Darius Van Arman

Darius Van Arman is an American businessman, co-founder, and co-owner of Secretly Group, an independent label group that is based in Indiana.[1][2]

Darius Van Arman
Born
Pennsylvania, United States
OccupationFounder of Jagjaguwar
Co-Founder of Secretly Group

Early life

Van Arman's father was a math professor who grew up in Detroit.[3]

Education and early career

In 1995 he studied mathematics at the University of Virginia. Van Arman founded the Jagjaguwar record label in 1996 in Charlottesville, Virginia.[4] In 1999, Van Arman dropped out of school, moved to Bloomington, Indiana, and became partners with Chris Swanson, and together began the Secretly Group.[5]

Van Arman currently serves on the boards of A2IM, SoundExchange and Merlin.[6] The Secretly Group includes the Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar labels, Dead Oceans and The Numero Group. Together these labels have represented the following artists: The War on Drugs, Anohni, Major Lazer, Syl Johnson, Bon Iver and Dinosaur Jr.[7][4][8]

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gollark: Regarding "anála": it seems weird to put geometric shapes in a different category to π.
gollark: Those are generally considered not bad.
gollark: I thought about it more, and I don't think there's an actual ethical issue, but it is an undesirable feature for a drive.
gollark: All the people in the original universe continue to exist, in universe B.

References
  1. Billboard Guest Post Billboard. Retrieved June 25, 2014
  2. Sisario, Ben (September 14, 2015). "Vinyl LP Frenzy Brings Record-Pressing Machines Back to Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  3. "'We need to believe what we're working on is making the world better' – [PIAS]". [PIAS]. November 9, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  4. Ingham, Tim. "Darius Van Arman: Majors 'too often abuse their scale advantage'". Music Business Worldwide. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
  5. "'We need to believe what we're working on is making the world better' – [PIAS]". [PIAS]. November 9, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  6. "Merlin Network – Representing the rights of independent record labels worldwide". merlinnetwork.org. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  7. Indie Music’s Digital Drag The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2014
  8. "Darius Van Arman: Majors 'too often abuse their scale advantage' – Music Business Worldwide". Music Business Worldwide. February 15, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2017.


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