Brakes put on Velocity Music Library

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Yes, it’s true. The Burst Collective no longer produces the Velocity Music Library for FirstCom (a unit of BMG, er… wait… Vivendi/Universal? Who can keep track?!).

It’s been very cool to hear from some Burst fans across the globe, emails wondering what was up, what happened, yadda yadda.

It was a fun ride, and we’re very proud to have produced Velocity for the past 7 years. We delivered 72 CDs worth of music to FirstCom over that time, and we thought it might be fun to post a few of our favorite tracks here - for demo purposes only, of course :

Not Falwell : thought we’d jump start things in true Velocity style, an irreverent sweaty punk tribute to this week’s fallen idiot. It is with no small measure of pride that we’ve noticed two of our more blasphemous titles have been placed in religious programming (Not Falwell as well as Goat Tackling). [from VL-015 Punk v1]

Mouf Builder : how about our news bed made entirely with sounds created by a human mouth (Kyle’s, to be exact)? [from VL070 News v1 : the sky is falling]

Triple Extra Large : one of our favorite drum n bass tracks from the Velocity collection… menacing and driven. [from VL054 Drum N Bass v2]

Murder By Number : back when the kids were diggin’ that 80s rock revival, we were the first music library to hit the trend and release a whole disc. Again, others followed. [from VL-051 AltRock v6 : throwback]

Slick Chicken : part of our Hillbilly Hijinx release… the description : “Come hang with Jeb n’ the boys as we get freaky on the farm. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, we explore comedy through the lens of inbreeding and moonshine.” [from VL-048 Unique v4 : hillbilly hijinx]

Case In Point : One of our more popular tracks, I like it because it reminds me of Mike - before he set up shop out in the country raising goats and ducks, he spent his days here at Burst, writing music. Not kidding. Goats. Ducks. I think he’s got two of every farm animal now. He’s registered a new alias with ASCAP… Noah. [from VL-031 AltRock v4]

Auld Lang Sigh : an example of how twisted we can get while staying on task… here’s a holiday ditty featuring Col. J.D. Wilkes (of Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers) on harmonica. [from VL-041 Unique v3 : xtreme xmas]

So there you are… enjoy!

We may not be producing Velocity anymore, but rest assured knowing you can still get it through your FirstCom sales rep, as part of the BMG/Vivendi/Universal international conglomerate!

And if you like our work, well, there’s a LOT of great material coming your way right here at BurstLabs.com. [dh]