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All Music Licenses Now Cover Mobile Apps & Games

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Photo credit: Game Prototyping With Wooden Blocks & Pieces via photopin (license)

To simplify my licensing terms for apps & games developers, all my music licenses have now been updated to cover use in mobile apps & games (e.g. for Android or iOS developers).

So if you need some music for your game or mobile app you can now choose from any of my music licenses with prices starting at £9.99 for non-commercial use, £29.99 for commercial use or £39.99 for one of my multiple-use royalty free music collections. All of these will cover use of my music in your game or app, depending on your app and what type of license you need.

To sum it up briefly, my non-royalty free individual tracks (one-off use) are £9.99 if the app is free or £29.99 if the app is a commercial (paid) release. Then I also have royalty free album collections where you can use the music repeatedly in unlimited games, apps and any other audio visual productions commercially for £39.99.

And to simplify other parts of my licensing terms, I’ve also removed all terms that previously limited you to only being able to sell up to 1,000 copies of physical units of your productions (e.g. DVDs or Blu Rays of your films). When you now buy a commercial license or a royalty free collection, there are no longer any limits to the amount of physical releases of your films and productions you can sell! Unlimited!

If you have any questions about my licensing terms or using the music, take a look at the FAQs or licensing info, or please feel free to get in touch if you have any other questions.

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New Promo Video For Downtempo Electronica Track: Late Night Metro

Late Night Metro: chilled electronic music by Simon Wilkinson

This is my latest promo video for my downtempo electronic music track Late Night Metro. The video features some lovely video footage of Tokyo at night as seen from the night train, from talented filmmaker and photographer Fabien Tran.

The track Late Night Metro is a downtempo chilled track featuring Fender Rhodes, gentle wah wah guitar and atmospheric vibes similar in style to artists such as Thievery Corporation, Zero 7 and Air.

You can buy the track for personal listening or license it at low cost for use in your documentaries, films, YouTube videos or trailers from my online store here (it’s also available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.):

http://www.thebluemask.com/late-night-metro

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The Pussycat Waltz (For My Daughters)

The Pussycat Waltz by Simon Wilkinson

When my daughters were babies, they were both bad at sleeping.

Really bad.

We’d be extremely lucky to get more than a couple of uninterrupted hours at a time for the first few years. It was exhausting (and still is) but everyone goes through it and you eventually come out the other side and gradually forget how nerve-shreddingly debilitating it all was. I almost have.

Molly was our first born and one thing I started doing to try and calm her down at night was humming a simple lullaby. It was just a simple waltz melody that I made up which fitted the rocking motion as I tried to lull her to sleep. She’d rarely actually go to sleep but it was often enough to keep her calm, and you take what small mercies you can get when you haven’t slept for 3 days…

Over the years she began to know it as the ‘Da-da-da dee da-dum’ song and she started to sing it to herself. She still occasionally sings it now she’s almost 5 and I also used to hum it to our second daughter Ada when she came along.

The Pussycat Waltz by Simon WilkinsonSo I thought it would be nice to try and take that simple hummed tune and orchestrate a recorded version for them to hear in case they forget when they’re older.

I fleshed it out a bit more than the simple hum it started off as, but it’s still essentially the same tune (Molly also makes cat noises when she hums it now, so it’s been named The Pussycat Waltz).

I also kept picturing the Grand Central station dance scene from The Fisher King when I was writing it. It probably wouldn’t send anyone off to sleep in its finished form (try tracks like Frozen White Light for sleep) as it builds up to a couple of rousing crescendos, but it was fun to do and I hope they’ll listen to it when they’re older and maybe remember how mum and dad went through those long, long (did I mention long?) sleepless nights.

If you’re interested you can get the track here on my site and it’s also on iTunes, Spotify etc.

http://www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/the-pussycat-waltz/

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Promo For Dark Ambient Space Music Polaris

Dark Ambient Space Music: Polaris by Simon Wilkinson

Here’s a new promo video for more of my dark ambient space music set to atmospheric space video footage. This track is called Polaris, a dark eerie atmospheric ambient sci-fi soundtrack, available to license at low cost for use in your own videos, films, documentaries and Youtube videos.

The full length track is 10 minutes long and is available from my website store. No drums, no percussion, just long, organic, dark & evolving hypnotic soundscapes and relaxing mesmerizing atmospheric drones. Perfect underscore music for documentaries and films or just for fans of atmospheric ethereal music from artists like Brian Eno, Biosphere, Stars Of The Lid and other ambient textures. Put it on headphones and drift away to dark sci-fi landscapes.

Get Polaris from:

www.thebluemask.com/polaris

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Promo Video For My Acoustic Guitar Track Snowhorses

Here’s a new promo video clip for my music track Snowhorses which features acoustic guitar, bass, piano, strings and drums. The track is available to license for use in your documentaries, films and video projects from my shop:

www.thebluemask.com/snowhorses

The video footage is used with kind permission from Randall Barr at Cinequine who provide beautiful horse photography and video:

www.cinequine.com

Frozen White Light

Frozen White Light by Simon Wilkinson

Atmospheric ambient instrumental space music track Frozen White Light by Simon Wilkinson. A glistening and ethereal 30 minute longform piece of ambient music which can be licensed for documentaries, films, time lapse videos (as heard in the full length Dakotalapse time lapse film Horizons), museum and art installations.

Due to its long, peaceful and unobtrusive nature it can also be used as music for studying, writing, relaxation, triggering ASMR, meditation, yoga etc. or even for aromatherapy and massage therapists needing some calm background music to add atmosphere and ambience.

Ambient Space Music: Frozen White Light by Simon Wilkinson

If you’re an insomniac and having trouble sleeping, this can also make perfect sleep music to help lull you into a nocturnal state of calm. Also great music for getting crying babies to sleep (I can verify this from personal experience with my own baby daughter while I was writing the track!)

Watch the promo video here which includes a short 6 and a half minute extract from the full length 30 minute version of the track set to serene, hypnotic and atmospheric visuals to give you an idea how it can work with your own films. Also for fans of ambient space music and artists such as Steve Roach, Thom Brennan, John Serrie and Brian Eno.

“This single 30 minute track is perfect for lulling off for a short nap. This works perfect for me as I tend to automatically wake when the music is complete. The calm, delicate nature of the music is also perfect for reading to or working with.”

Brian Bourassa

 

“This piece hits a sweet spot for me, it’s kind of music I can float away on.”

Brett Christensen

 


This mp3 track is also available from these websites and online stores but if you want to use the music in your video you’ll need a license which is only available here at thebluemask.com:

Also available from amazon.comAlso available on iTunesAlso available on Spotify

Spring Fields

Spring Fields by Simon Wilkinson

but positive instrumental music perfect for human interest short films, trailers, commercials and promo videos. Gentle piano with subtle pizzicato bass notes and tinkling bells cycle around several times before adding more layers of pizzicato strings then leading to an emotional climax with full orchestra and strings.

Please note: the music comes in 2 versions (see above) which you’ll receive both of when buying or licensing this track: a full length 2:40 mix and a shorter 1 minute edit (in case you need a specific length for TV commercials or other strict 1 minute uses).

After a gentle start, this positive and energetic track is full of hope and a spirit of determination and adventure. Ideal music for thoughtful and inspirational stories about overcoming adversity and the triumph and beauty of the human spirit.


This mp3 track is also available from these websites and online stores but if you want to use the music in your video you’ll need a license which is only available here at thebluemask.com:

Also available from amazon.comAlso available on iTunesAlso available on Spotify

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Royalty Free Music Collection Vol.3 Released

Royalty Free Music Vol.3 by Simon WilkinsonVolume 3 of my Royalty Free music series for film and documentary makers is now up in my shop. This time the focus is on quirky upbeat plucked strings (cellos, violins, double bass), perfect for science, nature or human interest documenaries.

The royalty-free license allows filmmakers to use the music in unlimited film or documentary soundtracks without paying anything extra. You can hear preview clips and instantly purchase the downloadable album directly from my shop by clicking the link below:

www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol3-animated-antics

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My Music Tempest Used In Verizon Ad For Motorola Droid Razr Phone

Motorola Droid Razr Commercial Using My Music: Tempest

My orchestral music track Tempest has been used in a Verizon commercial for Motorola’s Droid Razr phone. Tempest is a dramatic orchestral instrumental track and is available to download and license for use in your own films, videos and trailers:

http://www.thebluemask.com/tempest

Antarctica

Antarctica by Simon Wilkinson

Seven and a half minutes of slow atmospheric ambient music and organic soundscapes with minimal piano. A chilly trip through Antarctic waters, passing huge glaciers. Longform atmospheric ambient soundscape, ideal underscore for science and nature documentaries, films, background music for relaxation, study, yoga, meditation or ambient music for sleep.

Atmospheric ambient music: Antarctica by Simon Wilkinson

No drums, percussion or any rhythmic elements to interrupt the dark and serene atmosphere; just icy intricate textures and calm organic soundscapes to hypnotise and intrigue.

For fans of minimal ambient music such as Brian Eno, Stars Of The Lid, Thomas Koner, Biosphere, Cliff Martinez etc. Hear the music played against beautiful BBC documentary video footage of icebergs and Antarctica to the right.

Important note: If you intend to license Antarctica for use on YouTube, you may find you get an incorrect Content ID claim saying that the track is actually a track called “MOS 6581″ by Carbon Based Lifeforms. This is because both tracks use the same synthesizer sound in part of the background which confuses the Content ID system. You can safely file a dispute selecting the option “The video is my original content and I own all of the rights to it” and then add a note saying “This track has been wrongly identified by Content ID and is actually called Antarctica by Simon Wilkinson who owns 100% of the copyright and is used with his permission. Record Union are aware of this issue so please release this claim.” -- the claim should then be released but it may take up to 30 days to clear. No monetization will be lost during this period. This issue only relates to use on YouTube but please contact me if you have any problems.


This mp3 track is also available from these websites and online stores but if you want to use the music in your video you’ll need a license which is only available here at thebluemask.com:

Also available from amazon.comAlso available on iTunesAlso available on Spotify