History::

In 1999 Loud Dust Recordings was founded in Burlington, Vermont by musician/producer Patrick Shea who now primarily functions as the key A&R & Licensing liaison at Loud Dust.  However, the ideas and skills at the core of Loud Dust Recordings began as far back as the mid 1980s and continued to be well refined into the late 1990s.  Throughout this period when Patrick Shea was based in southern New England, not far from NYC, he was regularly collaborating, performing and generally associating with songwriters, musicians and some music professionals during recording sessions, rehearsals and performances. This time period also included developing the music of other songwriters, getting an introduction to the music business, and frequently spending time reading anything related to legal and marketing concepts in the world of entertainment.

In 1993 he built his first Project Studio outside of Hartford, Connecticut and soon found himself spending his evenings and weekends working with bands and other artists on promotion and producing final masters.  Patrick Shea would later build another Project Studio in Duxbury, Vermont and while perfecting his approach with other recording artists in the production and engineering of their music and nurturing their creativity and aspirations, especially songwriters from outside of the U.S., he quickly saw that the future of the music business would be digital distribution.  After starting Loud Dust Recordings to release projects he had produced, he was frequently spending more and more time developing distribution contacts.  After many years of building alliances, including many with the initial Internet business models for music, Loud Dust has closely observed the components of success, failure, merger and divestiture that can be experienced by retail and distribution partners.  The company has also benefited from its early relationship over six years ago with the people and companies that would eventually emerge as the key music brands leading the way to the future of entertainment in 2006. 

Loud Dust Recordings has developed a solid sense for partnering with the right music brands as well as foreseeing coming changes in the business. Loud Dust has also seen and participated first hand in the convergence of the entertainment business whereby the growth of digital sales considerably outpaces traditional sales, the delivery of entertainment products becomes increasingly tied to mobile devices, online services and consumer driven trends, and the evolution and overlap between broadcast and promotion become even more technologically related.  In 2006 Loud Dust Recordings is a company that can offer a flexible and personal relationship with its recordings artists while simultaneously providing worldwide and multi-platform distribution of their music.