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out with a 12” single and
we're going to come out in
four weeks time.’

“That's the excitemenit fac-
tor, the Motown days, the
"60s, the °70s, the vibe. I want
t9 find someone who blows
me away and assist them to the
next ievel.”

Multimedia remains on
Hektoen’s mind.

Whereas the 1986s were all

about video, film and music,
the new rcafity embraces the
Internet and websites.
Hektocii is president and
CES of International
Group Inc., a start-up compa-
ny positioning itself to be in
the business of developing,
manufacturing and distributing
via the Intemet and traditional
marketing channels gospel and
Christian music and products.

The gospel music website is
called Gospei International
(gospelweb.com), based in
Fresno California.

It was founded by J
Logan, a former head ot
keting for two of the lading
gospe! labels.

The Internet is an smpor-
tant battleground.

Two years ago recorded
music sales were $18 million
over the Intemct worldwide.

The projected sales figure
for recorded music over the
Internet in 2001 is $18.3 bil-

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lion, Hektoen said.

“The concern is do retailers
go into it right away? Are the
record companies going into
it? Because if they don’s, the
other guys are going to knock
them cff. Are the artists with
name value going to save the
middie man mark-up fee and
go directly to the buying pub-
lic over the Internet? ©

“Pm setting up myself’! for .
thar. There are name artists.
that I know who will sell _-
50,060 to 75,006 units that
can’t get a record déal. For me

putting up the site to facilitate
thar and put them ‘out, if T
could sell 50,000 to 70,000
units and P’m making $8 and °
$9 U.S. wholesale. That’s 3:
nice bunch of change and proy
gression of the artist at. thar i
level.” :
Hektoen’s larger vision“
involves creating “virtual com-
munities” for fans ofa variety
of music genres...

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