Some of you may have noticed a few subtle changes at SMARTassMusic lately.
We’ve implemented a great deal of improvements to the site(s) over the past few weeks as well as some high quality royalty free music of course.

For our USA visitors you now have www.smartass-royalty-free-music.com on a US server so that it loads even quicker for you. We’ve compressed a lot of the pages to help loading times and implemented a rather cool new music category menu. This looks like the previous one but should be much better to use – it’s certainly a lot more fun, give it a try!
In addition we’ve resolved some login issues that we were having with AOL customers and generally improved the overall ease of use of the site.
For UK visitors you have your own www.smartass-royalty-free-music.co.uk which is hosted in the UK and faster loading than the previous versions. The information from one site is duplicated to the other so you can login and purchase from either server.
Our stock music packages are more flexible now so that we can offer collections of entire tracks on our front menu. We’ll be putting more of these royalty free music collections together over the coming weeks. I should point out that they’re also great value as you get 2 free tracks!

We’re continuing to improve the site and more than happy to hear from you if you have any thoughts of how we can do this.

Happy music hunting..:-)

We’ve been involved with some interesting projects lately.
I had a call for more arranging for the Sugababes forthcoming album. We’re used to short deadlines but I emailed back at 10am asking when this was needed by and left to take my dogs out. When I returned I noticed that the producer had asked for the track by “late lunchtime”! It was done but I can’t say it was the most relaxing work I’ve done.
We’re also arranging a great deal of music for Sky TV but it’s confidential so that’s as much as I can say about that.
With the Autumn quickly approaching I thought it would be a good idea to add some Halloween music to our Royalty Free site. I added a fun Halloween track in a hip hop style with some spooky sound effects, harpsichord and church organ (listen) but also a couple of more serious tracks which I really like:

“Dark Skies” is a dark, eerie orchestral piece with a piano stating the main melody. This would actually make a great backdrop for any slightly eerie (Tim Burton style) video.
The other piece is “Shadows”, which is very much in the style Danny Elfman with strings, celesta, choir and a descending harmonic pattern. This is eerie and sweet at the same time. See what you think.