knight
  
• Howard Benson
  
• Jeff Trott
  
• John Goodmanson
  
• Mark Endert
  
• Matt Serletic
  
• Mike Plotnikoff
  
• Mike Shipley
  
• Raine Maida
  
• Randy Staub
  
• Rhys Fulber
  
• Ron Aniello
  
• Tom Lord-Alge
  
• Victor Van Vugt
  

Nettwerk vs. the RIAA[link]

Nettwerk is fighting against the RIAA by offering to pay the legal fees of a teenager in Texas who is being sued for downloading songs.^[6]

See also[link]

• List of record labels

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nettwerk

Kiran Ahluwalia
Kiran Ahluwalia performing
Background information
Born	India
Occupations	Singer and Composer
Website	www.kiranmusic.com

Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indo-Canadian singer^[1] who publicly performs her own musical arrangements of ancient Persian and Punjabi Ghazals, or poems.^[2] Kiran Ahluwalia won the 'Newcomer' category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009) - announced May 1, 2009 - the new 'world music' awards organised by the UK-based magazine, Songlines.

Personal life[link]

Ahluwalia was born in India and migrated with her parents to Toronto, Canada as a child. After completing her MBA at Dalhousie University, she returned to Toronto with the plan of being in the financial services industry, she changed her mind and went back to India to study music and then returned to Toronto to build her career as a musician.^[2]

Ahluwalia is married to guitar player and co-arranger Rez Abassi, and currently lives in New York.

Discography[link]

References[link]

1. ^ "Kiran Ahluwalia celebrates poetry and passion". Straight.com, February 1, 2008.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Kiran Ahluwalia Pursues the Beloved: The Nexus of Ghazal Love Poetry, Canadian Celtic Fiddle, and Time-Honored Pick Up Lines 2005 Album". www.rockpaperscissors.biz, February 8, 2005.

External links[link]

• Kiran Ahluwalia
• Songlines Music Awards 2009
• Kiran Ahluwalia Interview at allaboutjazz.com

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Kirsty Hawkshaw
Background information
Born	(1969-10-26) 26 October 1969 (age 42) London, UK
Genres	Electronic music
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, producer
Instruments	Singing, synthesizers
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Coalition/EastWest, Mainline/EMI, Nettwerk, Magnatune
Associated acts	Opus III, Pulusha, Warm
Website	www.kirstyhawkshaw.co.uk

Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 26 October 1969 in London, UK) is a British dance/electronica/house/trance musician and songwriter. She is known for her participation as lead vocalist for the group Opus III, and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers.

Career[link]

Kirsty Hawkshaw is the daughter of the British production music/film music composer and disco record producer Alan Hawkshaw.

At a rave event in 1991 she was noticed by producers Ian Munro, Kevin Dobbs and Nigel Walton, who at the time were known as A.S.K. It was through this meeting that they would form a dance act called Opus III. Their first single, a cover version of the song "It's a Fine Day" from their debut album Mind Fruit was an international success and Top 10 hit on UK Singles Chart,^[1] and reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1992. A reversed sample of Hawkshaw's singing from this track was used in the Orbital track "Halcyon," the music video for which featured Hawkshaw. Opus III also had another US #1 hit on the same chart in 1994 with "When You Made The Mountain", from their second and final album, Guru Mother.

After the group broke up in 1994, Hawkshaw pursued a solo career and since then has been in demand by other acts in the dance, house, Eurodance, trance, and electronica community, ranging from Tiësto to Delerium. In a 2009 interview, she later recalled her decision to end her association with Opus III, in which she felt that she did not want to be part of a "commercialized" act and wanted to go in a different direction, plus she was having internal problems with the band members over having more input in writing and production.^[2]

In addition to dance music, Hawkshaw also recorded an ambient, ethereal album in 1999, 'Enlightenment', which remains unreleased. Her solo effort, "Fine Day", peaked at #62 in the UK Singles Chart in November 2002.^[3]

On 10 October 2005, she released Meta-Message, a collection of older and newer songs, after a growing interest in her out of print album, O.U.T.. In early 2006, she appeared on the Fragma single "Radio Waves".

Hawkshaw also contributed a track titled "Telephone Song", to the children's album For the Kids Too!, released in 2004.

In 2008, Hawkshaw went on tour and released Machinima on the Loverush Digital label.^{[citation needed]}

She runs a club in Second Life called 'Club Connected' and has built a virtual pub.

The record label, Magnatune, released her ambient album, The Ice Castle.

Collaborations[link]

• 1992 "It's a Fine Day" - (with Opus III)
• 1996 "Valencia" - (with Rachid Taha)
• 1997 "Isolation" - (with Pulusha)
• 1998 "State of Grace" - (with Swayzak)
• 1999 "Stereo" - (with Stereo People)
• 2000 "Dreaming" - (with BT) - UK #38^[3]
• 2000 "Running Down the Way Up" - (with BT & Hybrid)
• 2000 "Nature's Kingdom" - (with Delerium)
• 2000 "Inner Sanctum" - (with Delerium)
• 2000 "Where the Sidewalk Ends" - (with Silent Poets)
• 2000 "Visions" - (with Ian Pooley)
• 2000 "Hidden Agenda" - (with Sandor Caron)
• 2001 "Stealth" - (with Way Out West) - UK #67
• 2001 "Battleship Grey" - (with Tiësto)
• 2001 "Urban Train" - (with Tiësto) - UK #22^[3]
• 2002 "Underwater Lady" - (with Harmonic 33)
• 2003 "Calling You" - (with Ikon)
• 2003 "Blackout" - (with Hybrid)
• 2004 "Just Be" - (with Tiësto) - UK #43^[3]
• 2004 "Walking on Clouds" - (with Tiësto)
• 2004 "Sincere for You" - (with Lange)
• 2004 "Don't Sleep Tonight" - (with Clashing Egos)
• 2004 "Maris Stella" - (with Digitonal)
• 2005 "Faith in Me" - (with Pole Folder)
• 2005 "Halcyon and On And On (Live)" - (with Orbital)
• 2005 "All I Want" - (with Hybrid)
• 2006 "The Chauffeur" - (with Sleepthief)
• 2006 "Radio Waves" - (with Fragma)
• 2006 "Just For Today" - (with Hybrid)
• 2006 "Fleeting Instant" - (with Delerium)
• 2006 "Outsiders" - (with Tenishia)
• 2006 "The Last One and the First" - (with Pentatonik)
• 2006 "Love is a Rose" - (with Pentatonik)
• 2006 "Don't Look Behind You" - (with Judie Tzuke)
• 2006 "Lyteo" - (with Mr. Sam)
• 2006 "Split" - (with Mr. Sam)
• 2006 "Insight" - (with Mr. Sam)
• 2006 "Lodestar" - (with Mr. Sam)
• 2006 "View to Me" - (with Future Funk Squad)
• 2007 "Silent Stars" - (with Pole Folder)
• 2007 "Skimming Stones" - (with Sleepthief)
• 2007 "Heaven Sent" - (with Andrew Bennett)
• 2007 "Reasons to Forgive" - (with Tenishia)
• 2007 "Loverush" - (with Loverush UK!)
• 2007 "Beatitude" - (with Duderstadt)
• 2007 "The Phoenix Effect" - (with Delta-S)
• 2007 "Star·Kindler" - (with Delta-S)
• 2008 "Juneau / Glaciation" - (with Alaska)
• 2008 "Love Like Blood / Sunbathing" - (with Outrage and Aperture)
• 2008 "Love Calls" - (with Headstrong)
• 2008 "Invisible" - (with Tenishia)
• 2008 "Love is No Possession" - (with JJoy)
• 2008 "Fine Day 2008" - (Kirsty Hawkshaw vs. Kinky Roland)
• 2008 "Good to Be Alive (Healing Angel)" - (Kirsty Hawkshaw vs. Arnold T.)
• 2008 "Invisible Walls" (collaboration with Nektarios and trance singer Jan Johnston) - (Nektarios meets F-used)
• 2009 "Face to Face" - (Kirsty Hawkshaw Vs Elucidate)
• 2010 "A Million Stars" - (with BT)
• 2010 "Sundog" - (with Alaska)
• 2010 "One Day" - (with Mr. Sam)
• 2010 "Two Trees" - (with Ulrich Schnauss)
• 2011 "Whisper" - (with Blu Mar Ten)
• 2011 "Back in Time" - (with Liquid Kaos)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Blowcast - Trance Podcast
• Hawkshaw at Magnatune
• Hawkshaw on Yahoo!Groups
• Interview from 2005 by Progressive Sounds
• Hawkshaw discography
• Presenter at Cusp Conference 2008

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Matt Wertz
Matt Wertz (2006)
Background information
Birth name	Matthew Stewart Wertz
Born	(1979-02-17) February 17, 1979 (age 33) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Origin	Liberty, Missouri, U.S.
Genres	Rock
Occupations	Singer-Songwriter
Instruments	Guitar Vocals
Years active	2001 – Present
Labels	formerly with Universal Republic
Associated acts	Dave Barnes Ben Rector
Website	mattwertz.com
Notable instruments
Guitar

Matt Wertz is a singer/songwriter. Originally from LaVale, MD,^[1] he now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.^[2] His interest in visual art led him to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he graduated with a degree in industrial design. While there, his musical talents and ambitions grew.

After graduation, Wertz gained a considerable fan base by performing at Young Life camps, after releasing his first album, Somedays, produced by Steve Wilson. His next two studio albums were produced by himself and Ed Cash and an EP by Wertz and his best friend Dave Barnes. He has toured with such acts as Jon McLaughlin, Jason Mraz, Jamie Cullum, Gavin Degraw, Matt Nathanson and Jars of Clay, and has headlined several tours nationally in the early-to-mid-2000s (decade).^{[citation needed]}

Wertz's songs have been used on TV shows like Brothers and Sisters, Wildfire and One Tree Hill and in the movies Employee of the Month and My Super Ex-Girlfriend.^{[citation needed]}

On September 19, 2006, Wertz released his third studio album, Everything in Between. In late 2007, he went back on the road with fellow singer-songwriter and friend Dave Barnes. Their aptly named tour, Two Birds/One Stone, toured around the US, ending in Nashville.

In December 2007, Wertz signed a record deal with Universal Republic Records. He announced this news to the media on The Mark Zito Show, a college radio show at Syracuse University.^{[citation needed]} Wertz released a new record in September 2008 called Under Summer Sun.^[3]

In November 2009, Wertz announced on his website that he is no longer with Universal Republic and to celebrate, he began giving away a free album that had been recorded live at the Triple Door in Seattle on May 28, 2008, entitled If It Ain't Broke....^{[citation needed]}

In January 2011, Wertz released a single, "Feels So Right", as part of his album, Weights & Wings, released on March 15, 2011.^[4] He bagan a tour to promote the album on March 25, 2011, in New York City.^[5]

Discography[link]