Check out this Volkswagen Jetta spot that uses Pigeon John’s “Bomb” to underscore a digitally recreated Donald O’Connor and Gene Kelly dancing in the backseat. Good stuff: And here’s the full-length track by Pigeon John. This is exactly the kind of high energy, one-dimensional (I mean that in a good way) tracks that music supervisors […]

Once you are several hours into the process of creating a royalty-free production music track, it’s often difficult to see the forest for the trees. What’s the quickest and easiest way to see the forest? Here’s a great tool: Create an extra audio track within the starter template you use for most of your music. […]

Here’s another terrific TV commercial soundtrack. Incredibly well-produced electronica: Mike Bielenberg www.musicrevolution.com

The NY Times recently ran a piece about the realities of modern classical music. I was really impressed with how evolved the working philosophies of both the composers and performers of new music has become. For the performers, many acknowledge that most modern music is “not very good”, but nonetheless there is a responsibility to […]

Location: London, UK Member since: December 15, 2010 Tracks in portfolio: 5 (click here to hear all tracks) Tracks We Like: The Arizona Tree – Main Theme Ocean The Interview: 1. High profile projects or clients you have worked for? I’ve done quite a lot of music for Dorling Kindersely the book publishers. I’ve also […]

You can upload your own audio content to this instrument and trigger it through the input interface. Very conducive to performance art. Cool stuff. Mike Bielenberg www.musicrevolution.com

Here’s a mix tip that instantly made my orchestral mixes better back in the day: Run your percussion tracks through a big plate verb BEFORE you run the entire mix through a big room verb. This simulates the relative proximity of a real percussion section within a real recording studio. It sounds huge. Enjoy! Mike […]

This year we’ve been fortunate enough to receive excellent Christmas track submissions from our community of professional musicians. And what makes these royalty-free Christmas music tracks so great is the diversity of creative approaches even within one public domain Christmas song. For example, we have 17 versions of “Silent Night” . Here’s a version, by […]

Kaspar Astrup Schroder’s new film My Playground takes a global look at the emerging Parkour scene in Copenhagen, Bejing, Washington DC, Tokyo and more. Anyone who became dizzy during the opening scene of the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale is intimately familiar with Parkour which Wikipedia defines as “a philosophy, [that] includes the physical […]

If you’re experiencing writer’s block as a music composer, here’s a helpful technique I learned in music school: In the early 90’s my college brought in acclaimed jazz pianist/composer Kenny Werner to spend a full week with students as an all-around clinician. It was sort of like having Henry Kissinger hang around your high school […]