BigFishAudio.com Gets a New Look

Big Fish Audio (BFA) is one of my biggest distributors in the U.S. and are constantly updating their website to provide the latest and greatest from the sampling world. Recently the site has taken a whole new overhaul and if I might say a step in the right direction. The website is a lot easier to navigate and the the layout has improved 10 fold. I think the Google bots really like it because within a week of the new look Big Fish was already a PR5.

As most of you already know the days of waiting on a sample CD in the mail (though still some of like having that hard copy) are soon going to be history with the digital age taking over and BFA is already in place to provide producers and musicians with instant access to some of the hottest samples available.

Big Fish will still offer the original sample CD packs as well as downloadable versions so they will definitely have the best of both worlds until the CD eventually becomes an inadequate item.

You will find all of Discovery's sample CDs available on the Big Fish website and soon available for download as well. So what are you waiting for? Get on over and check out the latest and greatest from BFA. You'll be glad you did.

Composer Simon Wolfe on Discovery Sound

Discovery Downloader will present a great line up of sound content produced by Emerging English Composer, Simon Wolfe. His samples, loops, sound effects, and production music are readily available for royalty free use in film, television, video games, live performances, and other multimedia projects.

We have just uploaded 114 high quality music tracks in WAV & MP3 formats supplied by Simon Wolfe. His tracks are available with a wide range of music genres including ambient, ethnic, classical, dance, rock electronica and more!

So Just who is this Simon Wolfe?
An emering composer for Television, Documentary film soundtracks and multimedia. Simon has written music sweeping across many genres from Ochestra, World, and Electronic to ambient, dance and classical. Some of his work has featured in the World Music Track CD released by Productiontrax.

His track "Next to you" was chosen for the film "HARD PILL" (writer/director John Baumgartner starring Jonathan Slavin)

Credits include:

"Wall to Wall" Television UK (dinosaur documentary), "Illuminations" UK
(music written and arranged for a documentary on Captain Cook's painter,
William Hodges on expeditions to Tahiti and India, featuring contributions
by Sir David Attenborough), CHANNEL 5 TV, UK DISCOVERY CHANNEL,
WEST COUNTRY TV (product advertising), SKY SPORT - middle east:
(FORMULA 1, GREAT SPORTING MOMENTS, PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL)


Want to hear Simon's tracks? Check them out here: www.discoverysound.com/SimonWolfe

Discovery Sound @ Loopmasters

Loopmasters Ltd. has gone out of their way again to promote Discovery Sound's world ethnic sample cds and this time the ad is huge. Now our samples can be downloaded directly from the Loopmasters website. (The days of waiting 2 weeks for the mail to arrive before you can start producing are over!!!)

Loopmasters gives new meaning to the word "distributor". They are always providing the best services and returns for all of their partners/labels. In short they don't beat around the bush. This is probably the main reason why they are so far ahead of the competition. Their reputation is inspecable and they are the leaders of the sampling industry.

Loopmasters doesn't play around when it comes to promotion for their artitsts. They are and will probably still be 20 years down the road, the best friend (next to your dog) you can have.

Well if you are a music producer you probably already know about Loopmasters. They did a complete overall of the site and now provide downloadable version of already popular sample cds.
Discovery Sound's sample CDs are also available to download exclusively on Loopmasters. Though the selection is few at the moment more albums are being added every week or so. Here are some of the albums that are available now for download over at LM.

Hundreds of vocal and instrumental phrase are offered, including fresh performances from Beijing Opera performers - .The award-winning set evokes the essence of Chinese folk music, with superb instruments, evocative songs by classic Chinese Opera ... more

I just went to Yubari the other day to help film a promotional video of Cheep Hiroishi and Junco's new song that will debut at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 2009. While I was there I got a chance to take a lot of photos of the town which I wanted to share with my blog readers.




































I was suprised to see all the movie advertisments from the old days still displaying on billboards almost anywhere you look. I couldn't walk 20 feet without seeing some sort of movie display. Back in those days the ads were huge. There was not ink-jet printer so they were hand painted and put up everywhere from small coffee shops and hotels to government offices and schools.

I guess back in the day it was the movie festival to be at. The movie craze took a brief break due tolack of funding and the town's own finacial and political issues, but it seems to have bounce back. And just in time too.

My film along with about sixty others will be showing over a period of one week between February 26th to March 3rd. I am assuming it is going to be pretty big. I will definitely give more updates on the festival as I know about them and a good review of the festival after it is over.

The town is still filled really great people who are almost all movie fanatics. It really like walking into a completely new world. I
forgot that I was in Japan.



















An experience some say you will remember for a life time. I'll just have to see for myself.