“Burning Man Art Car Titanic launches new record label”

Burning Man art car Titanic’s End launches a record label, Titanic’s End Records.

Justin Kan And Nicholas ParasramCo-founders of the label, tell us billboard The project will help cover the annual cost of transporting the art car to Burning Man. Additionally, 50% of label profits will go to Big Arts Organization, a registered 501(c) nonprofit founded by Titanic’s End to create public art and raise awareness of climate change.

Titanic’s End Records will focus on house, Afro-house and global music. The singles come from the collective of DJs and producers that exist within the community, as well as artists from outside this world. “We succeed when we help artists bring the sounds we hear to a wider audience around the world,” says Parasram.

Distribution is via Warner Music Group’s independent label and artist services. The first release, coming in January, will be a collaborative track from producers JK, Arabic Piano, ORSO and Maejor.

Kan, a technology entrepreneur who also co-founded Twitch, and Parasram, an artist manager and investor, also recently launched Thin Ice Entertainment, which focuses on talent management, content publishing and distribution. The art car itself is a joint creation of Kan and the entrepreneur Eddie Sellers. Shaped like an iceberg, it was built in San Francisco by more than 200 volunteers from the Titanic’s final Burning Man camp and will debut at Burning Man in 2022.

Known as the Burning Man art car with one of the highest quality sound systems at the event, Titanic’s End hosted sets from LP Giobbi, Diplo, Acraze, Tokimonsta, Francis Mercier and many other producers from the global Titanic’s End community.

Like some of the other biggest, loudest art cars at Burning Man, Titanic’s End hosts events around the world and plans to feature the label’s artists at parties currently scheduled for 2025. (In October 2023, it made an appearance on the set of Fisher and Chris Lake, which took over Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, drawing an estimated 12,000 spectators.)

Kan says, “All activities (outside of Burning Man), from Titanic’s End Records to events we host ourselves, go to our nonprofit to help fund Titanic’s End on the Playa each year.”

The label’s founders add that the team also focuses on creating opportunities for artists from different disciplines to showcase their art to the world. “Music is one area,” says Kan, “but we’re also excited about large-scale sculptures and LED art and organizing more in-person events that bring the culture to more people.”

“We are very excited to launch this label,” adds Parasram, “because our community has worked so hard to make Titanic’s End a symbiotic platform, and the label is our final piece of the puzzle for a truly connected (inside and outside) of Burning Man.” ) experience.”