Emmy nomination for Dancing With The Stars : outstanding music direction

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It’s not every week that we get to affiliate ourselves with MC Hammer, Antonio Banderas, AND the hottest reality dancing competition on television.

So, here’s some cool news… music produced by The Burst Collective was used in the Emmy-nominated show Dancing With The Stars.

Of course, there were some great songs featured in the final showdown (dance-off??) between Mario Lopez and Emmitt Smith, including :

“Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder

“Que Bueno Baila Usted” by Oscar d’Leon

“Cancion Del Mariachi” by Los Lobos & Antonio Banderas

“You Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer

“It Takes Two” by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock

In addition to custom scoring and record production, we do production music (or licensed music / library music) as many of you know. Which means we’re the team that sits behind the scenes making the instrumental breaks and musical intro bits to help keep things exciting, or dramatic, or tense, or heartwarming, or whatever the music supervisor thinks is needed for the show.

And we’re content with that. Really.

But we did get a little jacked this past week when our royalty reports showed up and revealed that Dancing With The Stars clearly digs the music we’ve produced for the Velocity Music Library (distributed by FirstCom Music). In addition to a bevy of uses throughout last season, they used two of our pieces quite prominently in the Emmy-nominated Episode 310 :

“Heroes” by Holter/Mosher


“Gonna Getcha” by Ecoff/Holter

And now we find out that that very episode is the one nominated for an Emmy!

Well, we’d like to think we played some small role, but clearly the show’s musical director, Harold Wheeler, knows what he’s doing and deserves all the credit.

Congratulations Harold, and everyone at DWTS!! We’ll be cheering for you from afar on September 16. [dh]

Click here for the complete list of Emmy nominees.

“Heroes” and “Gonna Getcha” are © FirstCom Music / ZFC Music and are provided here for demo purposes only.