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Table of Contents A Touch of History Production Music Leads to SpongeBob Gig Music 2 Hues Makes Music To Use MYB Has Got the Beat(s) Creating SFX for Ladder 49 Coming up in December ADVERTISEMENT APM, the leader in production music services, has 4,000 CDs featuring every musical genre from beautiful classical recordings to the latest hard-hitting tracks. We also offer complimentary music searches from our talented Music Directors, music replacement service, a wide variety of digital delivery options, and more. Call us today! 1.800.543.4276 www.apmmusic.com What's New A Touch of History Check out the next issue of The Sampler on Wednesday, Dec. 8 for Part II of production music history--the first Golden Age of production music. To read last issue's Part I of the history of production music, click here. ADVERTISEMENT  10 Free for 10 Days from Twistedtracks.com Our production music is a palette of vibrant colors to paint your soundtrack with...enhancing the impact of your visual works. From blue funk to gunmetal grunge, safety orange to gothic black...our thoroughly modern, electronic/alternative/soundscape approach has got your color. Sample our best with TEN FREE TRACKS: visit www.twistedtracks.com/tenfree Inside Info Production Music Leads to SpongeBob Gig If you scan the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) listing for Austrian composer Gregor Narholz, you'll find a formidable list of German and Danish film and TV titles, and then, right up near the top, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. What's going on here?
Narholz is one of our own. He comes from the world of production music; indeed, since he made his first recordings for the German music library company Sonoton at the tender age of 15, he has written and recorded more than 1,000 library pieces. OK, Narholz did have an in at the company: It's owned by his father, composer Gerhard Narholz. But Gregor developed his talent on his own, culminating in post-graduate studies in film music at USC. Though he came to Los Angles 11 years ago, he still does much of his music library recording work overseas. So how did Narholz get the gig as composer for the SpongeBob movie? To read the rest of this article, click here. Music 2 Hues Makes Music To Use Chances are you've heard of the two owners/principals of the highly successful library/custom music company Music 2 Hues. Unfortunately, these musician/entrepreneurs prefer to keep their identities secret, letting the music take precedence over their celebrity. Hey, whatever works! And, in fact, Music 2 Hues is much more than just the sum of its two owners--as sales manager Keith Spring notes, "We have a slew of other composers that work for the company. With close to 80 CDs [in the company's arsenal] we cover a lot of ground." Music 2 Hues features four distinct, royalty-free product lines: the "Flagship Series," which Springs says is their most popular offering, consists of more than 50 production music discs ranging from "Neon Soul" (their latest) to "Symphonic" to "Island Adventures" to "Nu Funk Hop." The "Broadcast Series" has beds ranging from a scant five seconds up to a minute. To read the rest of this article, click here. MYB Has Got the Beat(s) In a field that is already crowded with big and small players, sometimes finding the right niche can be the key to success. That's what David Weiss is counting on with his relatively new loop sample company, Meet Your Beat. A drummer for more than 20 years, as well as a sound designer with
experience in television and live theater, Weiss arrived at the idea for
Meet Your Beat through one of his other pursuits: writing about music
and technology. While researching an article for Drum magazine
about companies that were putting loops online, such as Sonomic and
Looperman, "I realized it was something I could do," Weiss says. "I've
been getting more into programmed beats and drum and bass, and it seemed
to me that there weren't a lot of the kind of [loop libraries] I was
thinking of."
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Ladder 49, director Jay Russell's new film, set in
contemporary Baltimore and centered upon a fire there, has nothing
directly to do with 9/11, yet it has a lot to say about the inner makeup
of firefighters and the powerful bonds between them, and in that way it
serves as a powerful postscript to an event still so indelibly etched on
us all. The film jumps back and forth in time as fireman Jack Morrison
(played by Joaquin Phoenix), who is trapped in a burning building,
struggles to survive and reflects on his life as a firefighter, husband,
and father. John Travolta plays Captain Mike Kennedy, who is on the
outside of the inferno, trying to talk Jack through the crisis and,
ultimately, rescue him. Though it's definitely an action flick, the
interior drama involving the two main characters is really the subject
of Russell's film.
Next Issue Coming up in December Look for Part II of a Touch of History, Reviews and Tutorials, and Loops and Beyond. |
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