A boutique British film music label celebrating everything that is exciting and vibrant about cinematic music.
Featuring a mix of established British film and television composers alongside highly regarded emerging talent, Big Screen offers brilliantly emotive, uplifting and dramatic screen music excellence that mixes explosive blockbuster action with beautifully crafted art house soundtracks.
Big Screen composers include top TV writer Rob Manning and RTS, Ivor Novello & BAFTA award winning composer Rob Lane who is one of the most in demand British film & TV composers working today. Aside from his contribution to Big Screen, Rob has just completed scoring West Is West, the sequel to the much loved East Is East, and is currently working on period drama South Riding for the BBC. Other recent work includes the score for the high profile movie The Damned United.
No. of albums: 6
Origin: Surrey, UK
Our in-house 'magazine' label which is in turn, both very glossy and gloriously tabloid.
Mixing sensational with sensual, BoostTV takes you from Relaxing Places & Open Spaces to the stars of CCTV and real life drama of Caught On Camera via the WAGs to riches, sexy scandal and testosterone driven excess of Flashy, Trashy & Salacious and Bliss our ultimate spa & relaxation soundtrack.
Brand new for summer 2011, Tropical Heat & Sandy Feet is the ultimate destination for sunset soundtracks.
Most BoostTV releases feature full length versions as well as alternative mixes and handy cuts for titles, programme in & outs and stings.
Innovative leftfield sounds - expect the unexpected...
Liftmusic is an alternative production music label best known for their twisted dance, rock and genre-defying mashups and the inspiring 'One Minute Wonders' collections.
Liftmusic continues their 'lucky dip' tradition with the Wildcards series of digital only compilations. Each is a collection of brilliant eclectic gems.
Music you'll find on Lift includes cutting edge dance, weird & blissful ambient, twisted electronica, groovy easy listening, folk tech-scapes, deep-fried funk, left field electro rock mash ups, cinematic atmospheres, quirky wacky things and 60's psyche pop. And then there’s the stuff that defies a category!
Because of their originality and refreshingly honest approach Lift has become a big favourite with TV, promo and commercials producers worldwide and is currently one of the world’s leading independent labels.
Documentary music from Munich, Germany
Coming soon is this exciting new documentary label from Germany
Highly inventive & visually driven production music from around the world.
Pete Christie & Alex Fitzwater from needletracks.tv are music fans. Their extensive knowledge ranges from 1920s jazz to the mid-90s Cornwall electronic scene, via international hip hop, thrash metal, modern minimalism and football chants. To them it’s all music.
Inspired by this love, they started the highly inventive & visually driven needletracks.tv in 2011 with nine outstanding releases sourced from artists from around the world. Don't miss the brilliant chop-shop hip hop of 'Pitch Black' from beatmaker extraordinaire Stephen Farris, Harry Henderson’s bashy beats from an iPad app on 'Mountain Music', tasty old skool acid house from The Auterist on 'Slack Acid' and the inspirational, powerful & progressive 'Eyes Wide' and 'Our Beautiful World' EPs from Mizimo.
And that's not forgetting the 21st century space age lounge jazz of Bertrand Musique's 'Cover Story', the neo classical electro ambient jazz of Amplified Human and the very cool 'Origins' by Aliquo.
They also have really cool artwork courtesy of French artist director Sowenso – check out her site at www.sowenso.com
Cool, quirky and kitsch sounds from Paris
Parigo is the proudly Parisian new mini-label from highly acclaimed French producer and production music legend Guillaume Albeck. Offering a uniquely Gallic musical slant, Parigo is an irresistible mix of arty and quirky with a smattering of traditional France. C’est magnifique!
No. of albums: 8
Origin: Hollywood, USA
Specialist music for movie trailers and TV promos.
PGH is the brainchild of Jeff Fair and Starr Parodi, who have been composing for trailers and scores since 1997, working with major Hollywood studios such as Paramount Pictures, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Columbia TriStar and Dreamworks and have now released the music as a boutique film music library.
Their music has featured in trailers for many classic major motion pictures including War Of The Worlds, X-Men 3, Mission Impossible 2, The Italian Job, The Thomas Crown Affair, Tomorrow Never Dies, Braveheart, Leaving Las Vegas and Stargate.
The music on the label ranges from high impact action and heavy drama to crazy comedy and is spot on for promoting anything from action movies to romantic comedies, as well as being great for programming and commercials.
Quality, user-friendly production music
New to Boost in Autumn 2011, PMOL (Production Music Online) is the brainchild of highly established and successful production music composers Patrick Wilson and Adam Routh.
The aim of the label is to create a world class, user-friendly catalogue and to this end they carefully select composers from across the globe. These include writers as diverse as David Lowe (themes to BBC News, The One Show, Panorama, Grand Designs and many others), world & historical music specialist Dirk Campbell (Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire & Sir David Attenborough), Derek Austin (Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, David Bowie, Jimmy Cliff), Gordon Matthewman (DJ at Pacha, Space, Amnesia and Ministry of Sound) and avant-garde composer Paul Harrison who created the ‘not of this world’ X-Piano from recycled piano parts. Other PMOL composers have worked with many high profile artists including Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, David Bowie, the Black Eyed Peas, Elvis Costello, Britney Spears, Diana Ross, Cher and Duran Duran amongst many, many others.
From ancient times to present day sounds, PMOL have created quality, distinguished production music with a distinct flavour from each corner of the globe.
A classical music label offering a comprehensive collection of well known and more obscure classical pieces.
Recognisable works are available on Boost Live and on Essential Classics - a 20 CD presentation set consisting of 190 classical hits, including full versions of the most popular movements and 30 second edits of the most recognizable parts.
This is backed up by a DVD which offers over 1000 full length works with the added bonus of an easy to use search and audition facility. Over 700 additional pieces are also available online.
Recent releases include The Wedding Album, Famous Opera, Kings & Queens and Classical Remix, an album of contemporary remixes of famous classical tunes.
Bold, bright, fun, quirky, stylish, intelligent, thoughtful, provocative, irreverent, NOW
POKE is a brand new musical union between Boost and ever popular Brighton hipster producers, liftmusic.
Celebrating all that is good in life, POKE is individual, quirky, intelligent and fun. POKE has style, class and likes to shake its ass. Proudly eccentric and up for a laugh but with a thoughtful and provocative edge, our aim is to provide the music we enjoy that hopefully you will love.
Latest releases include Christmas Crackers a stunning collection of original and traditional songs and instrumentals and Pokerama which mixes top drawer youthful energetic fun with madcap kids TV antics.
Give your productions some POKE!
Original and innovative sounds from Scandinavia.
You never forget your first time! Mixing leftfield, twisted, quirky grooves and atmospherics with delicate cinematic sounds the label offers a new and unique take on music for broadcast and is crafted by some of the most talented and innovative creators of music in Scandinavia.
Latest releases include Crazy Quirky 8 Bit, Mellow Moments and Mellow Songs.
A ground breaking series of on-going micro-libraries or ‘zones’
Zone is a unique independent music library offering an on-going series of micro-libraries or ‘zones’. The first five are Dronezone, TVzone, Pleasurezone, Clubbingzone, Docuzone and Funzone.
Each zone is genre defined and a mini library within itself. The albums all have between 30 and 60 individual tracks and are broken down into easy to use sub-sections.
Docuzone - diverse, intelligent &quirky music for 'fly on the wall' exposes, factual and serious documentary programming, covering topics as varied as war, politics, economics, crime, the environment, travel, globalization & stories about ordinary, remarkable & oddball people.
Clubbingzone - the ultimate dance music collection. 160+ massive club anthems, urban jams, chilled beats, indie classics & banging dancefloor tunes.
Pleasurezone – it’s all about enjoying yourself. From amazing days out with friends & high adrenaline sports to very saucy goings on this collection offers a musical something for every fun occasion.
TVzone - like sitting on your sofa zapping channels, TVzone offers a multitude of music styles for programming across the TV spectrum. At times slick, sexy & stylish and at others fun and funky the 6 album collection offers music for sport, lifestyle, travel, fashion, arts & kids TV.
Dronezone - more than just drones, this 5 album set is balanced with unobtrusive yet inspiring music beds and underscores.
Funzone - fun for everyone! A diverse 4 CD fun-filled collection of bonkers comedy, retro kitsch, goofy good times, innocent play and adrenaline fuelled action.
Singular, trend reacting albums
Alongside Zone Music is Zone Plus, an on-going collection of singular, trend reacting albums which complement the 'zones'. Latest releases include Audio Allsorts 2, Energy Fountain, Luxury & Elegance, Modern Piano Conversations 2, Buzz Sounds and Athlete.
