HUMTOO featured music maker for September

Congratulations to Chameleon Music, HUMTOO featured music makers for September.

Created in 1994, Chameleon Music specializes in providing original music and sound design for a wide range of media.

The company is run by Mark Taylor, with all of the  composing, arranging, performing and recording done in his own private studio.

In  the last 14 years, Mark has provided music and general sound design for productions all over the world – USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Panama, mainland Europe.

Recent credits include:

US Sci-Fi series ‘Altered Sanctuary’ - music for the pilot episode.

BBC World Service – music for a documentary about asylum seekers.

Novelist Maria Isabel Pita – video promo for her new book ’Safe Words and Spells’.

MSN / Chevrolet Malibu – music for online advert.

Original music / sound design / voice over for: ‘Murder Mystery and Magic’ a film by
Rage Productions that gave disadvantaged people the chance to work with
professionals. Video Excerpt.

Yvette Mahon, Burma Campaign UK

For more information, check out their profile!

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HUMTOO featured music maker for July

Congratulations to Gary Cribb, HUMTOO featured music maker for July.

London UK Bassist/Composer Garry Cribb has been a freelance Musician all of his working life. He has Recorded and toured Worldwide with many Artists Ranging from Boney M to Andrew Lloyd Webber. Garry also has several West End Musicals on his credit list.

These days Garry is more pre occupied with writing & Composing Music for various Media projects Including Instructional Dance DVD’s, Compilation CD’s and Various Corporate Videos, plus having Music on several Documentaries over the past year.

Garry has been uploading Music into the HUMTOO library for over three years. He has had various tracks used for Broadcast taken from the HUMTOO library.

For more information check out his profile here.

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HUMTOO featured music maker for May

Congratulations to Neil Cross, HUMTOO featured music maker for May.

Neil’s music is frequently licensed to film, tv and commercial productions in Hollywood and worldwide.

His credits include: motion picture, “Hostage” starring Bruce Willis; “Religulous” starring Bill Maher; “Bruno” starring Sasha Baron Cohen; various commercials for ad agencies including Saatchi and Mccann; numerous tv series including “American Chopper.”

He has recently had placements with MTV and an upcoming video game.

Neil is currently working on two movie soundtracks, due for international release later this year.

For more information and to check out his tracks, check out his profile here.

A new MacBook Pro

To help promote HUMTOO’s music library, we recently ran a competition whereby we gave a MacBook Pro away for the best use of our music.

We were delighted with the quality of the entries we received. From TV promos, TV shows, short films, corporates, radio commercials and everything in between we were really pleased to see our music in action.

We’re pleased to announce Rob Neary as the winner of the Macbook Pro. His entry used a great track by Peter Godfrey. On news of winning the competition, Rob exclaimed:

“I was shocked and absolutely over the moon to hear I had won the HUMTOO competition…it was a fantastic surprise!”

Thanks again for everyone who took the time to enter the competition! Here’s the winning entry, “Open Season” a 10min horror by Neil Moss with music supervision by Rob.

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HUMTOO featured music maker for April

 

Congratulations to Gus Caveda, HUMTOO featured music maker for April.

Born in Havana Cuba, Gus Caveda has been writing and producing music in all kinds of different genres for over 25 years. He currently lives in Miami Florida where he produces music for TV and Film projects.

In 1986 together with 3 other local musicians, Gus helped establish the freestyle music group called “Erotic Exotic”. The band was signed in 1987 to Atlantic Records and released several successful dance singles. In 1991 Gus joined toured with Epic recording Artist Nuclear Valdez. After a year of performing live Gus aimed his sites on writing for other Artists. He has produced several independent Artists ranging in styles from Rock to Christian country music.

Gus has been a member of BMI since 1985 and has had songs published by EMI Screen Gems, Joeyboy Publishing, AMG and several other independent companies. He has also had several songs placed on the CW Network, ABC Kids and on the Canadian TV show “Crashed Ice” just to mention a few.

You can listen and download his tracks from his profile here.

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Worldelectro

Worldelectro has just been released and the 20 inspiring tracks by Foukbass are now available to license and download here.

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Whitespace

Our latest mix tape release, Whitespace is online now and available for licensing.

Steve Ballard, the man behind stonelionmusic, had this to say about making the collection of 20 ambient tracks:

“The inspiration for “White Space” comes from the vast expanse of space it’s self, influenced by artists such as Jonn Sierre, Jean Michel Jarre, Isao Tomita and Robert Rich. A lot of Ambient space tries to convey the emotion, and spatial imagery, which I’ve attempted to do. However, I’ve added a little twist on some of it. Not all of space is beauty and light, there is a dark side and in a few tracks tried to convey that as well in this mix tape.”

You can download and license tracks from the mix tape here.

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Clay and Katie

We were sent this cute little animation last week that uses the HUMTOO library. The music is by HUMTOO music maker, MoritzSchmittat. Enjoy!

 

Love is in the air…

HUMTOO’s latest mix tape release, Touchy feely, is a collection of 20 beautiful, sensitive and romantic music tracks. Congratulations to all the music makers who were chosen on our latest release.

Track listing:

A Long Way From Home - Smidi

Hold On - robneary

Mississippi Ballad - seanjamesboyer

ELEGY 1 - godfreymusic

We Are Alone – IanD

Hopeful Romantic - knwebster

Country Blues - MattBroadfoot

Asleep In Your Arms - foukbass

When The Sun Comes Out - keydrum12

Lost Love Remembered - davidgosnell

EPIC ROMANCE 2 - godfreymusic

Sophias Theme – theaudiodetective

Lemon Tea - giannis

Honey I`m Home - Smidi

Breathe In Deep - SuspectAudio

Missing You - keydrum12

Why - abarden23

Don`t Let Go Too - dcsoulplusmind

Once She Loved Me - stonelionmusic

Sandcastles - kift

HUMTOO music maker Danny Hahn (AKA Neokitsch)

We’ve recently discovered that HUMTOO music maker Danny Hahn has been busy in his studio, working on the feature film And White Was The Night.

We’ll have some more exciting news about the film shortly, but for now, here’s the trailer that Danny scored.

Enjoy

And White Was The Night (trailer) from Mika Rantonen on Vimeo.

A trailer for a full-length feature film. If you want to participate join the production at www.wreckamovie.com

Oh, and if you’re interested in learning more about Danny and his studio, check out his HUMCAST here.

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HUMTOO featured music maker for March

Congratulations to HUMTOO featured music maker for February Franco Pellegrini.

Franco Pellegrini is an independent Pop-Rock songwriter, singer and instrumentalist who uses a combination of acoustic open guitar chords, guitar effects and Andean instruments in composing his memorable, upbeat and heartwarming songs. Franco writes and sings mostly in his native Spanish, covering both Latin Rock and Pop genres. He also composes warm, nostalgic Latin and Pop instrumentals.

Franco’s first album “iNVeNTáNDoTe” is a compilation of songs written while he was living in Italy and Switzerland.

Despite having only recently gotten active in the music business, Franco is acquiring fans from all over the globe. His songs have been used for several projects and short films.

Franco says that even though he enjoys performing, his passion lies in the creative and technical process of creating a fantastic song.

Franco currently resides in Atlanta, GA.

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‘Like’

We’ve been busy adding a load of functionality to HUMTOO to help out our users and help build our community. You may have noticed that today we added a facebook like button, and also a tweet button.

More to come so stay tuned…and while you’re waiting, why not like us?

What’s Better?

What’s better, a moody teenage girl trying to get it on with a vampire, or the same moody girl trying to resist a flying werewolf?

Find out in this awesome trailer featuring music by janhelmet.

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Open Season

Peter Godfrey, one of HUMTOO’s most prolific composers has had some great success with the film Open Season. Placing 13th in the 28mins Later film competition, his music appears at 8 mins 28 seconds check it out!

 

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Latest music placements box on HUMTOO

You may have noticed that the HUMTOO project marketplace has a new addition! The latest music placements box delivers up to the minute information on where our members music is being licensed on broadcast productions. You can check it out here.

We’re working hard to place our members music and we’ve successfully had our production library music placed on TV and radio commercials, programmes, promos etc. globally over the past two years. HUMTOO is free to join and we’re always looking for quality new music to add to our library.

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HUMTOO featured music maker for February

Congratulations to HUMTOO featured music maker for February One Beat, One Nation.

The driving forces behind One Beat One Nation are award winning producers Christophe Chantzis & Erik Vanspauwen. Based in Belgium our gifted writer/producers team quickly conquered the world with their infectious beats and catchy song lines. With accumulated sales reaching 10 000 000 in singles and albums and tracks on over 100 000 000 compilations we can say our prodigious team truly have made their mark on the world of (dance) music.

Christophe Chantzis and Erik Vanspauwen were responsible for one of the biggest dance acts of the last decade, Ian van Dahl. Writing, producing, editing and engineering each track on the album that became ‘best sold dance album of the year’ in the UK and opened the door for dance music in the charts and on the radio all over the world. Actually Christophe Chantzis & Erik Vanspauwen are Belgian’s most successful artists in the UK ever !! iTunes USA number 1 downloaded album. Best sold dance album & dance single of the year UK. Numerous European, UK & German dance number 1’s. The list goes on and on. Example: Christophe Chantzis managed to have a release in the Belgian Dance Chart for an uninterrupted period of 3 years !!

Their music is being used in films, series and computer games all over the globe: Ugly Betty, Sex & The City, All my children, Traffic Cops, National Lampoon, Neighbours, Pimp my ride, MTV Hit List, XBox, Nintendo, Playstation,…the list is endless.

Today One Beat One Nation controls an ever growing sync catalogue of over 4500 tracks !!! Through the years our talented team collected an impressive amount of awards: Top of The Pops Award ‘Top Dance’ (beating Moby, Basement Jaxx,..), MTV Dance Star Award, DI Award UK ‘Best Act’, Musicbeat Germany ‘Best Single Dance International’, International Dance Music Award USA, etc…

Some of the artists blessed with the touch of our gifted producers are DJ Tiësto, TJ Davis, LeAnn Rimes, Praga Khan, Daddy DJ, Lasgo, Kelly Llorenna, Ace of Base, Milk Inc, Puldriver, Conjure One…

You can check out more of their beats on their profile page here.

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Music to our ears

There’s nothing more that we like here in the office than kicking back and watching a project with some of our music makers music. And today we did just that, with this cracker or a short, Worked For Me.

Produced by HUMTOO content creator CitizenKen, it features 3 great tracks by HUMTOO music makers: Telsa by Ivan Pizarro, Persevere by Julian Bradley and Woken2 by Ivan Pizarro.

Enjoy!

Worked For Me (5D MRKII – 5:24) from Ken Simpson – ID PICTURES on Vimeo.

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HUMCAST 11 – meet Colin Ozanne

Here’s the latest instalment of our HUMCAST series, which features our featured music maker for January 2011.

Here’s the talented arranger, programmer, composer and multi-instrumentalist (including sax, bass, bass clarinet, acoustic & electric guitar, Portuguese guitar, glass and bathtub) Colin Ozanne.

 

 

Oh, and don’t forget to listen to more of his music on his profile page!

HUMTOO featured music maker for January

Congratulations to Colin Ozanne, HUMTOO music maker of the month for January.

The music of the multi-instrumentalist musician Colin Ozanne offers a perceptive and detailed exploration into the world of experimental sound, music and programming.

Colin’s music has been descibed as an eclectic, perfectly balanced and memorable mix of Jazz, Electro and Ambience  - he arranges, programmes and composes all elements including sax, bass, bass clarinet, acoustic & electric guitar, Portuguese guitar, glass and bathtub.

Colin’s previous work proves to be as varied as his current album “The walter smith project”. Starting out as a jazz musician in Paris in the 1990’s, Ozanne briefly moved to the world of French Pop, playing with bands such as ELM, Manuel Bienvenu & BED, (where he gained first hand experience in both live performance and Studio recording) before spending some years playing with the Brazilian Jazz Forro experimental group Armazen.

His work can be heard on albums as diverse as the fantastical, Le Cirque des Mirages to the Electro Pop of Elodie O.

You can listen to his tracks on his profile here. Stay tuned for his HUMCAST which will be posted here on the blog in the next few days.

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HUMTOO’s music in action

Here’s another great usage of the HUMTOO music library. This time, on a non-broadcast production using the track “It’s The News”, by http://andrefratto.humtoo.com/

This usage is eligible to win the Macbook pro, more information on the competition can be found here.