New Royalty Free Christmas Music from UniqueTracks

Posted on November 5, 2010 by John Bickerton

Diane Arkenstone has made her name mainly as a New Age and World Music performer. Her light, airy style brings a folk music quality to her recordings. She has sung on over 45 commercial albums. Her album, The Best of Diane Arkenstone, was ranked #1 on Zone Music Reporter’s Top 100 Airplay Chart, out of 2800 World and New Age recordings released in 2000.

For her debut with UniqueTracks, Diane has teamed with noted Israeli composer/producer Misha Segal to produce a 2 volume set of popular Christmas Carols. Each arrangement creates a relaxing, upbeat, optimistic mood. The choice of instrumentation, primarily acoustic guitar, piano, harp and flute, contribute to a peaceful and mystical atmosphere.

Carols featured include O Come Emmanuel, Silent Night, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, O Come, Angels We Have Heard On High, Joy To The World, O Christmas Tree, Good King Wenceslas, The First Noel, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Away In A Manger, Deck The Halls, What Child Is This, We Three Kings, O Holy Night, The Holly and the Ivy and many more.

Should UniqueTracks license more contemporary vocal music as royalty free music?

Posted on March 12, 2010 by John Bickerton

We’d like your opinion about whether to expand our production music library to include more contemporary vocal music. This new offering would be mainly singer/songwriters who are looking to place their music as soundtrack in film/video productions.

If you are experienced with the indie music found on sites like myspace then you will have a sense of the type of music we would start to include in the library.

Most of UniqueTracks’ contemporary music offerings are instrumental only. Instrumental music works very well as soundtrack because there are no words to conflict with the marketing or plot messages being targeted by the production.

UniqueTracks licenses quite a lot of classical vocal music – opera arias, sacred oratorios, etc. – but when it comes to contemporary music, we really don’t have a lot of music in the library. We have several songs that include short vocal phrases but not many of the typical verse, chorus, verse-type of songs.

Please let us know if you would like to see more contemporary vocal (pop music) tracks. Please answer the poll question below or leave us a comment. Thanks!

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New royalty free music 2-CD release from UniqueTracks

Posted on March 12, 2010 by John Bickerton

UniqueTracks has just released Filmscapes Volume 2, a new 2-CD set of 20 songs in many different musical styles. Each song includes full-length and 60, 30 second edit mixes. Filmscapes is designed to give you many music styles to work with. Like all of our multi-style packages, this album is great when you are trying to build a substantial music library at a budget price.

Styles include:
Rock
World
Mellow/Acoustic
Dance/Techno
Cinematic/Soundscapes

Filmscapes, Volume 2 has just been released but it is quickly proving to be one of our most popular albums. The original Filmscapes 2-CD set, released way back in 2001, is one of our best-selling albums ever.

Seven new Royalty Free Music CD Releases from UniqueTracks

Posted on September 27, 2008 by John Bickerton

UniqueTracks is happy to announce the release of 7 new royalty free music titles. We’ve also added every song from each new album to our online music library. Each of the 75 new songs can be immediately licensed as either WAV or MP3 downloads. CD albums can also be downloaded in MP3 or WAV format or the album can be shipped as an audio CD or together with digital WAV files.

Short descriptions of each new release are provided below.

Seven New Royalty Free Music Albums from UniqueTracks

Street Culture – Royalty Free Hip Hop Music
Hip Hop Soundscapes
Dark, explosive geared toward action adventure, sports, youth projects

Sacred Spaces – Royalty Free World Background Music
World Music Grooves mixed with Techno Atmospheres. Includes 3 great vocal remixes.

Speed Demons, V2 – Royalty Free Rock Music
Second Volume of high-octane hard rock and metal soundtracks.

In Harmony – Royalty Free Music New Age Background Music
Positive and Uplifting soundtracks will put a smile on the face of your target audience.

Orchestral Fantasy 2 – Royalty Free Action Adventure Background Music
Volume 2 of this popular Hollywood-style soundtrack series. This volume concentrates on the fantasy film genre.

Orchestral Fantasy 3 – Royalty Free Action Adventure Soundtracks
Volume 3 is geared towards the Action Adventure and Action Hero film genres. Music is orchestral in the Hollywood soundtrack style.

An Inner Place – Royalty Free New Age Music
Presents various angles on feelings of relaxation and pleasure using easy-listening grooves, laid-back jazzy rhythms and new age texures.

About UniqueTracks Inc.
UniqueTracks licenses royalty free music and sound effects to media producers who in turn, integrate the music and effects into their DVDs, videos, podcasts, radio and TV advertising, Flash and Powerpoint presentations and music-on-hold programming.

HD Quality Sound Effects collections from Blastwave FX

Posted on June 24, 2008 by John Bickerton

UniqueTracks is now distributing Blastwave FX Sound Effects Libraries on hard drive. These multi-gigabyte libraries are the ultimate creative palette for media professionals in post, broadcast, film, commercial television, video games, interactive and beyond.

Sonopedia

There are four Hard Drive products:

SONOPEDIA – The Encyclopedia of Sound Effects
With 20,000 royalty-free HD sound effects ranging from Alligators to Zippers, SONOPEDIA is the first all-purpose professional sound effects library for high definition media production.

.wavFX- Sound Effects Production Suite
Think of it as your go-to “Swiss Army Knife” of royalty-free HD sound! .wavFX is perfect for anyone in post, broadcast, film, television, video games, interactive and beyond. This is a Greatest Hits type of compilation package that takes the premium elements from Blastwave’s main SFX releases.

TITLEWAV – The massive all-in-one Sound Effects Library
Introducing the most massive collection of royalty-free HD production elements ever assembled under one title – TITLEWAV. This enormous collection includes categories like Beats, Hits, Whooshes, Logos, Special Effects, Trailers, Distortions, Drones, Voice Overs and much more.

THE BLASTDRIVE – The Mega Sound Effects Library
It’s the whole shebang! The Blastdrive contains every sound effect from Blastwave’s extension catalog of production elements. The Blastdrive combines Sonopedia and Titlewav to form a momumental sound effects library.

New Blastwave FX collections royalty free at UniqueTracks

Posted on April 26, 2008 by John Bickerton

UniqueTracks has added four brand new Sound Effects Libraries from Blastwave FX to our growing collection of royalty free Sound Effects products.

Podcaster – Sound Effects for Podcasting
Podcaster has everything you need to produce a professional podcast. Add music or just a beat loop to your intro and immediately give a focus to the theme of your show. With over 500 sound effects (Animals, Cartoon Effects, Crashes, Human Effects, Vehicles, Weapons and more), this set will let you underscore the humerous, contentious and exciting moments of your podcast.

WebTones – Sound Effects for Flash and Web Site Production
If you design and create professional Flash productions or web sites, then you will want to add this large assortment of multimedia sounds to your production toolbox. The WebTones collection features 1000 unique buttons, clicks, rollovers, pings, beeps, hits and production elements that can easily be plugged into your next production. This collection will provide you with the tools you need to add sonic life to your virtual creations.

Spoilers – Movie Trailer Cinematic Sound Effects
If you’ve ever wondered where to find those great sonic effects that Hollywood post production editors lay into movies, trailers and commercials, look no further. This incredible set by Blastwave FX will amp-up your production with the latest, most modern audio effects available on the royalty free market. This collection, on 4 DVDs, has 300 stereo movie trailers and compositions with matching 5.1 surround files, plus 200 high impact stereo imaging elements.

Drones – Hollywood-style Sound Effects
Using long, sustained, audio drone effects is one of the most effective ways of using sound to build drama and interest in a media production. The material contained in the 4 DVD set Drones by Blastwave FX is specially made to give your production a professional, Hollywood-caliber sheen. In total, this collection has over 10 hours of unique sound effects in stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound.

Blastwave FX develops next-generation HD sound effects libraries for professional audio production. Their design and engineering team constantly pushes the sound envelope with innovative product formats, rich metadata, multi-channel libraries and the highest resolution audio that technology allows.

UniqueTracks welcomes Blastwave FX into our royalty free music library

UniqueTracks at NAB

Posted on March 27, 2008 by John Bickerton

Just wanted to mention that I’ll be at NAB this year in Las Vegas. We don’t have a booth but I’ll be wandering the floor looking at the orgy of new gear. If you’ll be there and would like to hook up for a latte or beverage of your choice, please let me know.

NABShow
NABShow April 11-17, 2008 Las Vegas

New Royalty free classical music from UniqueTracks

Posted on February 4, 2008 by John Bickerton

UniqueTracks, a provider of royalty-free media production tools, including music soundtracks, sound effects and animated backgrounds, is happy to announce the release of 2 new royalty free classical music 4-volume CD packs. These new series concentrate on music from the Romantic Era of classical music (from 1820 – 1890).

19th Century Pack Vol. 2 This set includes works of French masters like Gabriel Faure (Requiem), Hector Berlioz (Symphonie Fantastique), Claude Debussy (Prelude to an Afternoon of the Faun) and Erik Satie (Gymnopedie).

Other featured composers include Felix Mendelssohn (Scottish and Italian Symphonies), Franz Liszt (Faust Symphony and Hungarian Fantasy), Mussorgsky (Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition) and Ottorino Respighi (Roman Trilogy).

Romantic Concerto 4-Volume Pack contains over 4 hours of orchestral music showcasing virtuosic solo performances for piano and violin.

The concertos featured here are part of the classical repertoire and continue to be performed to this day. Volumes include performances of

Each single volume can be licensed separately. Each individual track can also be licensed and immediately downloaded in WAV or MP3 format.

New royalty free classical music from UniqueTracks

Posted on November 13, 2007 by John Bickerton

UniqueTracks has just released 7 new royalty free classical music CD collections featuring the piano music of Chopin and ballet music Tchaikovsky.

Our new 4 volume Ballet Pack begins with over 1 hour of music from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Ballet. Volume 2 continues with Tchaikovsky’s famous Sleeping Beauty Ballet. The third volume in the series features Les Sylphides, which is ballet music created from famous piano pieces by Frederic Chopin. The Ballet Pack is completed with volume 4, The Romantic Ballet, a compilation of great ballet recordings including tracks from Giselle, Sylvia, Coppelia and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. This is the most concentrated and complete assortment of ballet music now available in the royalty free classical market.

We’ve created a four volume Chopin Pack that concentrates on Chopin’s solo piano music. Volume 1 features many famous piano pieces including the lyrical Berceuse and the much-performed Raindrop Prelude. Volume 2 is a collection of Waltzes and Etudes while volume 3, Great Classics – Chopin, concentrates on the Mazurkas and Polonaises. The last volume in the set, Chopin Piano Concertos, features performances of both of Chopin’s virtuosic piano concertos.

The 3 volume Tchaikovsky Pack presents 3 hours of masterful symphonic music by Pytor Ilych Tchaikovsky. The collection begins with one of Tchaikovsky’s most performed symphonies; his Symphony No. 5 in E minor (Op. 64). The second volume continues with his famous Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique) in B minor Op. 74. The third volume in the series, Great Classics – Tchaikovsky, presents a complete performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons as well as excerpts from his Nutcracker Ballet Suite.

Five new Opera CD releases from UniqueTracks

Posted on September 7, 2007 by John Bickerton

UniqueTracks has released 5 new volumes of royalty free classical music entitled The Opera Pack. These recordings feature some of the most famous and recognizable songs in the world.

Remember the famous helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now? That scene was made even more dramatic (some might say infamous) with its use of Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries as soundtrack. Ride of the Valkyries is featured in our Opera Pack collection.

You may have followed the story of Paul Potts, a mobile phone salesman from South Wales who, in June of 2007, stunned Simon Cowell and the other judges when he sang Puccini’s Nessun Dorma on the TV show Britain’s Got Talent. He went on to become the winner of the show. A recording of the aria Nessun Dorma is also included in the Opera Pack.

Here is a short description of each CD in the collection. Altogether there are 74 tracks in the 5 volume set.

Volume 1 Famous Opera: Arias
18 famous arias- Songs include Nessun Dorma from Turandot, The Flower Duet from Lakme, Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly, O Mio Babbino Caro

Volume 2 Famous Opera: Mozart
Great Arias and Overtures from Mozart’s most famous operas including Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro.

Volume 3 Famous Opera: Verdi
Great opera from Verdi including selections from Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida and Il Trovatore.

Volume 4 Famous Opera: Wagner
Famous instrumental orchestral works from the operas of Richard Wagner including Ride of the Valkyries

Volume 5 Famous Opera: Overture & Chorus
Symphonic Overtures and Choral music from various famous operas including Carmen, Barber of Seville, Der Freishutz, I Pagliacci, Faust, Thieving Magpie and La Gioconda.

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