Well, after an overwhelming response from our members we’ve reintroduced our multiple license system which allows standard users to purchase full tracks for a rather amazing $20 (approx).

We now have 3 simple licenses:

1. [A] “STANDARD” LICENSE - ( Full license…..)
• Any personal use
• Internet use (streamed)
• TV, Radio Broadcast (Local only)
• Podcasts (non streamed)
• Public presentations/ events (non-commercial)
• “In store” music (single store)
• Duplication (up to 100 copies)
• “On Hold” music (single location)
• Student Film

2. [B] ” COMMERCIAL” LICENSE - (Full license…..)
Standard License in addition to:
• Duplication (CD,DVD,) 101 to 10,000 Copies
• “In store” music (multiple stores)
• “On Hold” music (multiple locations)
• Broadcast (TV, CABLE, RADIO-national/ international) (exl’ advertising campaigns)
• Public presentations/ events (commercial)
• Independent/ low budget Film (total budget under$200,000)

3. [C] ” MASS MARKET ” LICENSE- (Full license…..)
Commercial License in addition to:
• Duplication (CD,DVD,) unlimited
• Film- Major Distribution
• National and International TV, Film advertising.

Rember, much of our music is exclusive and we choose only the best of other composers that are found elsewhere …….at a higher cost!

A quick update to let you know that Jon has come up trumps again with some more superb electronic tracks:

Macrocosm - a very cool chillout track
Futre Punked - A  heavy chillout track with superb use of synths and heavy backbeat
Ashtar - a great up beat, stylish electronic track

More on the way……………….

Ps Hi Jon

For all you lucky Mac owners, the guys at the fantastic iCreate magazine have chosen to feature SMARTassMusic on their cover CD.

They approached us for promotional material for the covermount CD and we offered them 10 high quality tracks  to include within issue 69, out now in the UK .
They’ve been blushingly nice about us and have requested music for the Dutch version as well as more music for the following edition.
I have to say it really is a superb magazine and well worth a look. I seriously don’t know where they get the time to pack so much into each month!

Talking of having no time……the blog’s been quiet.

Sorry, simply a totally overwhelming amount of work to be done with a large amount of gigs and orchestral arrangements. Even though the workload is still high, normal service is resuming and we’re rolling out some important improvements and new tracks.

More of that later!

Some more great additions to the SMARTassMusic royalty free music library-Country Blues tracks by Guy Zerafa.
Each track is beautifully played and recorded and includes acoustic guitar, fretless bass, harmonica or violin  and percussion.

Have a listen to:
Taragh - a laid, back, sultry Blues piece with harmonica
Wrestling with Angels - smooth, country blues music with violin,
See Ya Later - a fun, cool blues track with harmonica.

You can also download a collection of 10 of these tracks (saving you lots of $$ )
Country Blues Collection 1

More on the way………

You’ll find a collection of 10 tracks in our packages section

We’ve just added some more great electronic music from Jon Cooper.
Jon composes the best electronic music I’ve heard in ages and these tracks are certainly up to his usual high standards.

As I mentioned to Jon, this style of music is usually done so badly that my brain is saying ”I hate it”  before I’ve listened to it, but Jon’s tracks draw you in, in a way that all good music does. I find it interesting, hypnotic and beautiful.
Listen to:
Houseofanthria - A minimalist, positive, up beat synth track
Ayla - a chillout, subtle , laid back, positive track.
Amnesia - a real positive, 80’s synth track executed with great taste!

Just a quickie to say that it’s been quiet on the blog lately because we’ve had a massive site re-organisation to take care of.
You’ll notice that our site “smartass-royalty-free-music.com” no longer exists and has been merged with www.smartassmusic.com. This was no small undertaking but now everything is far more tidy and logical within the single site.
We’ve added some great new tracks with scores more to follow this week. I’ll post shortly with details.

We’ve been really hard at work behind the scenes recently, with a major site re-organisation and one of the first updates to be implemented is to make life more simple for you!

Our new entirely Royalty Free, single Blanket Media License means that once you purchase a track, you are covered for just about any media usage (Film, TV, Radio, Internet, Multimedia, CD, DVD) as long as you use the music within a production (combined with images, video or  a voice-over). You are also covered for “in store” music as well as “music on hold”.

1 License, 1  Price,  Multiple Uses -  No more confusing licenses and prices.

Full details can be viewed here.

More improvements and updates coming very soon

Well, we’re onto the new faster, bigger server and it may have been a bumpy ride but it has enabled us to add much more music and I’m really proud of the latest tracks. It’s honestly some of the best royalty free music I’ve come across (and no, I didn’t write it myself!).

New composers Michael Taylor from Australia and Guy Zerafa from Canada have provided us with some of the highest quality scoring I’ve come across which is perfect for TV, Film and video use.

Guy is an award winning film composer and a wonderful guitarist, expert in many styles. His tracks simply ooze quality. Listen to these and you’ll see what I mean:

Long Ride Subtle Latin American influenced track with acoustic guitar and violin.
Things We’ve Said Louisiana  style blues with electric guitar, fretless bass and harmonica.
No One Knows String Quartet

We’ve also added a Hollywood Style Scores package to the Track Packages section. This is a collection of 10 Hollywood style orchestral tracks and is highly recommended.

We have lots of important updates and improvements which we’ll be rolling out very shortly and we’ll post the details here first.

You know those really frustrating weeks where nothing goes right?!
Anyway……….
For the diligent amongst you, you may have noticed some “ghosts in the machine” at SMARTassMusic this week. On Friday I noticed some missing tables in the DB, which was very strange and possibly due to a server error. We got this fixed as soon as possible and on Monday we started with a big server upgrade to give us more than double the space and a faster server.
Unfortunately this coincided with more DB tables dissappearing and the server upgrade  meant that we couldn’t access the system to correct this until the transfer was complete. This took all week!!!!!.

The site was in fact fully functional for almost the entire time although access to many tracks was impossible through the searh facility. This did not make me a happy bunny :-((

I’m glad to say that everything has been restored and process of moving to a new, bigger, faster server is now completed.
Personally, I want this site to provide superior quality content, quickly and easily and believe me, any downtime frustrates me hugely, as those around me will testify!

Sincere apologies if anybody was inconvenienced but everything is back working and with far more resources.
Actually we have big improvements which are already under way and we should be rolling them out soon

More great music is waiting to be released very soon.

A warm welcome to new composer  Michael Taylor from Australia. I love the quality of Michael’s Orchestral scoring.  Among other tracks, we’ve added several Hollywood style adventure tracks which, quite frankly he’s saved me days of work as I know exactly how much time goes into producing audio of this quality. These track are great for adventure scenes, fight scenes, sci- fi and the gernerally, best video you’ve got.

Have a listen to these:
“Red Baron“  A super stylish, exciting score. Some of the best I’ve heard.
“Return to the Scene” Very dramatic, dark underscore.
“Silver Bullet” A wonderful, flowing, dramatic score.