5 Alarm Music Blog

All You Can Eat: New Releases – 4/9/10

Sarah

Have you ever been to a buffet that has too much good stuff?  As hard as you try to show restraint, you always end up with a huge mountain of food overflowing off your plate.  The same dilemma applies upon hearing the ten new releases from The Standard Music Library.  It’s enough to inspire you to create new productions based off of the music!  Experience echos of the surreal, Moog laden paradises, airy electronica atmospheres, Americana acoustic ditties, kitschy silliness, electric guitar beach jams and dark dangerous Dubstep.  These tracks will thoroughly satisfy, but be sure to save room for seconds!

For these and many other great tracks from the Standard Music Library visit our website – search.5alarmmusic.com

Electronica

ESL072 Moog Remixed

2009 remixes of Moog music originally produced by Mike Vickers (The Beatles/Manfred Mann)

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ESL093 Future Sounds Of Life

Rich, atmospheric music with urban leanings.

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ESL096 I Love My Synth!

Rich and textured synthesisers deliver catchy cosmic melodies and mechanical oddities

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Documentary

ESL074 Minimalism

Atmospheric, emotive and dramatic soundscapes

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ESL085 Guitar Textures

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Top 10 Reasons To Visit The 5 Alarm Booth At NAB

Sarah

Drum roll please! 

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Here are the top 10 reasons to visit 5 Alarm Music at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Convention booth # SL8209:

#10 – No one rocks a flaming bowling shirt and cowboy hat like we do.  No one.

#9 – Our booth does not have slot machines, so you will be able to save your $.

#8 – Oh ya, our booth looks awesome!  Check out those little trees.

#7 – The feeling of accomplishment from being coherent in the morning/afternoon in Las Vegas.

#6 – Carrot Top won’t be there.  We promise.

#5 – We come bearing gifts!  Move over Grammy gift bag, that’s all I gotta say.

#4 – No one else has The Rhymatist rapping at their booth!  He’ll be throwing down some sick Freestyle on Monday 4/12 at 11 AM and again at 3 PM.

#3 – You can play around with Sonic Fire Pro which is the only software that allows you to add and edit music to video from the comfort of your own desktop.  Don’t believe me?  See for yourself.

#2 – Hear our awesome new music libraries – Stereo Royal, 1 Revolution Music, 1 Versatile Underscore and Liftmusic.  These tracks are hotter than the asphalt on the Vegas Strip in the middle of July!

#1 – With over 100,000 tracks, 3,750 CD’s and about 175 independent artists from the US and UK on our Rescue Records label, we are truly your music concierge!  Duh!

Brian Rule Productions Cooks Up 5 Alarm Reels for NAB!

Mary Lorraine

Every April, thousands of people in the entertainment industry descend onto Sin City for the NAB Conference.  It is actually the largest convention Vegas hosts!  5 Alarm Music attends every year and you can’t miss us in our bowling shirts with flames on them! It is where producers and editors can meet face to face with 5 Alarm Licensing Reps to learn about our libraries, our custom music capabilities, and of course our Sonic Fire Pro software.  Many current clients met us for the first time at NAB in years past and remain loyal.   We hope to meet many more future clients and friends this year at NAB 2010!

Of course we are not the only music library that attends this behemoth conference, so in order to shine, we make demo reels each year to show off our music and where you’ve heard it.  With booths at every turn at NAB, these videos need to showcase why 5 Alarm is the best.   Brian Rule Productions stepped up to the challenge, producing and editing six reels.  Along with our label Rescue Records, we have three new libraries we wanted to present: Lift, 1 Revolution, Stereo Royale, and 1 Versatile Underscore.  Another reel Brian Rule produced for us uses 3D animation to highlight films and television shows where you have heard 5 Alarm Music in action!  You are sure to see at least one of your favorite shows or a film you have seen this year!

If you are not going to NAB, check out our Reels here!! If you are going, be sure to come see us at

Booth # SL8209 !

Musical Footwear: New Releases – 4/2/10

Sarah

As the wise Jack Handey of Saturday Night Live fame once said, “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”  All kidding aside, everyone has their own story to tell and truth is indeed stranger than fiction!  This week’s new releases from the Zone Music Library is a five CD collection of Documentary themed tracks titled Docuzone.  ZONE021 People’s Stories is full of emotive thought provoking tracks that lend an omniscient perspective to anyone’s personal story.  These tracks make it easy to feel empathy for someone’s struggles or celebrate in their triumphs.  ZONE022 Power And Conflict creates a world dominated by battles and unrest.  Tension and raw nerves run rampant with so much at stake!  We return to calmer pastures with ZONE023 Earth Matters.  Mother Nature’s beauty and mystery is well documented through these airy and panoramic tracks.  ZONE024 Going Global takes us to all corners of the World and serves as a bird’s eye view into other cultures.  There is no limit to what can be accomplished when diversity is celebrated and communication is achieved!  It’s impossible to listen to ZONE025 It’s A Strange World without a smile on your face!  This comedic slice of life combines elements of kitsch, slapstick and good ol’ fashioned cheese to accentuate the humor of existence.  You can attempt to walk a mile in another person’s shoes, but listening to these CD’s is a lot less tiring.

For these and many other great tracks from the Zone Music Library, visit our website – search.5alarmmusic.com

Documentary/Solo Instruments

ZONE021 People’s Stories

Intelligent and emotive music for ‘fly on the wall’ exposés, factual entertainment and serious documentary programming about ordinary and remarkable people of all ages. Sub-sections include Ordinary Lives, The Truth About, Young & Old, Visionaries, Love & Romance, Sad Times and Happy Times

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Documentary/Drama

ZONE022 Power And Conflict

Political power, high level business and finance, military drama and the aftermath of war. Sub-sections include Political Conflict, Seat Of Power, Power Brokers, Tense Situations, Prelude To War, Battle Ground, Aftermath Of War and Remembrance

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ZONE023 Earth Matters

Epic themes and descriptive underscores for natural history, nature and environmental documentaries. Sub-sections include Mother Earth, Landscapes, Climate Change, Environmental Solutions, Dying Planet and Human Legacy

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Documentary/World/Corporate

ZONE024 Going Global

A snapshot of cultural diversity and shifting power in the 21st century featuring music for corporate communications and serious documentaries. Sub-sections include Global Networking, Journeys, Globalization, Diverse Worlds, Tribe, Emerging Nations and One World

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Comedy

ZONE025 It’s A Strange World

The bizarre, extraordinary, oddball, weird, sensational and just plain daft. Light-hearted comic music for observational and tongue-in-cheek factual entertainment and documentaries. Sub-sections include Cheese Fest, Quirky Characters, Spooky, Odd & Magical, Crazy Antics and Freak Show

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*If you love what you hear and need a music search, call our music director Tyler Harp at 626.304.1698. We’re happy to get you set up on the Search & Rescue site.

New And Noteworthy!

Sarah

We’re bursting at the seams with tons of new placements!  If song placements were Bon Bons, we would need to be contestants on the next season of The Biggest Loser.  Check it out:

Feature Films

New Line Cinema’s Valentine’s Day starring Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Garner among many others

Miramax Film’s The Switch (also known as The Baster) starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman

CBS Film’s The Back-Up Plan starring Jennifer Lopez

Movie Trailers

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My Hero! New Releases – 3/26/10

Sarah

Danger looms.  Anxiety mounts.  Redemption of the entire universe falls to the valiant actions of the courageous warrior among mounting flames and destruction!  With Summer just around the corner, we anxiously await for explosive Summer blockbusters to hit the big screen.  Don’t worry, we’ve got just the thing to amplify all of those hard hitting trailers, promos and action scenes.  OPM_B005 TNT Trailers 4 is like an auditory panoramic orchestral powder keg!  These tracks supply the power and punch for action packed productions.  AB189 Big Screen Promos sound absolutely huge with an abundance of drums and percussion, a full orchestra and full choir.  These urgent and adrenaline infused tracks offer edge of your seat tension and suspense on a grand scale.  The probing detective is at the scene of the crime with AMY016 Spy/Law/Crime setting just the right investigative mood.  The apprehension of criminals requires some sophisticated covert operations and these dynamic and subtly tense tracks blend right in with the undercover investigation.  These tracks really save the day!

For these and many other great tracks, visit our website – search.5alarmmusic.com

Drama

OPM_B005 TNT Trailers 4

Hard hitting drums, percussion and guitar with orchestral underscore

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AB189 Big Screen Promos

Part two of the Big Screen series.  Orchestral scene setters with dynamic thunder drums and action synths to crank up the tension and create dramatic orchestral promos for any usage.

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AMY016 Spy/Law/Crime

Suspenseful and intriguing investigative themes for crime dramas

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*If you love what you hear and need a music search, call our music director Tyler Harp at 626.304.1698. We’re happy to get you set up on the Search & Rescue site.

What Does A Piano And A Roll Of Duct Tape Have In Common? New Releases – 3/19/10

Sarah

There are few instruments as dynamic and captivating as the piano.  A keyboard has as wide of a variety of uses as a roll of duct tape!  This week we’re celebrating the beauty and diversity of solo piano composition.  All 44 tracks off PNBT1010 The Piano Player from the Pennybank Tunes music library cover the full scale of human emotions.  With jazzy stride piano ditties that conjure up the days of the prohibition era, sweeping Classical melodies reminiscent of Ludwig Van Beethoven, swaggering Boogie Woogie grooves that bring Jerry Lee Lewis to mind and everything in between, this CD reads like a love letter to the instrument.  MR143 Piano Work Solo from the Magazine music library evokes a softer reflective side of life with lush and romantic pieces to warm the heart with a few fun 1920’s Rags to liven things up.  So saddle up in a candlelit booth in our virtual Piano Bar and take a load off!

For these and many other great tracks, visit our website – search.5alarmmusic.com

Solo Instruments

PNBT1010 – The Piano Player

Charismatic solo piano in many moods – Piano Bar, Romantic, Classical.

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MR143 – Piano Work Solo

Flowing and emotive solo piano

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*If you love what you hear and need a music search, call our music director Tyler Harp at 626.304.1698. We’re happy to get you set up on the Search & Rescue site.

5 Alarm Music Really Cooks!

Sarah

Pop quiz time!

5 Alarm Music is to productions as fire is to ________.

A) Flames

B) Your Mom

C) Your BBQ

D) A place to put all quizzes

If you answered C, you are correct!  5 Alarm Music adds the heat to any production, so it’s no surprise we also know a thing or two about the fine art of a tasty BBQ.  Check out these pictures of our 5 Alarm family donning our cool BBQ apparel:

This picture comes to us all the way from Costa Rica!  You gotta love a country that is bordered by the Caribbean Sea and does not fear the mustache.

This guy looks like he can grill up an entire Ox without breaking a sweat.  All hail the Barbecue King!

Dan Korobkin from CueMx shows some pride for his grill and makes a strong case for bringing the chef hat back in style.  Lookin’ good, Dan!

This guy is saying, “What me worry?  This whole barbecue situation is under control.”  Seriously.

Keep em’ coming!  Barbecue season is right around the corner, so show us your 5 Alarm love!

Whirlwind Of Sound: New Releases – 3/12/10

Sarah

Want to make a child laugh?  It’s as easy as picking them up and spinning around in a circle.  The dizzying effects are an exciting new euphoria for children but can be a headache in the making for grown-ups!  This week’s new releases from JW Media Music bring back that youthful feeling of pleasurable motion without any of the unwanted nausea.  JW2191 Stubb’s Monster Mash is an eclectic blend of dreamy samples and seductive electronic drum grooves.  The result is as alluring as the slow trail of smoke emanating from a long cigarette holder belonging to a 1930’s Hollywood starlet.  JW2192 Orchestral Breakbeat combines sweeping strings melodies with urgent electronica beats.  It’s a lush and compelling way to make any dramatic scene spring to life!  JW2193 Crime Scene sets the stage for an investigative journey.  When detectives are hanging on the edge of solving a crime puzzle, the inquiring mind sets the pendulum of justice in motion.  Step into a captivating hypnotic trance with JW2194 Progressive Dance.  Propulsive beats and pulsing melodies will lift you up out of a conscious state and into a lighter alternate reality.  Hit play and let the sound carry you away!

For these and many other great tracks from the JW Media Music library, visit our website – search.5alarmmusic.com

Electronica/Urban

JW2191 – Stubb’s Monster Mash

A patchwork of ambient and dynamic samples on top of catchy electronica grooves

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Drama/Electronica

JW2192 – Orchestral Breakbeat

Lush and dramatic orchestral soundscapes floating above electronica breakbeats

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Drama

JW2193 – Crime Scene

Intriguing investigation underscores

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Electronica

JW2194 – Progressive Dance

Infectious House beats with dramatic undertones

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*If you love what you hear and need a music search, call our music director Tyler Harp at 626.304.1698. We’re happy to get you set up on the Search & Rescue site.

The Musings of Comedy and Tragedy: New Releases – 3/5/10

Sarah

The masks representing the dichotomies of comedy and tragedy derive from ancient Greek Theater.  These symbols of drama date back to the 5th century B.C. and contain exaggerated expressions so audience members could decipher the emotions of the actors even in stadiums holding thousands.  These days, modern technologies provide us with up close and personal views of dramatic footage.  This week’s new releases from the Liftmusic library demonstrate the happy and sad faces of the human condition and act as a musical mask enhancing the action.  The larger than life sounds of LIFT051 Jake’s Space Dust blend hipster culture with laid back slacker anthems to create a cool and easy vibe.  No worries, it’s all good dude!  LIFT052 Arcadia dares you to embrace life in its fullest form.  With clean and refreshing motifs, these tracks feel like an invigorating swim in the ocean on a scorching Summer day.  LIFT053 Too Much Booty is the soundtrack to the party of the year!  These good time Urban tinged songs of celebration allow you to let it all hang out.  LIFT054 English Drama wears the mask of tragedy exposing the skeletons in the closet or dark memories that haunt the heroine. Mysterious piano and lush string orchestrations set the somber tone. These tracks are bound to give your project the dramatic Lift it needs!

For these and many other great tracks from Liftmusic, visit our website – search.5alarmmusic.com

Various Categories

LIFT051 – Jake’s Space Dust

Jake rides again. Wrap your ears around the latest leftfield offerings from the bard of Lewes. Features groovy retro psyche pop, cosmic rock, hip hop beats, electronic doodling and even some 70’s disco

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Electronica/Rock

LIFT052 – Arcadia

Super upbeat electronic folk meets baggy anthems with a dash of 80’s synth pop. Middle Earth meets Blade Runner in the magic electro forest

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Urban/Electronica

LIFT053 – Too Much Booty

Get down and join the party. An old skool new cool mix of funk, hip hop, breakbeat and electronica

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Drama

LIFT054 – English Drama

The second in a series of drama albums, this is a compilation of atmospheric and epic drama all with a distinctly English flavour and a Lift twist. With classical undertones and a rich palette of emotions the collection includes solo piano, tense arpeggios, magical dances, a viola quartet and fragile haunting soundscapes

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*If you love what you hear and need a music search, call our music director Tyler Harp at 626.304.1698. We’re happy to get you set up on the Search & Rescue site.