What’s the difference between production, library, stock and catalogue music?
If you’re looking for original music to use in a project you should know the difference between production, library, stock, catalogue, copyrighted and royalty free music before publishing any work, especially for commercial projects…
‘On Black Meldon’ used in Campbell ‘Nourish’ video
Campbell Canada published a moving video that tells the story of a rather special product that has been in development for several years – a healthy filling soup for those who rely on food banks and donations. Campbell licensed two tracks…
The oldest song ever written (by Scambler)
It was written in 1991. I was sixteen. I couldn’t play any instruments and I’d had no music lessons of any type. I used an Amiga with just 512k of RAM, running very basic four channel sequencing software called OctaMED…
Music licensed for ‘Ultimate Mars Challenge’ on Nova (PBS)
The TV documentary ‘Ultimate Mars Challenge’ aired on Nova (PBS), and it detailed the amazing journey to Mars by the Curiosity rover. It provided an insight into how the craft landed, how it operated on an alien world and…
32k and everything after
In the beginning... The first track Scambler laid down was programmed in Basic on a 32K BBC B. He was nine at the time and would probably like to tell everyone that it was something seriously funky. It was however the Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major reproduced as...