Record-Play » music consultancy http://www.record-play.net/blog Music Supervision & Consultation Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:23:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 adi – world cup music http://www.record-play.net/blog/adi-world-cup-music http://www.record-play.net/blog/adi-world-cup-music#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:50:12 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=89 ADIDAS WORLD CUP MUSIC

We recently cleared the publishing and re-recorded Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Man With The Harmonica for adidas stunning world cup ad…

Thanks to The Butchers Shouters Bottomless Pit Orchestra, yup, for the recording and to Joe at 180 for the patience.

Also, on the subject of the world cup, we worked with 180 and adidas to score this:

thanks to Hazlitt for the composition and olga for the engineering!

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/adi-world-cup-music/feed 0 Young Music Entrepreneur 2010 Awards http://www.record-play.net/blog/young-music-entrepreneur-2010-awards http://www.record-play.net/blog/young-music-entrepreneur-2010-awards#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:24:13 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=80 Welcome to 2010. It started off on a very delightful note with my being long listed for the UK Young Music Entrepreneur of the year awards.

The field proved too strong and unfortunately I didn’t make it down the last 5, congratulations to:

Jack Horner (frukt Music)
Ian Hogarth (songkick)
Nikhil Shah (mixcloud)
Karen Piper (radar maker)
Storm Withby-Grubb (Little Touring ltd)

…. who are all of to China to check out the market and meet people working out there in the music business, after which they will be analysed, prodded, examined and interrogated until one is nominated for the award – good luck all!

Off to Midem on friday, so if you are reading this and are going and fancy a beer drop me a line.

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/young-music-entrepreneur-2010-awards/feed 0 Its been ages but heres why… http://www.record-play.net/blog/its-been-ages-but-heres-why http://www.record-play.net/blog/its-been-ages-but-heres-why#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:50:13 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=62
I have been pretty busy with things here at the office. In case you are interested, here are some of the projects we have been working on:
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This is the first of its kind, its an online multi-genre database of music from indie labels. Our clients can go here and find a huge amount of excellent music for their media productions. We have around 3,500 tracks and around 70 labels involved (incl. Tirk, Stones Throw, Tru Thoughts, Sunday Best). So far we have had around 60 licenses (adidas, reebok, skoda, metrodome films).
Its been alot of work but its going well and seems to have some value amongst labels who want to generate revenue from their back catalogues as well as amongst our clients who often have limited budgets but dont want to compromise on music.
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PROJECTS COMPLETED
its been a busy year, but here is a small overview of whats been going on….
adidas – music consultancy
We have been working on media for the World Cup 2010, mostly in composition. Approximately 10 soundtracks developed for adidas in the past 4 months, its been rather intense, but working out well.
Sourcing
- We have sorted out the soundtrack for the latest climbing film from Big Up Productions, called Progression, there will be a soundtrack available to download soon. Their films keep getting better!
- Rimmel have used Steven Crayns ‘Another Cold Beer’ again, this is the third time its been licensed, which is great news, thanks to JWT for that!
- We used the Music Hub to source and clear tracks for Metrodome films, Tube Lines, Reebok, adidas, constellation Group, footlocker and skoda… all good on that front.
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I set up a label as well, its called TAPE, in conjunction with SPZ group, (you might have heard of Sarm studios, Perfect Song and ZTT, well they are all part of SPZ). I am running it with Aaron Horn and Jo Meava, and its going well, though has taken up a lot of time. Artists on the label include:
Robots with Hearts,
Theo Bard,
Super Luckies
YoMundo,
The Brute Chorus
We have some more bands coming through….
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NEW PEOPLE
The Music Hub is co-owned with my old friend Silja Hertel, who is responsible for managing client and artist relations, this, as you can imagine, keeps her very busy. She is excellent.
Dan Garber is now co-writing on Exposure, our music blog, he is doing a great job, he is also getting involved in some new business we have with the Independent
Telmo Dias, well, Telmo has been working more or less full time on the hub, exposure, TAPE and a big SEO overhaul that it would be rude not to give a nod to his unending coding / web development prowess that has certainly helped us grow.
Jo Maeve, supporting on Record-Play day to day as well as working on TAPE business…
We hope to expand a bit more but will see what happens as the recession loosens its grip here in the UK.
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So, thats about it for now, next time interesting stuff happens, I’ll make a bit more effort to write it down….
Daniel
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Over the past month we have been pretty busy, working with a new client called RAWRIP. RAWRIP a digital music sales platform that gives 100% royalty back to the artists. Now, if that wasn’t enough, they also give the cost of sale to the artist as well.

We will be opening correspondence with labels to introduce them to the new model and encourage them to participate by placing their artists on the platform.

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/new-client/feed 0 whats been happening? http://www.record-play.net/blog/whats-been-happening http://www.record-play.net/blog/whats-been-happening#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:56:00 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=33 Its been ages since my last post so here is an update on what’s been going on:

Films

Franny Armstrong’s lastest feature documentary is now completed, titled ‘The Age of Stupid‘ its all about an archivist looking back at the past to when run-away climate change kicked in. Its hard hitting and emotional stuff. I worked on supervision of music but mostly this was a clearance job. You can see a mini preview on the right.

Commercial

adidas Techfit. Together with our composers we produced the music for the adidas techfit website. All very futuristic and clever.

Other

Campaign Music Essays

I wrote an essay for Campaign Magazine all about brands integrating music into their marketing and communications activities, it came out alright so that was a relief! If you are interested in seeing it then drop me a message and i will send it over.

ps sorry about the rubbish photo.

Artist Development Programme

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We have launched a programme designed to support new musicians. There will be an award worth 20k available once every 6 months. So, for any new musicians its well worth checking out www.record-play.net/artistprogramme and submitting your demos.

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/whats-been-happening/feed 0 New Projects Completed (nearly) http://www.record-play.net/blog/new-projects-completed-nearly http://www.record-play.net/blog/new-projects-completed-nearly#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:11:00 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=29 For anyone interested, I’ve just finished a handful of projects including:

adidas
Sourcing music for adidas – Niqo will be featured on the Stella website

Burberry
Sourcing music for burberry – looks like The Late Greats will be on the New Thomas Burberry website

Microsoft
Sourcing music for microsoft – looks like the Olympus Mons will be included in the soundtrack for a new commerical.

My soul is sold, but at least the three aforementioned bands will be keeping me company!

music consultancy, adidas, burberry, microsoft.

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/new-projects-completed-nearly/feed 0 Music in Film Workshop for ‘Young People’ http://www.record-play.net/blog/music-in-film-workshop-for-young-people http://www.record-play.net/blog/music-in-film-workshop-for-young-people#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:00:00 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=23 (it was half term and all), about music in film. The workshop was organised by a Company called Mouth That Roars, based just beside the office here in shoreditch, and was designed to inform [...]]]> Last saturday i had the pleasure of spending a few hours talking to kids (well, only one showed up :-> (it was half term and all), about music in film. The workshop was organised by a Company called Mouth That Roars, based just beside the office here in shoreditch, and was designed to inform kids who are making films about ways of using music effectively in their productions.

The whole thing was very successful and i like to think that Francis is now very well informed. Hopefully the next workshop will be better attended!

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/music-in-film-workshop-for-young-people/feed 0 In-store music http://www.record-play.net/blog/in-store-music http://www.record-play.net/blog/in-store-music#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:45:00 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=22 Sorting out music for instore is no joke. Have just finished the first stage of producing the playlists for a new group of sports injury treatment centres round london called Pure Sports Med.

They need music all day in a couple of different zones. None of the music can be too heavy, too offensive or too niche. Anyway, its taken ages but i am pleased to say its sounding good. An interesting project but very labour intensive.

Record-play music consultancy: sourcing for instore music

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/in-store-music/feed 0 podcasts http://www.record-play.net/blog/podcasts http://www.record-play.net/blog/podcasts#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:49:00 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=20 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 the electro acoustic label ‘A future without’ and mixed by Benge/expanding records.

download them from this page and get fit.

image: Yelena, yesterday, about to win again.

record-play music consultancy: adidas

]]> http://www.record-play.net/blog/podcasts/feed 0 adidas Impossible is Nothing. Reggie Bush http://www.record-play.net/blog/adidas-impossible-is-nothing-reggie-bush http://www.record-play.net/blog/adidas-impossible-is-nothing-reggie-bush#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:32:00 +0000 Daniel Cross http://www.record-play.net/blog/?p=19 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 consultancy: adidas

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