By Anonymous
HOLLYWOOD, CA June 4, 2004 -– Chicago Blues Legend Robert Fairweather and ASCAP Songwriter Nico Demonte introduces Blues Flavors, Volume I, a collection of music beds recorded by the finest sound designer, resulting in the best-quality recordings available. Following suit to Nico’s previous collections, Blues Flavors, Volume I combines the best music and sound beds in Blues from an expansive array of genres. Delve into the sensual traditions of an intense era, the great vibrations of sound that typified the oppressive struggle during the Jim Crow laws post-Civil War Reconstruction that epitomized the Blues sound. Travel back to the Delta 1900’s from Memphis to Mississippi whether you preferHouse Rocking Blues, Boogie-Woogie or the downtempo sounds of Country Blues or the Louisiana style, Blues Flavors is the essential royalty-free collection for your post production needs. Transport yourself further back to 1890, where -song singing and solo field hollers recount the African oral histories by stylistically improvising common lyrical phrases along railroad tracks and plantations that would forever transform the musical tradition of America.
This extensive collection includes over 1 hour of broadcast quality blues tracks that include Traditional blues, Memphis Blues, New Orleans Blues, Piedmont Blues, piano, Roadhouse, Slide, Texas, Urban, West Coast, Delta, Chicago Blues, Work Songs and more. Smooth jazz complete with live horns, guitar, upright bass, finger bass, trap kits with brushes, piano, Rhodes Piano, Hammond and Farfisa organ. Additionally, nearly all of the sounds in this collection were recorded in stereo, providing phenomenal sound quality. The collection utilizes a variety of recording techniques, from solo recordings to saturations of echo and reverb to re-create the depth and drama of the swamp blues era. With an Robert Fairweather’s extensive background in the early delta blues, the tracks provide a fresh perspective and interpretive lending of blues greats like T-Bone Walker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, BB King, Skip James, Lester Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Johnny Copeland, Willie Dixon, and John Lee Hooker.
Two hot new collections are on the horizon for songwriters Robert Fairweather and Nico Demonte, the American Folk Sessions featuring all the patriotic music beds and the American Blues Sound Collection, a set of beds produced in tandem with America’s great blues musicians! Check back soon for more details!
“A Haunting sound collection. Distorted slide guitars that breathe fire! The slide collection is thunderous. All of the instrumentations cover the shades of human emotion. A must for your clients!” – Jennifer Rubenstein, Delta Blues Chronicle
"This library rings with magic! All of your commercial and post production projects should include Blues Flavors, Volume I. Absolutely stunning sound!" -Saul Goldstein, Sound Design Magazine
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By Anonymous
NEW YORK June 15, 2003 -- Today, MadWaves Corporation (London, Nice, Boston) announced that a number of stations within Emmis Communications’ radio group – the 7th largest radio group in the US – have purchased the MadPlayer™ to create music beds for commercials and backgrounds for their DJs. Emmis is the second radio company in the US to go Certifiably Mad™; earlier this year, Radio One bought MadPlayers for all its affiliate groups. Operated by MadWaves’ proprietary Generactive™ Music Technology, the MadPlayer generates unique, unlimited copyright-free music of exceptional sound quality users can play with, change, listen to and share with others.
Great Addition to Stations’ Ability to Produce Top-Quality Music.
“MadPlayer is a great addition to our stations' ability to produce top-quality music beds for the DJs and for client commercials,” said Rick Cummings, President of Emmis Radio. "Many of our stations are using the MadPlayer,” added Jimmy Steal, Emmis’ VP of Programming and Program Director at Power 106 in Los Angeles, the number one hip-hop station in Southern California. “It's an incredible resource at a reasonable price.”
One of the Emmis stations using MadPlayer is the New K-LITE 98.7 in Phoenix, AZ. “When MadWaves demo’d the MadPlayer, all of us were sitting there and saying, ‘Wow! Now we won’t have to buy as many production libraries as in the past, that’s fabulous!’” said Joel Grey, K-LITE’s Program Director, who ordered a unit for his imaging director. Grey said he was drawn to the versatility of the technology. “What I liked about it, if you needed a 7-second music bed for a sweeper, you could program it to do that. I think MadPlayer really has a future.”
“The feedback I’ve gotten from our directors is that they love it,” said R.J. Curtis, KZLA’s Operations Manager in Burbank, CA, who bought the MadPlayer for his station’s imaging and creative directors. “MadPlayer feels and looks like a video game, but it has such practical application. It’s a good tool for creating music beds for the jocks to use and for work for some of the station’s clients. It’s so easy to use and there are multiple possibilities for our team to do creative stuff with it on the air.”
MadPlayer Usage A Trend With Music Professionals.
“We’re excited by the Emmis professionals’ response to the MadPlayer,” said Voislav Damevski, MadWaves’ CEO, who pointed out: “Not only are production staff at radio stations across the US adopting MadPlayer technology, music producers and professional musicians increasingly are turning to MadPlayer as an essential part of their music creativity arsenal. ”MadTechnology™ usage is a growing trend. Rap artists, drummers, composers – even K-12 music and technology educators now use MadPlayer to inspire, create and make it with music.”
About Emmis.
Emmis Communications - Great Media, Great People, Great Servicesm .
Emmis Communications is an Indianapolis based diversified media firm with radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and magazine publishing operations. Emmis' 18 FM and 3 AM domestic radio stations serve the nation's largest markets of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago as well as Phoenix, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, IN. In addition, Emmis owns two radio networks, three international radio stations, 16 television stations, award winning regional and specialty magazines, and ancillary businesses in broadcast sales and publishing. Emmis has announced the acquisition of a majority interest in six radio stations in Austin, Texas. Pending approvals from the Federal Communications Commission and other regulatory agencies, the transaction is expected to close in the company's second fiscal quarter. After the close of the transaction, Emmis will own 27 radio stations in eight markets.
About MadWaves.
MadWaves designs, develops, markets and licenses software and hardware solutions that bring interactivity to digital music. The Company delivers generative and interactive music solutions and interactive products and software, for application to the web, personal computers, consumer/business products and wireless devices. The Company sells and licenses its products to companies that want to add interactivity and generative music features to their consumer digital audio-related products. MadWaves LTD., UK is headquartered in London with its R&D facility in Sophia Antipolis, France; MadWaves USA, Inc. is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York and San Mateo, CA.
For Further Information.
Contact Laurie Rich, MadWaves Director of Marketing and Communication, in New York at 845.876.6330 or Lrich@madwaves.com. Or visit MadWaves’ web site, www.madwaves.com.
For quotes and reviews from some of the numerous professional music industry members who use the MadPlayer, please visit http://www.madwaves.com/flash/quotes.asp
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By Anonymous
Littleton, CO March 25, 2004 -- Thanks to airbrush tanning, you can get a tan in less time than it takes to get a manicure and the beauty about it is that it being touted as safer than exposure to the damaging rays of the sun or traditional tanning beds. This hot new trend in tanning is growing rapidly – across the entire United States.
MOON Tans, a Colorado Corporation is the company responsible for the sunless tanning boom in Colorado. Since April 2003 MOON Tans, Inc. has licensed over 70 locations nationally to-date and "is the fastest growing sunless airbrush tanning company in the country," states Linda Dillon, President and Founder of MOON Tans, Inc. MOON Tans has been gaining National recognition in the sunless tanning industry - featured in several different local and national publications and television segments. In addition to a feature article in the February 2004 Business Style Section of Women’s Edition Magazine, Allure Magazine declares MOON Tans, Inc. one of the "Best Beauty Services and Exceptional Experts across the Country" in the October 2003 Five Star and Superstar Guide. The Denver Post “The Scene” Section featured “You Don’t Have to Broil in Oil for a bronze glow” in June 2003, and WB Channel 2 aired a 4-minute segment demonstrating the Airbrush Tanning Technique of MOON Tans in May 2003.
What has prompted this revolutionary technique to tanning? “The general population is becoming increasingly aware of the damage of any kind of UV Rays – and we all know that exposing our skin to these kind of damaging effects potentially increases the risk of skin cancer” says Dillon.
“The excitement about airbrush tanning has been astounding and contagious because until recently we didn’t have a good alternative to spending time in a tanning bed or under the damaging rays of the sun to obtain that healthy golden glow.” adds Dillon.
“MOON Tans looks great,” says Penny Vesel of Denver. “I was a sun worshiper, tanning bed regular and frequent user of almost every self-tanning cream on the market. I am so excited to have found this alternative –the fact that it is safe is paramount and it is totally natural looking” adds Vesel. Penny’s excitement about MOON Tans prompted her to quit her job to become a sales representative for MOON Tans. “This is too incredible not to share, I want people to know there IS a safe, great looking alternative!” states Vesel.
This revolutionary tan is delivered through an airbrush by a trained technician. The company has spent over a year and a half perfecting their tanning solution before introducing it to the market last spring. It has since proven to bronze over 30,000 clients with unsurpassed quality, consistency and effectiveness. "We have produced a formula that provides the client with the natural glow of spending time in the sun –without any damage or the streaks and orange hue that is often found when using over the counter self tanners” says Dillon.
Women (and more recently men) have been in search for the “perfect tan” since the 1960’s with the introduction of Quick Tan (QT). Although many of the over the counter treatments provide a tan, many are messy, hard to apply, stain clothing and often leave the user with “orange hands, feet and streaks galore”. “I really like looking tan, but I can’t ever get the sunless tanning lotions to look good and I am not willing to subject my skin to the damage of the sun or tanning beds” says Terri Anuszewski of Aspen. “I love how natural I look and how quick and easy getting a MOON Tan is” she says.
Many ingredients are the same in both the over-the-counter self tanning lotions and the airbrush tanning solution; the active ingredient being DHA, a natural derivative of sugar, creates a chemical reaction with the amino acids in the skin providing the pigment of the skin to darken. DHA is safe; it has been tested and approved by the FDA for over 30 years.
MOON Tans has taken this incredible new trend to a new level. How can you possible get a flawless tan? “It’s simple really” says Dillon. The "MOON Mist" tanning solution is applied to the clients' skin with an airbrush. During the application, the MOON Mist Solution dries almost instantly; is odorless and provides a glowing, golden tan. Dillon also states that, "Because we care about the condition of our client's tan, we have developed our MOON Mist solution to rejuvenate the skin, leaving skin feeling smooth, silky and healthy. A growing number of our clients have previously had skin cancer and have been directed by their doctors to stay out of the sun completely. They are thrilled to have this tanning alternative." The client's comfort level with the technician and salon policy usually dictates what to/not to wear while being tanned.
One session takes about 15 minutes for the technician to apply and the solution dries almost instantly and develops over a period of 6-8 hours. Two sessions are recommended to build a base tan, and once established, the tan will last anywhere from 7-10 days. MOON Tans doesn't dye the skin, it creates the same reaction the sun does, without all the harmful UV rays, "leaving the client with a very natural looking tan”.
Linda Dillon is founder and president of MOON Tans, Inc. a Colorado company that offers complete sunless airbrush tanning systems, tanning solutions and related skin care products. For more information, please contact MOON Tans at 303-979-5901 or visit the web site at www.moontans.com.
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