Downtown Music Publishing Africa (DMPA) has forged a strategic alliance with Arms Production Music, a specialist in bespoke, human-composed music for visual media.
The deal sees DMPA adding Arms’ entire catalogue of original production music to its rights management platform.
The agreement centers on production music, a sector dedicated to creating pre-cleared tracks for use in film, TV, advertising, and online content.
Arms Production Music has carved a niche by focusing exclusively on custom, emotionally targeted compositions designed to align with specific story beats.
This move expands the repertoire available through DMPA’s service suite, which provides publishing administration, synchronization licensing, and royalty collection for rightsholders.
The company emphasizes its model as a service provider for publishers and creators, distinct from labels or distributors.
Executives from both entities highlighted the strategic fit in a statement. They noted the alignment on “creator-first values” and pointed to the combination of Arms’ curated compositional approach with Downtown’s global administrative network as a key driver for the partnership.
The collaboration taps into a rising demand within Africa’s booming content creation landscape for high-quality, licensable music that avoids the complexities often associated with commercial recordings.
Partnerships that bundle specialized catalogues with robust rights infrastructure aim to simplify music clearance for producers while ensuring composers are systematically tracked and paid.
With immediate effect, Downtown Music Publishing Africa will manage the global representation, licensing, and administrative support for the Arms Production Music library.
