The “Select Influences” feature is one of the innovative aspects of the “Advanced Search” function on MusicRevolution.com. While musicians and music buyers may describe music by using terms such as “orchestral”, “rock”, “energetic” and “electric guitar”, they often think of the production music that they are looking for based on the sound and feel of a popular band, such as The Rolling Stones, or a famous composer such as John Williams. This is why we built the “Select Influences” feature into the “Advanced Search” on MusicRevolution.com.

As an example, if you are looking for a royalty-free music track that sounds or feels like music by John Williams, click on “Select Influences” in the “Advanced Search” on MusicRevolution.com, scroll down and click on “John Williams”, then click “Search”.

The search results for “John Williams” returns the following 268 royalty-free tracks that were influenced by John Williams—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=john+williams&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=46&y=4

A search for “Hans Zimmer” returns the following 269 royalty-free tracks that were influenced by Hans Zimmer—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=hans+zimmer&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=41&y=5

A search for “Philip Glass” returns over 50 royalty-free tracks that were influenced by Philip Glass—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=philip+glass&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=25&y=7

A search for “Vangelis” returns over 100 royalty-free tracks that were influenced by Vangelis—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=vangelis&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=34&y=5

While we don’t represent these great modern composers, MusicRevolution.com has an extensive selection of royalty-free music that was influenced by these and other famous composers and musicians.

With nearly 19,000 tracks of royalty-free production music online in every genre and style, MusicRevolution.com has the royalty-free music that you need.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with nearly 19,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from an online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

With Christmas just over one month away, we thought that we would highlight some of the royalty-free production music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that would be suitable for Christmas and the Holiday season for your projects and for background music. We have some great royalty-free Christmas music. A search on MusicRevolution.com for “Christmas” yields nearly 400 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=christmas&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=35&y=6

If you are looking for a royalty-free Jingle Bells music track, a search for “Jingle Bells” yields 46 different royalty-free versions of the classic public domain music Holiday track—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=Jingle+Bells&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=31&y=7

If you are looking for a royalty-free Silent Night music track, a search for “Silent Night” yields 25 different royalty-free versions of this classic public domain musicHoliday track—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=silent+night&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20

If you are looking for a royalty-free The First Noel music track, a search for “The First Noel” yields 11 different royalty-free versions of this classic public domain musicHoliday track—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=The+First+Noel&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=30&y=5

If you are looking for a royalty-free O Come All Ye Faithful music track, a search for “O Come All Ye Faithful” yields seven different royalty-free versions of the classic public domain music Holiday track—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=O+Come+All+Ye+Faithful+&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=24&y=5

A search for “holiday” yields nearly 1,500 royalty-free Holiday music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=holiday&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=19&y=7

A search for “New Year” yields the following royalty-free production music tracks, including 10 different royalty-free versions of “Auld Lang Syne” —

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=new+year&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=30&y=7

MusicRevolution.com also has a Holiday CD, “Holiday Vol. 1” (available in both physical and download CD format) with 10 hand-selected royalty-free music tracks for Christmas and theHolidayseason for your projects and for background music –

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/holiday_vol_1/

And for Christmas and Holiday background music for your business, office, retail establishment or restaurant, MusicRevolution.com’s Internet Music Stream offers a playlist that provides a continuous stream of great Holidaymusic http://www.musicrevolution.com/music_streams

With nearly 19,000 tracks of royalty-free production music online, there are many other possible music choices for your Christmas,Holidayor New Year’s production, background music or any other project on MusicRevolution.com.  We have the royalty-free music that you need.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with nearly 19,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from an online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

If any member of the original ratpack, including Sinatra, were sent forward in time to 2012 and beamed directly to a Logic seminar at an Apple Store, Willy Moon will be the result.

This rail-thin, New Zealander has one foot firmly placed in the pre-rock n’ roll big band era where tons of 10-second samples of actual live musicians can be found. His other foot is placed in the bleeding edge of music software where those samples can be infused with crazy beats and get used in iTunes commercials.

Tracks like this are an even deeper step into what Moby was doing in the 90’s. Taking old, classic ingredients that feel familiar and acceptable, pouring them through a sieve, then spreading the extract out across a rhythmic landscape that begs you to either make-out with someone or buy a car. Your choice.

Willy Moon employs the same philosophy, but clearly expects far less of his audience’s time. His website claims his songs rarely cross the 3-minute mark. And based on the wonderful flashiness of “Yeah Yeah”, his art was designed to say everything that needs to be said before the elevator ride to the ADHD doctor’s office is complete.

Here’s a MusicRevolution retro hip hop stock music track that media producers can use if they want to affordably emulate this musical effect.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 18,000 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.

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. With the U.S. Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2012, just two weeks away, we thought that we would highlight some of the royalty-free production music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that could be used for your Thanksgiving projects and for background music during this holiday. We have some outstanding royalty-free Thanksgiving music. A search on MusicRevolution.com for “Thanksgiving” yields 10 royalty-free production music tracks—

 http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=thanksgiving&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=24&y=3

 A search on MusicRevolution.com for “thanks” yields 25 royalty-free production music tracks—

 http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=thanks&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=32&y=8

Thanksgiving is a time to gather with family and friends and reflect on the things that we are thankful for. A search for “reflection” yields over 125 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=reflection&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=42&y=9

A search for “reflective” yields over 300 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=reflective&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=38&y=10

MusicRevolution.com also has a CD, “Acoustic Guitar, Vol. 1” (available in both physical and download CD format) with a number of hand-selected royalty-free music tracks suitable for your Thanksgiving projects and for background music –

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/acoustic_guitar_vol_1/

And for Thanksgiving background music for your business, office, retail establishment or restaurant, MusicRevolution.com’s Internet Music Stream offers an “Acoustic Vibes” playlist that provides a continuous stream of soothing music perfect for Thanksgiving http://www.musicrevolution.com/music_streams

With nearly 19,000 tracks of royalty-free production music online, there are many other possible stock music choices for your Thanksgiving production, background music or any other project on MusicRevolution.com.  We have the royalty-free production music that you need.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with nearly 19,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from an online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

Veterans’ Day is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans. We salute the men and women who have served our country to protect us. With Veterans’ Day, November 11, 2012, less than one week away, we thought that we would highlight some of the royalty-free music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that would be appropriate for your Veterans’ Day production or for background music on Veterans’ Day. We have some great royalty-free Veterans’ Day music. A search on MusicRevolution.com for “patriotic” yields 40 royalty-free music tracks-

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=patriotic&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=30&y=7

A search for “memorial” yields the following 11 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=memorial&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=37&y=7

A search fro “honor” yields the following 43 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=honor&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=39&y=7

We also had a customer request for royalty-free production music that would be suitable for a war memorial for fallen soldiers. Here are some of the royalty-free music tracks that were submitted for that request—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=track+request+46&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=21&y=9

With over 18,000 tracks of royalty-free production music online, there are many other possible music choices for your Veterans’ Day production or any other project on MusicRevolution.com. We have the production music you need.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 18,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from a online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

I once read an Esquire magazine interview with a famous actress who said, “When women are on a 1st date they should watch how the guy eats. If he takes his time and savors the meal then he’s probably a good lover.”

The 1996 film Big Night, written and co-directed by Stanley Tucci and hailed by Roger Ebert as “one of the great food movies”, is much like a great meal. You have to slow down and really take it in.

In the film, there is an incredible usage of the public domain song “Tic Ti, Tic Ta” performed by Claudio Villa at the height of the big night around which our storyline revolves.  The owners of a struggling Italian restaurant in the 1950’s have staked everything on a single party to which famous singer Louis Prima has been invited. Their hope is that the pop star will love the meal, spread the word and save their business.

Reportedly, Stanley Tucci began working on Big Night while working on a film project he hated. I’m thinking craft services may have been one of the issues.

Big Night really is a movie where food is a character in the story. Those amazing dinner entrees are not just plates of food, but rather a symbol of two brothers trying to live the dream. The wonderfully wordless scene at the end of the movie is not just Tucci’s character making an omelet. It’s him extending an olive branch to his brother after a fistfight.

This isn’t artsy abstraction, fellas. This is a movie that could make you a better lover.

Hats off to Stanley Tucci and co-director Campbell Scott and singer Claudio Villa for an outstanding music synchronization. Here’s a royalty-free mambo track that could also work for media producers who want to achieve this same festive mood, but have voice over on top.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 18,000 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.

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My colleague Joel Zimmerman has experienced something that many of us have not…he’s stayed up all night shuffling parts around in a music program (let’s assume it’s Logic) so that the following night throngs of beautiful, under-the-influence, colorfully costumed twenty-somethings could lose their minds hanging on every note, every part, every build-up, every vocal sample . Joel didn’t realize that his time slot during the show was shorter than usual so adjustments had to be made.

He was furious.

When a career-defining moment, or even season, is happening in our lives we are often unaware of it. Most of us are focused on the urgency of the moment and can’t mentally pull the camera back and fully see what’s happening.

Here’s what’s happening: My colleague Joel Zimmerman (now known as DeadMau5 – pronounced “dead mouse”), who I once thought of as a  hyper-opinionated, super-talented insomniac living somewhere in Canada, is now  a full-on international rock star. He is regularly shuttled to dance venues all over the globe commanding six figure fees to play music that has been sculpted by his own gifted, well-traveled musical mind.  He knows exactly what to make a computer do so that thousands of bodies will jump up and down at the same time. That is wicked cool.

And so it is with great pleasure I announce that here on MusicRevolution.com, we offer a collection of over 100 royalty-free tracks written by Joel Zimmerman (now known as DeadMau5) for licensing in your media projects.

How is this possible? Many moons ago, Joel was commissioned by music publisher KillTheSilence to create tracks for their production music library. KillTheSilence controls the rights to those tracks and has graciously uploaded that music to MusicRevolution. Therefore, that music is available to our customers under the same easy-to-understand, royalty-free license terms as the other 18,000+ tracks on our site. Legal circumstances such as this are kind of rare so if I were a music buyer I’d start grabbing these tracks immediately.

Click here to check out MusicRevolution tracks created by Joel Zimmerman (now known as DeadMau5)

When you listen to these tracks you’ll notice that many of them are in loop format. They don’t have stingers at the end and many of them are shorter than one-minute.  This is because they were specifically written to be used by Flash developers who require their licensed in an unique format.

Interestingly, this format will also work well for media producers who want to feature a Joel Zimmerman “element” in their work. It could be a song that uses the loop as its primary element. It could be a video that uses the loop only as an introduction before segueing into another piece of music. The creative possibilities are pretty endless.

So here’s to our friend Joel, who made it to the Big Show….and left behind some goodies.

Congratulations on your well-earned success, Mr. Zimmerman. You stayed focused. You never stopped cranking out great music. And now you’re living the dream.  Well done, sir. When you’re ready to crank out some more TV music, please come back and see us.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 18,000 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.

Comedy (from the Greek: kōmōidía), in the contemporary meaning of the term, is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy, according to Wikipedia. Our production music library contains comedy, humorous, funny, quirky, amusing music and more. We thought that we would highlight some of the royalty-free comedy music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that could be used for a range of purposes including film/movies, documentaries, TV and radio commercials, online video ads, corporate videos, web videos, trade show videos, animations and cartoons. It is often said that laughter is the best medicine. If that is the case, then we have a lot of “medicine” in the MusicRevolution.com production music library!

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “comedy” yields over 1,500 royalty-free production music tracks—
http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=comedy&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=26&y=6
A search on MusicRevolution.com for “funny” yields the nearly 200 royalty-free production music tracks—
http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=funny&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=26&y=9
A search on MusicRevolution.com for “humor” yields the following 100 royalty-free production music tracks—
http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=humor&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=31&y=7
A search on MusicRevolution.com for “quirky” yields over 300 royalty-free production music tracks—
http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=quirky&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=50&y=5
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 a great collection of royalty-free comedy music on “Comedy, Vol. 1” –
http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/comedy_vol_1/ . Stock comedy music doesn’t necessarily mean the slapstick, Looney Tunes style of mimicking every onscreen action with a musical change (although this production music CD has that too). It can also mean a steady, quirky beat and nothing more (got that too). It can also mean a slow, funeral march underscoring a despondent Woody Allen character after being dumped by yet another stunningly, beautiful actress. This is a fun collection of royalty-free comedy tracks that are really worth checking out.

With over 18,000 tracks of royalty-free music online in our production music library, MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has the production music that you need.
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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 18,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from an online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

MusicRevolution.com has over 18,000 tracks of high-quality royalty-free music online. MusicRevolution.com also offers a variety of royalty-free music subscriptions that are a great value. For limited time, buy a 1-Month Complete Subscription (regularly $249.99 for up to 10 downloads) for only $199.99 and Save $50. That’s less than $20 for any track in our production music library. Tracks can be downloaded in either WAV or MP3 format.

Check out our subscriptions today at http://www.musicrevolution.com/subs_options. This special offer to Save $50 expires October 31, 2012.


With a variety of production music subscriptions and over 18,000 tracks online, MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) has the royalty-free music that you need.
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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com,a production music marketplace with over 18,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from a online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

Years ago one of our best UK-based musicians, Sirius Child (creator of the awesome royalty-free downtempo track “Recline” , tipped us off about an emerging style of music called dubstep.  It’s a sub-genre of electronica that exploits low frequency ranges to a groin-tickling degree that’s never been done before.

According Vance Kelly, a professional live sound consultant, “50 to 90 Hertz is that frequency range where a well-tuned sound system will make your mid-section feel all wobbly.” After hearing this music pumped through the 28,000+ watt sound system at Atlanta’s Verizon Amphitheater last year during a Bassnector show, I fully understand why hormonal college students attend performances by Skrillex, DeadMau5 and other dubstep artists by the thousands.

While other mainstream brands may have safely snuck elements of dubstep into their ad soundtracks, Kmart gets the prize for going all-in with a back-to-school ad featuring the song “Phunkshock” by Motroda.

The Kmart spot is a great example of using dubstep in a national branding campaign. When you’re ready to use this emerging sub-genre of electronica in your own media productions, check out this royalty-free dubstep track from MusicRevolution.com.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 18,000 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.