Exceleration Music has acquired distributor/music-services company Redeye, including labels Yep Roc and Sundazed and pubco Riff City Sounds.

Redeye founders Glenn Dicker and Tor Hansen, who will continue to lead Redeye, have become shareholders in Exceleration, whose operational structure will remain unchanged. Among the labels Redeye distributes are Beggars Group, Domino, Mom+Pop, Kemado/Mexican Summer and Daptone.

Founded in 2020, Exceleration Music now consists of two divisions: The established rights group with investments and partnerships with labels and catalogs and the newly acquired distribution and label-services business.

“The addition of Redeye, Yep Roc, Sundazed and Riff City Sounds represents an important expansion of Exceleration’s overall strategy to strengthen the independent community,” says Exceleration Music partner Glen Barros. “Redeye already provides a great service to an impressive set of first-rate indie labels looking for a distributor that can service both physical and digital channels on a global basis.”

Dicker added, “Working with the Exceleration team feels like expanding the family. Sharing strong ideals and a strategic vision, it feels like the next natural step on our journey towards providing our world-class distribution service to an expanded independent community.”