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With organic warmth that belies the weather in our part of the world this time of year, Signposts is full of emotive soundscapes and energetic, optimistic grooves custom built for your next road trip.

So we’ve been completely preoccupied with a few items around Burst HQ lately (new recording projects, year end accounting hell, and our beloved Packers devastating loss, blah blah blah…) but we’re eager to get some hot new music to you, our dear friends and fans.

On that note, we bring you our latest collection of hip hop production music, Thump Trunk.

A last minute frenzy of uploading before the Christmas break means you get access to the latest R&B compilation from Burst Labs, Smooth & Soulful [r+b vol 2], long before the eggnog takes effect.

With tinges of gospel and modern laidback hip hop mixed with a live rhythm section anchored by the one-and-only Shon Hinton (of Mary J. Blige fame), playing guitar and drums while on breaks from Mary’s international touring schedule over the past few months, these 14 tracks of spiritual and sexy production music are primed for use by you - our favorite clients.

There’s a party in quirkville and you’re invited.

The latest set of odd, abnormal, uncategorizable, square-peg-in-round-hole-ish tracks of production music added to our Burst Labs catalog is a cheerful 13-song collection called Clap, Sing, Bounce [quirky vol. 2].

New music uploaded to our catalog of production music at Burst Labs over the weekend : a collection of organic chill tracks, The Artifacts Of Hope.

Everybody loves music for movie trailers, right?! Well we’ve been hiding away in the Lab trying to come up with something a little unique for you, our dear friends, and methinks we’ve succeeded.

Not only are there soundtracks designed to ramp up the suspense and provide dramatic mood shifts throughout, but each track is available in construction kit form… each segment or mood section of a song is provided as an additional version to use separately.

Check it out :

Naughty + Nice, our collection of irreverent music for the holidays, is ready for downloading and licensing at Burst Labs.

Favorites from the Naughty side :

More updates to the songs in our production music catalog here at Burst Labs :

Check out this smooth and laid-back hip hop track featuring J Todd and the timely lyrics “put the ying against the yang and disarm your weaponry” and “all warfare is based on deception, I move like a phantom to fool your perception” :

Year Of The Dragon

Here’s a twisted and dark confession of sorts, from an afflicted soul :

Too Many Demons

And finally, two atmospheric and moving epic mood-rock soundscapes, with layers of swirling drama and an emotional journey upwards (all in about 2 minutes… how’s that for modest, eh?) :

Cinematic

Rose Rising

Got any requests? Hit us with a comment below and we’ll do what we can to get you the music you want for your productions.

Meanwhile, we’re hard at work on finishing a few of the other 200+ tracks we’ve got started (I’m not even close to kidding). More soon! [dh]

While we’ve been working hard on the rebirth of the Gravity Music Library, we’ve also been quietly adding tracks here at the Lab over the past few days… if you share our diverse musical palette, we suspect you’ll dig a few of these productions.

Here’s two new rock songs with a slight alternative bent (what exactly is ‘alternative’ anymore, anyway?), ripe for commercial consumption and licensing :

Green Eyed

Feels Like This

And when swagger and retro r&b/soul illicitly spawn with greasy party rock, you might end up with one of these :

Unconscious

Thumpy

We’ve also managed to get a few other tracks finished this week : some Hip Hop with vocals, a dark and twisted singer/songwriter dealing with his afflictions, and two super dynamic/triumph-of-the-human-spirit atmospheric instrumentals.

All of these tracks are teasers for the next round of full CDs we’re in the middle of producing right now. Instead of holding out for every last detail to get wrapped up, we’re uploading new production music as we go. Hope you dig. More tomorrow. [dh]

Maybe you were like us and spent every waking minute of afterschool afternoons playing with your joystick.

Wait… let me rephrase that.

You remember the classic game consoles of 70s and 80s? Right after Pong, but before the Sony Playstation.

Atari 2600. Nintendo Entertainment System. IntelliVision. ColecoVision. And the minty Commodore 64.

Mario Bros. Pac Man. Donkey Kong. Missle Command. Kaboom! Pole Position. Sword Quest. Pitfall. Breakout. Adventure.

Forced to get my gaming groove on with an über-sexy TI-99 4/A, being raised in my family allowed me the special privilege of loading games from a cassette tape! Of course, we gave up on Texas Instruments the day we saw an Apple Macintosh at the mall - been a total Mac geek ever since, proud to say.

The soundtracks to these video games were annoying, low-res, and spare - quite unlike the fully scored orchestral masterpieces of today’s 5.1 game consoles. But there was something about them - a quirky romance, if you will - that warms our digital hearts.

So at Burst Labs this past week we set about creating some new classic videogame scores. Never forgetting our love of the joystick and trying to honor our past, we composed our new retro videogame music collection, Degenerate Gamer, using sound cards directly from these old games, low-bit resolution recording techniques that were all the rage at the time (well, it’s all they had), and by partaking in the Gamers Diet - Mountain Dew and Doritos.

Video Game Production Music Highlights

From the cute and cuddly department, we bring you 4 undeniable tracks full of rainbows and mushrooms and gold sparkle flowers :

Adorable Pixels
Bits & Pieces
Bonus Round
NoFriendo Entertainment System

And we have manic and crazed energy tracks, too :

Dungeon Maze
Frenzied Arcade
4 Bits To Freedom

How about some dramatic adventure :

Snake Raid
Mythical Adventure

And the requisite modern quasi-remix take on the classic sound of video games :

Final Fantasy Football

License This Music

Please feel free to license our classic video game production music where irony, sarcasm, humor, or genuine warm-hearted musical nostalgia are required. Batteries not included. [dh]

UPDATE : looking for a great emulator to play some classic Atari 2600 games? Try Stella.