Smokin' Hot Library Music!

I'm probably alone in being into collecting Library Music here, but I just made a Top Ninety list at RYM (click to see the full list), and some of you should really check some of these artists out. Especially the more experimental ones.

I'm not gonna try and explain it, but Wikipedia says: ...Production music (Same thing) is the name given to the music owned by production music libraries and licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media....

Well, I tried to explain it to Apsalar in my Cinecitta Soundtrack Composers thread, so I might as well quote myself:

So basically its "illustrative" soundtrack music "premade" for a movie, documentary, radioshow or similar. Virtually all the italian film composers made lots of library albums. Also lot of french, progrelated folks like Teddy Lasry, Bernard Estardy, Michael Magne, Roland Bocquet, Bernard Fevre, Vladimir Cosma (also Brainticket's Joël Vandroogenbroeck)...

Many used psedonyms or were simlpy given some obscure bandname: Gistery and Santani is Alessandro Alessandroni & Romolo Grano, Moggi = Piero Umiliani, Braen's Machine = Alessandro Alessandroni & Piero Umiliani,   I Marc 4 =  Armando Trovajoli, Lesiman = Paolo Renosto, Eric Swan, Cecil Leuter, Roger Davy = Roger Roger, Blue Phantom, H. Tical, Jean Michel Logere(?) = Armando Sciasci etc, and many albums contains music by unknown/anonymous composers.

From my list-description at RYM:

..My top six are all albums that would end up on my electroaqoustic/20th century classical/avantgarde list too, if I ever make one. Although I enjoy whacky moogs, sleazy lounge and groovy exotica, that should tell you something about my preferances. You'll find very little brass, (cheesy) disco and funk here. But still there's just as much lovely melodies, gentle flute and groovy harpsichords as dark soundscapes, atonal strings and spacy bleeps...

1		Egisto Macchi Futurissimo (1971)
2		Egisto Macchi Voix (1970)
3		Patrice Sciortino Chronoradial (1970)
4		Gerardo Iacoucci Symbolisme psychédélique
5		Camille Sauvage Fantasmagories
6		Egisto Macchi Bioritmi
7		Luigi Zito Miscellanea
8		Gisteri & Santany Antico Mondo Greco-Romano
9		Blue Phantom Distortions (1972)
10		Egisto Macchi Sei composizioni (1975)
11		Bruno Nicolai Girasole girasol (1975)
12		Stringtronics Mindbender (1972)
13		Paolo Renosto Antica Miscellenea.2
14		Patrice Sciortino Percupulsions (Collection Horizon Vol. 1)
15		Eric Allen / Frank Reidy Forest of Evil (Album 1) (1978)
16		Cicci Santucci & Enzo Scoppa Povertà
17		Joel Vandroogenbroeck Biomechanoïd (1980)
18		Joel Vandroogenbroeck Lost Continents (1980)
19		Alessandro Alessandroni Ritmo dell'industria n°2
20		Lilio Narduzzi Variety (1969)
21		Elvio Monti / Pelleus Apprensioni
22		Francisco Semprun & Michel Christodoulides Métamorphoses (1974)
23		Various Artists - Labels - Musique pour l'image Espace et Actualité (1967)
24		Moggi Tra scienza e fantascienza (1975)
25		Sven Libaek Solar Flares (1974)
26		Cicci Santucci & Enzo Scoppa Ecologia (1972)
27		Bernard Estardy Electro Sounds Volume 2 (1973)
28		Lesiman High Tension Vol. 2 (1973)
29		Giuliano Sorgini Percussioni in Crescendo
30		Various Artists - Labels - Sonimage Obsession Dramatique (1973)
31		Bruno Nicolai Geminus (1969)
32		Okko Sitar & Electronics (1971)
33		Various Artists - Labels - Patchwork Patchwork 20 - Dramatique / Action thèmes Dark library lounge. Very similar to the soundtrack for La Planete Sauvage.
34		The Braen's Machine Temi ritmici e dinamici (1973)
35		Joel Vandroogenbroeck Meditations Vol.1 (1979)
36		The Braen's Machine Underground (1971)
37		Nino Nardini & Roger Roger Jungle Obsession (2000)
38		Various Artists - Labels - CAM Giallo 2 (Suspence - Drammatico) (1973)
39		Roger Roger De la musique et des secrets pour enchanter vos plantes (1978)
40		Eric Framond Puzzle
41		Magical Ring Light Flight / More and More (1977)
42		Roger Davy Sons nouveaux pour images contemporaines (1971)
43		Claude Vasori Energie (1972)
44		Nino Nardini & Roger Roger Jazz-Dramatic
45		Staff Carpenborg and the Electric Corona Fantastic Party (1970)
46		Bernard Fevre Cosmos 2043
47		Nino Nardini Musique pour le futur (1970)
48		Rino de Filippi Nel monde del lavoro
49		Alessandro Brugnolini Utopia (1972)
50		Bruno Nicolai Rendez vous (1975)
51		Piero Umiliani Percussions (1970)
52		Bernard Fevre The Strange World of Bernard Fevre (1975)
53		Cicci Santucci & Enzo Scoppa Looking Around [as Quintetto Santucci-Scoppa] (1971)
54		Joel Vandroogenbroeck Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds (1980)
55		Vincent Gémignani Modern Pop Percussion (1970)
56		Teddy Lasry / Jean-Cohen Solal Patchwork 19 - Flutissimo
57		Eric Framond Musique A Show
58		Bruno Nicolai Allora, il treno (1975)
59		Jacques Siroul Midway (1975)
60		Bernard Estardy Electro Sounds (1972)

Egisto Macchi is my favorite artist nowadays


Edited by Rocktopus - April 30 2009 at 06:39

^If you enjoyed Distortions I'm pretty certain you'll love that Underground-album by Braen's Machine as well. Brilliant, quite complex psychrock.

And yes, do check out Egisto.