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What’s New And Exciting In Music Libraries And Licensing
IMMEDIATE MUSIC TO LAUNCH NEW MUSIC LIBRARIES
Immediate Music (IM), one of Hollywood’s pre-eminent suppliers
of original music for high-profile, major studio feature film trailers,
is making its music available—for the first time ever—to the
advertising and video game industries.
Concurrently, the company, which recently provided its signature
music for NBC’s 2008 Beijing Olympics, has announced the
launch of two new music libraries, “Immediate Music Premium”
and “Immediate Music Library.” Also, Immediate Music will now
be offering its award-winning, high quality level, original custom
scoring services to those industries.
Additionally, Immediate Music is now offering its clients state-ofthe-art
online music search and download capabilities via www.
immediatemusic.com. The IM online catalogue contains over 1,200
unique tracks, which can be heard and downloaded through
numerous signature genre searches. These genres include Action,
Rock & Pop, Comedy, Suspense/Horror, Electronic, Adventure,
Epic, World, Romantic Comedy and Orchestra/Choir.
Immediate Music is making its original music, culled from 15 years
of company history, available to the advertising and video game
industries through the release of its two brand-new libraries, as well
as via original custom scoring services.
“We have been very fortunate to have secured a niche with our
powerful, impactful and epic-sounding music which has, for 15
years, been promoting hundreds of major motion picture releases,”
said Yoav Goren, IM co-founder, composer and producer. “We felt
the time was right for us now to extend and expand our industry
outreach, by making this same music available to the advertising
and video game industries. With TV spots and video game trailers
becoming more and more cutting-edge and exciting, we wanted
to let the producers of those projects know that we are affording
them the opportunity to weave in our big music, which is sure to
help them reach their target audiences.”
The “Immediate Music Premium” library is the company’s exclusive
library, comprised of over 300 tracks of impactful, orchestra
and choral-laden music. The company has targeted this library
Compiled By Amy Wilschke
primarily to bigger corporate advertisers, including automobile
manufacturers, alcohol and soft drink manufacturers, airlines,
hotel chains and large scale lifestyle advertisers. These tunes will
also be available at a premium price point for inclusion within—
and for trailers to promote—video game releases.
The “Immediate Music Library” is comprised of 1,000 tracks (and
growing) geared toward other national, more cost-conscious
advertisers, as well as to local and regional advertising agencies
and brands. In addition, the company is targeting this library to
producers of network and cable television promos and IDS, as
well as to smaller video game publishers with lower-budgeted
promotional campaigns behind their new video game releases.
In the past, Immediate Music has had some of its music included
within promotional trailers for video games. These games have
included “Gears of War,” “Shrek Super Slam,” “Prince Caspian
Video Game,” “Incredible Hulk Video Game,” “Timeshift,” “Full
Auto” and “Battlefront II.”
//www.immediatemusic.com
WHAT’S NOO AT THE ZOO
Zoo Street Music specializes in music supervision and sound design.
With an extensive music library covering a wide range of musical
styles, Zoo Street provides music for hundreds of productions each
year. Clients include ABC, NBC/Universal, CBS, HBO, ESPN, E!
Television, A&E and the History Channel, and film studios Warner
Bros., Columbia Tri Star, DreamWorks, Universal and others.
Zoo Street cues have recently been heard in “Frank TV” on TBS,
“NESN’s Comedy All-Stars” on the New England Sports Network,
“Dane Cook Rough Around the Edges” webisodes, and in multiple
marketing spots and behind-the-scenes specials including “The
Dark Knight,” “The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,”
“Wanted” and “Get Smart.”
In addition, Zoo Street has recently provided music supervision for
the “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: HBO First Look” special which
began airing on November 8, and music supervision for “Legend
of the Seeker,” now airing on ABC.
//www.zoostreetmusic.com
SHOUT IT OUT LOUD SIGNS SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT AND MORE…
New York-based Shout It Out Loud Music (SIOLM), best known for
its expertise in music supervision and licensing for commercials, is
now offering original composition.
Music supervisor/composer Francis Garcia and feature film
composer/songwriter Andrew Hollander head the year-old
company. The work of these two composers spans the worlds
of advertising, feature films and records. They have created
memorable tracks for commercial campaigns for AT&T, American
Express, Olay, Fuse, Reebok, Verizon and a Wes Anderson-directed
spot for Dasani.
Hollander’s film credits include the features, “Waitress,” starring
Keri Russell, “Serious Moonlight,” starring Meg Ryan, and “The
Photographer,” which screened at Cannes and features Maggie