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ITV Documentary Series Real Crime Featuring My Music

Real CrimeITV1’s Real Crime television documentary series will be featuring my music throughout the episode Bringing Down the Gooch -- Real Crime with Mark Austin to be broadcast nationally this Monday 27th September on ITV1.

This episode focuses on the story of the specialist police team who took down the leaders of feared criminals, Manchester’s Gooch Gang. The show airs on Monday 27th September at 22:35 on ITV1 and you’ll hear my music throughout!

Update: here’s the first of three parts of the show Bringing Down the Gooch – Real Crime with Mark Austin on YouTube (you should be able to find the other 2 parts of the show at the end of this clip, or just search for them on YouTube):

Real Crime: Bringing Down The Gooch Part 1

My music features throughout the documentary, alongside tracks from DJ Shadow and a few other pieces of music. If you’re interested in licensing any of my music for your own film or documentary, please get in touch here.

Royalty Free Music For Film & Documentary Vol. 5: Cinematic Piano

Royalty Free Piano Music For Film & Documentary Vol.5: Cinematic Piano by Simon Wilkinson

Dark, dramatic and atmospheric royalty free piano music with a cinematic atmosphere, specially composed for use in documentaries, films and YouTube videos by composer Simon Wilkinson. This album includes the 13 full tracks (over 48 minutes of music in total) plus a royalty free license which lets you use the music in unlimited films, documentaries, trailers, commercial projects etc. (including monetised YouTube videos).

Royalty free piano music that ranges in style from gentle and sparse ambient piano chords and touching soundscapes to dark and sinister soundtracks for thrillers and dramas. Sad, emotional and melancholy melodies and lots of tranquil, serene and atmospheric background piano music for serious documentaries and personal human interest films.

Royalty Free Music For Documentary & Film Vol.5 by Simon Wilkinson

Cinematic music that’s also ideal for student films, art and photography slideshows or any videos or films that need a dramatic or atmospheric soundtrack.

Similar in style to minimalist pianists and film composers such as Harold Budd, Erik Satie, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Yann Tiersen, Ludovico Einaudi and Thomas Newman (e.g. soundtracks like ‘American Beauty’).

The royalty free license means you can use the music in this collection in all your films and videos with an unlimited lifetime license. Whether it’s for worldwide TV broadcast, full length feature films, trailers, student shorts, festival entries, personal websites, YouTube (including monetised videos), Vimeo etc. Click here for full licensing information.

The album containing the 13 full tracks plus royalty free license will be automatically available to download immediately after purchase. You can select from mp3 or wav format from the dropdown option above and if you’re buying from a country outside of the UK, PayPal will automatically convert the amount from your currency to British Pounds so you can buy from anywhere in the world.

* Please note: The one thing I do not allow is for any of my royalty free music to be used to create new music tracks that you intend to distribute, whether for free or commercially. For example, sampling a section of a track (even 1 second) and using that sample in a new music track that you intend to create is strictly forbidden. This specifically includes any music you intend to submit to YouTube’s Content ID system.

Tracklisting: A Kind Of Distance (2:50) | Migration (3:18) | Frozen Dreams (2:59) | The Falling Snow (4:20) | Butterflies (4:00) | Ghost Ship (6:03) | Coup D’Etat (2:57) | Cold Bones (5:13) | Rendezvous (3:06) | Midnight Air (3:53) | Heliotrope (3:57) | First Light (3:37) | Memories Of Home (2:18)


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New Dakotalapse Time Lapse Video Featuring My Music Tempest

Here’s another new time lapse video from Randy Halverson at Dakotalapse which I provided a new custom scored piece of music and sound effects for. The video is called Tempest Milky Way and my track is called, suitably enough, Tempest.  This is another stunning piece of astronomy time lapse footage shot in South Dakota from June-August 2011.

Tempest by Simon WilkinsonTempest is a dramatic orchestral piece which moves through rising chord progressions of spiccato strings, horns and double bass to build to an atmospheric climax.

The music is available as an mp3 download from my music store (with or without the wind, thunder & lightning SFX). It can also be licensed instantly at low cost for use in your own videos and trailers.

Get the mp3 download, as well as see licensing details here:

www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/tempest/

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Fox’s 24 Season 8 TV Promo Trailers Use My Music Again!

Dramatic trailer music Zahara: Fox 24 promo S08E19

After being used last year in trailers for season 7 of Fox’s 24, my music is being used again in trailers for season 8! Check out the promo clip here for season 8/episode 19 of the hit show starring Kiefer Sutherland featuring my music.

Zahara is a dramatic instrumental orchestral action track that is also available to license for use in other commercials, trailers and TV advertising spots. The track can be instantly licensed for non-broadcast purposes or contact me directly for broadcast licensing queries. The full length music track is just under two and a half minutes long in total.

More information about the track as well as a full length preview is available in my online mp3 music download shop here:

www.thebluemask.com/zahara

Awakening

Awakening by Simon Wilkinson

Dramatic piano music featuring strings, brass and subtle percussion. Suitable as dramatic trailer music or for use as inspiring background music in human interest documentaries about overcoming adversity.

Especially suited for documentaries and trailers focused on stories of personal journeys, social uprising (e.g. Occupy protests or human rights issues) and financial or corporate battles. The music is serious, atmospheric and cinematic with a powerful feel of epic majesty and inner strength and would also work well in time lapse films and commercials.

Begins with a cyclic piano riff and slowly builds momentum with lots of hit points before starting a dramatic and inspiring climax at 2:48 when epic strings and brass lead the track to an emotional peak. License this orchestral music track for use in your own documentaries, trailers and videos by selecting from the licensing options above.


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

Late Night Metro

Late Night Metro by Simon Wilkinson

Cool, relaxed and atmospheric medium tempo instrumental grooves that would be ideal as background music for art and photography slideshows, film scenes and background music for urban or nightlife documentaries.

Late Night Metro: chilled electronic music by Simon Wilkinson

Atmospheric instrumental music with a laid back head-nodding vibe that captures an urban late night European city feel.

Featuring Fender Rhodes keyboards, congas, gentle wah wah and acoustic guitar, warm bass, subtle electronica and atmospheric delayed synths.

Chilled downtempo electronica that’s similar in style to trip hop artists like Thievery Corporation, Morcheeba, Air and Zero 7.

See the Late Night Metro promo video above featuring atmospheric late night Tokyo Night Train photography and moody video from photographer and filmmaker Fabien Tran.

License this chilled downtempo electronica instrumental for use in your films, documentaries and YouTube videos by selecting from the licensing options above.


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

Mercury Ridge

Mercury Ridge by Simon Wilkinson
Mercury Ridge rally driving music promo by Simon Wilkinson

Mercury Ridge by Simon Wilkinson, a fast and exciting instrumental action track available to license for use in your videos and trailers.

The music builds up and drops, perfect for anything involving fast car racing visuals, high energy sports or rally driving videos, car chase scenes, film trailers or anything where speed and high-octane drama is involved.

Watch a promo video clip featuring a short extract from the full length (3:46) song in the video above. You can license the track for use in your own production by selecting from the licensing options above.


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

Neon City

Neon City by Simon Wilkinson

Neon City is a hypnotic, atmospheric and dreamlike musical sci-fi soundscape that would make ideal moody instrumental underscore for night time city film scenes, documentaries, noir detective stories and downtempo film soundtrack music. Also suitable as background music for photography slideshows or just as calming background music to listen to when working or studying.

Atmospheric instrumental music: Neon City by Simon Wilkinson

Watch the promo video on the right set against stunning atmospheric photography of atmospheric city skylines and night time imagery of urban scenes.

Dark, mellow and hypnotic instrumental music with electronic drone and synth elements, similar in style to contemporary electronic artists and composers like Cliff Martinez.

License this dark and atmospheric background instrumental music for use in your documentaries, film soundtracks, trailers and YouTube videos by selecting from the licensing options above.


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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Teaser Video For New Royalty Free Ambient Space Music Collection

Ambient Space Music | Royalty Free Music Vol.8 Teaser

Here’s a short preview video teaser for my upcoming Royalty Free Music Collection Volume 8 which focuses on atmospheric ambient space music. Like the previous collections, the music is aimed at film and documentary makers looking for atmospheric background music to use in their films, trailers, documentaries and YouTube videos without having to worry about repeat licensing fees.

For a one time payment of £39.99 the music can be used in as many of your films and videos without needing to pay each time the music is used in a new project. Coming soon, Volume 8 will feature atmospheric and evolving organic soundscapes, ethereal background musical textures, drones and a deep collection of intricate sound worlds and engaging aural space landscapes and journeys to add depth and focus to your projects.

The general theme of the music is obviously based around space travel, astronomy and other worldly audio textures and landscapes, but the music will also be suitable for a wide range of subjects for your films & documentaries including science, nature, time lapse, photography, wildlife, landscapes, art installations, human interest stories and much more. Fans of films such as 2001, Blade Runner and Gravity should hopefully find something of interest here!

Royalty Free Music For Film & Documentary Vol. 8: Deep Space Ambient

Royalty Free Music Vol.8 by Simon Wilkinson

Royalty free ambient space music is the theme of the 8th volume of my royalty free music. This collection features 10 long ambient space music tracks (75 minutes in total) plus a license to use the music in all your documentaries, films, mobile apps and games, trailers and YouTube videos without needing to pay any further fees (or ‘royalties’) each time the music is used in a new project.

Written especially for documentary and filmmakers looking for high quality atmospheric ambient background music for their film and video soundtracks. Ranging from epic sweeping vistas of heavenly atmospheric spacescapes to gentle floating ambient piano notes and shimmering layers of deep space sound design and drones.

This collection of longform organic instrumental tracks will take you on an interstellar journey through mystical immersive sound worlds and interplanetary discoveries of the Milky Way and beyond. Although the music has a space theme it would also be suitable atmospheric background music for other styles of documentaries and films including science, nature, human interest etc.

Royalty Free Ambient Space Music (promo video) For Documentary & Film by Simon Wilkinson

Listen to full length previews of all the tracks in the music player above or watch the promo video on the right set to outer space visuals.

Full of otherworldly soundscapes and textures the music is inspired by astronomy, outer space, interstellar encounters, abandoned space stations and epic galactic voyages.

If you’re a fan of lush visual sci-fi movies or ambient soundtracks like Vangelis’ Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sunshine, Moon, Gravity or Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks you’ll feel right at home with this collection of atmospheric deep space music audio environments.

Whether it’s for commercial worldwide TV broadcast, full length feature films, mobile app and game developers. student shorts, trailers, festival entries, personal websites, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook etc. The royalty free music license gives you unlimited lifetime use for all your films and videos with no further fees to pay.  Click here for full licensing details.

The album containing the 10 full tracks will be automatically available to download after purchase. You can select from mp3 or wav from the dropdown option above and if you’re buying from a country outside of the UK, PayPal will automatically convert the amount from your currency to British Pounds so you can buy from anywhere in the world.

* Please note: The one thing I do not allow is for any of my royalty free music to be used to create new music tracks that you intend to distribute, whether for free or commercially. For example, sampling a section of a track (even 1 second) and using that sample in a new music track that you intend to create is strictly forbidden. This specifically includes any music you intend to submit to YouTube’s Content ID system.

Tracklisting: Mission Approach (5:14) | The Karman Line (7:47) | Lightscape (7:17) | Outer Field Static (11:22) | Adrift (6:13) | Abandoned Orbital Station (10:12) | Heart Of The Sun (7:42) | Heat Death (7:24) | Beyond The Stars (3:55) | New World Dawn (7:46)