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# X5 Expands Into World Music With A Train, ARC Label Deals
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/x5-expands-into-world-music-with-a-train-arc-label-deals/
- Published: 2012-11-16T14:33:23.000Z
- Updated: 2012-11-16T14:33:23.000Z
- Description: Digital catalog compilation label X5 has added two new indies, ARC and A Train, to its growing list of label partners. X5 compilation releases in classical, blues and video game. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/11/x5-expands-into-world-music-with-a-train-arc-label-deals.html]
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Digital catalog compilation label X5 has added two new indies, ARC and A Train, to its growing list of label partners. X5 compilation releases in classical, blues and video game music are already [in the Top 5](https://www.hypebot.com/x5-music-group-extends-1-digital-success-to-blues-video-game-soundtracks-more/) on most digital music charts; and the new deals add deep world music catalogs. They plan to release 200 digital  
compilations this fall and winter, curated from  
30K newly licensed tracks.

The new label signings are:

**ARC Music –** Established in 1976 to preserve the  
ethnic music of world cultures, and to spread traditional and original music  
with a positive message. Their repertoire consists of well over 700 albums from over 120 countries  
and cultures.

**A Train Entertainment's** boutique catalog features artists and labels from jazz to world to rock to electronic, new age and  
many others. Record company catalogs represented include Crammed Disc (Bebel  
Gilberto, Konono nº1), Total Creative Freedom (from London with releases by  
Sparrow, Turncoat, Bob Hillary), Canyon Records (R. Carlos Nakai, Grammy  
Winner), Silver Wave (Johnny Whitehorse, Grammy Winner) and more. 

Previous X5 signings include:

- Alligator Records
- Nacional Records
- Six Degrees Records
- Cooking Vinyl
- Vanguard Records
- Sugar Hill Records
- Ranwood Records
- ONErpm
- Sun Records
- Minaret Records
- Plantation Records
- Highway 87 Records