Juxtaposed Music (NYC) Launches JuxMusic.com — Online Music Licensing Platform
NYC-based Juxtaposed Music has announced the launch of their online music licensing platform at http://www.juxmusic.com.
An intensive new online music licensing platform has arrived, courtesy of Brandon Mason.
The JuxMusic Licensing Agency was founded by NYC record producer/engineer and music supervisor Brandon Mason, and provides music supervisors and directors with the music of highly-acclaimed established and leading-edge independent artists, bands, composers and songwriters.
All tracks are pre-cleared and hand-picked Mason, whose album credits include David Bowie, Secret Machines, Shooter Jennings, and film soundtracks to Across The Universe (Grammy-nominated), The Runaways, and The Tempest.
The company had its soft launch in October 2011. In the process, it has acquired tracks by a number of artists including:
— Hazy Malaze, rock band alter-ego of Neal Casal (whose credits include Ryan Adams, Chris Robinson Brotherhood) and Jeff Hill (Rufus Wainwright, Shooter Jennings, Teddy Thompson),
— composer Jeff Mercel (Mercury Rev),
— composer/songwriter/guitarist Jason Crigler (Goats In Trees, Teddy Thompson),
— James Brown’s original Funky Drummer Clyde Stubblefield,
— jazz great Ben Sidran,
— songwriter/guitarist Ann Klein (Natalie Imbruglia, Joan Osborne),
— drummer/percussionist Danny Frankel (k.d. lang, Lou Reed, John Cale),
— guitarist/producer/songwriter Scrote (Daniel Johnston, The Stripminers),
— Grammy-nominated children’s music band Milkshake,
— composer/keyboardist Erik Deutsch (Charlie Hunter Trio, Shooter Jennings),
— “antique garde” band Kill Henry Sugar,
— pop singer/songwriter Emily Zuzik (Moby),
— electronic dance music phenoms Trash Yourself,
— Gosteffects,
— Kids At The Bar,
— Glasnost
— hometown heroes Loomis and The Lust,
— Hilary Hawke,
— Joy Dragland,
— 101 Crustaceans, and
— Dr. Snitch
“I decided to start this company when I realized that my independent-artist friends and clients were sitting on catalogs of great music. They owned the masters and publishing, yet had few means to put their copyrights to work,” Mason explains. “Most artists find it difficult to make solid connections for synch placements, while music supervisors often struggle to discover independent music that is truly exceptional. Our mission is to help production clients infuse their film, television and branding projects with the authentic emotional impact of great independent music while also propelling the careers of artists whose work deserves greater notoriety.”
All artists who visit the Website are invited to upload their tracks for consideration via the ‘Submit Music’ page at juxmusic.com, although Mason stresses that the company will continue to be very selective about who they take on.
JuxMusic also offers music production services: custom/original music composition (by many of the artists from the JuxMusic Collection), music supervision, editing, sound-alike production, and remixes.
The juxmusic online workflow is designed to offer a start-to-finish music licensing experience, 24/7, via the following features:
• Production clients can mine through the juxmusic catalog in seconds by conducting an accurate Google-like track search, selecting criteria fields for genre, subgenre, tempo, mood, instrumentation, vocal type, and key, as well as artist, song title and open-ended keyword entry. Each artist has an informative public profile page where every song can be streamed in real time.
• Clients can use JuxMusic’s online video compositor application, SynchStage, to produce video synchs of their own uploaded video content with any track from the JuxMusic Collection without ever leaving JuxMusic.com.
• Clients can license their selected tracks with JuxMusic’s automated “click to pay” licensing modules and PayPal gateway. Clients receive 16bit .wav audiofiles and .pdf files of Master Use/Synch License Agreement documents via automatic download upon completion of their transactions.
Alternatively, clients are invited to phone/email Mason and his team with project briefs.
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