As a sweet side gig to recording real bands, I also write songs for Extreme Music, the self professed ‘bad boys of the music industry’. Extreme is the go to music library for a lot of video editors and producers in TV and commercials, simply because their music isn’t as horrendously awful as the rest of the library music out there. They’re responsible for the theme on It’s Always Sunny… and their in house team of writers in the LA office wrote all the stuff for Blue Planet, but so far the most prestigious shows one of my tunes has aired on is American Pickers, Geordie Shore and something called America’s Worst Tattoos. Hey, you gotta start somewhere. This month one of their new releases, the pictured ‘Psychedelic Indie’ realised a lifelong ambition of mine to write a song about a fictitious dance craze. ‘You Shake it Up’ is a little hazy on the specifics, but it involves a lot of pushing it in and around. I also got the top spot with ‘Impossible Sounds’ which marks the first time I’ve ever used a stereo delay on a snare drum.
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