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A company in Pacific that prints music books today announced a multi-million dollar licensing deal with China after receiving trade services assistance from the Missouri Department of Economic Development’s International Trade and Investment Office. Mel Bay Publications Incorporated has reached an agreement on initial production of 100000 books to the People’s Music Publishing House, the largest music publisher in China. The company and representatives of the People’s Music Publishing House made the announcement February 15th at Mel Bay’s headquarters in Pacific, where they were joined by Missouri Department of Economic Development officials. DED provided Mel Bay with its Customized Company Mission service, which allows for a company-specific trade mission to a designated market complete with staff support and targeted appointments for the firm. The timing of the company mission for Mel Bay was in conjunction with Mel Bay’s participation in the Music China trade show in November 2009. As part of the trade mission, DED initiated a number of meetings with Mel Bay and prospective Chinese business partners. One of the meetings scheduled for Mel Bay was with People’s Music Publishing House, the largest music publisher in China. Since the initial visit to the market by Mel Bay in 2009, negotiations and meetings between the two firms continued for approximately 12 months and ultimately led to today’s announcement of a multi-million dollar deal. In addition to the initial
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In his schooldays, at a time when his friends were emulating the medalists of the then ongoing Barcelona Olympic Games, Marc Martinez would instead keep precociously busy with the tricky taming of an Atari 1040ST with a keyboard Casio PT1 connected to large headphones. The attempt did not quite succeed, but the strong-headed 9 year-old little man would all the same spend most of his spare time testing a “playskool” deck. The background music of his teenage remained bands like the Alan Parson Project or Pink Floyd. He advisedly took advantage of a dad working at a disc store. In 1995, Marc’s parents left his hometown, Barcelona, to settle in Mollerussa and little Marc had to pack and follow. There he studied solfeggio and piano for 7 years at the town school. Creatively restless by nature, he soon grew confident to make his first compositions of classical music. The classically-trained young Marc wouldn’t tour Europe playing Piano as geniuses of the past had done; he instead got his first synthesizer, a Casio HT-6000, and as he turned 15, was given his first personal computer. Marc was now put in command of a full, though made of silicon, philharmonic orchestra and he wouldn’t wait a minute to set off creating his own stuff with programs like Audio Mulch, Cubase and Fruity Loops. In the year 1998 an epiphany happened: some may have gone to Mecca and saw Light; Marc went to the Sonar Festival (for the oblivious, this was the memorable year of the Brazilian girls). And he
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