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I Come To Praise Little Ceasar’s, Not To Eat It.

Want to see just how much impact a high quality piece of Production music can have on your video? Look no further. The ghastly slab of tomato drenched Frisbee masquerading as a Middle American dinner option becomes an Epic and … Continue reading

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Media Globalization Is Cool

What happens when you take an Australian product, a progressive creative team from the Berkshires in Massachusetts (Insight Message Labs), a Ukrainian animation house, the coolest music library from New York (in this case featuring production music by a British … Continue reading

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Romantic & Sexy Production Music, A Valentine’s Day Usage Manual

Back in the days of the Silent Movie, local piano players tinkled the eighty eights in order to underscore the overacting and telegraph to the somewhat shellshocked audience what they should be feeling. The Heroine is on the railroad tracks, … Continue reading

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When The Eye Of The Tiger Needs Glasses; The Other Side of Sports Production Music.

Sports, competition, games. We love getting psyched, cheering, wearing stupid team jerseys, drinking beer, and eating too many Fritos. Those of us who use production music to underscore and highlight sporting events sometimes neglect to consider the human interest side … Continue reading

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Production Music Licensing: The Why, The How, And The How Much

You may ask yourself: “So why can’t I use the guitar solo from Stairway To Heaven in this video I’m doing for Brand X Widgets and Sprockets. It would be really funny to contrast the dorky boss in his hard … Continue reading

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“The Salahis have gone their Separate Ways” or “Don’t Stop Believing in Kidnappings”

Let us begin this emergency installment of the OML fail of the day by considering the apparent nearness of The End Times.  2012 purportedly brings with it some kind of cosmic uproar; but who could have imagined the rumblings would … Continue reading

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Production Music: More is not Always More

Michael Angelo Batio – Nitro Concert Clip (4… by Guitarf101 WOW! A four-neck guitar played by a warrior symbolically slaying the dragon with sheets of notes and riding off with the sonically exhausted virgin, his plectrum plunging through suspended steel … Continue reading

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The OML Fail Of The Day Monday August 22nd 2011-Vampires In Boxer Shorts & Cowboy Hats

So many fascinating things come out of Texas: Cowboys, Barbeque Sauce, George Bush, etc., it’s a veritable wonderland of American quirk. So it might not be so surprising to the open minded amongst you that Nosferatu is driving around Galveston … Continue reading

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Dan Fogelberg is Dead?

We were having one of those “Whatever happened to…” conversations when the name of Dan Fogelberg came up. He was a favorite from the halcyon days of the ’70′s and frankly I really liked him (this is Peter speaking, Phil … Continue reading

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The OML Fail of the Day: July 19, 2011 The New CNN Video Experience

We were about to lay waste to some knucklehead with 26 inch fingernails when the sheer amazement of the CNN redesign by Rube Goldberg left us nearly speechless. Nearly. Wow…awesome faux chalk doodles and options galore for those locked in … Continue reading

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