We have over 41,000 tracks on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ) and we cover every genre of music. Periodically, we like to feature a single production music track that we think is worth checking out. This week’s featured track is “The Optimist” by T. Brown. This is an inspiring, motivating corporate track. Enjoy!

“The Optimist”

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=22321

Track Description— “Pop tune that inspires and motivates lending to a successful corporate environment.  Lead your corporate team to the top of your organization by providing an exciting, confident, empowering environment to teach or lead during presentations or videos. Suitable for sizzle reels.”

Track Metadata—

• Moods—Corporate, hi tech, inspiring
• Instruments—Bass, electric, guitar, pluck synth, synth pad
• Genres—Corporate, documentary, electronica, pop
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming

About T. Brown—

Tim Brown is an award winning producer in Nashville, TN. Tim brings us driving and soulful instrumental music that has been featured in the productions of a number of his high profile clients, including Monday Night Football, The Olympics, ABC Sports, The Rush Limbaugh Show, McDonalds, Valvoline, A&E Biography, Maury Povich, Fazolis, and Chevron, to name a few. Tim’s tracks tend to have an upbeat vibe perfect for big commercials, TV, Film, Documentary, and a variety of new media productions. He is also an accomplished film composer and has a large collection of film cues available as well.

With over 41,000 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 41,000 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.

A person’s politics – much like the person they marry or their religion – is largely an emotional decision. Therefore a political candidate who tries to solicit votes must know they’re diving into an ocean of mass psychosis most of us couldn’t comprehend.

That’s probably why former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who worked for five Presidents, recommended that anyone who actually wants to be president should automatically be disqualified from being president. “Gerald Ford was as close to normal as you get,” he said “….and he was never elected.”

Regardless of which side of the aisle you emotionally fall, you probably want a president who gets things done. After watching Donald Trump’s team do everything they believed necessary to secure the rights to Aerosmith’s “Dream On” and still get blocked from using the song, I would say any candidate who can successfully navigate the world of music licensing deserves to be president.

The litany of gotchas a candidate would face when trying to use, for example, Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” would go something like this:

• If the candidate uses the original recording of “I Will Survive” at a rally in an Iowa cornfield, Universal Music Group could sue for unauthorized use of the sound recording. Even though the label didn’t originally write or publish the song, they own the sounds that were actually recorded by the musicians. Stay with me here.
• If, to get around this, the candidate then hires a local church choir to perform the song(!), ASCAP can sue for an authorized public performance of a song written by their long-time member Freddie Perren. 
• If the candidate then moves the rally into a local auditorium that has an ASCAP license, ASCAP can sue the candidate the moment the video gets posted on the candidate’s website…internet is considered a public performance.
• If the candidate bones up the ASCAP fee and begins using the song in their campaign videos, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Group can then sue because a synchronization license was not obtained to allow use of the song as part of a video.
• And finally, if Gloria Gaynor herself becomes infuriated by the candidate’s careless remarks about hair extensions, as the artist she can sue for “false endorsement”. I’m not making this up.

Therefore, dear political candidate, let us make your life easier and humbly offer you royalty-free music for under $100 hand-picked from our catalog of over 40,000 tracks. This music is perfect for that short, but critical period of time between the end of your speech and the baby-kissing. Good luck.
“All Across America” by Steve Steckler

“Corporate Drive” by Stern Muzik

“Victorious” by Shockwave-Sound

“Upwardly Focused” by T. Brown

“Champions” by Fatto Music

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 40,000 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 41,000 tracks on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ) and we cover every genre of music. Periodically, we like to feature a single production music track that we think is worth checking out. This week’s featured track is “Strung Out” by Black Cloud Productions. This is a serious, interesting and catchy track that will engage you and your audience. Enjoy!

“Strung Out”

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=27562

Track Description— “An epic and dramatic orchestral soundtrack score.  It makes me worried that something bad is going to happen.”

Track Metadata—

• Moods—Inspiring, serious, suspenseful
• Instruments—Bass, strings, synth, synth lead
• Genres—Drama, electronica, hip hop, pop
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming

About Black Cloud Productions—
Led by Zac Cataldo and Zac McIntyre, Black Cloud Productions is a unique music publishing company that has successfully placed tracks with such companies as Discovery Channel & Warner Bros. Black Cloud Productions represents a growing roster of over 30 up and coming Indie artists, composers, writers and producers with 100% Master/Sync controlled music designed for film, TV, commercials, and video games. Black Cloud Production’s music ranges across all genres.

With over 41,000 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 41,000 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.

With Halloween less than a month away on October 31, 2015, we wanted to highlight some of the excellent royalty-free music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that could be used for your Halloween media project, for commercials or for background music during Halloween. We have a great selection of royalty-free Halloween music. 

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

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=halloween&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=38&y=8

Here are two tracks from Benny Hawes entitled “Halloween” and “Halloween (no Fx)” that can really help create a Halloween mood. These tracks are worth checking out for your Halloween music projects—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=6606

A search for “scary” yields over 700 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=scary&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=0&y=0

A search for “spooky” yields over 200 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=spooky&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=0&y=0

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

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=horror&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=30&y=2

A search for “eerie” yields over 300 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=eerie&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=28&y=8

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

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=haunted&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=0&y=0

A search for “terror” yields over 100 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=terror&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=29&y=4

A search for “fright” yields the following 69 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=fright&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=27&y=2

A search for “Friday the 13^th” yields the following royalty-free “Friday the 13^th” sound alike music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=friday+the+13th&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=30&y=2

With over 40,000 tracks of royalty-free music 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 40,000 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.

“You’ll remember it now….because you’ve got pain around it.”

A website programmer said that to me once after bailing me out of a 3-hour technical struggle. That must be why I remember NOTHING about the creation of this jingle I wrote for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in the 90’s. Producer Craig Miller was so easy to work with, there wasn’t any pain around it:

“We Make Stuff” by Mike Bielenberg

Seriously, I do remember a few things. The guitarist was Peter Stroud (Sheryl Crow, Don Henley). It was recorded on ADATS – hugely popular machines now seen as the bridge between 2-inch tape and Pro Tools. And because the track needed punk-rock male vocals, I got to do all the singing…ok..shouting. I was born with the brain of a romantic comedy film composer…and the voice of a Marine drill sergeant. Go figure.

But by far, the most notable part of this project was my client…Atlanta film producer Craig Miller.

Two months ago Craig was appointed by the governor of Georgia as chair of the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Advisory Commission. I’m not exactly sure what a “chair” does, but I hope for Craig’s sake it involves great food. I also hope Craig will be cool with me excessively dropping his name at industry parties.

When Craig and I worked together I witnessed the Zen-like quality that pulled him through thousands of video productions for the likes of Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines & IBM. Craig has personality too. A southern gentleman to his core, it always seemed like Craig had Mark Twain in his ear – telling him the wise thing to say at all times.

That’s why Craig chooses to do so many projects for non-profit and civil organizations. One recent project was a video campaign for Georgia Tourism called “We Love This State”.

Back in the day, while I was busy fussing with cranky session musicians and music software glitches (there’s pain around THAT), Craig was busy planting seeds in this great city of Atlanta with the future in mind.  Craig always prioritized the greater good…not just in his rhetoric, but in his actions and the way he did business.  It only took a few projects with Craig’s peers/competitors to realize how rarely video producers let their composers take creative risks…or value their time.

Congratulations on your appointment, Craig. I’m proud to call you a friend….and proud of the incredible work we’ve done together.

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” 

-Mark Twain

“We Make Things” can be downloaded free-of-charge at MusicRevolution.com’s Free Music Collection page

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 40,000 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.

With over 40,000 tracks on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ), we cover every genre of music. Periodically, we like to feature a single production music track that we think is worth a listen. Today’s featured track is “Relax A While” by JHunger Music. This is a fun, inspiring, sentimental track that will engage you and your audience for a variety of commercial applications.

Think “green”, think “happy”, think “Suburu commercial”.

“Relax A While”

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=18943

Track Description— “60 second loop featuring finger picked acoustic guitar, strummed ukulele, and a light piano.  Designed for unobtrusive, mellow background music. The chords are very simple and flow very well.”

Track Metadata—

• Moods—Fun, inspiring, sentimental
• Instruments—Acoustic guitar, ukulele, piano
• Genres—Children, corporate, folk, rock
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming, film, Internet

About JHunger Music–

Portland, Oregon, USA– Joel Hunger has been writing, performing and recording music for over 20 years.  Although Joel writes in many different styles, his main genre is acoustic folk and rock.

With over 40,000 tracks of royalty-free music 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 40,000 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.

With over 40,000 tracks on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ), we cover every genre of music. Periodically, we like to feature a single production music track that we think is worth a listen. This week’s featured track is “Pulse” by soundroad. This is an active, energetic and catchy track that will engage you and your audience. Enjoy!

“Pulse”

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=20142

Track Description— “Active, energetic dance piece, based on a simple, repetitive guitar riff. Some romantic touch in a piano part. Great for corporate, presentations, commercials, infomercials, live events, TV themes”

Track Metadata—

• Moods—Corporate, energetic, Hi Tech
• Instruments—Bass, electric guitar, piano, synth
• Genres—Corporate, electronica, news, rock
• Applications—Advertising, broadcast programming

About soundroad—

Evgeny Kiselevich of soundroad has worked in a number of different studios in Russia, Germany and Italy as an arranger, composer and guitar player. His music has been used in a variety of advertising projects and has been featured on ITV 4, Sky Sports (UK). He now lives in Moscow composing music for movies, TV and radio as well as arranging songs for various musical projects. Additionally, Evgeny is working on a live project called Limmo where he is a composer/producer and guitar player. Evgeny and soundroad play the Rock, Pop, Electronic and Soundtrack genres.

With over 40,000 tracks of royalty-free music 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 40,000 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.

Country music covers a variety of musical styles, all of which are available on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ). Traditional country, country rock, blue grass, American folk, western, hillbilly are among the sounds to put your audience in a country mood before you even start telling your story. We wanted to highlight some of the great royalty-free country music on MusicRevolution.com that could be used for TV and radio commercials, corporate videos, web videos, trade show videos, company meetings, background music, on hold music and a range of other commercial applications.

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “country” yields over 2,000 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=country&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=0&y=0

A search for “country blues” yields the following 68 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=country+blues&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=27&y=3

A search for “blue grass” yields the following 129 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=blue+grass&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=37&y=8

A search for “banjo” yields nearly 500 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=banjo&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=40&y=8

A search for “fiddle” yields the following 180 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=fiddle&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=33&y=7

A search for “harmonica” yields nearly 300 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=harmonica&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=31&y=4

A search for “mandolin” yields nearly 300 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=mandolin&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=43&y=5

A search for “hillbilly” yields the following 32 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=hillbilly&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=30&y=8

A search for “rockabilly” yields the following 68 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=rockabilly&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=38&y=6

A search for “country rock” yields over 150 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=country+rock&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=33&y=4

A search for “washboard” yields the following 10 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=washboard&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=27&y=7

MusicRevolution.com also has a number of CDs, available in both physical CD and download CD formats, with hand-selected royalty-free music tracks.  We have an outstanding collection of royalty-free country music on “Country, Vol. 1” –

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/country_vol_1/

Mandolin, banjo and fiddle are just some of the instruments that you’ll find in this folksy, fun and friendly royalty-free country music CD collection.

With over 40,000 tracks of royalty-free music 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 40,000 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 wanted to highlight some of the excellent royalty-free music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that could be used for sports programming and sports media projects, including TV and news programs, TV and radio ads, films, documentaries, video games, corporate videos and other commercial applications. MusicRevolution.com has an extensive selection of blood pumping, fist bumping royalty-free sports production music that will engage your audience.

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “sports” yields over 4,000 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=sports&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=28&y=7

A search for “extreme sports” yields over 500 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=extreme+sports&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=37&y=5

Not surprisingly, many of these are heavy metal tracks that will get your listening audience’s adrenalin flowing.

A search for “x games” yields nearly 500 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=x+games&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=28&y=3

A search for “olympics” yields the following 39 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=olympics&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=28&y=6

A search for “action” yields over 2,500 royalty-free tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=action&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=23&y=4

For the opening of an evening news cast featuring sports, “Sports Opening Theme 1” by Salieri Music will fit the bill–

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=2173

If you need music that feels like Explosions in the Sky from “Friday Night Lights” to complete your media project, “Halftime Speech” by Brad Long might be just what you are looking for–

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=4974

MusicRevolution.com also has a number of CDs, available in both physical and download CD formats, with hand-selected royalty-free tracks. We produced a great CD of royalty-free energetic music on “Energetic, Vol. 1” —

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/energetic_vol_1/

The royalty-free tracks on this high-energy CD are perfect for your sports projects as well.

For background music or ambient music for your business, retail establishment, restaurant, fitness club, hotel or website, MusicRevolution.com’s Internet Music Stream offers nine unique playlists that provide a continuous stream of royalty-free background music for your commercial environment. MusicRevolution’s Internet Music Stream includes a playlist entitled “Workout Jams” that provides a stream of continuous music designed with fitness clubs and gyms in mind—
http://www.musicrevolution.com/music_streams

This is non-stop music that will energize and motivate your listening audience. This is a powerful collection of heart-thumping, high-energy music.

With over 40,000 tracks of royalty-free music 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 40,000 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.

I recently did some marketing consulting for a friend to promote his upcoming album release. I advertised his documentary-style video on Google Adwords as a “TrueView In-Stream” ad; which is Google-speak for those pre-roll videos we all have to sit through for five seconds before we’re allowed to click out.

Despite how much ad agencies have adopted their creative to this new medium, let’s be honest; we all still scoff at pre-roll ads. But here’s the thing: From the perspective of a small business owner, pre-roll ads on YouTube are hands-down the best value in advertising right now.

Check out this analytics report from my friend’s campaign:

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 35,000 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.