With Halloween less than a month away on October 31, 2016, we wanted to feature some of the hauntingly good royalty-free music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that could be used for your Halloween media project or for background music during Halloween. We have an outstanding selection of royalty-free Halloween music.

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “Halloween” yields 500 royalty-free tracks-

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-tracks/keyword/halloween

Here are a few select tracks that are worth checking out for your Halloween projects–

“Pumpkin Halloween (Full Length)” by Bateau Studio — http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-track/02004987/pumpkin-halloween-full-length

“Halloween” by Benny Hawes—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-track/00011651/halloween

“Phantom Nightmare” by Michael Crowther–

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-track/01000300/phantom-nightmare

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “scary” yields over 700 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-tracks/keyword/scary

A search for “spooky” yields nearly 250 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-tracks/keyword/spooky

A search for “haunted” yields over 130 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-tracks/keyword/haunted

A search for “horror” yields over 1,000 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-tracks/keyword/horror

With over 46,000 tracks of royalty-free music online in our production music library, we have the tracks you need to set the mood for your Halloween project. MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com http://www.musicrevolution.com, a royalty-free music marketplace with 46,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of professional musicians. MusicRevolution.com also provides custom music production and custom background music streams. The entire MusicRevolution.com production music library is available for third-party distribution and bulk licensing for background music / in-store music for retail, restaurants, hotels and businesses, and for other commercial applications. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

To describe our new collection of retail background music, we’ve decided to revamp an old industry term…”indie”. As in “independent”. As in “music-made-on-the-artist’s-terms”. As in “created outside the sphere of label-controlled, market-driven, whats-our-ROI-on-this?” segment of the music world.

Virtually none of the 45,000+ tracks in our library were produced by artists your parents/siblings have heard of. Rather, they were produced by – for example – the bass player of that artist your parents/siblings have heard of…while on break from touring.

The tracks were produced by bands pursuing a sound in their head who don’t give a crud about competing with Lady Gaga. The tracks were produced by that computer-genius you knew in high school who now suffers from insomnia because mind-blowing music software like Logic Pro can be downloaded from the App Store for $200. The tracks were produced by seasoned, jingle assassins who created what the ad agency requested – quickly – and just happened to keep the rights.

Tracks like Midnight Bounce | (#01103161) and Slick Groove | (#00013098) were forged in sculpting sessions where the artist chiseled out the David they knew was hiding within the marble slab. It just needed to be released.

If you desire a truly unique sonic experience in your retail environment and stand apart from the rest, draw upon this deep ocean of quality music created by artists who happen to NOT be famous. Proudly point to your speakers and say, “We promote independent music created by artists all over the world who are dedicated to generating cool vibes like this. We support original music.”

Become a MusicRevolution.com subscriber today and use this collection of truly “indie” tracks in your retail establishment:

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses  and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians. mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.

We have 46,000 tracks covering every genre of music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com). Today’s featured track is “Inspiring Orchestral Pop Anthem” by run.fire.stop. This is a moving, orchestral track that is great for inspirational, corporate and advertising use.

“Inspiring Orchestral Pop Anthem” (#001156501)

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-tracks/keyword/Inspiring+Orchestral+Pop+Anthem

Track Description—

“Inspiring Orchestral Pop Anthem” – Here are keywords to describe this track—Achievement, anticipation, aspirations, awe, background music, business, confidence, cooperation, corporate, creativity, cymbals, drive, energy, excitement,  groove, grooved, happiness, hope, imagination, incentive, inspiration, instrumental, keyboards, major, marketing, motivation, movie, orchestral, passion, percussion, piano, pop, power, radio, sports team, strings, success, synths, television, touching, winning, sizzle reels

Influenced by—OneRepublic, Ryan Tedder

Track Metadata—

• Moods— Corporate, energetic, inspiring
• Instruments— Piano, strings, synth, synth lead
• Genres— Corporate, orchestral, pop
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming, product for sale

About run.fire.stop—

From Brentwood, Tennessee U.S.A., Jason Garner of run.fire.stop offers some great music that can be described using terms like modern, techno, electronica, pop, fun, energetic, moving and inspiring. Click here to listen to all of run.fire.stop’s tracks.

With 46,000 tracks online in our production music library, MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com http://www.musicrevolution.com, a royalty-free music marketplace with 46,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of professional musicians. MusicRevolution.com also provides custom music production and custom background music streams. The entire MusicRevolution.com production music library is available for third-party distribution and bulk licensing for background music / in-store music for retail, restaurants, hotels and businesses, and for other commercial applications. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

In 2005, Hollywood screenwriter Blake Snyder published Save the Cat!, a movie-maker’s help-guide that explained the governing dynamics behind every movie you’ve ever loved. Snyder’s explanation of concepts like “stating the B story theme”, “fun and games” and “whiff of death” was so down-to-earth, studio executives who read the book could hold their own in script meetings for the first time.

Running your favorite movies through the sieve of Save the Cat! is like listening to your favorite songs after learning music theory. You actually understand what’s happening.

For film composers this book is a Godsend. A composer who understands the 50 “beats” that Snyder insist must happen in every good film will understand the structural context of any scene for which they are writing. And that composer gets the wicked-cool job of cauterizing whatever raw emotion must be burned into the audience’s heart at any point in the journey. Here’s a great example:

The Little Prince (2015), a Netflix original film scored by Hans Zimmer with help by Camille! and Richard Harvey, is to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella what Hook (1991) is to Peter Pan. It asks, where are those characters now? What happened to them?

One of Snyder’s 50 beats is what he calls the “midpoint break”:

“..a movie’s midpoint is either an ‘up’ where the hero seemingly peaks
(though it is a false peak) or a ‘down’ when the world collapses all around the hero (although it is a false collapse), and it can only get better from here. When you decide which midpoint your script is going to require, it’s like nailing a spike into a wall good and hard. The clothesline that is your story can now be strung securely…You will hear the phrase ‘the stakes are raised at the midpoint’ in a lot of script meetings. Because they are. It’s the point the where the fun and games are over.”

In our example, the midpoint break in The Little Prince occurs 47 minutes into a 1-hour-46-minute movie; pretty much on schedule. And it is unmistakable. It is unmistakable because the song “Equation”, composed by Hans Zimmer and performed by Camille! tells you so.

Our main character, a little girl, has spent the first half of the movie discovering the childhood she missed with the help of her eccentric next-door neighbor (beautifully voiced by Jeff Bridges). But after a run-in with the law, the little girl’s overbearing, very-grown-up mother must get involved and refocus the young girl on the family mission….emotionless productivity, studious monotony and making oneself essential to society. The party’s over.

And while the angry rant by the little girl’s mother makes us understand that all is lost……this song makes us feel it.:

Film composers have the coolest job ever. They communicate directly with our hearts – ruthlessly and without permission. And as the Little Prince tells us in the movie, “it is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses  and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians. mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.

We have over 45,000 tracks covering every genre of music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ). Today’s featured track is “Walking In Sunshine” by Joey Stebanuk. “Walking In Sunshine” is a happy, joyful pop rock instrumental. Good for motivational, corporate excitement and any media needing a bright energetic feel with a good wholesome vibe.

“Walking In Sunshine” (#00569945)

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-track/00569945/walking-in-sunshine

Track Description—

“Walking In Sunshine” – This is as positive as it can get! Happy elated upbeat sunny fun. It feels so good! A happy, joyful pop rock instrumental. Good for motivational, corporate excitement and any media needing a bright energetic feel with a good wholesome vibe.

Influenced by—Dire Straits

Track Metadata—

• Moods— Corporate, energetic, fun
• Instruments— Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass
• Genres— Corporate, pop, rock, specialty
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming, Internet

Length— 2:25

About Joey Stebanuk—

From Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Joey Stebanuk is an instrumentalist who composes in various genres and styles including rock, pop, blues, country, Americana, full instrumentation and solo, all performed on real instruments and guitar based. Joey’s music has unique character and a personal style high in mood, emotion and personality. Joey’s music has been placed on MTV, in feature films, commercials, corporate videos, DVDs, web videos and is also being used in various venues as background music. Joey has over 250 tracks on MusicRevolution.com. Click here to listen to all of Joey’s tracks.

With over 45,000 tracks online in our production music library, MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com http://www.musicrevolution.com, a royalty-free music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of professional musicians. MusicRevolution.com also provides custom music production and custom music streams. The entire MusicRevolution.com production music library is available for third-party distribution and bulk licensing for background music for retail, restaurants, hotels and businesses, and for other commercial applications. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

Last week a new musician asked a great question. When uploading (or searching for) tracks on www.MusicRevolution.com, you’ve no doubt noticed the “Applications” category. Each of our 45,000+ tracks has been tagged with some kind of “Application”. Yet we’ve never actually provided any examples of those applications. Allow me to remedy that.

“Applications” are different contexts, or situations, in which you feel your track could be used. Here’s the general breakdown of what we had in mind:

“Broadcast” – Part of a TV commercial or TV show.
“Programming” – A live event such as a sports game or an awards ceremony.
“Internet” – Background music for a website or YouTube video.
“On Hold” – On hold music while you’re waiting for customer service to pick up.
“Presentation” – Background music for a corporate video or live presentation where someone is explain

Of course this is all very subjective – and ultimately up to the MusicRevolution.com customer. Context is everything.

Hopefully this clears things up. Keep the questions coming, dear reader.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses  and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians. mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.

We have over 45,000 tracks covering every genre of music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ). Today’s featured track is “Inspired Morning” by Pink Pony. This is a dreamy and soft corporate pop rock track with playful guitars, wide strings and a groovy baseline. “Inspired Morning” is optimistic, positive and relaxed.

“Inspired Morning” (#02012123)

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-track/02012123/inspired-morning

Track Description—

“Inspired Morning” — Dreamy and soft corporate pop rock with playful guitars, wide strings and a groovy baseline. Sounds optimistic, positive and relaxed. Great for advertising, wide pictures or flying scenes.

Influenced by– Coldplay

Track Metadata—

• Moods— Corporate, inspiring, dreamy
• Instruments— Guitar, bass, piano, strings
• Genres— Corporate, pop
• Applications—Advertising, film, presentation, product for sale, retail

Length— 2:42

About Pink Pony—

From Lüdenscheid, Germany, Pink Pony’s musical style ranges from corporate motivational tracks to epic orchestral scores and trailers. Pink Pony has nearly 200 tracks on MusicRevolution.com.

Click here to listen to all of Pink Pony’s tracks.

With over 45,000 tracks online in our production music library, MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com http://www.musicrevolution.com, a royalty-free music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of professional musicians. MusicRevolution.com also provides custom music production and custom music streams. The entire MusicRevolution.com production music library is available for third-party distribution and bulk licensing for background music for retail, restaurants, hotels and businesses, and for other commercial applications. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

We have over 45,000 tracks covering every genre of music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ). Today’s featured track is “Forgotten Pleasure” by Simon Wolfe. With fresh ambient acoustic guitars and rich pads with world percussion grooves that create a smooth mellow soundscape, “Forgotten Pleasure” is perfect for corporate use.

“Forgotten Pleasure” (#00004546)

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-track/00004546/forgotten-pleasure

Track Description—

“Forgotten Pleasure” features fresh ambient acoustic guitars and rich pads with world percussion grooves that create a smooth mellow soundscape. This track is perfect for corporate use, advertising, broadcast programming, film and other media applications.

Track Metadata—

• Moods— Corporate, dreamy
• Instruments— Acoustic guitar, strings, synth, world percussion
• Genres— Corporate
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming, film

Length— 3:07

About Simon Wolfe—

Simon Wolfe is from Newton Abbot, S. Devon, United Kingdom. Simon has over 100 tracks on MusicRevolution.com covering a range of musical genres.  Click here to listen to all of Simon’s tracks.

With over 45,000 tracks online in our production music library, MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com http://www.musicrevolution.com, a royalty-free music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of professional musicians. MusicRevolution.com also provides custom music production and custom music streams. The entire MusicRevolution.com production music library is available for third-party distribution and bulk licensing for background music for retail, restaurants, hotels and businesses, and for other commercial applications. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

As a working musician, it’s hard to understand a world where a cow can be sliced in half, submerged in a tank of formaldehyde, then sold to an art collector for millions of dollars.

Making stuff like that sounds so much easier than obtaining a music degree, undertaking the work of song-craftsmanship, writing hundreds of tunes in the hopes that one of them (just one) gets played at my local grocery store. Heck. Just bring me Old MacDonald’s entire farm and I’ll run a 10-for-1 special.

Why do we musicians work so hard to insert beauty into a culture in which Italian artist Piero Manzoni gets paid $126,000 for Merda d’artista, a small can filled with his excrement. Where is the art in this?

This vexation lead me to read 33 Artists in 3 Acts (2014), authored by Economist contributor Sarah Thornton. The book provides a window into the lives of 33 artists and the $60 billion dollar global art market to which they contribute. Thornton’s book left me with me with good news and bad news. First the good news.

Thanks to an unregulated art market, I am capable of throwing together a conceptual piece of art in just a few hours that, if presented correctly, will become an easy way for a white-collar criminal to transform his latest $10 million embezzlement into squeaky clean money.

I could blow up a photo of Lee Harvey Oswald, glue it onto a 10 ft. piece of aluminum, cut out eye-holes, fill the mouth hole with a rag, sell it at a Sotheby’s auction (I am not making this up) and be paid $6.6 million for the work.

The buyer can purchase the work using a credit card associated with a numbered Swiss bank account and avoid paying any kind of taxes because 1) Many galleries don’t report individual transactions – only quarterly earnings and 2) The sculpture can be shipped to a high-security warehouse in Bermuda known as a “freeport” – a place where, legally, assets remain “in transit” and therefore don’t really exist.

That’s all good news to me as an artist because it lets me off the hook in terms of being good at what I do. There’s proof I can put my kids through college without producing a masterpiece. No soulless bureaucrat or corrupt politician can prove my work ISN’T worth $20 million. Whew! I can continue being mediocre…..which brings me to the bad news.

These works aren’t mediocre. They are masterpieces. When you stand before them and behold, they really are. You don’t even need an open mind; a great artist will break your mind open with a crowbar.

I once stood in Atlanta’s High Museum of Art gazing over Radcliffe Bailey’s Windward Coast – a 10 foot by 10 foot room filled with piano keys and a few plaster heads sprinkled on top. That’s it.

But describing it to you that way feels criminal. Because Windward Coast took my breath away. It gave my brain a glorious beach ball of death. The smell of it took me back to a lumber yard I visited as a child. It made me feel guilty for being white. It mashed elements together that shouldn’t be mashed together. The relentless intent of the artist – compounded by human effort – was palpable in the room. It was so much bigger than money. I hope whatever negotiations occurred between dealer and buyer happened in a different room so the energy wasn’t soiled.

And suddenly I’m in the same company as our money launderer and government official; I too can’t possibly put a price on this. And suddenly my inner-artist realizes I can’t be mediocre. My nose has to get back on that grindstone. Ugh.

But for all the cynicism and humility 33 Artists in 3 Acts generated in me, in it I also found a role-model. A role-model who does not cut cows in half. She just works really hard.

Like many middle-class Americans, when I think of art, I think of paintings. Good old-fashioned acrylic-on-canvas-paintings. Beatriz Milhaze, 56, is a Brazilian painter who produces roughly six paintings a year. Starting out, she co-opted studio space with some fellow art students who, in Milhaze’s words, “were there to listen to music and party…I was there to paint.” Today she is the highest paid female artist in Brazil. And yet Milhaze sees her job as no different than a banker (“I go to work every day. I pay attention to detail. I try not to make mistakes.”)

Milhazes’s brilliance can be felt just by looking at Google images. Here’s what a mere “banker” can do when she applies her nose to a grindstone. Hold your breath:

Sources:

33 Artists in Acts by Sarah Thornton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst
http://www.oddee.com/item_98781.aspx
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-sarah-thornton-20141123-story.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/two-art-works-top-100-million-each-at-christies-sale/?_r=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cady_Noland
https://www.high.org/Art/Exhibitions/Radcliffe-Bailey.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_Milhazes
http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/art/214699-guide-to-laundering-money-art
http://www.barrons.com/articles/stashing-your-art-in-a-tax-haven-can-be-dicey-1445663281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living
https://sites.duke.edu/blackatlantic/sample-page/depictions-of-the-middle-passage-and-the-slave-trade-in-visual-art/levitate-windward-coast-and-vicissitudes-curatorial-statement/radcliffe-bailey-levitate-and-other-works/

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses  and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians. mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.

We have over 45,000 tracks covering every genre of music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ). Today’s featured track is “Lively Acoustic Rock” by Seastock. This is an inspiring, energetic acoustic rock track that features acoustic guitar, ukulele, bass, bells and drums. Perfect for advertising, broadcast programming, film and other media applications.

“Lively Acoustic Rock” (#01249614)

http://www.musicrevolution.com/royalty-free-music-track/01249614/lively-acoustic-rock

Track Description—

“Lively Acoustic Rock” is a delightfully positive rock tune that features acoustic guitars, ukulele, and drums. It’s upbeat and modern feel is perfect for all sorts of videos, presentations, and commercials.

Track Metadata—

• Moods— Corporate, energetic, inspiring
• Instruments— Acoustic guitar, ukulele, bass, drums, bells
• Genres— Corporate, folk, pop, rock
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming, film

Length— 2:22

About Seastock—

Two composers & sound designers from Seattle, Washington, USA, Seastock specializes in inspirational, acoustic-driven tracks, but compose in many styles including rock, pop, folk, blues, punk, and electronic.

With over 45,000 tracks online in our production music library, MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com http://www.musicrevolution.com, a royalty-free music marketplace with over 45,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of professional musicians. MusicRevolution.com also provides custom music production and custom music streams. The entire MusicRevolution.com production music library is available for third-party distribution and bulk licensing for background music for retail, restaurants, hotels and businesses, and for other commercial applications. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.