Tim Potocic
President
Sonic Unyon Records
PO Box 57347, Jackson Station
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8P 4X2
Tel: 905.777.1223
Mob: 905.928.4126
Tim Potocic is Co-Owner and President of 25-year old Sonic Unyon Records in Hamilton, including in-house labels Sonic Unyon Records, Sonic Unyon Metal and Goodfellow Records. Potocic has sat on the boards of CIRPA, CIMA, FACTOR,CARAS, ARTS HAMILTON and has enjoyed a Canadian Music Industry Award for Label of the Year, a Hamilton Entrepreneur of the Year award, Canadian-Croatian Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year (2018) and having several of his artists acquire Juno nominations.
Potocic currently sits on the boards of the CIMA “ Canadian Independent Music Association”, and FACTOR “ Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Record”. Sonic Unyon has grown into one of Canada’s leading independent record companies releasing over 200 new recordings by a wide variety of acts such as Aereogramme, Augury, A Northern Chorus, Basement Revolver, Change of Heart, Cursed, Dinner Belles, Hayden, Oh Suzanna, Suicidal Angels, Ringo DeathStarr, Sacrifice, Sianspheric, Spirits, Simply Saucer, Steve Strongman, Treble Charger, Terra Lightfoot, Teenagehead, Tristan Psionic, Tricky Woo, Young Rival, Frank Black & the Catholics, Voivod and many more.
In 2009,Sonic Unyon has also expanded into the Live Music business with Tim Potocic as the Supercrawl festivals lead organizer. This passed year, Supercrawl attendance 2018 grew to over 250,000. Supercrawl has won Tourism “Festival of the Year” awards 3 years straight with multiple awards in 2012 including Entertainment Ambassador of the Year 2011 – Tim Potocic and in 2015 – Tourism Event of the Year ( TIAO) .
Sonic Unyon continues its foray into the live music business and music management. Sonic Unyon has opened its first venue – Mills Hardware @ 95 King St E. Sonic Unyon will be focusing on the events side of the business with Supercrawl expansions, Because Beer, Festival of Friends, Seven Sundays, Trucktoberfest concert series and some new event properties are being developed to launch in the near future.
Among running successful music operations Tim has also been involved in property redevelopment and management in downtown Hamilton with the purchase of the first property in 1996. The partners in Sonic Unyon have acquired and currently operate and manage 14 additional properties in the James St N area with over 200,000 sq ft under their care.
