Here’s an eerie new short zombie/horror film from Mark Wojcik at nnuu films featuring some of my music. The Horror Of Green Mountain (episode 1) is a CGI/mod based animated film with a dark and unsettling atmosphere that may give you the creeps!

My dramatic orchestral trailer music track Excelsior is featured in promos for new TV show Reel Rock from Big Up Productions:

“The Reel Rock TV Series launches in the US on Outside TV with nine half-hour episodes. Tune in Wednesday nights at 9:30 Eastern to join the greatest climbers and adventure athletes of our time as they step into the unknown… Brought to you by The North Face and Gore Tex.”

Excelsior is also available to license for your own films, trailers and videos from the following link or contact me for more info:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/excelsior

A new time lapse short film from wildlife photographer Marsel van Oosten which features my music has won 1st prize at the Travel Photographer of the Year awards. Namibian Nights is a short but beautiful piece (video entries in the competition were limited to a maximum length of one minute) and features my piano music track Leaving Paris.

You can see more of Marsel’s beautiful photography work on his website www.squiver.com or on his Facebook page here. Leaving Paris is available to download or license for use in your own projects here.

A new collection of ebook apps for the iPad exploring the underwater world have been released from www.iunderwater.net which feature some of my music. The collection of 5 ebooks include information, photo galleries and short video clips from dive sites around the world. Each volume is a coffee-table style interactive book featuring over 100 photographs and over 15 minutes of HD video which feature some of my music tracks.

The underwater footage and photos are beautiful and the apps are a great way to experience some stunning views of the underwater world. All 5 volumes are available individually from iTunes at the following link or you can visit www.iunderwater.net for more info:

Here’s a promo video for my Royalty Free music collection Volume 4: Dramas & Thrillers. This 11 track (45 minute) collection of music is aimed at film and documentary makers looking for dark and atmospheric music for their dramas and thrillers. The music styles include tense and dramatic fight music, eerie piano, atmospheric ambient soundscapes, dark pulsing electronica and more emotional and dramatic music.

Once you buy any of my royalty free collections, you can then keep on using the music in all your films, videos and trailers without having to pay again. There are currently 7 volumes of royalty free music available in my shop with more coming in the future. Get volume 4 here:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/film-and-documentary-music-vol-4-dramas-and-thrillers/

Or buy the whole collection and get a 30% discount on the entire collection:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/topics/all-tracks/royalty-free-music/

Head on over to my mp3 shop where you can get yourself a free full quality mp3 download of the song Dizzy, a reflective, melancholy and atmospheric acoustic guitar song (think late-period Johnny Cash) written and sung by Mr Bennett with production and background instruments/keys by me.

Just click on the link below, add the track to your cart and enter your name and email address at the checkout (you won’t need to make any payment). You’ll then get an email with the download details for your free full quality 320kbs mp3 of Dizzy:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/dizzy

Please note: this free download is just for your own personal listening – if you want to share it, please don’t distribute it but just point anyone else to the same link. And if you want to use it as part of a soundtrack to your video or other production, you will still need to purchase the relevant license.

If you like Mr Bennett’s music, there’s some more tracks we’ve produced together on my site or head on over to Mr B’s website where you can get more of his music.

Here’s a beautiful new time lapse film from www.sicilylapse.com featuring my piano music track Midnight Air from volume 5 of my royalty free music collection (available to license for your own film soundtracks here).

A couple of months back I decided it was finally time to replace my ageing audio PC with a shiny new machine. Despite the fact it was still basically running fine, it was showing its age and no longer able to keep up with the latest soft synths and huge sample libraries that are now the norm for media composing.

There were 2 options: buy the components separately and build it myself or leave it to the experts. The first option is always cheaper and years ago I could probably have done the job adequately myself but technology has moved on a lot without me keeping up, meaning there’s a lot more room for compatibility problems between the motherboard and all the components, hard drives, audio interfaces, SSDs, fans, PSUs etc.

I no longer have the knowledge or patience to spend on choosing components – I’d much rather get on with making music so I decided to try scan.co.uk having heard some good recommendations from other musicians. People usually only comment on a company when they have a bad experience but now I have my new machine fully built and running smoothly I have to say I honestly cannot remember the last time I dealt with a company whose customer service and help was as first-class as Scan‘s, in particular the brilliant Pete Gardner.

I’ll spare you the boring technical details but my machine had a few teething problems to start with, which it now turns out was due to a fault/compatibility issue with one of the hard drives which took a bit of problem-solving to narrow down. No hardware is 100% perfect and I know Scan have a very thorough QA process but sometimes a unit just has a fault. Throughout this, Pete was completely knowledgeable of all the paths to try to find out the problem but most importantly from a customer perspective was patient, friendly and went out of his way to help me get it sorted quickly, couriering out replacement parts to try and even giving me his home email address in case I got stuck at the weekend. I haven’t had that level of service from any company since, well I can’t even remember when…

I’ll definitely be using Scan for any hardware or audio components in the future and if you’re looking for a company in the UK to supply a dedicated pro-audio PC or components (they also supply high-end systems for graphics, video and gaming etc.) I have nothing but positive things to say about Scan, and in particular Pete (Scan head honchos – if you’re reading this you should make Pete a partner!).

www.scan.co.uk

Some of my music is featured in a new documentary called End Of The Road: How Money Became Worthless, by filmmaker Tim Delmastro. The documentary takes a look at some of the issues leading to the recent global financial collapse and the future of the global economy. You can watch the trailer for the movie above, which features my music track Kaleidoscope. The film is available on Netflix, Amazon or online at the official website for the film:

http://100thmonkeyfilms.com/endoftheroad/

If you need some dark atmospheric soundtracks for your halloween videos, films, documentaries or parties there’s a selection of dark, creepy and eerie instrumental music in my music library that you can download and license.

From eerie soundscapes to haunting piano tracks there’s plenty of music to add some dark atmosphere this halloween. The royalty free collections are £39.99 while all other individual non royalty free tracks can be bought for 99p and licensed for non-commercial or commercial use in your films for £9.99 and £29.99 respectively. Check out the licensing info for details.

Listen to some of the preview clips below and click the title to take you over to the shop where you can buy and instantly download the tracks or license them for use in your projects right now. Or click here to see a list of all halloween themed tracks in the shop.