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The title explains itself

This is the music I grew up on here in Atlanta, Georgia.

The label was founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Upon its creation, Atlantic was principally a jazz and Rhythm and blues label, signing Ray Charles from 1952 to 1959, though it also released some country and western recordings as well. In the early fifties Ahmet was joined by Jerry Wexler and then Nesuhi Ertegun. From February 7, 1955 Nesuhi headed the label's jazz division and was responsible for major signings such as Charles Mingus and John Coltrane; later Joel Dorn became Nesuhi's full-time assistant from the success of his produced album The Laws of Jazz by flutist Hubert Laws. Although it began as an independent record company, it became a major player in the music business in the 1960s, with mainstream pop signings like Sonny & Cher. Competing record labels included Columbia Records and RCA Records.
Expanding
The engineer, and later producer, Tom Dowd headed Atlantic's engineering department. Several sub-labels have been created or acquired since then. A short-lived but significant sub-label was Cat Records established in 1954. Atco Records was started in 1955 by Herb Abramson. Spark Records (the record label of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) was purchased in November 1955. Others including Lava Records and 143 Records became part of the Atlantic group. In 1958, Atlantic changed its catalogue numbering system for singles after issuing record number 1199 to the 2000 series because the 1200 series was reserved for Jazz LPs. In 1960, Wexler began a distribution relationship between Atlantic and Memphis-based Stax Records. The association with Stax ended in 1968.
Acquisition by Warner Bros.

Atlantic Records Logo from 1966 to 2005.
Atlantic was acquired by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts in 1967. Initially, it and Atco were to be run entirely separate from WB-SA's other labels, Warner Bros. and Reprise Records. One of Atlantic's major signings around this time was British rock band Led Zeppelin. The band had a deal with Atlantic Records directly from 1968 to 1973. After this contract ran out, they started their own vanity label, Swan Song Records. It signed a distribution deal with Atlantic after being turned down by other labels.
WB-SA was sold in 1969 to the Kinney National Company, which later became Warner Communications. After buying Elektra Records and its sister label Nonesuch Records the following year, Kinney combined the operations of all of its record labels under a new holding company, Warner-Elektra-Atlantic, or WEA for short, and also known as Warner Music Group. WEA was also used as a label for distributing the company's artists outside North America.
In May 1988, the label held a 40th Anniversary concert, broadcast on HBO. This concert, which was almost 13 hours in length, featured performances by a large number of their artists and included reunions of some rock legends like Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, and Nash (being David Crosby's first full band performance since being released from prison).
Merger with Time Inc.
Warner Communications merged with Time Inc. (owners of the aforementioned HBO) in 1990, forming Time Warner. That same year, Jimmy Iovine founded Interscope Records, which Atlantic owned a 50% stake in. Interscope released notable gangsta rap titles — many in conjunction with Death Row Records. Pressure from activist groups opposed to gangsta rap, however, later led to parent company Time Warner's decision to sell Atlantic's stake in the label to MCA in 1995.
Closure of Nashville division
A country music division, which was founded in the 1980s, was closed in 2001. This branch included acts such as Neal McCoy, Tracy Lawrence and John Michael Montgomery, all of whom were transferred to Warner Bros. Records' Nashville division. The Atlantic Nashville division was revived in 2008 with Zac Brown Band and Jesse Lee being signed to it.
Elektra absorption
Time Warner sold Warner Music Group to a group of investors for $2.6 billion in late 2003. The deal closed in early 2004, consolidating Elektra Records and Atlantic into one label operated in the eastern United States.
"You're Pitiful" scandal
In 2006, the label denied "Weird Al" Yankovic permission to release "You're Pitiful", a parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful", despite Blunt's own approval of the song. Atlantic claimed that it was "too early" in Blunt's career, and that they didn't want Blunt to become a one-hit wonder. Although Yankovic could have legally gone ahead with the parody anyway, his record label, Volcano Entertainment, thought that it was best not to "go to war" with Atlantic. The parody was released onto the Internet as a free download, and can be legally accessed and downloaded from Yankovic's official website. Later he recorded two more parodies, "White & Nerdy", and "Do I Creep You Out", to replace "You're Pitiful". The music video for "White & Nerdy" depicts Weird Al vandalizing the Wikipedia article for Atlantic Records, replacing the whole page with "YOU SUCK!" in excessively large type.
60 Years
In 2007, the label celebrated its 60th anniversary with the May 2 PBS broadcast of the American Masters documentary Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built and the simultaneous Starbucks CD release of Atlantic 60th Anniversary: R&B Classics Chosen By Ahmet Ertegun.
That year also saw Atlantic reach a milestone for major record labels: "More than half of its music sales in the United States are now from digital products, like downloads on iTunes and ring tones for cellphones", doing so "without seeing as steep of a decline in compact Disc sales as the rest of the industry."

Enjoy!

This is a mix from my Saturday night radio show "The Backroom" featured on www.worldofdjs.net The quality of the sound is not the best, however, the message remains the same; closure. I entitled this mix "Closure" for a few reasons. There comes a time in all of our lives when we have to take a step back and pay attention to many things, and the most important is the obvious. When I began my musical journey I encountered many different responses, most of which were great. Of course there were the experiences that seemed great at the time, which in hindsight were only illusions. For a long time I've allowed those illusions to affect my abilities, my potential, and my spirit. While creating this particular mix, I decided to play the songs that reminded me of those illusions. Crazy, though it may seem, I felt the need to do so in order to solidify the closure I have reached in my heart. To be honest, it is my way of thumbing my nose or you can even say flipping the illusions off. One thing that I have learned as an artist is that no one and nothing should come in between you and your craft. Especially illusions that want to live vicariously though you and your abilities. With that, I offer you my "Closure." I apologize again for the sound quality, though I hope the message still resonates.

Musically Yours,

Tanario King

Just a remix I did. I thought the two records spoke well with one another.

I was just playing through some mixes, and came across this one! I was like, "Dayum, when did I do this?" I'm still trying to figure it out...lol

On a recent visit, Byron Burke paid me a visit, and put down a mix on my radio show, entitled, "The Backroom" of which I host on www.worldofdjs.net Here is a little more information on Mr. Burke.

Byron E. Burke - Founder and CEO of The House Music Channel.

Byron E. Burke has worked in the music industry for over twenty years, serving as the Co-Executive Vice President of the music division for Prelude Music & Film Works that released the 1998 motion picture for New Line Cinema, " Lost In Space ".

This movie made history for taking the #1 position from the Academy Award Winning Motion Picture, "The Titanic".
Mr. Burke has written and produced many recording artist on:

* Atlantic Records * East/West Records * MAW Records * Nervous Records * Strictly Rhythm Records * Capitol Records * Universal Records * Columbia Records

His music career started at the age of 12 at Frederick Douglas's Junior High School on the Westside of Chicago playing trumpet. At the age of 15, he started djing with some of Chicago's top DJ's like: Farley Jack Master Funk, Steve Silk Hurley, Shaun Robinson, Eric "The Wizard" Saxon, Mickey ' Mixing" Oliver, Maurice Joshua, Jesse Saunders, Pharis Thomas, Tyree Cooper, Fast Eddie, Kenny "Jammin" Jason, Lil Louis, Terrible Ted, Ricky Lenior, Harry "The Blade" B, Mike Dunn & Ralphie "The Razz" Rosario.

Mr. Burke was the creative force behind Ten City - an early 1990's dance group leading to global sales of 1.2 million records. He co-wrote and produced two albums entitled, Foundation and State Of Mind for Atlantic Records, one album entitled, No House Big Enough for East/West Records, and one album entitled, That Was Then, This Is Now for Columbia Records.

The records spawned ten Top 20 Billboard Magazine dance songs, five Top 10 Billboard Magazine Sales Chart Singles, ten Top U.K. Pop Chart Singles, a Gold Album from South Africa and a Silver Album from the U.K. that received international acclaim on four continents.

In 1999, Mr. Burke attended a special 9 week continuing education course at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, studying development, research, marketing and management of start-up businesses and raising venture & angel funding.