Craze Music hooking up with Awesome Talents!

Yep! You got it right! Some big news coming up! The Craze Music site has grown bigger over the years, both in content and functionality. With a steadily increasing amount of subscribers and customers and a constant flow of new visitors, it feels important to fill up the gaps in the Craze Music portfolio. Being a single composer, it is impossible to be effective in all styles. Luckily, over the last years, I've come to know a couple of really cool and skilled professionals within the music industry. So, YES...! From this day, Craze Music is introducing two Fellow Composers on the Craze Music site:
- Stephan Lindsjo, who will complement and fill out the Craze Music portfolio in the Acoustic / Inspirational / Easy Listening styles, and a couple of epic/trailer style tracks.
- Jonas Hornqvist, the Master of Disaster of Heavy Metal! Great action tracks wrapped around a heavy metal core. Driving energy, edgy challenging rhytms, epic choirs. Awesome for action or trailer usage.

Working professionally with music (as normal daytime jobs), recording their music in studios, having thousands of license sales all over the world and placements in Hollywood movies, these guys are top performers.

More about these guys the coming days where I will write a couple of articles and introduce you to their portfolios. Soon, in a week or so, the plan is to show all their Craze Music tracks at their profile pages, so you can get a good grasp of their styles. Until then, you can always take a peak in the two new fresh genres:
Heavy Metal
Inspirational / Easy Listening

If you liked that everything at Craze Music was done by one single composer, the search functionality will be updated to include check boxes for [All Composers] [Christian] [Stephan] [Jonas], so you can include/exclude composers for specific searches. However, I think you will find that each composer will contribute with new great tracks, all in their own specialized styles. I look forward to showing you some of their best stuff, so stay tuned for coming updates!
Best Regards
/Christian, Craze Music

New track placement for Spanish Nationwide TV-Commercial: Humpty Dumpty Doo

New track placement for TV Spot Broadcast: Craze Music's 'Humpty Dumpty Doo' in Spanish Nationwide TV-Commercial, called Leemos Un Cuento (We read A Tale).

Tricky and funny little track with many lovely and surprising turns for a variety of scenarios with fun and playful moods: tricky video games, romantic comedy, family drama films, cartoons. It also has a light, bouncy and positive feel with a whimsical, quirky and mischievous touch. The tuba and bassoon combo is great for pirate adventures.
Variants: 2:13 / 2:13 Loop / 0:56 / 0:55 Loop / 0:37 Loop Bassoon / 0:37 Loop Flute / 0:30 / 0:27 Loop / 0:10 Stinger / 0:05 Stinger

Humpty Dumpty Doo - 2 Min (Download HERE)

Composer and Producer: Christian Andersson

Moods and Keywords: light, lively, playful, fun, funny, whimsical, quirky, joyful, jolly, good, optimistic, positive, jumpy, happy, charming, lovely, bouncy, mischievous, sweet, relaxed, easy, cute, fairy, tale, tales, family drama, stories, bright, adventure, uplifting, story, joy, disney, video games, platform games, cartoons, cartoonish, teletubbies, in the nightgarden, childish, children tv, kids, glockenspiel, flute, strings, bassoon, tuba, crotales, triangle, cello, violin, cartoon, video game

Kick it in with Boots of Steel!

New Track at Craze Music: Boots of Steel
If you think it's been a bit quiet on this blog, fear not! Lot's of stuff is happening behind the mysterious curtains at Craze Music. Big revelations will be here soon! Until then, I'm celebrating that this uber track, featuring the uber guitarist Jonas Hörnqvist, has already been licensed twice, within just a couple of weeks! So... sit back... relax... No, wait! Don't sit back! Instead...

Kick it in with Boots of Steel! Feel the rage! An extreme and intense track, great for a 60 sec awesome trailer, thrilling intro or raging action sequence. Building from a clean and cool guitar intro onto brutal merciless driving full power action, heavy on crash cymbals and toms, ripping down to a fanatic solo lick, finally ending with an forceful impacting power chord bash. Metal Power to the People!
Variants: 1:00 / 0:30 Brutal Ending / 0:30 Long Solo Ending / 0:16 Brutal Cut

Boots of Steel (Download HERE)

Composer/Producer: Christian Andersson

Moods and Keywords: brutal, aggressive, intense, raging, furious, epic, awesome, fanatic, trailer, teaser, thrilling, driving, energetic, builder, building, action, power, powerful, heavy, hard, tension, riser, exciting, dramatic, opening, intro, competition, sports, rage, anger, fury, angry, massive, impact, culmination, climax, heavy metal, hard rock, hardcore, power metal, electronic, guitar, drums, 60 sec

Pirate Theme with a Personal Little Story

Here's a story... About 4 years ago, more specifically the 22nd of November 2011, I started a new track. I came up with a really cool start. Then, I got scared. What if I couldn't finish it and realize its full potential? So I stuffed it down into the WorkInProgress-drawer, to finish when the inspiration was there. The inspiration was never there...

Over the last years, I have learned a lot. For example, often it's not about inspiration. I know it sounds so cliche, but much more often, it's just about hard work. When working hard enough, if I'm lucky, the inspiration is suddenly there when I least expect it. Yesterday, I listened to that old skech, and I thought... what the heck... why not give it a shot. So I did, and here it is. I believe I realized its potential, and I'd even say I made it much better than I would have done 4 years ago! Now, let's see... What's more in that WorkInProgress-drawer? ;-)

Enough of chit chat already! Check it out!

Heroic energetic track in the spirit of Hans Zimmer's 'He's a Pirate' and Pirates of the Caribbean. Heroes and Knights! The captain's ship must sail tonight, we sail for gold and glory! Battle the enemy. Conquer the castle! Charge for honor! Great as heroic build-up or theme for an epic adventure. Interactive battle loop variant exists as well.

Variants: 2:23 With Intro / 2:10 / 1:47 Loop / 1:00 / 0:29 / 0:15 Sting

Go for Gold and Glory - 2 Min With Intro (Download HERE)

Moods and Keywords: epic, thrilling, driving, action, tension, energetic, trailer, dramatic, mighty, glorious, glory, pirates, heroic, fighting, fight, battle, competition, exciting, sports, battlefield, big, powerful, adventurous, grand, pompous, bombastic, cinematic, title, opening, credits, power, intro, forceful, rpg, adventure, fantasy, Hollywood, Hans Zimmer, orchestral, horn, trumpet, cello, strings, 2 Min,

The Pirate Theme is still available for exclusive buyout. Let's say $2500.

Fantasy Board Game Promo - Crush of Iron

Fantasy Board Game Promo - Crush of Iron
... with 'Age of Darkness' track from Craze Music in the promo trailer!

Happy Late Night Funk - Craze Music - www.craze.se

Sometimes, I just have to relax and create some fun. Enjoy a lil' funky tune! :-)

Real Art

A professional guy in the music biz once said: "To survive in the music licensing business, you should squeeze out a 2-minute track every day."

That was probably american working days, meaning 12-13 hours / day. Working Swedish day-hours-with-kid-getting-home-early, I'm currently at the rate 1-minute track / 2 days.

The current track... I've been working with it a week now. Not financially viable? To be honest, I'm getting a bit nervous.

But... For this track, I'll stick with the David Lynch quote:
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

And I'll say: this time, I've got a great idea to work with, and I'll stay deep for a while. You know what? Screw the one-track-per-day-thing! I'M CREATING ART HERE! ... and real art takes time. :-)

Last Sold Music Tracks

Last Week's Sold Music at www.craze.se


Abandoned Village - Short (Download HERE)

Brutal Action Tension Builder - 30s (Download HERE)

Buccaneer's Song - 2 Min Loop (Download HERE)

Glorious Epic Intro or Happy Ending - 10s (Download HERE)

Hum De Dum - 5s Pirate Choir (Download HERE)

In the Land of Magical Fairy Tales - Loop No Pizzicato Intro (Download HERE)

Sad Little Girl - Lonely Voice (Download HERE)

Thrilling Action Stinger - 8s (Download HERE)

Check 'em out!