Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music

[@tomobrien5345]

Over the last year I’ve been delving deeper & deeper into library/elevator/piped music after discovering the k-mart tapes on the internet archive. Thanks for all the people in the comments here talking about various bits of music that I can now look up

[@noot_2]

Ive been listening to this kind of music for god knows how many years and it is so crazy to see the legends that I've always heard speaking and seeing them in person. Thank you for this

[@22_cincatt]

Me too.

[@t.p.mckenna]

There are about 100 KPM albums on Spotify these days.

[@OLDMANWAFFLES]

I found out about “library music” or whatever you want to call it, through a couple different KZbin channels that post a lot of records from all different time periods past, and I just want to say that these compositions are HIGHLY underrated. These are amazing records and I can’t believe my ears sometimes with the amazing depth of some of these projects. I’ve heard softer records, records for the summer, horror library sounds, moody records, jazz records, sound stage, kpm, Bruton, De Wolfe, etc. the list just keeps going it’s insane. How is this not talked about more? Why isn’t there a long documentary about these records and insanely talented musicians that made them?

[@derrylallen]

i tend to gravitate to the more obscure, avante garde library records but when i wanna relax im bumpin John Cameron , Keith Mansfield, or Alan Hackshaw . ill be releasing my own library record soon. all sorts of genres. to get us back to that element and vibe we once had

[@rizmid]

Oh lord! I never thought I would stumble upon this marvelous presentation apart from the silly obsession with these since I first started listening to them around 12 years ago. I wish Syd dale was there too for me his music always lifted my spirits in everyway. A fan, admirer and respect to all these great musicians who can create wonderful world around you in a span of under 2 to 3 mins of sheer fantasy. With love from Pakistan!

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[@jonasjohnathan6074]

@Giovanni Jerome Instablaster :)

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[@jonasjohnathan6074]

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[@benerationx]

grabbed the LP , its incredible. i also found about 5 Bruton music LP's in a $1 bin about 5 years ago, lucky find.

[@brianwarner308]

Awesome documentary!!! One of my favorite things on KZbin!!

[@mrbigarms]

Love Library music, endless discoveries of wonderful little masterpieces for me, I wouldn't of known about it if it hadn't been for youtube!

[@therealsegue185]

Wow! It’s crazy to hear these masters talk. I’m amazed. They are super heroes. I want to see an Italian version of this.

[@gregtrela]

Great book - nice illustrations and tons of information. Highly recommended!

[@bryonboyd6587]

Thanks for sharing

[@spb7883]

Very interesting. This is an unexplored subject among musicologists, amateur historians, musicians: very few have written about this. I’m aware of the book but have yet to read it. Being a fan of Capitol’s Hi-Q series, my only hope is that the author covers music from earlier eras as well as the one depicted in the clip. Nothing against the music of that era, which I love. It’s also understandable that the author would reach out to *living* people, and so wouldn’t be able to talk to someone like William Loose, who died in ‘91. But Loose and others wrote fresh and exciting music *in the 50s*. My only hope is that this film and its accompanying book cover that material and era, too.

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

Let’s bring it back

[@readytochop2462]

Bill Loose is one of my all time favorites. Very uniques style.

[@22_cincatt]

Me too. Loose was the most unique and Mansfield the best overall.

[@spb7883]

@@22_cincatt Loose’s music ended up being used of course in George Romero’s films and productions. For me, “Tales From the Darkside” is key. Soundtrack of my childhood.

[@spb7883]

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[@steventurous9000]

Was lucky enough to have my musical interests fall into place and end up here. Brian Bennet, Alan Hawkshaw are my favorite so far (among others) superb stuff

[@harrystannard5944]

There's an absolutely fantastic peice of library music from the album that was shown at the beginning. Bach's prelude and fugue no.16. performed in a jazz arrangement and can actually be heard in an episode of Callan starring Edward Woodward entitled The Most Promising Girl Of her Year. There was an upload somewhere on here of the arrangement so if you do hear it, let us know if it's your 'bag' as it's very psychodelic arty 60's

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

HEY I FINALLY the Synthetronic album by Fabio Fabor and Giancarlo Barigozzi

[@wellspokenrambler]

it says a lot about how niche my interests have gotten, but the music that plays right at the start of this video - "Husky Birdsong" - is also used in the Kirby episode of Unraveled to introduce the 5-month timeskip halfway through that episode EDIT: and the music at 4:09-4:27, "Gentle Persuasion" is used in the same episode when BDG has an emotional crisis in the studio, just before going on a wilderness sabbatical

[@s2735]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@librarymusicfilm8911]

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[@JaCeeMusic]

luv this

[@Blondejam]

I have a library tape by Pete Moore with a few unpublished tracks! What can I do with it? It's on 1/4" tape 7-1/2 fps as I recall. Cheers peeps...

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

What's the tune at the beginning?

[@JDVmusicSound]

Really cool

[@lilianebeeckman2901]

Triestig. .. het verdwijnen van deze instrumenten. ...

[@lordblackCinema]

How can i watch full documentary??

[@Mars-hn7vw]

Legends

[@niveknija1329]

what a fun find...deep cuts baby

[@davidhodgin8900]

❤️

[@tidawilson]

My heroes!

[@Rubberfooted]

Keith Mansfield the GOAT!

[@maximnoize8760]

🥳🥳💥💥

[@brianwarner308]

Surprisingly enough, I did not stumble onto library records through sampling. It was actually from Shazaming porno music.!!!

[@MironRemus]

[@dcaseng]

It's a shame to refer to this type of music as "library music". It's so much better than that.

[@sooperheep]

Ugh shuddup

[@jaydyer6682]

Should be called “dope library music”