— Intensive project archives, digitizes and preserves a rich catalog of
historic recordings from the iconic Latin label Fania —
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Codigo Music, owners of one of the most extensive collections of Latin
American musical recordings, has selected Iron
Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information
management company, to help catalogue, archive, digitize and preserve
its extensive library of historic and contemporary recordings. The
project, begun earlier this year, will help ensure that Codigo’s rich
collection will remain secure, protected and available for current and
future generations of Latin fans and artists.
Among Codigo’s many assets is the catalog of iconic Latin music label
Fania, which it acquired in 2008. Following the acquisition, Codigo
quickly determined that the Fania catalog, much like many other large
music collections, face two main challenges: multiple recording media
formats, and the threat of deterioration of that media due to the
ravages of time, environment and technology obsolescence. With time not
on their side, Codigo looked to Iron Mountain to help quickly “triage”
these priceless recordings, categorizing and classifying them according
to format and the condition they were in, while providing with a safe
storage environment. With that work done, Iron Mountain and Codigo can
now work together to digitize and make available those recordings while
also ensuring they remain protected and preserved in Iron Mountain’s
secure storage locations.
“The Fania catalog is viewed as the Motown of Latin music,” states Bruce
McIntosh, Codigo Music Senior VP & General Manager. “Some of the artists
that you will recognize [include] Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Hector Lavoe,
Willie Colon, Ruben Blades, and of course the Fania All Stars. This
music is a big part of American culture. It's basically a cultural
institution for Hispanics in the U.S. When we started with the purchase,
we found many different formats, some of which were not in the best
condition, everything from 1/4 inch masters to golden DVDs, to DAT
tapes. For that reason, we knew we had to make a move fairly quickly to
be able to maintain and actually save some of these tapes from becoming
moldy and deteriorating. Luckily we've been able to restore a lot of
these and bring them up to speed and up to newer technology. Iron
Mountain was key in helping us set that process up so that we could have
the categorization and the classification done on all the assets.”
Continues McIntosh, “The great thing about Iron Mountain is we don't
have to actually take the asset out and ship it and turn it over to a
DJ. They have the studio onsite. We can pull the tapes out, have them
transferred, have them digitized and sent to us on a link within a day
to have those seeded out to different DJs and then they can transfer a
format to us while maintaining the original asset there, safely kept.
The quality of the studio work going on up there with Iron Mountain is
top notch. The value of working with Iron Mountain for us has been
twofold. It's been able to maximize our revenues as a company and also
preserve part of the Latin cultural history here.”
Iron Mountain’s Entertainment Services was established to meet the needs
of clients’ archives in Film, Music, Television, Academia and
Entertainment, while providing unmatched security and safety tailored to
these market sectors. Through Iron Mountain’s industry-leading approach
to security, clients can rest assured that their works will be safe and
accessible for future generations, using the company’s technological
expertise and best practices in the preservation of their most critical
assets. Iron Mountain currently stores nearly 27 million individual
media elements (films, music recording, videos, etc.) for 1200 customers
in eight dedicated facilities around the world, digitizing one million
assets and storing more than 50 petabytes of data.
“The Latin American market sector is extremely important to Iron
Mountain, and we are happy to provide our services for Codigo and an
iconic label like Fania,” stated Jeff Anthony, SVP/Business Unit Leader,
Iron Mountain Entertainment Services. “The music industry landscape is
rapidly changing, and keeping our clients’ assets current presents
unique challenges, but the preservation of historic, classic recordings
is our number-one priority, and our role is to help in every way we can.”
For more on the Codigo/Iron Mountain story, click here.
And for more on Iron Mountain’s services for the entertainment industry,
visit www.ironmountain.com/Solutions/Entertainment-Industry.aspx.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM)
is a leading provider of storage and information management services.
The company’s real estate network of over 67 million square feet across
more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers
with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records management, data
management, document management, and secure shredding help organizations
to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster,
and better use their information for business advantage. Founded in
1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets,
including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical
data. Visit www.ironmountain.com
for more information.
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