Palm Pictures is an integrated audio/visual entertainment company that develops, produces, and acquires the best in music, film, videos, animation, and visual art for distribution across multiple platforms. Founded in 1998 by entertainment visionary Chris Blackwell, Palm is one of the most forward-thinking entertainment companies in the industry today. The company focuses on the DVD format and new digital technologies for music and video production and distribution -- providing consumers with groundbreaking new entertainment experiences.
Palm Pictures is comprised of an array of audio, visual and media businesses that complement each other and provide some of the most compelling entertainment offerings on the market. Palm's audio/music properties include music labels and imprints like Palm, Axiom, Quango, and GobStopper, as well as Palm Music Publishing. Palm's artist roster includes such notables as Zero 7, Local H, Supreme Beings Of Leisure, and 1 Giant Leap. Palm's visual properties include Palm Pictures DVD, Palm Pictures Film & Television, and Manga Entertainment, the leading animation brand in the world. Palm's media properties are incorporated under RES Media Group, which produces the international digital media event RESFEST, publishes RES Magazine, and operates the online sites sputnik7.com, epitonic.com, and res.com.
1 Giant Leap
Cross-cultural visionaries Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman go global with this ambitious multimedia project which seeks to weave together the indigenous sounds of disparate cultures across the world.
Cousteau
Do some undersea exploring with Cousteau -- not Jacques, but a new British band that does delightfully melodramatic baroque pop in the Scott Walker tradition.
Dieselboy
Dieselboy produces and spins hard-hitting two-step drum and bass a la Future Cut, Technical Itch, and Decoder. He is the future for U.S. drum and bass.
Earlimart
Earlimart taps into the dreamy, rural gestalt of California's Central Valley with an arty, moody brand of indie rock that employs post-punk structures, gently psychedelic atmospherics, and a big helping of folk-tinged pop melodicism.
Elwood
Elwood drops lyrics in a laid-back, textured, and evocative manner. Elegant, wistful strings and thick, murky, bluesy guitar twangs merge with a languid, hazy hip hop beat structure. Slow motion funk for thought!
Gigi
Introducing the newest world music megastar, Gigi, who fuses the musical traditions of her native Ethiopia with jazz, funk, dub, and assorted additional ethnic music flavors.
Baaba Maal
Sample the sensual and sultry sounds of Senegalese pop superstar and spiritual leader Baaba Maal. Coming at you straight from the heart of acoustic Africa.
Former Tricky co-vocalist Martina Topley-Bird creates her own lush and soulful music that goes beyond genre classification to achieve a beauty that is both solid and timeless.
Nortec Collective
Best known as a place for underage Americans to swallow the worm, Tijuana has also recently given rise to a much more intelligent pastime, Nortec music. Ramon Amezcua (Bostich) kick-started the scene with "Polaris," gaining godfather status in the process.
Radio Zumbido
Juan Carlos Barrios's gritty Guatemalan funk bridges old world grooves with modern sample technology. Break out the woo-wah and bask in the sunshine of his home-baked beats.
Seven Channels
Seven Channels is a Dallas, Texas-based alterna-rock powerhouse with a burly sound tailor made for modern rock radio. Should appeal to fans of Live, Matchbox 20, and Creed.
Skindive
This new Irish quartet will darken your days with a menacing combination of monolithic processed guitars, ice cold female vocals, robotic techno beats, and terrifying samples.
Spacer
With his shimmering operatic compositions, Spacer's Luke Gordon proves that complexity outweighs minimalism on the modern dance floor. His dense, dexterous dance music is epic enough for home play and gritty enough for club rotation.
Sparks
Pop provocateurs Sparks have always stood a little too far outside the musical mainstream to achieve major commercial success. But their willfully wacky, oddly erudite brand of caffeinated power pop has made them one of America's most important and influential bands over the past three decades.
Speedealer
Texas's Speedealer doesn't screw around, assaulting you with muscular, accelerated bursts of fearsome agro metal that always rock and often scare the hell out of you.
Supreme Beings Of Leisure
An urbane, smoothly musical amalgamation of pop elements and more heady electronica that make for a chill techno soul sound with sultry, trenchant lyrcism to boot!
Tabla Beat Science
Tabla Beat Science fuses organic Indian percussion with modern electronic programming, and in doing so create a brand new genre we shall call Indi-hop. Nuff said.
Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell
Legendary bass gurus and avant-garde experimentalists Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell go head to head with a deep, sinuous, seriously trippy collaboration that weds dub, jazz fusion, and world music.
