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"Genre in the Spotlight" Series - #2 - Electro Swing

By: Amanda Mayo
Date:: 10 Jun 2013

For my second installment of “Genre in the Spotlight”, I focus on Electro Swing, a super cool subgenre of dance music that fuses jazz and big band with modern electronic dance music elements. Audio Network has recently partnered with Bob Bradley, Phil Cass and Tommas Arnby at their new independent label, Cuckoo Records, to offer a platform for commercial artists to connect with our clients for licensing opportunities. The first release through the partnership, ...

Specially Composed Music - Lost Kingdoms of South America

By: Terry Devine-King
Date:: 30 May 2013

Towards the end of last year, I was asked to compose music for the tv series " Lost Kingdoms of South America ". Ancient civilisations are a passion of mine, so you can imagine, I was rather excited about this project! Composing music Composing music for such a programme was never going to be straightforward. For a start, there’s no musical reference for ancient civilisations of South America, (or maybe there’s a bearded academic that can put me right on this?), so it was a case ...

Cannes Lions Learnings Channel

By: Nick Bennett
Date:: 09 May 2013

With last year's introduction as official music partner, we are proud that Audio Network’s association with the Cannes Lions Advertising festival is continuing to expand and that we are working so closely with the advertising industry . Talent Anyone that has had the privilege of attending the festival will know that, along with sunshine and rosé, there has always been an abundance of extremely high caliber speakers from the advertising world and beyond ( Bill Clinton, Martin Sorrell, ...

Latin Music and Vintage Instruments

By: Dave James
Date:: 11 Apr 2013

The inspiration for Quirky and Cheeky Latin came from the great Latin American big bands of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. Cuban bandleader Perez Prado composed quirky and infectious music that’s still popular today and the original recordings, like Mambo No.5 and Guaglione, have been used on many TV ads eg. Guinness, The Post Office and Pringles . The mambo rhythm originated from Cuba and is still a dance floor favourite. Vintage Latin American Music After taking nearly ...

Brand New Music For April

By: Jo Belcher
Date:: 04 Apr 2013

Keeping fingers crossed this month for the appearance of Spring – we have another delicious 15 albums for you, covering a diverse range of genres. And just in case the sun doesn’t shine – here’s some of our highlights for you to bask in… Swamp Rock & Country Funk ANW1885 - Swamp Rock & Country Funk is an album of southern inspired fusions of soul, blues, funk and country from Lincoln Grounds and Randall Breneman . Cinematic Orchestral ...

The Composer, the Orchestra and Abbey Road Studios: Part 2

By: Paul Mottram
Date:: 28 Mar 2013

In part 1 of this blog series, prolific composer and long-time Audio Network collaborator Paul Mottram explained how he brings his music to life. Now in part 2, he shares his insights running up to the actual recording. Play Orchestration With a piece for orchestra, such as ‘ Trailblazer ’ for example, it's rare to finalise the exact details as to which instrument plays what in the first draft of the work apart from in a broad brush sense. However, the ...

Brand New Music For March

By: Jo Belcher
Date:: 08 Mar 2013

As the sunshine makes a wonderfully welcome appearance this March, we welcome alongside it 14 brand new albums ! ANW1871 - Dreamy Chillout First up we have ANW1871 – Dreamy Chillout from composers Alex Arcoleo, Barrie Gledden, Steve Dymond, Jason Pedder, Tim Reilly and Ben Ziapour . Hypnotic and ethereal pads, lo-fi ambient electronic effects and vocal textures are used to create these super cool chill out tracks. ANW1875 - Urban Epic Our second album is ANW1875 – ...

Audio Network's Dance Music Mix

By: Amanda Mayo
Date:: 05 Mar 2013

Electronica, Rave and recently in the US, Electronic Dance Music (often shortened to EDM): these terms will mean different things to different people depending on location, history, and culture. For instance, in the UK the term “ Electronica ” is used to encompass many subgenres of electronic music. In the US, this word is associated with alternative electronic music, usually downtempo or ambient . “ Rave ” is understood all around the world to describe popular dance ...

"Punctured": A Tropfest journey

By: Jess Ossington
Date:: 26 Feb 2013

Punctured is the animation which took out 3rd place at Tropfest 2013 and pulled at the heartstrings of 92,000 short film enthusiasts at the Sydney Tropfest Festival Day. Punctured tells the story of a lonely man who works in a balloon-popping factory. A warm tale set in a dystopian world. As the Preferred Production Music Supplier for Tropfest 2013, the Audio Network team were there on Festival Day to watch all 16 finalist films on the big screen. I caught up with 3rd ...

Authentic New Orleans Music

By: David Tobin & Jeff Meegan
Date:: 21 Feb 2013

New Music? Whilst working on our recent big band projects we started to think about what production music to record next. Ideas were thrown around and someone (can’t remember exactly who!) suggested doing music from New Orleans region and for the sake of authenticity, recording it there. Authentic Music As sometimes happens with these things, originally, we were going to concentrate just on one or possibly two genres such as Dixieland Jazz and New Orleans Blues. But as ideas started to flow ...