First up is Fly Records' Label Manager & our resident trombonist...

Ahmet GuhagunAhmet Guhagun

Describe a daily ritual.

Up at 6am - play the trombone then have a quick run along the Grand Union canal.

Get into the office and run through a quick Qadha prayer from the Qur'an, read from my Kindle or listen to a Qadha podcast on my iPod, whilst quaffing an intake of organic juice and nibbling dried fruit and going through new emails, handling a few unattended older ones & deleting anything in my mailbox in any way related to Bob 'Vainglorious' Lefsetz.

Quick searches on the net to check for unauthorised music being sold by counterfeiters / the social-networking-for-free-misanthropes.

Hugging our Fly Record's label manager is a much prized past-time amongst both staff and composers.Hugging our Fly Record's label manager is a much prized past-time amongst both staff and composers.

Walk around the office and give my colleagues a 'Good Morning' hug.

Phone calls & Skype contact with composers, artists, managers, journalists and industry colleagues.

Take a look at today's To Do list - but usually an urgent request for something (eg label copy and a master recording, regarding a licence) is received so the To Do list is shelved.

Check the latest report from our distributor, assess stock and repressings orders.

Listen to a few tracks from tapes recently digitised, have a meeting with a specialist consultant for an ongoing project.

Lunch break in Kensington Gardens where I take part in Ken Wong's Tai Chi class followed by a hot Chinese soup.

Back to the office.

Create barcodes and ISRCs for new releases, convert audio files to various kbps and lossless formats and various edits for various potential digital uses.

Read another quick verse from the Qur'an whilst having a cup of green tea.

Research some new leads regarding missing tapes and associated items and even some people linked to back catalogue masters.

Chase up matters from other companies which are outstanding.

Post a few packages for interested parties and associated people.

Compile tracks for our releases - and use Wikipedia for label copy.

Update the website with the latest news and goss.

Have a look at the label myspace site and despair at the waste of oxygen used by 99% of the people posting messages on our page and associated 'blogs'.

Read our separate Fly Records and Cube Soundtracks record label mailboxes and forward the glowing fan mail to my boss.

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Phone a few overseas associates and look at the untouched To Do list before filing my day's papers and notes from meetings and heading out for a night checking out some new music or old music or maybe a film.

Then off home and self-indulgently have some hot cocoa and play a long trombone solo.

What gets your support?

People who are comfortable with themselves and can converse without succumbing to LCD* vernacular and accents, innit.

Name a guilty pleasure.

Polishing my trombone.

Explain your pet hate.

Getting trombone polish all over the place.

What's your hidden asset?

My stock in eBAY, purchased in 1999.

Who's your first love?

Can't remember, most probably
Ayshea BroughAyshea Broughor Dana Gillespieor Dana Gillespie

Can't live without...

Bucks Music Group Ltd and it's lovely component elements.

*lowest common denominator

created on 2007-12-19 17:56:06 by shan