TaP Music launches electronic division led by The Weird & The Wonderful’s Steven Braines & Sophia Kearney

TaP Music has launched an electronic music division led by Steven Braines & Sophia Kearney – founders of music management collective The Weird & The Wonderful.

The partnership brings heavyweight electronic stars to TaP such as producers Maya Jane Coles, KDA and Catz n Dogz.

The Weird & The Wonderful’s artists will join TaP mega stars Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, Ellie Goulding and many more.

As a result of this partnership and launch of the new division, TaP will now have an office in Milan, alongside existing bases in Berlin, Sydney and its HQs in London and LA.

“We spurned so many offers from other management companies over the years – the thing that changed for us was simply who was asking us the question.”

Steven Braines & Sophia Kearney

The Weird & Wonderful co-founders, Steven and Sophia said: “We spurned so many offers from other management companies over the years – the thing that changed for us was simply who was asking us the question.

“TaP are undoubtedly the most exciting global management company out there from megastars like Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa and Ellie Goulding through to emerging talent like Dermot Kennedy and Grace Carter.

“Best of all TaP are encouraging us to remain as “Weird & Wonderful” as we always have been.”

“We are very excited to have two of the world’s best electronic artist managers join us with their team and we intend to continue to build this side of our business in exactly the same way we’ve built TaP.”

Ben Mawson, TaP

TaP’s Ben Mawson added: “Ed and I have a passion for electronic music and have wanted for some time to start an electronic wing of TaP.

“We are very excited to have two of the world’s best electronic artist managers join us with their team and we intend to continue to build this side of our business in exactly the same way we’ve built TaP – providing a full-service management company to producers and DJs in the electronic space.”

British electronic artist manager Paul Allen joined The Weird & The Wonderful in September.Music Business Worldwide

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