What We Do
We produce records, manage artists and run a label and a publishing company.
How We Do It
We offer a full range of record production and songwriting services. When we find an exciting new artist, we make great music with them, develop the project on many levels – and then tell people about it.
With our wide range of longstanding personal relationships with music executives around the world we are well placed to open doors, to get you into the building. The idea is to build careers and we believe in artist development.
Where We Do It
We are located just south of the River Thames near Tower Bridge in London, the greatest music capital in the world. On most days you’ll find us there, in our studio, making records. Writing songs. Mixing tracks. Engaging with this great and exciting business that is the music business. Notice how “music” comes before “business”.
History
The Animal Farm is run by writer/producers Mat and Ville Leppanen whose careers started in 1993 as staff songwriters on Bob Grace’s Empire Music. Between 1998 – 2003 the brothers released albums and toured (with bands like Blink 182, Alkaline Trio, At The Drive-In, The Ataris, and Less Than Jake and many more) as members of punk band Snowdogs, signed to Victory Records US. In 2003 the Leppanens stopped touring to set up The Animal Farm.
Mat and Ville are joined at the ‘Farm by engineer/producer Jamie Dodd.
Cool Deeds
One of Mat’s career highlighs was playing at Whisky A Go Go on the same stage where Van Halen had played decades earlier. Ville’s moment of zen was singing the Finnish national anthem in the England v. Finland World Cup qualifier at Anfield in 2001.
The Animal Farm are proud sponsors of Imiria, a young girl from Zambia, and Orlin, a young boy from Honduras. Our financial assistance helps Imiria and Orlin get an education and health care, provides their villages with clean drinking water and helps their local communities get other necessary things which many of us in the UK take for granted.
We also give financial support to Amnesty. Why? Because thinking should be allowed.
