An independent, pioneering and committed label
With a multicolored catalog, ears open on all styles, Yotanka Records has been committed for a decade to best accompany the French and international scene. Artistic diversity and open-mindedness: pillars for a free and responsible independent label, committed to the planet and gender equality, and attached to its Grand-Ouest region.
In a world of uniformity and statistics, Nantes is looking elsewhere, towards artists combining efficiency, quality and authenticity. A balancing act leaving room for projects in development (Stéfi Celma, damlif, BIRRD, Grégoire Jokic, Makoto San...) as well as phenomenal successes (the hit «Moon» of Kid Francescoli, already a carton before its explosion on TikTok) and to leading artists of the catalogue (H-Burns, EMEL, Yan Wagner, Zinée, Zenzile, Lo'Jo...) but also international projects: the South African rapper Dope St Jude, the Kenyan queen Muthoni Drummer Queen, the Inuit poet Elisapie, the Québecois.es Louis-Jean Cormier and Salomé Leclerc, the Swiss rockers from Puts Marie or the Belgians from BRNS…
Commitments
The members of Yotanka are all animated for years by an ecological consciousness. In the face of global warming and mass pollution, we have made commitments to reduce our carbon footprint.
Some of our measures include:
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Yotanka commits to the protection of oceans and coasts by donating €1 on every vinyl order to the Surfrider Foundation
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Manufacture vinyl from recycled raw materials as soon as possible
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Design our CDs using cardboard Digisleeve
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Yotanka Records' statement regarding AI
Responsibly produced AI tools have significant potential for the music sector. The rights of all those involved in creating and distributing music must be respected and licensed specifically in advance.
Without prejudice to any prior rights reservations, Yotanka Records hereby expressly reaffirms that its rights are fully reserved as set out below. We reaffirm that:
Any past, present or future use of any of the works or content owned or controlled by Yotanka Records (including recordings, audiovisual recordings, compositions, lyrics, artwork, images, data, metadata, etc.) for the purpose of reproducing, performing, distributing, linking to or ingesting, machine learning or any AI training, development or commercialisation of AI systems, tools or technology, web scraping, ripping, recording, altering, making extracts or derivatives, crawling, text or data mining or similar purposes, and by any means (including by automated means), is prohibited, except as specifically and explicitly authorised by Yotanka Records in advance.
In the absence of an express advance licence permitting the above uses, we expressly reserve our rights in respect of the use of Yotanka Records' content, including without limitation under Article 4 of the EU Directive 2019/790/EC or similar laws in other jurisdictions (to the extent that this Article would apply to the above uses, an interpretation we do not agree with). Our reservation applies to all content owned or controlled by Yotanka Records, now or in the future, including where this content may be identified through publicly available means.
We will take the necessary steps to prevent the infringement of our rights.
Please contact us as regards any licensing requests contact@yotanka.net
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