Featured Stock Music Track, Week of March 28, 2016

This week's featured stock music track is "Corporate Motivation." Inspire your team to achieve with this churning track. Variations within the repeating chord changes urge your audience to press forward toward the shared goal of achievement. The music conveys a positive, optimistic feeling for your presentation or video.

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Dark Tragedy: Cinematic Royalty-free Stock Music

This ambient electronic piece has a post-apocalyptic vibe, great for science fiction, tragedy scenes, documentaries, and so on.







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A Whirlwind Week

The last seven days have been crazy. I helped out a friend working security for the big Saint Patrick's festival here in Dayton. He was short-handed this year, so I told him to use me as much as possible. That was foolish of me. Between 6 PM last Wednesday and 2 AM the following Friday, I worked  27 of the 32 hours. It's not something I plan to repeat; I simply don't have the stamina anymore. I awoke mid-morning Friday to a slew of family medical problems, which I won't elaborate on here. Suffice it to say I was going back and forth like a pinball until last night, although I did manage some rest over the weekend.

I'm fine. My problem is that I'm a creature of habit. I like my daily routine, and the last week just blew that up. I wouldn't have changed anything, but I do like sitting here typing as I sip my coffee, working my way slowly into the day. My normal production routine got shot too, so I now have a gaping hole in my pipeline. I plan to work on some music this morning, getting back into some normalcy. Here's hoping nothing else comes up, but if it does . . . that's life.

Corporate Motivation: Royalty-free Stock Music

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Featured Track, Week of March 21, 2016

This week's featured royalty-free stock music track at the website is "Dark Ambient Cinematic." This ponderous, hybrid orchestral-electronic track would make a good introduction or trailer for your dark dramatic production. You could also use it as a musical backdrop for post-apocalyptic scenes.

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Featured Stock Music Track: Week of 3/14/16

This week's featured track is "Corporate Kinetics." The strong (120 bpm) beat contrasts with ambient guitar to convey forward motion in your presentations and videos.

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Corporate Kinetics: Royalty Free Stock Music

Remembering Keith Emerson

I saw the reports earlier today that Keith Emerson passed away at the age of 71. While Emerson's music may not have influenced me as much as some other artists, I had great respect for his abilities and a keen appreciation for his innovations on keyboards. My first exposure to his work when I was a teenager left a distinct impression.
The first time I heard Keith Emerson, it was with his signature group Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. I was at my brother's house and he let me check out some of his records with headphones while he and some friends of his were playing cards. The first album I checked out was ELP's Tarkus. The opening of the title track, a side-long anti-war epic, begins with synthesizer tones that stack on top of each other, gradually building and phasing around the speakers (and with headphones, inside your head). The next 20 minutes were a tour de force of complex harmonies and odd meters, mixed with more conventional rock elements. It was an eye, and ear, opening experience.
Eventually I collected and digested all of ELP's early albums, including their self-titled debut, plus Trilogy, the live Pictures at an Exhibition, and their classic Brain Salad Surgery. As a drummer back in those days, I was much more tuned in to Carl Palmer's drumming. In the fullness of time, though, I have developed an appreciation for Emerson's blending of jazz, rock, and classical (including avant garde) musical elements. His career included composing art music and film scores as well as ELP and his earlier band, The Nice. Progressive rock would not be the same without his influence, both musically and as a flamboyant performer. RIP.

Circadia Streaming on Spotify

Circadia is available to stream at Spotify. Please check it out, and if you like it, add it to your favorite ambient, new age, or electronic playlist.

Update

I haven't updated the blog recently, so I thought I'd take a moment to do that now. I've been busy working on non-music projects recently, and promoting my music a bit more on Twitter. I currently have several tracks in the curation pipeline at AudioJungle and hope to hear about the fate of one of those any time now.
Speaking of Twitter, you can follow me there to be the first to hear new stock music tracks that I upload to YouTube. I hope you will and look forward to hearing from you there.

A Different Kind of March Madness

During the month of March, 2016 you can license my royalty-free stock music track "Hopeful Inspiring Rock" for 40% off the regular price. This offer is available only at Luckstock.com and only with the link below. If you need a midtempo, uplifting instrumental pop-rock anthem for your project or presentation, this is a great choice. But don't delay. Once March is gone, this offer is gone too.

License "Hopeful Inspiring Rock" at 40% off during March 2016.