jingles
Radio ID's talkover beds music for video, corporate
ABOUT US presentations,
composed bespoke music royalty free |
|
Brief History:
It all started in 1993 when Jonathan Colling signed a deal with
Jelly Street Records. Jonathan was teamed up with excellent vocalist
Emma James and the result was"Rhythm
Nation" by Bassrate. It was a minor hit despite being very
well received by DJ's...... This was the first step into a career
of commercial music production and also the first taste of how sharky
the music biz was !
After a couple more releases it was realised that the situation
was "not as expected" and on leaving the label, other
ideas of how to earn money from music began to form due to the experiences
with the Records label. During down time, Jonathan practiced different
styles of music to create a showreel for TV work and jingles. It
was at this time also that Octagon Music Productions was formed.
As a result of the demo tape being posted out to many companies,
Alan Fawkes called from Alfasound. A meeting was arranged to discuss
possible work, Jonathan started to work freelance at Alfa. It was
interesting to learn the do's and don'ts from a master tunesmith
such as Alan F.
|
|
Also in 1994 Jonathan and Mark Hewitt
then struck a deal with Rumour Records for Euro house releases and
another with X-Clusive Records where he started to remix Northern
Soul classics in a Piano House style under the remix name Proof
(see Records and Remixes
).
By 1997 Jonathan had put his stamp on / co /written 18 Alfasound
jingle packages including Talk Radio, Key 103, Metro FM, Northsound
1, Kiss 102/105, Followed by Galaxy and BBC Radio Cymru, to name
but a few. The sound of Alfa was very different during this period
and it was such a shame that the company was closed in Jan 1998
just after completing the Minster Fm package programmed by Jonathan.
It was around this time (1998) that Codemasters approached Jonathan
to create music for their latest games title Colin
McRae Rally. Inhouse musicians and programmers had always used
tracker apps which sequenced chip sounds to produce the music in
games until this point, so they needed someone who could create
a wealth of musical styles and someone with all the kit. The first
games were created for PS1 and Dreamcast..... This was the start
of a long period of creativity working on 31 + games for many companies
including Psysgnosis, Sony, Eidos, Infogrames, Sega, Nintendo, System3,
Eutechnyx.
When Jonathan wasn't working on games or Jingles he worked alongside
DJ's creating
|
|
|
original tracks and remixes for many record labels.
Jonathan teamed up with Mark Hewitt and together they produced dance
music for Rumour Records who had had the Hit with I Wanna Give You
Devotion some Years earlier.. Titles included "Prohibition
Groove" and "You know I Want You" by Global Cut plus
a few remixes. Later Jonathan worked with Shaun Banger Scott, Tony
Walker, Danny Oakes and Jamie Duggan. Together such Tracks as "Gordons
Groove" were created using the DJ knowledge of what worked
and what didnt coupled with programming expertise. Gordons Groove
was a major club hit and was played out all over Europe. It missed
the top 40 after a Records company error when it was dropped from
21 to 51 due to too many mixes on the CD in 2000.... A Sad end to
a tune that had a life of its own. Even a TOTP's slot had been booked
! Jonathan has now produced and programmed many records and remixes
for labels such as Ministry of Sound, MCA, Sony S2 to name but a
few. The full list can be found in the Records
and Remixes section of this site
Summary
Its better to hear Music than read about it !.... So get on over
to the various pages with titles that interest you and have a listen
to all the Records, Jingles,
Beds and Game music we have
created. If you would like music creating then contact
us :) Thanks for dropping by.
|
|
Bespoke music created for all clients, Jingles, Radio
Idents (ID's), computer game music composition, voice-over recording,
royalty free music, remixes dance music production, music programming,
Sweepers, commercial production, talk-over beds. |