THE ANIMAL FARM

The Animal Farm is an independent record production, artist management and music publishing company based in London, England.

WHAT WE DO
The Animal Farm provide record production, mixing and songwriting services. We work with independent artists as well as major labels world-wide. We are active in artist development and through our publishing company Animal Farm Music and artist management company Animal Farm Management, look after a growing roster of UK based artists.

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 internationally 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's current projects include buzz bands Rosalita and Ejectorseat, recent Vertigo signing One Night Only, Irish songstress Tara Blaise for Spokes/Warner and Diesel UMusic Winners Quad Riot for Fierce Panda among others. They have produced and written for artists as diverse as Shakin' Stevens (SonyBMG), 80s pop legend Nik Kershaw (Universal), Fame Academy hottie Sinead Quinn (Mercury), Dizzy Rascal's co-producer Taz (DefJam/Universal), crusty rockers The Levellers (Eagle), Buffy The Vampire Slayer house band Four Star Mary (Spitfire) and The Dumdums (Wildcard). In their punk rock days, they toured with Blink 182, Alkaline Trio, At The Drive In, The Ataris, and Less Than Jake and many more.

One of Mat's career highlighs was playing at Whisky A Go Go on the same stage where Van Halen had played decades earlier, while Ville's was singing the Finnish national anthem in the England v. Finland World Cup qualifier at Anfield in 2001.

On most days you will find them at The Animal Farm recording studios in Central London engaged in what can be described as music business. Please note how "music" comes before "business".

If it sounds good, it is good.