Marina Tracks

The champion of quirky, comedy, and all things organic, Jonathan Grossman had a quick Skype chat with me the other day. He shared some wisdom about what you need to be a successful composer.

This morning I sat down for a quick Skype chat with Andrew Lauzon, one of our artists based in Toronto, Canada. His track, ‘Happy to See Me’ (listen on our music page) has such thick, fat sounding guitars that I had to find out how he makes them. It turns out he has some pretty gnarly tricks up his sleeve! Do you have any other ways of thickening up guitars in the mix? Let us know in the comments.

We are proud to announce that a portion of Marina Tracks‘ proceeds are donated to Heal The Bay, an organization whose purpose is to “make Southern California’s coastal waters and watersheds (including Santa Monica Bay) safe, healthy and clean,” (from their website).

So, every time you use our music in your project you will be helping keep our environment as clean as possible for our aquatic friends, like dolphins, sharks, sea lions. Not to mention safe for us surfers, swimmers, rowers, paddlers and beach-goers.

Our super talented Steven Senisi talks about the creative process in this video he co-produced. Great track, Steven! Keep ‘em coming! If you have any questions for Steven, just post in the comments and we’ll forward them to him.

We’re so happy to announce that one of our favorite tracks was recently placed in a new-media spot for the amazing Lexus LFA automobile. This car is nuts – V10 engine, carbon-fiber body, etc. The list price on the super-car is US$375,000!

It’s our first placement, our first success, so we’re thrilled and excited for what’s in store.

You can see more about Lexus and their LFA at http://lexus.com. As soon as the video goes live we’ll link to it here.

We just set up shop in a brand new office in Marina del Rey. We got coffee, we got tea, we got a huge stack of CDs, we got computers and we got Soundminer. Wahoo, let the meta-data creation commence!