Author Archives: Daniel Cross

New film music supervision

So after a little to-ing and fro-ing, I have just begun work on the clearance of the music for the new film from the makers of McLibel.
This film is called Crude and it charts the story of the impact of climate change and particularly the oil industry on 5 individuals from 5 countries. [...]

podcasts

We produced two training podcasts for adidas/women and they are now available to download.
So, basically they provide guidance on stretching and training. The techniques and advice were provided, for the first, by the world pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva and for the second, by Ana Ivanovic, serbian tennis player.
the music for both came from [...]

adidas Impossible is Nothing. Reggie Bush

One of the last in the series of adidas Impossible is Nothing campaign tv ads has just begun to air in the states. This one features American Football hero Reggie Bush.
Record-play consulted on and sourced the music for the soundtrack, which is a song called Self Servin’ by Paddy Casey.
Here, see for yourself.

record-play music [...]

Record-play sponsors Shark Award Prize

Have just spent the weekend rubbing shoulders and patting backs at the Sharks advertising awards ceremony in kinsale.
Record-play sponsored the award for the Best Use of Music in an International Advertising Campaign. It was a very well attended class, the winner being Ballygowan Water, with a cover of Lets Dance, by Paula Flynn
We also [...]

thomas burberry

Congratulations are due to The Idle Lovers for their track being chosen for the winter/fall website for Burberry’s line of super cool clobber Thomas Burberry.
The brand liked the bands style and this is the second track they have used from the band…. making my life very easy. You can hear A Very Fine [...]

adidas.com/football

just finished sourcing and clearing the track for the new adidas.com/football website.
You can have a listen here. Its a nice little flash intro with lots of energy, so we needed some decent beats and lots of dynamism.
record-play music consultancy: adidas

Bigupproductions King Lines

King Lines – Big Up’s new and ambitious climbing film is nearly complete..
Set for general release in october, i have pretty much finished assisting Josh et al with sourcing the soundtrack. Work now begins on clearance.
You can view the trailer over there on the right hand side of my blog. Its pretty epic.
more [...]

new music on adidas.com/women

I have just finished sourcing the soundtrack for the adidas women’s website for fall/winter 07. Its sounding folkie/electronic, some good new tracks from Andrew Coleman and excellent label A Future Without. You listen to the playlist here here.

Recommend anyone out there who is interested in new electronica checks the catalogue from [...]

music i need for films and commercials

to any musicians out there who may have stumbled on this blog:
I am looking for some new music at the moment. Some is for a new film and some is for an online commercial. Genres include:
HipHop/Dub (a la damian marley)Indie guitar and indie experimental rock (a la Arcade fire)Indie/electro cross-over (a la blockparty)
So, [...]

consultancy news

record-play just finished consulting and sourcing the music for a new Heineken website. This time its for the new draught-keg’s.

i like beer, havent tried this yet though
You can hear the work here… look for the music link bottom left.
record-play music consultancy: Heineken