Now that Summer has come back to life like Jason in a Friday The 13th movie, it would be appropriate to bring up all of our hot new film and television placements. With all of these sizzling tracks we have at 5 Alarm Music, it always feels like Summer!
Feature Films
Easy A starring Emma Stone and Amanda Bynes (3 tracks and custom arrangements)
Mother Nature just loaded up her painter’s palette with red, yellow and brown and is starting to color the landscape which can mean only one thing – Autumn is officially here! The air is starting to feel a little crisper and the extra blanket has been pulled out of the linen closet. Fragrant hot apple cider emanates from coffee houses and you don’t leave the house without a jacket. Spirited marching bands grace our ears at football games as your breath leaves a white trail while rooting for the home team. This week’s new releases from the Artful Recorded Music Library fill the atmosphere with sweet and earthy sounds.
If you could attach a song to each season, which songs would you choose? It seems like any music depicting Winter would have sleigh bells, Summer needs a bouncy rhythm, Spring lends itself to an expansive sting section and Fall a twinkling piano. Every passing season has its own characteristics and beauty and ARFT38 Summer Hot Winter Cool celebrates the true grace of nature.
Various Categories
ARTF38 Summer Hot Winter Cool
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ARTF46 Groove Cafe 5 sounds like it just took a chill pill. These relaxed and breezy tracks open up a world of carefree leisure. Grab a latte, your favorite novel and be mellow!
ARTF46 Groove Cafe 5
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For these and many other great tracks from the Artful Recorded Music Library, visit our website to hear our innovative music libraries for yourself! New to 5 Alarm? We’re happy to get you a username and password so you can search on our online music library website. Give us a call at 626.304.1698
Some things are better to watch on TV than to actually experience. Like the Reality TV game show Fear Factor. It may be fun to watch other people walk on coals or eat a writhing serving of earthworms, but to actually be a participant? No, I don’t think so. Or those crime dramas like CSI. Cool to watch? Heck ya, but they are stark reminders of all the tragedy that can happen a little too close to home. This week’s new releases come from the endlessly captivating 1 Revolution Music library. These seven releases pack a punch and keep the storms of intrigue brewing…..from the safe distance of your television set!
Life or death drama to the max with the panic knob turned to 11! 1RM005 Heavy Tension & Agitation 1 takes you on an intense ride with dire consequences. Every nerve is electrified and anxiety runs rampant upon hitting play on this one.
Drama
1RM005 Heavy Tension & Agitation 1
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1RM006 Action & Challenge 1 is an intense call to duty, only heroes need apply. Gritty and pulsing, this CD is not afraid to get its hands dirty while getting the job done.
1RM006 Action & Challenge 1
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Not knowing is the hardest part. The dark suspense and tension captured in 1RM003 Suspense & Tension 1 is inescapable.
1RM003 Suspense & Tension 1
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The detectives on the case are investigating the crime and unearthing tragic findings. 1RM004 Suspense & Tension 2 is a continuation of the uneasy feelings captured in the previous release. Dark, vivid and unnerving.
1RM004 Suspense & Tension 2
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Waiting for the final results and in a state of limbo. 1RM001 Light Tension & Anticipation 1 sparks a curious interest with an unresolved outcome.
1RM001 Light Tension & Anticipation 1
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What does the future hold? 1RM002 Light Tension & Anticipation 2 leaves many unanswered questions trapped inside an air of mystery.
1RM002 Light Tension & Anticipation 2
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You are put to the test and have only 2 options: sink or swim. 1RM007 Tasks & Light Challenge 1 is a thrilling Reality TV soundtrack to add to the challenge.
Reality
1RM007 Tasks & Light Challenge 1
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For these and many other great tracks from the 1Revolution Music library, visit our website to hear our innovative music libraries for yourself! New to 5 Alarm? We’re happy to get you a username and password so you can search on our online music library website. Give us a call at 626.304.1698
You can always count on Mary Lorraine, fondly known as ML around these parts, for the following:
1) A vast knowledge of Pop Culture past and present
2) Laugh out loud one liners
3) A fond penchant for throwing and attending themed parties, preferably in costume. Remember Bjork’s Oscar Dress?
Her Favorite 5 illustrates her full circle vision of music’s ability to enhance a production. Without further ado, let’s hear first hand what ML ♥’s about 5 Alarm Music:
All Flossed Out – 5 Alarm Music Library (05A044_01)
Terms like “library music,” “stock music,” even “production music” don’t convey how amazing our composers and artists are. This song is a perfect example. After this Entourage Trailer, everyone wanted to know where the song came from and how they could get a hold of it. The track is actually not from an artist off our label, but a composer from the 5 Alarm library! It is infectious, fun and better than most Hip Hop on the radio right now.
Planning for Tomorrow – Parry Music Library (PML1081_13)
While All Flossed Out exemplifies how our music could be on the radio, this song shows another type of music we represent. In an episode of the Office, when Sabre takes over Dunder Mifflin, the typical corporate video (ironically hosted by timeless heartthrob Christian Slater) was made to show the employees, using none other than 5 Alarm music! If you do need corporate music, music that needs to be in the background to enhance your production, but nothing that distracts, we have thousands of tracks to choose from.
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Not only is Blaire one of my best friends, but she is also the most talented musician I know. Christmas is my all time favorite time of year, and this song belongs on every record player at every Christmas party on the screen. Puts you in the Christmas spirit, is original, and is catchy as all get out.
Hooshere – Stolen Glances (Rescue Records)
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Another one of my friends, Hooshere Bezdikian, is a fantastic musician with Rescue Records. She sings Armenian music and is just one of many of our world music artists. I love that no matter how particular your music search is for your project, (even Paraguayan Folk Tales!) we’ve got it.
Carol of the Bells – Custom Music for Saks Fifth Avenue’s Annual Christmas Snowflake Light Show
Even though I love all of our libraries, I am very proud that 5 Alarm can produce and record a tailored one of a kind track for a client at a moments notice if need be. Since we have already established that Christmas is my favorite time of year, I of course have to brag about 5 Alarm’s custom composition created for one of the coolest Christmas displays in New York City. Across from Rockefeller Center, at the original Sak’s Fifth Avenue, there is a wondrous Snowflake light show set to a powerful yet delicate Carol of the Bells. Thousands of tourists descend every season to stop, stare, and listen to this magical syncopated sight and sound that happens every 15 minutes!
Ahhhhh Summer…..a leisurely time for dripping ice cream cones, greasy sunblock and those saccharin sweet Pop songs that score the yearbook of your Summer memories. Now that Summer 2010 is starting to resemble Don Henley‘s break-up song comparing Summer flings to the waning days of a baseball season Boys Of Summer, a thought has popped into my head (yes, it happens occasionally) – Why do we need Poppy soundtracks to memorialize the warmest months of the year?
It’s been a really long time since Summer Vacation meant having a few months off between semesters. After a while we grow up and discover that work knows no Summer Vacation aside from sacrificing a few of the allotted and much coveted vacation days at your place of employment (what a gyp!), but alas we still latch onto those comforting anthems of Summer. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular tunes streaming on iPods across the country immortalizing the Summer of 10′:
Katy Perry‘s Synth Pop toe tapper California Gurls is an inescapable force on top 40 radio right now. Her Candy Land canvassed video seems to be the thing of nightmares unless you think clowns are cute. The synopsis of the music video would go something like this: “I had the WEIRDEST dream last night! I was trapped in this crazy candy hell where the gummy bears flip you off….. and then Snoop Dogg showed up as the pimp of the dancing candy mamas and started rapping!” I live in California and I’m a girl but this stuff never happens to me, luckily. Somehow it doesn’t all add up, but it sure is catchy!
We are the star of our individual existence with outside stimuli molding our story. We never know what each day will bring when we get out of bed in the morning. In a constantly changing world, life can and does shift at the blink of an eye! This week’s new releases from the Cue Source and Big Screen Music libraries paint a compelling picture depicting the many emotions involved in human experience.
Have you hugged your men and women in uniform today? An alternate title for CS029 Dramatic Pulse could be Modern Heroes. These dramatic and emotive tracks depict what it is to be a Fireman bursting into a burning building or an EMT giving life-saving CPR to an accident victim. Every minute counts!
Drama
CS029 Dramatic Pulse
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This dynamic and whimsical collection of percussion based tracks takes you on a journey through time and space. BSM004 Percussion Fantasia is not short on creativity or imagination! Tap into the right side of that brain of yours and allow all of those flights of fancy take over.
BSM004 Percussion Fantasia
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For these and many other great tracks from the Cue Source and Big Screen Music libraries, visit our website to hear our innovative music libraries for yourself! New to 5 Alarm? We’re happy to get you a username and password so you can search on our online music library website. Give us a call at 626.304.1698
What makes us unique? I’m no expert, but I’ve learned a thing or two from the 21 years of my life so far (nod nod, wink wink!). It seems to be a combination of three things: 1) Our life experiences 2) How we react to those experiences 3) Those silly little quirks about us that no one else (or very few people) share. Like your garden gnome collection. Ya, that’s a little weird. This week’s new releases from the Focus Music Library celebrate the human spirit and all of its beautiful imperfections.
All of you who have visited our campus can see a sign that reads “Life is a journey, enjoy it!” hanging above one of our office doors. FCD257 Life Stories illustrates this empowering ethos with emotive tracks that delve into what it is to be human. All of our triumphs, all of our defeats and everything in between.
Documentary
FCD257 Life Stories
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If people could fly, FCD259 Uplifting Strings is the kind of soundtrack that would go along with the freedom that superpower would evoke. Fresh and airy, this collection makes you think that there’s nothing that can stop you. Not even a little thing called gravity.
Various Categories
FCD259 Uplifting Strings
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Laughter makes even the hardest of times bearable! FCD260 Comedy Capers is a dose of aural fun with tracks for those bizarre, slightly uncomfortable or downright hilarious moments. Send in the clowns!
Comedy
FCD260 Comedy Capers
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Summer is almost over……. Even though some of the kids have returned to school, we still have another two weeks before Labor Day ends all of the Summer fun. FCD258 Essential Summer is the ultimate leisure collection with easy breezy songs combined with invigorating sun-fueled anthems to get you going.
Rock/Electronica
FCD258 Essential Summer
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One of the joys of freeway driving is spotting someone in the car next to you singing at the top of their lungs along to their stereo. Or even better, air drumming on invisible drums above the steering wheel like they are Neil Peart. I have even seen people bust out real drum sticks for added realism \m/ ! We all need to let loose every now and then. The new releases from the Sonic Quiver music library give you carte blanche to skip in the parking lot or do a silly dance while crossing the street. C’mon, you know you want to.
Various Categories
SQ026 Living The Life
The people on the album cover for SQ026 Living The Life look like they know what’s up. There’s probably a couple of surf boards behind the camera angle in the back of that sweet vintage ride and they’re probably heading up the PCH to the beach. These lively tracks make you think that you’re really in the convertible with the folks on the album cover about to have a jolly good time!
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SQ027 Mood Swings
See those tire swings on the cover of SQ027 Mood Swings? Don’t let the title fool you, these mood swings involve chilling out on the porch on a lazy Sunday morning, rolling down the grassy hill until you’re dizzy or taking a stroll down the pier on the ocean. These tracks are for easy living!
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Rock
SQ025 Rock-A-Lot 2
It’s time to light the night on fire! SQ025 Rock-A-Lot 2 lives up to its name by making your speakers growl and slap you up side the head. These Rock cues……well……Rock!
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Urban
SQ024 Late Night Reflections
Some evenings call for a little class and sophistication. SQ024 Late Night Reflections are a little more upscale than those establishments that allow casual apparel. Sexy and fresh, these intriguing soundtracks of the night have all the allure of a full moon.
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For these and many other great tracks from Sonic Quiver, visit our website to hear our innovative music libraries for yourself! New to 5 Alarm? We’re happy to get you a username and password so you can search on our online music library website. Give us a call at 626.304.1698
There are many advantages to having a strong work ethic. For starters, we have some great music placements in all of your favorite TV shows, feature films and documentaries to show for it. And office tans save you a bundle on sunscreen and not to mention preventing skin cancer. Thank Goodness! Check out the productions featuring some of the musical greatness from the 5 Alarm Music arsenal:
Films And Documentaries
The Expendables starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li
Life is a little sweeter during the Summer months. It’s a chance to relive some of those golden days of youth by trading your adult responsibilities for a day at the beach. Or for a last minute road trip up the highway just to see where you will end up. Or for an evening of laying out on a blanket in a grassy field to watch shooting stars. The new releases from the Liftmusic library have the same nostalgic qualities as the anthems emanating from the tinny speakers of the neighborhood ice cream truck.
LIFT055 Summer Dubbin’ is not in a hurry. These tracks give you the feeling like life has a slow motion button that can be pressed to maximize your mellow. Here’s some good old time psychedelic Reggae Dub to cool your jets –
World
LIFT055 Summer Dubbin’
Taking you on a dubbed up journey of bass bin shaking jah loving, Summer Dubbin’ is a collection of roots and party dub reggae tracks that sound like they’ve just come from the Trojan and Island Records vaults. Sit back, light up and enjoy!
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Take a visit to the old country with LIFT057 Let’s Folk! If these traditional acoustic Folk tunes from England, Scotland, Ireland and deep in the American heartland could talk, they would have a very thick accent.
World/Country
LIFT057 Let’s Folk!
From cider induced jigs to heartfelt laments via bluegrass banjo, Let’s Folk! is a collection of traditional folk music from England, Scotland, Ireland and the USA
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Let the Summer dance party begin! LIFT056 Summer Pie is an electrifying slice of booty-moving sunshine. This collection of infectious melodic Electronica allow you to let it all hang out, celebrate the long days and hot nights!
Get lost in an electronic World created by Geek Boy. Mr.Boy sure knows his way around a synthesizer and a sampler! LIFT058 The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth remind us that those nerds who screwed up the curve on your Calculus final are actually pretty cool.
Electronica
LIFT056 Summer Pie
Summer Pie is the sixth album in the innovative ‘Audio Pie’ series and is packed with a mixture of fruity flavours to give you the soundtrack to your summer. Another lolly lickin’ classic from Liftmusic!
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LIFT058 The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth
Introducing Geek Boy and his masterwork of modern dance music production. Trance, house and 80’s electro funk remixes meet dirty electro, chiptune, dubstep and experimental leftfield beats in an inspirational collection of top tunes
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For these and many other great tracks from Liftmusic, visit our website to hear our innovative music libraries for yourself! New to 5 Alarm? We’re happy to get you a username and password so you can search on our online music library website. Give us a call at 626.304.1698
Even though some of the kids have returned to school, we still have another two weeks before Labor Day ends all of the Summer fun. FCD258 Essential Summer is the ultimate leisure collection with easy breezy songs combined with invigorating sun-fueled anthems to get you going.
