Jan Schlüter CV in english

Jan Schlüter started to join the music industry after falling in love with music and dj-ing end  of the 80ties. Young willing and unable he started at Warner Music Germany as a press promotion person. Within two years he got promoted to different departments and worked as a tv-promoter and in the sales marketing team as well.

Beeing experienced enough Schlüter decided to join Container Records. A famous record store at Hamburg´s Reeperbahn. He build up the distribution branch at Container (now called Word And Sound) and started  a record company called Container Records. The label releaseed several great club records and did countless licensing deals worldwide. The label was sold in 1993 to Polygram Germany and Jan Schlüter started his own distribution company called PP Sales Forces within the Public Propaganda network. In the mid 90ties Public Propaganda was the largest music promotion agency in Europe and the distribution company PP Sales Forces established a fine reputation with exclusive label deals with the likes of  Compost Records and Jazzanova Sonar Kollektiv plus exclusive import labels like Strictly Rhythm, MAW, Henry Street Mo Wax and Ninja Tunes to name a few. In 1998  Jan Schlüter left the company to start at Yo Mama Records in Hamburg as CEO. He was responsible for signing PATRICE and took care of several major German HipHop acts like FETTES BROT and many  others.

Finally in May 2000 Jan started BEI SCHLÜTER, Management company. First clients were famous German Tech-Rap super-group DEICHIND.  Jan Schlüter is also taking care of German Indierock Band DIE STERNE and some quality producers and songwriters.  Jan Schlüter established also a selective and quite successful publishing branch together with EMI Publishing.

Jan Schlüter also began to consult music and entertainment companies. Schlüter consulted the digital platforms department at Warner Music Germany and was a longtime freelancer for Believe Digital, a distribution company with head offices in Paris,France. Furthermore he help to start Eimsbush Entertainment a small record label owned by Jan Delay. Schlüter also developed new marketing strategies for book publisher Carlsen.