Sat Bisla a native of Wolverhampton, England has certainly enjoyed a multi-faceted career in the music industry--over the years he's worked as a DJ (including an on-air stint at the tastemaking KCRW Los Angeles), radio programmer (KKDJ "The Edge" Fresno, CA) club booker, manager (Rob Dougan, Kate Havenevik, Pilot Speed), A&R scout for Interscope, Atlantic, Nettwerk, etc., and club owner, radio programmer and Radio Editor for the trade magazines Album Network and VIRTUALLYALTERNATIVE...and that's just for starters. After helping expose and/or develop such Platinum-selling artists as Dido, Keane, Faithless and Missy Higgins for the American audience, Bisla truly started to hit his stride upon starting A&R Network, an innovative independent artist discovery and development platform that was acquired by Clear Channel Radio in 2001. He also constructed the creative foundation for Clear Channel's New Music Network (a artist/consumer social networking platform back) in 2001. Shortly thereafter the British-born, Beverly Hills-based Bisla founded A&R Worldwide, where he played a key role in the discovery and signing of many promising new artists while also writing the weekly A&R column for Radio & Records. A&R Worldwide also gave birth to MUSEXPO, the influential music, media and technology conference that takes place each spring on the legendary Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, attracting delegates and artists from over three dozen countries worldwide.
In September 2006 Bisla launched the fully independent Pangaea Entertainment Group, the new home to A&R Worldwide and MUSEXPO. Pangaea is also the parent to Bisla creation "Passport Approved," a two-hour weekly import radio show broadcast on "Indie 103.1" in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast on stations such as KNRK Portland, WCNR Charlottesville, OR and WEQX Albany, NY. Bisla continues to keep his hand in international affairs, programming and hosting "M.I.A.," a twice-weekly radio show for Germany's Motor FM (broadcasting in Berlin, Brandenburg and Stuttgart), while also contributing a monthly column to leading Australian music industry publication The Music Network.
