At Shockwave-Sound.com we recently had the pleasure and honor of releasing the latest volume in our “Massive Impact” series of big, epic music. This album, and some of our others, feature recordings of actual live philharmonic orchestras, playing along with samples and electronics, for a grand, soaring, rich sound.We thought it would be interesting to […]
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Massive Impact Vol. 14 released, with real live orchestra
Here at Shockwave-Sound.com we are proud to be able to announce a new major release this week: Massive Impact, Vol. 14 – a collection of 10 epic, soaring, cinematic tracks, recorded with actual live philharmonic orchestra. It’s not every day that we are able to release an album of real orchestra recorded music, because recording […]
Game music composer Allister Brimble joins composer team at Shockwave-Sound.com
We are happy to announce that we’ve signed up a new composer to our little “stock music team” here at Shockwave-Sound.com and that is none other than video game music composer extraordinaire, Allister Brimble. Probably beaten only by American video game composer Tommy Tallarico, Allister has composed the music for a larger number of published […]
Keeping track of music copyrights – the difference between Sound Recording ownership and Composition ownership
We received a question by email today which I set about answering in the shortest and clearest way I could. I think it could be a useful piece of information for anybody looking to “use” music in any way, be it for school, for your company, in a public place, and so on. So the […]
A summary of our 4 latest album releases, July 2015
This summer has been a particularly busy time for us here at Shockwave-Sound.com and over the past three weeks alone, we have been able to publish four new albums, as pictured above. From rock’n roll to folky fun, to horror music and imaginary, textural music for film and drama, we’ve covered several completely different categories […]
Three hot new CD’s released: Indie Rock, Feelgood Tracks, Dubstep & Mainroom
The Shockwave-Sound.com production music library is very proud to present three hot, new CD-releases over these past couple of weeks. Licensing our music in the form of these CD-collections represent a huge amount of discount / savings compared with licensing individual tracks. One track is typically around $30 – $35 for track with Standard License, […]
From the Mind to the Page: A Composers Tips for Optimizing Your Creative Process: Part 1
By Lukas Stanley The creative process is a tricky beast to tame. A lot of the time, it seems as if creativity is intangible and difficult to even conceptualize. Bursts of inspiration strike at random and sometimes inconvenient times. Here is a question I have asked myself many times: why are there days when I […]
Royalty-Free music tracks like the “Kung Fury” soundtrack
I don’t know about you, but here at Shockwave-Sound.com we got pretty excited about the “Kung Fury” independent film release at YouTube: I guess we were just the “right generation” to enjoy this over-the-top, cheesy and cool, 1980’s action films parody. If you grew up watching Bruce Lee, David Hasselhoff as The Knight Rider, Eddie […]
Production music tracks that sound like the Harlem Shake
The internet was recently hit by a craze known as the Harlem Shake – we all know it. A somewhat cheesy rap / hip-hop / electro beat with retro Roland 808 drum machine sound, building up to a massive “drop”, with a suitably crazed dance group. The actual track “Harlem Shake” is obviously under copyright, […]
Come with us and explore the Music of France!
We’ve had so much fun over the past several months, composing, recording and producing not one, but two full albums of French and France / Paris inspired music. With “The Music of France, Vol. 1” featuring 13 original music tracks and “The Music of France, Vol. 2” featuring no less than 22 tracks of various […]
