Now contrast this legitimately beautiful piece of work with yet another stock music catastrophe clearly modeled after “WALKING ON SUNSHINE”. Memo to all spot producers: STOP USING THIS CRAP-how much are you paying for this garbage-are you nuts?

We here at the Organic Music Library want to emphasize and re-emphasize that there are a multitude of reasons to use our production music, but perhaps none so strong as the simple fact that production music is designed to serve, support, and enhance your images. It is a tragedy when a wonderful piece of video is made to look cheap by poor music choices. The Organic Music Library can help elevate your final product at a price point that won’t break the bank.

Check some examples of Epic & Inspiring music

This extremely cool spot:

Happy Valentine’s Day Production Music Searching from the Organic Music Library

Driving rock, and intense Electro or Hip Hop always seem to translate for playmaking, but editing a package on D’Brickashaw waxing poetic about getting beaten up as a kid, or Tebow finally screwing it all up and becoming a personal disappointment to The Almighty can require a different musical tone.

Consider production music like the following cues for those darker moments when victory seems but a distant dream and the steroid test comes back positive. Insert music like this for the narrative about the young boy who made it to the NBA even though he grew up so poor in Albania that he had to use an old tricycle tire for a basketball while his grandmother stood on chicken crates, her arms formed into a hoop, so that he could shoot baskets – a practice, incidentally, that often broke Babushka’s nose and completely eliminated the only three teeth she had left.

Listen to these Examples:

Out Manned, Out Weighed, Out Gunned:
The underdogs facing certain defeat. That sombre moment when the entire team realizes they’re wearing teal and Pro Keds while their opponents look like a Russian Special Forces division.
Production Music Example

Battered, Beaten, and trying to get off the Disabled List:
Your guy is messed up, but he’s trying, except that there’s no Rocky moment in his future. More than likely it’s to be an endless parade of visits to the Orthopedist, an ACL resembling Swiss Cheese, and a pain killer addiction that makes Keith Richards look like Nancy Reagan
Production Music Example

The Aftermath:
The game is over-you lost big time. The fans are outside turning over cars, the showers are dry, the lights in the arena are all going dark, The Zamboni has been drinking, and Hal, the Janitor, takes one last look at the rink before he turns off the light and heads home to a warm Ballantine Ale.
Production Music Example

The Achiever:
He or She did it in spite of their wretched upbringing and questionable parentage. Reach for the hanky, because even tough guys like to cry imagining that they too might have been a contender instead of a bum which is what they most likely are.
Production Music Example

The Warrior:
His middle name is Thor, has a pet Wolf, hair down to his tailbone, and thinks of himself as a Viking, even though he’s from New Jersey.
Production Music Example 

Well, we hope you don’t think that way, because it completely ignores copyright law.

Not to get all Metallica on you, but music needs to be licensed for what are termed “synchronization” purposes, or the right to sync music to some type of video or film.  The reason there are so many production music libraries, (some, like the Organic Music Library, are awesome, some are not – like really, really not) is so that people like you – you being a producer, videographer, broadcaster, film maker or other media type, most likely very creative, a good dresser, and kind to your mom – can easily find and license very high quality music to enhance your work with complete confidence that you are legally cleared to do so.  When you hit the big time, the suits will make it very clear to you that this is a necessity. Nothing ruins a great premier like intellectual property violations. Think of your production music in the same way you would think of those groovy black jeans you are wearing; a commodity for which you shop and buy – you don’t just pick them up in the local GAP and run out the door when Skyler, the sales dude in the knit hat, goes into the back room to reprogram the Ipod.

Music licensing falls into that nearly impenetrable silo along with quantum theory, the secret to perfectly prepared steaks, and how did Ralph Kramden get a chick as hot as Alice. We’re here to decode the mystery….simply.

1: At one end of the spectrum, we have a traditional old school library, that offers great music with endless licensing options (and CD’s!!!) predicated upon this, that, the other thing, what you ate today, what you’re eating next Tuesday, the time of day, your blood type etc.. Each prospective usage scrutinized and labored over by teams of clerks in those weird visor hats and those things that make their sleeves all puffy. You will absolutely be sure of your rights – we think –but you, or your legal department may want to commit ritual Seppuku by the time you are done clearing the tracks.

2: At the other extreme, we have what we like to refer to as the “Production Music Sewer”. A grab bag, catch as catch can rat trap of unregulated, non-curated tracks sold for nominal amounts of money for any usage at all. Aside from the inherent risks of catching something toxic from these people, consider the endless aggravation of trying to sift through literally thousands of crummy pieces of “music” . Even the aforementioned Skyler can upload his oeuvre into these cesspools. (“Dude, I made it on my mom’s boyfriend’s PC”). The benefit of these places for those who don’t care about quality (we know that’s not you) is that they are generally completely Royalty Free – meaning you pay for it once, you own it forever and it’s legally clear.

Think of that: A Skyler original to underscore your latest work.

3: Then we have catalogues like the Organic Music Library, which tend towards the traditional model, but make legitimate licensing as painless as possible. This approach essentially defines the client and their types of usage when they register and creates an automatic license that accompanies each download.  This streamlined licensing protects the client forever, while still recognizing the rights of the writer and publisher of the music. It’s truly a win-win.

Got a question about licensing? We’re here to help.  Go ahead and ask us:

info@organicmusiclibrary.com

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Essentially: they’re gross.

Over the past week, the Salahis have once again found a way to capture the attention of a weary nation.  Tareq put out the APB to the media world at large claiming “Michaele was missing” (if only) and had probably been “kidnapped”; this is the part of the blog wherein we would insert all those stupid internet acronyms like ROFL and LMAO if we knew what they meant. Well, it turns out the kidnapper was none other than our fellow musico Neal Schon, he of Journey and Santana fame.  Before we continue the evisceration, let the OML clearly state that no matter what we think of Journey as a whole, Neal Schon is a Badass and we love his playing. He’s a great musician and we should just end it there.

But we won’t.

Neal, seriously: WTF are you thinking dude? You’re Neal Schon. Sure you’re a bit grizzled at this point, and you were never too tall, but this chick is nuts. You could do better at any of the theme park cafeterias. We know, we’ve been there. Great Adventure waitresses rock.

In the meantime, Tareq has evidently “changed the locks” on the no doubt soon to be foreclosed upon family manse. Laugh if you will people, but the OML senses Michaeale will come slithering back very soon after Neal gets his prescription refilled.

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 as he grips not one, but four, count ‘em four, phallic symbols.  No….this is not an out-take from Spinal Tap. This is real. It is one of the best of examples we can find of today’s fail:  “More is More.”

How wonderful it must be to live in this world. Not a thought in your head about rhythm, melody or soul. Just a mission to grunt out pent up testosterone by playing as many notes as you can, as quickly as you can, switching from neck to neck with little tone variation AND….did you catch those pick-up configurations and cross arm moves? Kind of like having the loudest fart at a frat party. I suppose if the original Michelangelo had sculpted the Statue of David with the same attitude, David would have had a 12 foot erect member that would have smacked Lorenzo DiMedici on his royal thinker every time he walked through the Piazza on his way to the McDonald’s Di Firenze (we understand they Super- Sized the Cafe Lattes).

Pity the likes of poor Wes Montgomery who developed a style of expression with nothing but his thumb and his heart. If the man had four necks on his guitar (or at least three) and shredded like a cowboy, he would have doubled his income and been a shoe-in to bag Marylin Monroe. And,  just what was Neil Young thinking when he left his entire being on the line with his one note solo in Cinnamon Girl?  We demand a remix with a four neck guitar, really fast scales, and PLEASE… remove that soul immediately.

This concept of “more is more” is becoming much too common. Let’s look at the culinary world: Being the foodies that we are, we are perplexed by the necessity of things like putting cheese in pizza crust. Pizza Hut and their heinous ilk are guilty of many such crimes. We’re currently debating in which ring of Dante’s Inferno to place them. Their thought process: Cheese is good on pizza so, let’s shove it in the crust. We wouldn’t want any complexity in our flavors. A bite with cheese, toppings and sauce with a nice crusty finish. Nah…let the crust bust a cheese nut when the consumer bites into it after finishing the preliminary lead-in slab of way too salty cheese. We liken this to a plot in a film that has no climax or resolution. What’s next? Buffalo Wing Sushi smothered in jalapeno cheddar sauce on top of a burger bigger than your ass made with moose meat and you get a prize if you eat the antlers? And while we’re on the topic…when did the culinary arts become an extreme sport?  You can gussy up Bobby Flay and his pals all you want, with their arms folded and knives in hand, but we know they got their asses kicked on a regular basis. And please don’t mention Andrew Zimmerman. Seriously, don’t… he disgusts us. Why are you watching him eat bugs? What’s wrong with you? And what’s up with this war on how hot (spicy) you can make food? Forgive us for wanting to fill our collective pie hole with a nice, generously spiced chili, replete with complex seasoning and subtle flavors. Instead, we have to blow our heads off because some guy named Thor heard that ghost peppers were the hottest and he likes the way the barbed wire tattoo quivers on his bicep while he eats them. Heat is just one aspect of great seasoning. Making it the primary goal is well… like playing notes really fast on a four neck guitar.

More is not more. Great music and art are a fine blend of great ingredients. Not an overuse of one. People like John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix played with technical prowess and mixed it with soul. They played fast AND deep. The same can be said about production music libraries: Those that boast about having 50,000, 200,000, 8 million tracks etc. are playing the notes but not interested in the substance.  Trust us we know, there aren’t 500,000 great production tracks in existence, never mind in one library. More is not more. More gives you a headache. More gives you this guy:

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The intended food is apparently OK, and the OML wishes her well in her recovery. In our humble opinion, Good Old Boy Renfield needs to be confined to the nearest oubliette as soon as possible.

In the meantime, let’s hope all bloodsuckers from Texas keep their fangs to themselves.

Relevant Music from the OML:
Doom In The Wind

Rednecks On The Loose

I did a quick Google Search and realized he has been dead for four years.

Wait, Dan Fogelberg is dead?

Wow-cognitive dissonance on steroids. It somehow doesn’t register. It got me thinking about some other softer rock entities from my younger days that connect in my mind in some idiosyncratic way, and whether or not they have left this mortal coil. Searching further, I found some really sucky information.

England Dan and John Ford Coley

Wow- England Dan is gone too. Herein singing the fabulous (and harmonically adventurous) Todd Rundgren tune “Love is The Answer” (Tell that to Michelle Bachman, sorry couldn’t help it)

America

Damn. Dan Peek is no more. I loved these guys; the melodic kings of the major 9 chord. Sigh. Do we dare to continue?

Seals & Crofts

Mercifully, they are both well. Unfortunately, they don’t play together any more.  Trivia Note. England Dan was the brother of Jim Seals.

Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

These cats must have been fun to hang with. The main guys are still around, the rhythm section is dead (in a literal sense, they grooved pretty well back in the day).  “Please Mrs. Avery…..

The great music of the seventies will never die. There’s always a need for melody and structured songs. Following is some relevant music from the OML. We keep traditions of quality alive:

Kim Simpson: The Beautiful Road

Chris Paul: Morning Motion

Nearly.

Wow…awesome faux chalk doodles and options galore for those locked in a manic phase:

EXPLORE MUST SEE VIDEO – “Must See” video; now there’s an original concept. Someone should get that over to the marketing department right away. We could envision a network building an entire campaign on that.

VIEW CLIPS FROM TV – Awesome Mom!!! Do we get a decoder ring with that?

WATCH LIVE CNN TV – Thrilling Corporate Managers around the globe with this assist to employee productivity.

But now we get a little creepy:

Feeling hyper after your 23rd cup of Rockstar Sumatra blend? Not to worry, you can KEEP WATCHING ONE VIDEO WHILE BROWSING OTHERS. Thank the lord for that – we wouldn’t want to have to do anything that requires focus. It’s like peeing while you drink. So Cool.

Or just PREVIEW THE NEXT VIDEO ON DECK. Yes, that frozen glaze of stupefaction makes you the Joe Girardi (or Terry Francona) of News Video. They will obey your mighty decision process. Make sudden changes, run, hit, throw, steal…whatever – no one’s paying attention; least of all you.

And finally, in soothing, light blue, 7 point text, the link…

“I’m ready to dive in”

Yes you are. Too bad the pool is filled with concrete. But then again, you probably won’t notice.

The OML has great News & Business music and no crazy chalk drawings, click to hear.