Yeah, YT Audio Library is mix bag in terms of production quality, compared to this, and the like of Epidemic Sounds, which more high production TH-camrs use these days
@@tipsysmichigander6483 Comparing this to a common library is the exact same thing as claiming that there is only one other library available. Are you always like this?
@@Caseytify You really don't need a record company in this day and age. You can easily make your own music and distribute it to Spotify and SoundCloud for almost nothing. All record companies do is essentially collectively bargin with these distributors to get a better deal than you would on your own, but they end up keeping the copyright and 97% of the royalties anyway so what's the point.
@@programablenuance Aren't streaming services basically record companies? They get the rights to your song, distribute it with an algorithm and take a cut.
@@iskamag Technically no. Although they have the rights to stream and distribute your music, they don't own it. I think that means they're technically licensing it. If I own my copyright and don't like the deal they're giving me I can always pull my music and stop them from distributing it. Record Companies, in the sense I'm talking about, typically help with the production and distribution, as in actually getting your song onto streaming services. And the deals they have with artists very quite a lot, but often the artist gives them the copyright to their recording in perpetuity meaning the record company owns your work and can do whatever they want with it.
Loving how much 12:05 feels like WiiSports music. I’m sure Nintendo’s in-house composers listened to many libraries like this one when deciding how to score the game.
It wouldn't surprise me if they used a collection like this as placeholder music, and the director liked it and asked the composer to make something similar. Happened with Star Wars, where they used classical music as placeholder tracks, and Lucas asked Williams to make similar music.
Perfect timing, too. Since they initially announced the wii at E3 2004, that still pretty much counts as the early 2000s, lol. I'm sure Wii sports was well in development at that time.
Just to warn you, there likely isn't anything in the agreement stopping whoever owns the copyright to these from putting them in content ID at any time, and the copyright for any of the tracks might get sold off to another library at some point. I've had to deal with this as a composer who has had music being licensed out by multiple non-exclusive libraries, where one of the libraries will, out of nowhere, automatically opt all of the music in their library into content ID as a "monetization opportunity" without informing the composer, which leads to a giant headache. They don't see this as doing anything wrong, it's just another way to generate revenue. Music libraries are going out of business left and right because newer subscription services like Artlist and Epidemic have completely decimated the ability of the whole industry to actually make money, so they're desperate to generate whatever revenue they can, and copyrights or licensing rights getting sold off to another library before the company goes out of business is not unlikely in the future. Also, be careful with the classical tracks, because different recordings can sound so similar that they get content ID'd to the wrong conductor/performer/label. This happens all the time.
okay, so closing my eyes and listening to all of these samples I truly felt like I was watching 80s through early 2000s tv and instructional videos, stuck on hold or riding in an elevator and listening to off brand music ripoffs… it’s perfect and I love it.
I must be weird because I enjoy music created on “dated“ synthesizers. When I was a kid, my mom had this collection of classical piano music, I’m guessing it must’ve been recorded in either the late 80s or early 90s because the instruments used in it were basically a Roland RD 1000 piano and a Yamaha DX seven. And on some of the songs, they would try to re-create a kind of orchestra using the DX seven and I rather enjoyed it. I can’t remember what the name of that collection of tapes was or anything, I just remember listening to it a lot as a kid.
Be sure to search for MIDI tracks and then use a soft synth. There are lots of transcriptions of piano roll music to play on your favorite synth or soundfont using a MIDI sequencer and MIDI USB to MIDI interfaces.
I am like 95% certain that this song is also used in a radio ad in my area in the current day. I listened to the song and thought "I've definitely heard this before". And after about 2 re-listens I placed the exact ad. If I were able to, I'd listen to the whole track just to be certain that the sample is in there. I'm pretty sure it's that exact song though. Sadly the 30 second sample he provides us does not play the exact portion from the ad. And checking the modern-day website for the song only provide 10 and 15 second samples of it.
It sounds like it because that's exactly what it is. This kind of budget production music is all that community radio stations can afford. A lot of it Is utter crap, but good producers can easily identify the few decent tracks and put them to good use. These days music technology has advanced so much that I think stations might be better off linking up with the music production students from local colleges and having bespoke music composed cheaply. Even just as far back as when these libraries were put together, the cost in producing them was much higher.
@@donaloflynn No thanks. Most of the "music production students from local colleges" can't hold a candle to seasoned session musicians from larger labels. 😁 Some of those mouse pushers can't even play real instruments anymore. t. worked as studio musician before switching to visual arts
I love the knock off "Law & Order" music. Back in the 90s I used the Gene Michael Productions audio library in TV class. They still sell all their old early 90s compilations for that retroriffic touch. They had a knock off track called "Motallica" on one of the CDs. The real gem in these 90s royalty-free libraries are all the industrial/fast paced/"athletic" tracks (like on the Big Bill Hell's video). Totally cheese ROMpler synths!
I remember teacher in my university class on electronics, playing old video from the early 90s. It gave very detailed explanation of high voltage transformer production, while playing sick synth beats as a background music.
Here’s a interesting fact, a few of these songs were used by Chuck E. Cheese’s for stuff like show countdowns, and training videos from varying points in time. Specifically pacesetter, and future tech i recognize.
The government really needs to come in and review and redefine fair use. The current system is broken. 7 seconds is ridiculous. These record companies are out of control.
Money. Record labels are making billions off TH-cam now. Billions, by abusing copyright law. I don’t see an easy fix until antiquated laws are adapted to modern times
The concept of Fair Use is legally well-established -- just look up the Lenz case. But TH-cam is afraid of getting sued again, so they set up the Content ID system to be entirely under the control of the copyright owners.
@@vwestlife Just be aware that TH-cam has flagged royalty free tracks by accident. 12voltvids has had recurring problems with them flagging the Music Bakery library he uses in his videos.
"In the American penal system, the people are represented by a couple separate yet equally important folks. The cops who investigate crime and the lawyers who prosecute the crooks. These are their stories." - Badge and Gavel. *bing bing*
I find it kinda funny that I can tell what sound library were used to make these tracks like the African one uses the same samples as Zelda ocarina of time Goron city
I would be careful with Classical pieces. TH-cam's algorithm cannot really discriminate commercial and non-commercial performances, say, for Chopin's piano pieces. Even your own piano playing can get claimed.
Fun Fact: Mr Beast got copyright claimed for saying the word "No" in one of his videos. "No", being a rather popular lyric in the music industry. They redacted the copyright claim after receiving much negative press. But the damage was already done by that point.
Ideally there should be legal channels to prevent this sort of stupid abuse from the industry. Heavy fines for falsely reported content would be a great start
I still hear plenty of this music in local/regional commercials today; there are a whole bunch of advertisers who will keep using these same tracks as long as they can.
The record industry was initially appalled when radio came along...Then they realized that it was a good medium to advertise their damned records. How many times does this industry need to learn the same lesson?!?
@Teasy Love look, i know this is all about recognition and rewarding for great effort via money. but this is something I don't want to get involved. no offense, but I know how this story ends.
@@arhturcosta4066 That depends on if you think there's an afterlife and if these people are misguided or evil. They obviously don't think they're wasting their time or they wouldn't keep doing it, and quite frankly they get away with it so they see even less incentive to quit.
I have always been impressed by VWestlife's "brazen", fearless fair use of music in demonstration of audio equipment. Lots of youtubers who make similar content are vocally terrified of it by comparison.
TH-cam seriously needs to get their shit together as far as fair use. Demonstrating audio equipment isn't the original purpose of the recordings VWestlife uses, it's clearly a fair use.
@@tissuepaper9962 TH-cam has to operate within the law, but the problem is TH-cam can extend their own rules and laws within their own platform. So even with fair use, TH-cam can ultimately choose what is and isn't allowed arbitrarily.
@@tissuepaper9962 there's also a lot of automation, so I guess it may raise a claim from even that few seconds which in theory, someone could say is not a transformative enough few seconds so might be a valid (if not legally upheld) claim. I'd personally prefer to see the automation threshold raised to like a few 10s of seconds, to avoid unnecessarily affecting content with manual of course allowed because copyright owners should maintain right to raise a claim regardless of length or context as any person should for their work (or at least work the creator has agreed they may control the rights to).
apparently it's even worse; watching some doom playthrough videos, and apparently the content ID will hit on MIDIs of music, and not the actual original tracks themselves. This causes the videos to get demonetized. That seems to be going a bit too far, and probably ends up making a lot of false positives. I've actually had several false positive content ID matches on my chiptune stuff I have uploaded. (these were not covers, and the ID match had no relation to the songs in question)
What is stopping someone from making a song with a ton of genres and different common riffs, and then copyrighting songs for having similar sounding music
Oooh man there's hundreds of CDs in my grandfather's office, I never realised what they were, just a weird collection of songs but sorted by genre rather than by artist(??) But now I get it, they're commercial use(?) kind of music, made for your productions, that's really cool! And with the way their copyright is done, they'll actually be very useful Since my grandparents have passed, we have been cleaning out their home to sell, I believe they were just going to be thrown away. I'll definitely try and save them now!
@@rajasnagpurkar well, as sad as it is, almost everything needs to be thrown away.. We're donating/selling what we can, but the majority of my grandparents possessions have nowhere else to go, and unfortunately they do have to go, people don't want to move into a house with the previous owners possessions still there
@@rajasnagpurkar my grandfather was a hobby photographer for 60 years... Do you want his room full of thousands of prints, films, frames, equipment and negatives? No and neither does everybody else. We just kept a few quality pieces, which actually now hang on the wall in my and other relatives houses , gave some equipment to an artist interested in 70s photography and threw away the rest.
I'd imagine that coming up with names for the _n_ pieces you've composed for a library is tedious and annoying, and after a while, you'd kind of give up … hence, names like "Slop" LOL!
Years ago for some fun, I bought a bulk lot of 'Network' records (that was the brand) with various production music and despite being vinyl records, they were whisper quiet with no snaps, crackles, or pops. It was a set of about 15 to 20 records with thick heavy protective plastic covers and the 'Network' series was also available on CD. :)
I have the Network sampler record and it's fantastic, but unfortunately Network got bought out by Killer Tracks, who does put Content ID copyright claims on your videos if you use their music.
@@vwestlife Funny I didn't see this until after I commented about the Network Music set I have. If I own it, I expect to have the copywrite to use them in my videos. Time to test it out I guess
Reminds me of the music in old factory training videos they make you watch when you're first hired, I had to watch some recently for a job I was applying for, they were old tapes converted to digital and uploaded online. They had to be at least 25 years old. It was funny to see all the awkward transitions and funky synth music that used to be so common.
We used these kinds of music libraries exhaustively for trailer production in television productions in the 2000's. To give you an idea how costly it was, for a 20 channel network, a music library of 10000 tracks or so, available to all producers online, with/without vocals across all genres from multiple sources was licensed for US$100k/year, then as competition grew the fees could be negotiated down to $50k/yr. If one wanted to use say an a currently popular song or anything from the Billboard top 100 for a trailer, the limited license for a few months for that specific trailer, for a specific territory for a specific number of plays used to range from 10k to 100k for that one song's usage! And the negotiation process for this used to take months to just get the paperwork done. After the usage was done, we had to provide audited logs to the music company that listed in detail out each instance of usage on the channel for that period to make sure we didn't go over. For a 20 channel network it could mean 50000 instances in one month! Some of this library music was really awesome, like just great indie tracks. Many times our viewers used to write in to ask what was the music track used on a trailer, as they really loved it, but this was pre-shazam and this was library music so they had no way of finding out what the track was except emailing us lol.
Oh yes, so much great background music from my childhood that took me forever to find! One of my favorites of all time is "The Will to Win" by Andy Clark, from the KPM library. It captured 80's optimism so well.
@@bwc1976check out Trammell Starks and his music for The Weather Channel and their program Weatherscan. Some of it is really good. Brighter Days comes to mind.
"Doo Wop Corner" brought back some teenage memories for me: in Italy in the second half of the 2000s, that track was the soundtrack to the radio commercials for Autogrill (Italy's most popular chain of motorway restaurants).
Excellent video! It’s funny cause the track at about 12:06 called “Competitive Spirit” put me in mind of those older days of local television, like the very early 80s, where late at night they would air a “special presentation” that was like a 10 minute short of the latest fashions in sporting apparel with amateur actors and a narrator lol! This was a fun, entertaining and informative video as per usual. That’s why this is my fav tech/audio channel. Great job Kevin!
@@j.lindback, in many cases the library composers would *deliberately* create "sound-a-likes" of popular songs of the day. This is done to give producers the chance to play the sound-a-like track in the background for $ - instead of the $$$ × 50+ it would cost them to license and use the real track - when, say, a character in a drama or sitcom is watching TV or listening to the radio.
i think sometimes having the restriction of a small audio library really helps with editing, cause instead of searching for that one song, you can just in your head be like "this scene needs Pacesetter to keep the energy up", and boom song found and put in, with no fumbling about with finding the 'right' song.
That's the music industry for you, since the end of physical formats (and even before - remember "Home Taping is Killing Music"?) they've fought every new technical development from mp3s and digital downloads to TH-cam and now TikTok and FB Watch. It's asinine.
TH-cam here is a medium. It’s often the greedy record labels who often raise claims because they don’t want to lose a cent off a ten-second sample. Even many producers wouldn’t mind.
@@G_Rizzly on the other hand, if you've seen any Leonard French videos, or if you follow lawsuits you'll be aware that TH-cam has been pretty complicit in massive ContentID fraud schemes, such as one wherein the perpetrators claimed rights to several non-monetized items from obscure artists.
@@rich_edwards79 It has been going on for a very very long time: Sheet music will kill the music industry, Pianolas will kill the music industry, Phonographs will kill the music industry, Home taping (reel to reel and cassette) will kill the music industry and so on . . .
TH-cam got painted into a corner on this one, but then has taken a rather lax attitude on bullying by the music industry. Neither blameless or solely to blame, probably because standing by the little guy is a losing proposition for them. Far easier to stand back and let the content producers get steamrolled. Would be nice for a bunch of little guys to band together and clean their clock for all the frivolous suits.
3:30 FINALLY someone has the courage to sing about what I have thought about and struggled with for decades... That water TRULY is SO DAMN wide!!! Such a relief to find I'm not the only one that feels this way! A weight has truly lifted! It must have been the violin and majestic setting?
One interesting hack of the content ID system I saw another creator use was to pay to get a short custom piece of music composed and have it registered with the content match system under their name, and then made sure he always included enough to get a match. It meant that no matter how many matches a video got, he always got something because he was the rights holder.
When Digital Juice went from selling CDs and DVDs to an online subscription service, for about a month or so, they sold a lifetime subscription for, I think, $1000. I jumped on that and have access to all of their new content without paying an extra fee. Best money I ever spent.
I enjoy the dated stuff. The industrial music sounds similar to the safety videos they make us watch annually at work. They are so old, they are still on VHS.
6:42 in my opinion, this sounds so much better than typical recent corpo stock musics where the intro always begin with electric guitar. it sounds generic to me.
I'm primarily a listener of heavy metal, power metal specifically, though almost any form of metal that has a power metal lean to it will do. I'm a critical listener though, and it's tracks like the ones presented in this video that remind me what real instruments, properly recorded and mastered with dynamic range, actually sound like. It can be frustrating to go back to a favorite power metal track, only to be frustrated that the mastering is so compressed that it sounds like there's a veneer of static noise over everything, the instruments all blend together, and while you can pick out individual instruments if you listen carefully, it's like listening to them played out of a tin can from the other side of a car door: Does it matter that you can _discern_ what the instruments are in such a case? And "feeling" music, physically speaking, goes beyond just bass. The pluck of a guitar string or the blast of a trumpet have a physical impact with the way they compress the air, and with a proper speaker system and good recordings and mastering, EVERY second of good tracks can be FELT. Beyond that, there's detail. If you cannot hear the engravings of the guitarist's fingerprints scraping over the spiraled metal cable every time he tugs the string and it snaps back into place with that classic twang, then the music is too compressed, or the recording doesn't have enough fidelity to capture that detail. These tracks may be "generic," but they sound like real instruments played by professionals. (At least the real instruments do.) I want that in my metal music, but out of hundreds of bands, I can think of a small handful off the top of my head. Unleash the Archers's album Apex; Aether Realm's album Tarot; Tales of Gaia's album Hypernova (I think they have programmed drums though); Gamma Ray's first couple of albums. . . that's all that's coming to mind, although I know there are more than that. Point is, it's a shame when I get more visceral joy from generic music meant for commercial use than from the stuff that's meant to be artistic, and to thrill and excite.
I’ve gone back to collecting CDs of my favorite music. The difference is night and day compared to streaming, I feel like we took a huge step back in quality for convenience.
Why is it "a shame" to enjoy production music more than music composed by "popular" performing artists? In the case of the long-running libraries (KPM, Sound Stage, Valentino, De Wolfe, etc.), much of their content was written by top-class composers and played by incredibly talented session musicians. Which is WHY it all sounds good, even decades later.
I can imagine using some of the music for the Weather Star 4000 simulator. 22:19 sounds like it was inspired by Law & Order. 26:42 was inspired by Santana. 27:14 sounds like The Village People.
Great idea and these sound very good! However be aware there are scammers that buy music like this, change it just a little bit to make it into a derived work, and then get TH-cam to put their version into Content ID so they can make money on your video.
This fits right in with Techmoan's video about the Philips Background Music System. It's like they're two sides of the same coin, 15 years apart. Also, has it really been that long since the early 2000s??
Part of the rental cost for those background music tape loops was to cover the performance royalties for the music. These days shops (at least here in the UK) often just run commercial radio or CD mixes and pay for a PRS license.
17:31 THAT'S IT! That's the song from Fat Head when Tom is talking about The Lipid Hypothesis. 10ish years ago when I watched Fat Head I said "they that's a really awesome song, what's it called?" but I couldn't find the name in the credits with the other songs. I asked on some forum or comment section and no one knew. I reached out to Tom on twitter but no response. I forgot about it until now. Thank-you. Thank-you for including it in your video.
In a previous life as an educational TV producer, Digital Juice was our library for everything, including motion graphics and other stock media. I remember convincing management to license a more "premium" production music library for a yearly royalty fee, and then starting to publish content on TH-cam. Spending hours each month responding to Content ID claims for music we had paid for was super frustrating. Should've stuck with the Juice!
Definitely a Wii Sports vibe to some of these, though less compositionally dynamic since they’re intended for background use rather than repeat listening.
I personally like the synthesized sound module sounds from the early 90s and still use these kind of sounds in my backing tracks. I recognize what sound modules or drum machines were used for certain sounds.
Thank you for this. I have been creating music since 2005 and I have used my own "vault" of tunes in my own documentary shorts. Good to know I can use other forms of non-copyrighted music as well!!
Hearing all this honestly makes me feel like I’m walking around SeaWorld or on hold for a phone call. And man it just fills you up with emotion because it brings back old memories from those times.
Future Tech is soundtrack for a Jazzersize video in an alternate universe, for sure! :-) I'm so glad you were able to get these. The country tracks sound dated because there's no click tracks or rap bridges. XD
I am so screwed, when played some of this songs. I get so much head theater from some of them. In flying textes, stock photos and all people look like in the 90´s. And of course Teleshopping vibes. 😅
TH-cam's Content ID match system has gotten so overly aggressive and restrictive that a recent video I was working on was flagged for containing 9 seconds of audio. It was an automatic match, which seems to contradict their policy to frown against manual matches of short snippets of copyrighted content in videos. I can understand copyright holders having issues with 30 seconds or more of their songs being used but 9 seconds is ridiculous, especially since the song was playing in the background. I've considered using one of the various online video production music providers, but after hearing what 12VoltVids has had to deal with (copyright claims galore), I think yours is the best solution. It's a shame because how else is somebody supposed to review and demonstrate a piece of vintage audio equipment--by playing static? I also like how that "Badge & Gavel" song is so uncannily similar to the Law & Order theme! P.S. In the beginning of the video you had a Dell laptop with a Windows 7 sticker, running what looks like MacOS, that played the Windows XP "dunk" sound when you put the box on the keyboard. What kind of sorcery is that?
"Sound-alike" tracks (Badge & Gavel vs. Law and Order, for example) were and continue to be a staple of the production music business. ;) The trick is to make the sound-alike different enough from its, uh, "inspiration" to not get sued; yet similar enough that when most folks hear the sound-alike, they think it's the original.
I happen to love kitsch music libraries :) Extreme Music + FirstCom are great and I got into them thanks to my old interest in pro wrestling. Now it helps when AB’ing audio for reference and engineering purposes. Thanks for showing us Digital Juice! I’m definitely going to check them out :)
Nice! Yeah, I don't really get TH-cam's content ID thing, all the legal cases have said that using short clips is fine, even TH-cam themselves say single seconds is okay, but then they don't. TH-cam really doesn't care for creators, it became massively obvious when they removed the dislike button. I don't think I know a single creator that I follow that wanted it... It's this kinda stuff that keeps putting me off starting a niche channel.
Also... Who on earth is gonna listen to music that only 10 seconds of is featured in a video? I make music myself, so it's good to see that some creators really appreciate the plays. I don't think content ID is something I'd ever want to use, even if I was quote "big enough", just seems like... bad for the people, bad for the actual musicians, just good for the pockets of the executives getting fat from kickbags... Ooops, need to disengage rant mode now. Beautiful library collection, and it will let you really do what this channel is all about without any fears of videos just disappearing.
We used to have lots of these music libraries at a postproduction facility I worked on 25 years ago, mostly for sound design visualization for our clients commercials. Sometimes they went on with that music, some other times they hired composers to write something based on the shown track. Nowadays, Even though I write music on my own, I go most of the time with ready-made stuff because of time constraints.
Man, I used these tracks all the time in early 2000’s lots of corporate videos. Digital Juice used to put out new things all the time, but they have slowed down and just rehash stuff. But some of there photoshop and after effect templates are still decent.
Good God, the music is hilarious! And I genuinely don't mean that in a derisive way. It's incredible how completely it nails the sounds of the time while being so thoroughly well composed, arranged, performed and mixed! The sound is better then on most radio hits! And I just find the thought hilarious, of how many legendary LA session veterans must have been a part of this 😄
Very interesting that disc #34 doesn't contain music, I wonder if it had music what genre would it be.........lol. Anyway the whole backtraxx collection seems interesting and glad you found a solution to the copyright claim problem
My goodness that Future Tech track sounded like the opening of FNAF Security Breach, that 80's rock synth vibe. Loved that and the sorta Law and Order track
This is awesome! The horror track at 13:52 actually reminds me more of late 1960's cop movies like Bullitt! Badge and gavel had me laughing out loud. I can imagine Techmoan producing a skit demoing that.
This was really fun. I love how the video is about purchasing music to avoid copyright claims, but so many of the songs are blatant just-barely-different clones of hit songs. It just shows what a farce copyright is.
Holy shit that's awesome! When I was a child I downloaded a demo of a screen recording software from Digital Juice and they *never* stopped emailing me. To hear that they're a legitimate company and not a scam front makes me want to check them out again. That's really neat, thank you for making this video.
It looks like Digital Juice got wise to this fairly quick. Their entire library is now limited to subscription and no longer comes in CDs from the website.
There were a ton of music libraries like KPM, Amphonic and others, plus many of them from Score Productions known for their game show libraries including “The Price Is Right”. I used them in my “Goldie” series, and of course Isaac Hayes for his instrumental stuff from “Shaft”, “Truck Turner” and others made by UMG for their Stax material, and Hoyt Curton for all of the musical cues used in Hanna-Barbera cartoons to use it in one of my videos and I used Vyond Studio for these music libraries.
Heh, the Carmen Overture sounds like its being played on a fairground organ. ED: I think at one stage (in the 80s ?) the Beeb had a library of royalty free music available at relatively low cost on record as well as a small part of their library of sound effects available on record.
I bought several (and likely a few more soon) music libraries, but not exactly for this reason...but it helps to avoid potential problems with the content ID system with licensed music. You know, the stuff we've paid for. Works out pretty well.
The woman's profile at 10:55 can't be unseen, she's got a chin that dwarfs Reese Witherspoon's. Oh, and this audio library is far more interesting than I anticipated!
This is way better than TH-cam's audio library
You got that right, far better.
Yeah, YT Audio Library is mix bag in terms of production quality, compared to this, and the like of Epidemic Sounds, which more high production TH-camrs use these days
obviously better than Roblox’s audio library (YT’s already surpassed that)
1.5k likes for someone who thinks TH-cams audio library is the only one available.
@@tipsysmichigander6483 Comparing this to a common library is the exact same thing as claiming that there is only one other library available.
Are you always like this?
You know the sad part is a lot of the times the artist don't mind the music being played it's the money grubbing record companies
And does any of the money go to the artist? Nine times out of ten, nope. The record company takes it all.
So start your own company and show them how it's done.
@@Caseytify You really don't need a record company in this day and age. You can easily make your own music and distribute it to Spotify and SoundCloud for almost nothing. All record companies do is essentially collectively bargin with these distributors to get a better deal than you would on your own, but they end up keeping the copyright and 97% of the royalties anyway so what's the point.
@@programablenuance Aren't streaming services basically record companies? They get the rights to your song, distribute it with an algorithm and take a cut.
@@iskamag Technically no. Although they have the rights to stream and distribute your music, they don't own it. I think that means they're technically licensing it. If I own my copyright and don't like the deal they're giving me I can always pull my music and stop them from distributing it.
Record Companies, in the sense I'm talking about, typically help with the production and distribution, as in actually getting your song onto streaming services. And the deals they have with artists very quite a lot, but often the artist gives them the copyright to their recording in perpetuity meaning the record company owns your work and can do whatever they want with it.
For me, one of the joys of this channel is in hearing odd, dated, outsider, and/or commercial music. Looks like I’m in for a treat, as an avid viewer.
Loving how much 12:05 feels like WiiSports music. I’m sure Nintendo’s in-house composers listened to many libraries like this one when deciding how to score the game.
It wouldn't surprise me if they used a collection like this as placeholder music, and the director liked it and asked the composer to make something similar. Happened with Star Wars, where they used classical music as placeholder tracks, and Lucas asked Williams to make similar music.
The last notes are nearly the exact motif.
Perfect timing, too. Since they initially announced the wii at E3 2004, that still pretty much counts as the early 2000s, lol. I'm sure Wii sports was well in development at that time.
@@TheGeekRex Hedwig's theme a part of it is played on Amazing Stories. Both same composer.
i was thinking the mario kart wii credits music
Next up, "I bought a record label"
BREAKING NEWS: Man Buys Sony Music
👀imagine
TH-camrs may actually have to do that in the future :(
If he did, it would just be all technopop
i run a record label 😈💕
Just to warn you, there likely isn't anything in the agreement stopping whoever owns the copyright to these from putting them in content ID at any time, and the copyright for any of the tracks might get sold off to another library at some point. I've had to deal with this as a composer who has had music being licensed out by multiple non-exclusive libraries, where one of the libraries will, out of nowhere, automatically opt all of the music in their library into content ID as a "monetization opportunity" without informing the composer, which leads to a giant headache. They don't see this as doing anything wrong, it's just another way to generate revenue.
Music libraries are going out of business left and right because newer subscription services like Artlist and Epidemic have completely decimated the ability of the whole industry to actually make money, so they're desperate to generate whatever revenue they can, and copyrights or licensing rights getting sold off to another library before the company goes out of business is not unlikely in the future.
Also, be careful with the classical tracks, because different recordings can sound so similar that they get content ID'd to the wrong conductor/performer/label. This happens all the time.
Digital juice just went out of business 😢
This channel is supposed to be a Time Machine. I think dated music suits it just fine.
So perfect!
Buying a music library feels like the most VWestlife thing ever.
okay, so closing my eyes and listening to all of these samples I truly felt like I was watching 80s through early 2000s tv and instructional videos, stuck on hold or riding in an elevator and listening to off brand music ripoffs… it’s perfect and I love it.
at this point youtube's content ID system is probably the only entity on this planet actually understanding mumble rap
Lmao
mumble rap ain't a thing silly
@@probablymelgibson2344 --- It's anything that isn't lyrical Boom Bap Rap.
@@mana_beast_beats1114 I'd argue that's a bad label then
Objection, lack of factual basis, cause for speculation.
I must be weird because I enjoy music created on “dated“ synthesizers. When I was a kid, my mom had this collection of classical piano music, I’m guessing it must’ve been recorded in either the late 80s or early 90s because the instruments used in it were basically a Roland RD 1000 piano and a Yamaha DX seven. And on some of the songs, they would try to re-create a kind of orchestra using the DX seven and I rather enjoyed it. I can’t remember what the name of that collection of tapes was or anything, I just remember listening to it a lot as a kid.
Be sure to search for MIDI tracks and then use a soft synth. There are lots of transcriptions of piano roll music to play on your favorite synth or soundfont using a MIDI sequencer and MIDI USB to MIDI interfaces.
"Building For Tomorrow" sounds like the theme tune to some 80s office based drama series and conjures up images of huge shoulder pads and big hair.
Sounds like the Hill Street Blues TV theme, but with more major chords!
To me sounds like the intro of a very early discovery channel documentary
These songs make me want to move to Wichita and start buying hoopties.
@@richardsmith4992 That's what I thought when I heard it
I am like 95% certain that this song is also used in a radio ad in my area in the current day. I listened to the song and thought "I've definitely heard this before". And after about 2 re-listens I placed the exact ad. If I were able to, I'd listen to the whole track just to be certain that the sample is in there. I'm pretty sure it's that exact song though. Sadly the 30 second sample he provides us does not play the exact portion from the ad. And checking the modern-day website for the song only provide 10 and 15 second samples of it.
This sounds like the kind of music community radio stations use as beds underneath community annoucements and/or sponsorship spots. Love it.
It sounds like it because that's exactly what it is. This kind of budget production music is all that community radio stations can afford. A lot of it Is utter crap, but good producers can easily identify the few decent tracks and put them to good use. These days music technology has advanced so much that I think stations might be better off linking up with the music production students from local colleges and having bespoke music composed cheaply. Even just as far back as when these libraries were put together, the cost in producing them was much higher.
@@donaloflynn
No thanks. Most of the "music production students from local colleges" can't hold a candle to seasoned session musicians from larger labels. 😁 Some of those mouse pushers can't even play real instruments anymore.
t. worked as studio musician before switching to visual arts
I love the knock off "Law & Order" music.
Back in the 90s I used the Gene Michael Productions audio library in TV class. They still sell all their old early 90s compilations for that retroriffic touch. They had a knock off track called "Motallica" on one of the CDs. The real gem in these 90s royalty-free libraries are all the industrial/fast paced/"athletic" tracks (like on the Big Bill Hell's video). Totally cheese ROMpler synths!
there’s even a knock off of smooth by santana and YMCA
The cheesy corporate and industrial tracks are AMAZING!
I'm looking forward to seeing (hearing?) how you use all this sweet 2000-esq music.
I remember teacher in my university class on electronics, playing old video from the early 90s. It gave very detailed explanation of high voltage transformer production, while playing sick synth beats as a background music.
That corporate and sport music reminds me of the cheesy music Nintendo uses in their games.
Here’s a interesting fact, a few of these songs were used by Chuck E. Cheese’s for stuff like show countdowns, and training videos from varying points in time. Specifically pacesetter, and future tech i recognize.
The government really needs to come in and review and redefine fair use. The current system is broken. 7 seconds is ridiculous. These record companies are out of control.
They don't want their music freely heard.. We must Paid-To-Promote their music 😓
Money. Record labels are making billions off TH-cam now. Billions, by abusing copyright law. I don’t see an easy fix until antiquated laws are adapted to modern times
The concept of Fair Use is legally well-established -- just look up the Lenz case. But TH-cam is afraid of getting sued again, so they set up the Content ID system to be entirely under the control of the copyright owners.
@@vwestlife Just be aware that TH-cam has flagged royalty free tracks by accident. 12voltvids has had recurring problems with them flagging the Music Bakery library he uses in his videos.
@@NJRoadfan So far no problems with this video.
"In the American penal system, the people are represented by a couple separate yet equally important folks. The cops who investigate crime and the lawyers who prosecute the crooks. These are their stories." - Badge and Gavel. *bing bing*
I find it kinda funny that I can tell what sound library were used to make these tracks like the African one uses the same samples as Zelda ocarina of time Goron city
I would be careful with Classical pieces. TH-cam's algorithm cannot really discriminate commercial and non-commercial performances, say, for Chopin's piano pieces. Even your own piano playing can get claimed.
Fun Fact: Mr Beast got copyright claimed for saying the word "No" in one of his videos.
"No", being a rather popular lyric in the music industry.
They redacted the copyright claim after receiving much negative press. But the damage was already done by that point.
I got copyrighted by playing a 30s classical music record on my old victor gramophone. I can confirm 😂
@@criticaltexan2334 There's (redacted) way something like that happened 🤨🤨
Ideally there should be legal channels to prevent this sort of stupid abuse from the industry. Heavy fines for falsely reported content would be a great start
@@taunusv4power I got copyrighted because I was at an wrestling event and AFI Miseria Cantare played🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I still hear plenty of this music in local/regional commercials today; there are a whole bunch of advertisers who will keep using these same tracks as long as they can.
The record industry was initially appalled when radio came along...Then they realized that it was a good medium to advertise their damned records. How many times does this industry need to learn the same lesson?!?
It kinda reminds from that SpongeBob meme which it said: "how many times do we have to teach this lesson, old man?"
@Teasy Love look, i know this is all about recognition and rewarding for great effort via money. but this is something I don't want to get involved. no offense, but I know how this story ends.
The problem is that for people with the mindset they have, it'll always be about control and they'll never learn from history.
@@anon_y_mousse if this is about control, then they just wasting their time and lifetime for this toxic insanity.
@@arhturcosta4066 That depends on if you think there's an afterlife and if these people are misguided or evil. They obviously don't think they're wasting their time or they wouldn't keep doing it, and quite frankly they get away with it so they see even less incentive to quit.
I have always been impressed by VWestlife's "brazen", fearless fair use of music in demonstration of audio equipment. Lots of youtubers who make similar content are vocally terrified of it by comparison.
TH-cam seriously needs to get their shit together as far as fair use. Demonstrating audio equipment isn't the original purpose of the recordings VWestlife uses, it's clearly a fair use.
@@tissuepaper9962 TH-cam has to operate within the law, but the problem is TH-cam can extend their own rules and laws within their own platform. So even with fair use, TH-cam can ultimately choose what is and isn't allowed arbitrarily.
@@tissuepaper9962 there's also a lot of automation, so I guess it may raise a claim from even that few seconds which in theory, someone could say is not a transformative enough few seconds so might be a valid (if not legally upheld) claim.
I'd personally prefer to see the automation threshold raised to like a few 10s of seconds, to avoid unnecessarily affecting content with manual of course allowed because copyright owners should maintain right to raise a claim regardless of length or context as any person should for their work (or at least work the creator has agreed they may control the rights to).
@@tissuepaper9962 According to the law, TH-cam isn't the arbiter of what is and isn't fair use, the courts are.
@@tissuepaper9962 You have 3 people who aren't even helping. They're just making it worst by making excuses.
apparently it's even worse; watching some doom playthrough videos, and apparently the content ID will hit on MIDIs of music, and not the actual original tracks themselves. This causes the videos to get demonetized. That seems to be going a bit too far, and probably ends up making a lot of false positives. I've actually had several false positive content ID matches on my chiptune stuff I have uploaded. (these were not covers, and the ID match had no relation to the songs in question)
Well, at least it's kinda makes sense with doom, given how much it was "inspieres" by metal
@@ukyoize yeah, like half of the riffs or straight up whole songs are stolen
What is stopping someone from making a song with a ton of genres and different common riffs, and then copyrighting songs for having similar sounding music
@@homebrew07 Hopefully the courts. It'd be the equivalent of a patent troll.
@@hisaceinthehole3426 Absolutely.
Oooh man
there's hundreds of CDs in my grandfather's office, I never realised what they were, just a weird collection of songs but sorted by genre rather than by artist(??) But now I get it, they're commercial use(?) kind of music, made for your productions, that's really cool! And with the way their copyright is done, they'll actually be very useful
Since my grandparents have passed, we have been cleaning out their home to sell, I believe they were just going to be thrown away. I'll definitely try and save them now!
it'd be odd to throw away someone's prized collection. good choice
@@rajasnagpurkar well, as sad as it is, almost everything needs to be thrown away..
We're donating/selling what we can, but the majority of my grandparents possessions have nowhere else to go, and unfortunately they do have to go, people don't want to move into a house with the previous owners possessions still there
@@televisionandcheese ah I see, hopefully you were able to save some cds
sorry to hear... that's still better than the k-pop and trap garbage that's everywhere now.
@@rajasnagpurkar my grandfather was a hobby photographer for 60 years... Do you want his room full of thousands of prints, films, frames, equipment and negatives? No and neither does everybody else. We just kept a few quality pieces, which actually now hang on the wall in my and other relatives houses , gave some equipment to an artist interested in 70s photography and threw away the rest.
I love the names of these tracks. The 90s rock one being named "Slop" is what did it for me.
I'd imagine that coming up with names for the _n_ pieces you've composed for a library is tedious and annoying, and after a while, you'd kind of give up … hence, names like "Slop" LOL!
Years ago for some fun, I bought a bulk lot of 'Network' records (that was the brand) with various production music and despite being vinyl records, they were whisper quiet with no snaps, crackles, or pops. It was a set of about 15 to 20 records with thick heavy protective plastic covers and the 'Network' series was also available on CD. :)
I have the Network sampler record and it's fantastic, but unfortunately Network got bought out by Killer Tracks, who does put Content ID copyright claims on your videos if you use their music.
@@vwestlife Hmmm, very interesting. Thanks for the info, VWestlife.
@@vwestlife Then.... what's the point?
@@vwestlife Funny I didn't see this until after I commented about the Network Music set I have. If I own it, I expect to have the copywrite to use them in my videos. Time to test it out I guess
Just owning the records doesn't mean you own the license to use the tracks.
Reminds me of the music in old factory training videos they make you watch when you're first hired, I had to watch some recently for a job I was applying for, they were old tapes converted to digital and uploaded online. They had to be at least 25 years old. It was funny to see all the awkward transitions and funky synth music that used to be so common.
We used these kinds of music libraries exhaustively for trailer production in television productions in the 2000's. To give you an idea how costly it was, for a 20 channel network, a music library of 10000 tracks or so, available to all producers online, with/without vocals across all genres from multiple sources was licensed for US$100k/year, then as competition grew the fees could be negotiated down to $50k/yr.
If one wanted to use say an a currently popular song or anything from the Billboard top 100 for a trailer, the limited license for a few months for that specific trailer, for a specific territory for a specific number of plays used to range from 10k to 100k for that one song's usage! And the negotiation process for this used to take months to just get the paperwork done. After the usage was done, we had to provide audited logs to the music company that listed in detail out each instance of usage on the channel for that period to make sure we didn't go over. For a 20 channel network it could mean 50000 instances in one month!
Some of this library music was really awesome, like just great indie tracks. Many times our viewers used to write in to ask what was the music track used on a trailer, as they really loved it, but this was pre-shazam and this was library music so they had no way of finding out what the track was except emailing us lol.
Oh yes, so much great background music from my childhood that took me forever to find! One of my favorites of all time is "The Will to Win" by Andy Clark, from the KPM library. It captured 80's optimism so well.
@@bwc1976check out Trammell Starks and his music for The Weather Channel and their program Weatherscan. Some of it is really good. Brighter Days comes to mind.
Hah, "disco saturday night" is used as a jingle by radiostation called "melodies of the century" in Belarus.
"Doo Wop Corner" brought back some teenage memories for me: in Italy in the second half of the 2000s, that track was the soundtrack to the radio commercials for Autogrill (Italy's most popular chain of motorway restaurants).
Excellent video! It’s funny cause the track at about 12:06 called “Competitive Spirit” put me in mind of those older days of local television, like the very early 80s, where late at night they would air a “special presentation” that was like a 10 minute short of the latest fashions in sporting apparel with amateur actors and a narrator lol!
This was a fun, entertaining and informative video as per usual. That’s why this is my fav tech/audio channel. Great job Kevin!
That song is fighting really hard to sound exactly like "Winter Games" by David Foster.
Kinda like how CANYON.MID always sounds like the intro to a local TV news or current affairs show to me?
it also feels like wii sports for some reason
@@YAUUN Or a local forecast on The Weather Channel!
@@j.lindback, in many cases the library composers would *deliberately* create "sound-a-likes" of popular songs of the day. This is done to give producers the chance to play the sound-a-like track in the background for $ - instead of the $$$ × 50+ it would cost them to license and use the real track - when, say, a character in a drama or sitcom is watching TV or listening to the radio.
i think sometimes having the restriction of a small audio library really helps with editing, cause instead of searching for that one song, you can just in your head be like "this scene needs Pacesetter to keep the energy up", and boom song found and put in, with no fumbling about with finding the 'right' song.
Good that you found a solution, still pretty sad that TH-cam has come to this, where people can't even play a couple of seconds of a song.
That's the music industry for you, since the end of physical formats (and even before - remember "Home Taping is Killing Music"?) they've fought every new technical development from mp3s and digital downloads to TH-cam and now TikTok and FB Watch. It's asinine.
TH-cam here is a medium. It’s often the greedy record labels who often raise claims because they don’t want to lose a cent off a ten-second sample. Even many producers wouldn’t mind.
@@G_Rizzly on the other hand, if you've seen any Leonard French videos, or if you follow lawsuits you'll be aware that TH-cam has been pretty complicit in massive ContentID fraud schemes, such as one wherein the perpetrators claimed rights to several non-monetized items from obscure artists.
@@rich_edwards79 It has been going on for a very very long time: Sheet music will kill the music industry, Pianolas will kill the music industry, Phonographs will kill the music industry, Home taping (reel to reel and cassette) will kill the music industry and so on . . .
TH-cam got painted into a corner on this one, but then has taken a rather lax attitude on bullying by the music industry. Neither blameless or solely to blame, probably because standing by the little guy is a losing proposition for them. Far easier to stand back and let the content producers get steamrolled.
Would be nice for a bunch of little guys to band together and clean their clock for all the frivolous suits.
3:30 FINALLY someone has the courage to sing about what I have thought about and struggled with for decades... That water TRULY is SO DAMN wide!!! Such a relief to find I'm not the only one that feels this way! A weight has truly lifted! It must have been the violin and majestic setting?
One interesting hack of the content ID system I saw another creator use was to pay to get a short custom piece of music composed and have it registered with the content match system under their name, and then made sure he always included enough to get a match. It meant that no matter how many matches a video got, he always got something because he was the rights holder.
When Digital Juice went from selling CDs and DVDs to an online subscription service, for about a month or so, they sold a lifetime subscription for, I think, $1000. I jumped on that and have access to all of their new content without paying an extra fee. Best money I ever spent.
I enjoy the dated stuff. The industrial music sounds similar to the safety videos they make us watch annually at work. They are so old, they are still on VHS.
6:42 in my opinion, this sounds so much better than typical recent corpo stock musics where the intro always begin with electric guitar. it sounds generic to me.
Mom, can we get Law and Order? No we have Law and Order at home. Law and Order at home: 22:19
Instead we get Awe and Lorder.
@@vwestlife 🤣
I'm primarily a listener of heavy metal, power metal specifically, though almost any form of metal that has a power metal lean to it will do.
I'm a critical listener though, and it's tracks like the ones presented in this video that remind me what real instruments, properly recorded and mastered with dynamic range, actually sound like. It can be frustrating to go back to a favorite power metal track, only to be frustrated that the mastering is so compressed that it sounds like there's a veneer of static noise over everything, the instruments all blend together, and while you can pick out individual instruments if you listen carefully, it's like listening to them played out of a tin can from the other side of a car door: Does it matter that you can _discern_ what the instruments are in such a case?
And "feeling" music, physically speaking, goes beyond just bass. The pluck of a guitar string or the blast of a trumpet have a physical impact with the way they compress the air, and with a proper speaker system and good recordings and mastering, EVERY second of good tracks can be FELT.
Beyond that, there's detail. If you cannot hear the engravings of the guitarist's fingerprints scraping over the spiraled metal cable every time he tugs the string and it snaps back into place with that classic twang, then the music is too compressed, or the recording doesn't have enough fidelity to capture that detail.
These tracks may be "generic," but they sound like real instruments played by professionals. (At least the real instruments do.)
I want that in my metal music, but out of hundreds of bands, I can think of a small handful off the top of my head. Unleash the Archers's album Apex; Aether Realm's album Tarot; Tales of Gaia's album Hypernova (I think they have programmed drums though); Gamma Ray's first couple of albums. . . that's all that's coming to mind, although I know there are more than that.
Point is, it's a shame when I get more visceral joy from generic music meant for commercial use than from the stuff that's meant to be artistic, and to thrill and excite.
I’ve gone back to collecting CDs of my favorite music. The difference is night and day compared to streaming, I feel like we took a huge step back in quality for convenience.
Why is it "a shame" to enjoy production music more than music composed by "popular" performing artists? In the case of the long-running libraries (KPM, Sound Stage, Valentino, De Wolfe, etc.), much of their content was written by top-class composers and played by incredibly talented session musicians. Which is WHY it all sounds good, even decades later.
I can imagine using some of the music for the Weather Star 4000 simulator.
22:19 sounds like it was inspired by Law & Order.
26:42 was inspired by Santana.
27:14 sounds like The Village People.
Just add enough extra notes or change the order of notes and it’s a totally different melody, right???
I couldn't think of a soundtrack more suitable for this channel than this collection. It really makes me travel back in time. Love it!
As a fan of production and library music, this is fantastic.
Great idea and these sound very good!
However be aware there are scammers that buy music like this, change it just a little bit to make it into a derived work, and then get TH-cam to put their version into Content ID so they can make money on your video.
Honestly. This really helps your channel. There's so many great tracks!
This fits right in with Techmoan's video about the Philips Background Music System. It's like they're two sides of the same coin, 15 years apart.
Also, has it really been that long since the early 2000s??
It's been 22 years
Part of the rental cost for those background music tape loops was to cover the performance royalties for the music. These days shops (at least here in the UK) often just run commercial radio or CD mixes and pay for a PRS license.
I like the fact that the names they gave to a lot of those tracks give you a good idea of the style. Useful stuff.
Great video. The track at position 12:06 "Competitive Spirit" is still used on some AM radio stations here in São Paulo, Brazil.
Damn Brazil can’t write their own music?
I've heard that one too in Canada but I can't remember exactly where and it's driving me nuts.
The tracks are definitely great. Might actually consider buying a set just for background music, for videos or just flavor audio for the home.
Flavor audio. Like a show home? 😆
Going to the pantry, gonna get a lot of peaches, peaches come from a can, put there by a factory downtown!
17:31 THAT'S IT! That's the song from Fat Head when Tom is talking about The Lipid Hypothesis. 10ish years ago when I watched Fat Head I said "they that's a really awesome song, what's it called?" but I couldn't find the name in the credits with the other songs. I asked on some forum or comment section and no one knew. I reached out to Tom on twitter but no response. I forgot about it until now. Thank-you. Thank-you for including it in your video.
This all sounds so sick !!!! Something so directly dated about this that puts you in a very specific place. LOVE IT!
digital juice actually made one of the tracks on a mobile game I played, the track is called Masquerade (StackTraxx)
This is a huge win for you, great video man.
In a previous life as an educational TV producer, Digital Juice was our library for everything, including motion graphics and other stock media. I remember convincing management to license a more "premium" production music library for a yearly royalty fee, and then starting to publish content on TH-cam. Spending hours each month responding to Content ID claims for music we had paid for was super frustrating. Should've stuck with the Juice!
its funny cause a lot of these sound like songs youd hear in first party nintendo games. especially the sports disc!
Definitely a Wii Sports vibe to some of these, though less compositionally dynamic since they’re intended for background use rather than repeat listening.
I got that vibe too!
I personally like the synthesized sound module sounds from the early 90s
and still use these kind of sounds in my backing tracks. I recognize what
sound modules or drum machines were used for certain sounds.
Thank you for this. I have been creating music since 2005 and I have used my own "vault" of tunes in my own documentary shorts. Good to know I can use other forms of non-copyrighted music as well!!
“Future Tech” has that so satisfyingly old-school 80’s video-gamey vibe
Hearing all this honestly makes me feel like I’m walking around SeaWorld or on hold for a phone call. And man it just fills you up with emotion because it brings back old memories from those times.
Future Tech is soundtrack for a Jazzersize video in an alternate universe, for sure! :-) I'm so glad you were able to get these.
The country tracks sound dated because there's no click tracks or rap bridges. XD
Fascinating relic, and a hilarious way of circumventing TH-cam's copyright system. A video with all the classic vwestlife magic!
I am so screwed, when played some of this songs. I get so much head theater from some of them. In flying textes, stock photos and all people look like in the 90´s. And of course Teleshopping vibes. 😅
TH-cam's Content ID match system has gotten so overly aggressive and restrictive that a recent video I was working on was flagged for containing 9 seconds of audio. It was an automatic match, which seems to contradict their policy to frown against manual matches of short snippets of copyrighted content in videos. I can understand copyright holders having issues with 30 seconds or more of their songs being used but 9 seconds is ridiculous, especially since the song was playing in the background. I've considered using one of the various online video production music providers, but after hearing what 12VoltVids has had to deal with (copyright claims galore), I think yours is the best solution. It's a shame because how else is somebody supposed to review and demonstrate a piece of vintage audio equipment--by playing static?
I also like how that "Badge & Gavel" song is so uncannily similar to the Law & Order theme!
P.S. In the beginning of the video you had a Dell laptop with a Windows 7 sticker, running what looks like MacOS, that played the Windows XP "dunk" sound when you put the box on the keyboard. What kind of sorcery is that?
It could be one of those themes that make Windows look like Mac OS, I belive Michael MJD made a few videos on them.
"Sound-alike" tracks (Badge & Gavel vs. Law and Order, for example) were and continue to be a staple of the production music business. ;) The trick is to make the sound-alike different enough from its, uh, "inspiration" to not get sued; yet similar enough that when most folks hear the sound-alike, they think it's the original.
I happen to love kitsch music libraries :) Extreme Music + FirstCom are great and I got into them thanks to my old interest in pro wrestling. Now it helps when AB’ing audio for reference and engineering purposes. Thanks for showing us Digital Juice! I’m definitely going to check them out :)
Great find! Reminds me of old demo multimedia discs and digital training courses 🙂🎶
Nice! Yeah, I don't really get TH-cam's content ID thing, all the legal cases have said that using short clips is fine, even TH-cam themselves say single seconds is okay, but then they don't. TH-cam really doesn't care for creators, it became massively obvious when they removed the dislike button. I don't think I know a single creator that I follow that wanted it... It's this kinda stuff that keeps putting me off starting a niche channel.
Also... Who on earth is gonna listen to music that only 10 seconds of is featured in a video? I make music myself, so it's good to see that some creators really appreciate the plays. I don't think content ID is something I'd ever want to use, even if I was quote "big enough", just seems like... bad for the people, bad for the actual musicians, just good for the pockets of the executives getting fat from kickbags... Ooops, need to disengage rant mode now.
Beautiful library collection, and it will let you really do what this channel is all about without any fears of videos just disappearing.
odysee is a great youtube alternative, maybe try there?
Reminds me of 12voltvids' famous use of Music Bakery. The dated corporate film sound.
Yes, that's another good music library that's still available.
"moment of a champion" sounds like the results screen for some shovelware sports game for the ps1
10:24 you can hear the melody "staying alive" almost surfacing here
We used to have lots of these music libraries at a postproduction facility I worked on 25 years ago, mostly for sound design visualization for our clients commercials. Sometimes they went on with that music, some other times they hired composers to write something based on the shown track. Nowadays, Even though I write music on my own, I go most of the time with ready-made stuff because of time constraints.
This music makes me want to watch locally produced TV adverts.
Man, I used these tracks all the time in early 2000’s lots of corporate videos. Digital Juice used to put out new things all the time, but they have slowed down and just rehash stuff. But some of there photoshop and after effect templates are still decent.
27:12 It's budget 'Y.M.C.A.' by The Hamlet People (not The Village People). :)
"It's fun to stay at the M.Y.A.C..." ;)
Good God, the music is hilarious!
And I genuinely don't mean that in a derisive way. It's incredible how completely it nails the sounds of the time while being so thoroughly well composed, arranged, performed and mixed! The sound is better then on most radio hits! And I just find the thought hilarious, of how many legendary LA session veterans must have been a part of this 😄
4:40 The girl wearing safety goggles while interacting with a touch screen 🤣🤣🤣
The music reminds me of the random Documentaries I would find on TV as a child. Quite nostalgic.
Gosh, I love the "Shred This!" insert! It just oozes late 90's.
I fell asleep to this for a moment and woke up and it totally felt like an infomercial you'd wake up to in the middle of the night.
i don't know why, but somehow this music makes me feel nostalgic and warm inside
Sports music sounds like somthing that could be in Wii Sports.
Love it! The retro 90"S sythn is perfect.
Oh my god I thought the same thing… I guess music like that was where Nintendo got the inspiration from
Very interesting that disc #34 doesn't contain music, I wonder if it had music what genre would it be.........lol. Anyway the whole backtraxx collection seems interesting and glad you found a solution to the copyright claim problem
My goodness that Future Tech track sounded like the opening of FNAF Security Breach, that 80's rock synth vibe. Loved that and the sorta Law and Order track
This is awesome! The horror track at 13:52 actually reminds me more of late 1960's cop movies like Bullitt! Badge and gavel had me laughing out loud. I can imagine Techmoan producing a skit demoing that.
Pure gold , can't wait for your next videos using it !
This was really fun. I love how the video is about purchasing music to avoid copyright claims, but so many of the songs are blatant just-barely-different clones of hit songs. It just shows what a farce copyright is.
I am not sure if the slides for each track are intentionally or unintentionally hilarious, but it adds to the fun of this video bootleg sound museum.
Holy shit that's awesome! When I was a child I downloaded a demo of a screen recording software from Digital Juice and they *never* stopped emailing me. To hear that they're a legitimate company and not a scam front makes me want to check them out again. That's really neat, thank you for making this video.
Some of those quite remind me of the demo tunes 1990s keyboards used to have, esp the 'hi-tech' one.
It looks like Digital Juice got wise to this fairly quick. Their entire library is now limited to subscription and no longer comes in CDs from the website.
Sports sounds like straight out of Wii Sports. And I would have loved to hear a corporates take on Industrial haha.
6:53 This fits SO well for the typical helicopter camera shots flying over corporate buildings and showing off factory insides
At X we are innovating and leading the X industry….
26:48 - Chocolate, Chilies and Santana. That's one Smooth island...
This is simply genius! Kudos to you.
There were a ton of music libraries like KPM, Amphonic and others, plus many of them from Score Productions known for their game show libraries including “The Price Is Right”. I used them in my “Goldie” series, and of course Isaac Hayes for his instrumental stuff from “Shaft”, “Truck Turner” and others made by UMG for their Stax material, and Hoyt Curton for all of the musical cues used in Hanna-Barbera cartoons to use it in one of my videos and I used Vyond Studio for these music libraries.
KPM are definitely still going strong, and are now part of EMI Production Music.
Heh, the Carmen Overture sounds like its being played on a fairground organ.
ED: I think at one stage (in the 80s ?) the Beeb had a library of royalty free music available at relatively low cost on record as well as a small part of their library of sound effects available on record.
I bought several (and likely a few more soon) music libraries, but not exactly for this reason...but it helps to avoid potential problems with the content ID system with licensed music. You know, the stuff we've paid for. Works out pretty well.
The dated General MIDI drums make me smile, honestly.
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The woman's profile at 10:55 can't be unseen, she's got a chin that dwarfs Reese Witherspoon's.
Oh, and this audio library is far more interesting than I anticipated!
Digital juice was everywhere in my internship