Uwe Buschkötter

About

German producer, composer, publisher, founder and owner of the labels UBM Records, UBM Records, Button Records (2) and Klangvision.

Uwe Buschkötter was born into a musical family in Berlin: he is the son of alto singer and musical director, Dr. Wilhelm Buschkötter, who was chief conductor of the Berlin Broadcast’s symphonic orchestra and director of the Cologne Broadcast’s symphonic orchestra.

Buschkötter launched his career in music as a jazz musician and drummer in Cologne in the early 1960’s. He performed with the German Jazz scene such as Manfred Schoof, Alex von Schlippenbach, Gunter Hampel, Olaf Kübler and Klaus Doldinger’s group “Feetwarmers”. Eventually, he formed his own band, the “Buschkötter Players”, who also did studio work for Roy Black, Chris Roberts and soloists from the roaster of Hans Bertram.

After finishing an apprenticeship as a tradesman, he studied music and economics in Cologne, Heidelberg, Munich and Dallas, Texas. During that time, he also enrolled onto the jazz course of Kurt Edelhagen in Cologne.

Directly after finishing his studies, Buschkötter began working as a music producer and publisher. In 1968, he founded his own publishing company, the “UBM Musikverlag”. Furthermore, he became an assistant and representative for Johnny Johnston, a British advertising film composer. In 1969, he became the manager of his former teacher Kurt Edelhagen.

The cooperation with the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra eventually led to the production of the opening suite of the XX. Olympics in Munich 1972.

In 1973, Uwe Buschkötter founded UBM Musikproduktion and specialized in music for commercials. In the subsequent years, he produced about 1000 jingles and melodies for advertisements for brands, by appointments of international advertising agencies.

In 1974, he was accepted into the Art Directors Club (ADC) for his achievements in the field of music for advertisements.

Since 1980, Buschkötter produced music for broadcast and tv programmes. In the same year, he launched a new company called UBM Music Production Library, with the first international licenses in 1981. In the following years, part of UBM’s library albums were produced in New York and Los Angeles to guarantee a high musical and technical standard. From early on, UBM albums were recorded, mixed and mastered digitally, placing them among the first true “DDD” CDs.

Besides his work in the Production Music field, Uwe Buschkötter is dedicated to another label, Largo Records, which concentrates on contemporary music, modern classics and avantgarde.

After more than twenty years, Buschkötter sold his entire library catalogue (consisting of more than 90 CDs) to BMG Music Publishing in 2003. His work continues under the name “Edition UBM” by the new holders.

After moving to Berlin in 2003, he founded a new Production Music label called “UBM.Media”, which is now represented by Universal Music Publishing.

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