Industry Spotlight: Stark Profiles PR
Industry Spotlight: Stark Profiles PR
About Stark Profiles + PR
Stark Profiles PR specializes in providing comprehensive publicity, digital & print marketing and promotion for individual DJs, artists, groups and labels inside the music industry. Our services span the coverage in all forms of media, incl. written press, online, digital marketing, radio & TV. With 20+ years of experience in the music industry and a keen eye for emerging new publicity opportunities, Stark Profiles PR delivers everything from 'next-step' guidance the long-term strategic planning, designed to accomplish the client's end target.
About Tim Stark
Alongside a wide span of contacts, in every corner of the globe, Tim brings to the StarkProfiles PR agency a wealth of experience from across the music industry. He's worked for two national dance publications, starting out at Scottish-based dance magazine Wax before transferring to DJ Mag in 2001 Covering trance and progressive for the highly regarded publication, over ten years he has become the UK's foremost voice on the genre.
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He's worked in both record retail and & distribution, including three years as the Sales Manager for Amato. On the record label side, he has experience with both majors and Indies, having worked as General Manager for Incentive and as Label Manager for Seb Fontaine's Spot On. In 1999 he launched ATCR (A Trance Communication Release) and helmed the label through the genre's popularity explosion in. Its legacy as one of the scene's zeitgeist labels remains today.
News
News
After an amazing freshly-released ‘Music Rescues Me’ album, the legend Paul Van Dyk is announcing his return to Shine Ibiza for its second season.
Releasing in spring 2019, ’20 Years – Forward Ever, Backward Never’ is a music album project you cannot wait to hear. The amazing new album feature new Cosmic Gate production and collabs with artists that have accompanied their career. Brand new reworks of tracks you already love will also be featured and others takes on classic cosmic moments.
Electronic Excursion is out now. You can order Hal Stucker’s amazing album here https://pure.choons.at/electronicx.
Once a classic, always a classic – ‘Out Of The Sky’ drops back out of the proverbial today, flanked by two exemplary remix revisions.
Cosmic Gate released their album 'Materia' in two amazingly beautiful parts. In this inspiring documentary we discover how 'Materia' was conceived, recorded and released. We also get to understand the two inspirational men of Cosmic Gate on a much deeper and intimate level.
At Electric Daisy Carnival we were honored to speak with the legendary unicorn slayer, he reveals what his creative process looks like, what inspires him and what his fans can expect next.
The man behind the Pure Trance movement, several record labels and one half of PureNRG has a copy ready to send to one lucky fan!
Win Materia Chapter 1 & 2 CDs Staright From Cosmic Gate
Trance legend Paul van Dyk has announced a monumental North American tour, presented by Insomniac’s Dreamstate trance brand.
Cosmic Gate On Debuting New Tracks: "Maybe Webster Hall is good for such a test as well, keep your eyes and ears open…"
Pre-sale begins Thursday, September 29th at 12PM. GA on-sale at 12PM Friday, September 30th.
Dreamstate New York to Take Place at the Brooklyn Hangar
August 26-27, 2016
Luminosity Beach Festival 24-25-26 June 2016
Win a Pair of VIP Tickets to Paul Van Dyk at Pacha NYC
New Releases
New Releases
via RUHRTONE RECORDS
In it’s now destined manner, 2018’s ‘Solarstone Presents Pure Trance’ follows the natural arc of a flawless clubbing night
Cosmic Gate’s presents their distinct sound in all it’s glory with a new heavy release ‘YEAH!’
Following the mix tenures of Tiësto and Richard Durand, series guardians Black Hole have shaken up its system and retooled the ISOS DJ dynamic.
Come May, from the typically House-ish house of Funkagenda, some altered musical states.
Powered by a studio-born V8 of kick-drums, snare-fills and percussion obsession, ‘Forever’ sports a throttle-wide-open kinda set-up.
Amplifying the audio with the visual, the official video fro Markus & Emma’s ‘Safe From Harm’ it online now.
With melodic chime, superheated chords, pads to match and journeying synth flow, up top ‘Wonderlust’s all about spring-beckoning harmonics.
New Single 'If Not Now' Ft. Jes + Tickets On Sale For Miami Sunset Cruise
Their 2nd collaboration 'Breaking Dawn' is ready to climb Trance's top charts
30 months on from Bonzai’s first (Airwave-helmed) ‘Progressive Sessions’, Belgium’s finest sure-footedly arrive at their sixth ‘In The Mix’.
Master of the deeper/darker/cooler trance arts, John 00 Fleming began the New Year with news of his first early ‘18 operations.
What fresh madness is this!? Yup, coming ‘atcha in a hardwired burst of 3D, 4K, 5G, kaleidoscopically synthesized madness, Outburst’s colourfully-explosive second trip through the ‘Prism’ beams this month!!
Within just the last month alone the label side of RAM’s marque has notched up a hat-trick of Beatport #1s.
In perhaps the most time-honored tradition in 20+ years of event theme history, this November sees Markus Schulz deliver Transmission its 2017 night-defining anthem.
For the first time in his now 16-album history, the Virginia-born/LA-based producer Ryan Farish has placed one of his longplayers in the hands of a world-renowned label, Black Hole Recordings
The man behind the Pure Trance movement, several record labels and one half of PureNRG has a copy ready to send to one lucky fan!
Throughout 2017, their ascension towards the forefront of trance music's next generation has been relentless, and the brotherly duo of Arkham Knights is set to release arguably its most anticipated creation to date.
New album Materia Chapter.Two available for pre-order and new single Tonight with Emma Hewitt out now >> https://wym.choons.at/materia
With the same certainty that May turns to June, Roger’s yearly Balearic dispatch tells us that summer’s well and truly arrived.
Seven days of intense activity for Markus Schulz has culminated in the Dreamstate-based debut of Dakota’s The Nine Skies', the release of ‘Running Up That Hill’ and the premiere of the single’s official music video.
First showcased at Transmission in Prague, premiered on Global DJ Broadcast In Bloom, and an integral piece of The Nine Skies: Markus Schulz presents Dakota featuring Bev Wild - Running Up That Hill
Clues, cues, codes and a breadcrumb trail of dots and dashes - they all lead to the intriguing, fascinating opacity of Solarstone’s new artist album ‘. - - - -’
Here’s your chance to see one of the most enduring, groundbreaking and critic-delighting names in trance mark their once-in-a-lifetime milestone.