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“[‘Scandal’ creator Shonda Rhimes] really wanted to focus on soul, R&B [and] funk — real vintage songs from the era, both hits [and] undiscovered gems. I feel like this is a really underutilized genre in contemporary network television.”

GRAMMY-nominated music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas on the music behind the TV series Scandal (via recordingacademy)

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It's not about what or who. It's about when.

For me, music has never been about buzz or radio adds or thenextbigthing. Although, I know that’s how much of the world discovers music. I acknowledge that.

For me, it’s always been about timing. When your musical (brace yourself) soul is vulnerable. When lyrics can sear right through your toughest parts and light up. When a melody fishhooks you into a spin cycle of particular brand of “we are on top of the world”. 

It doesn’t matter if everyone has been talking about them. Talking is different from feeling.

So what does that mean for bands, for musicians?

It makes me miss having TV, a little. I reveled in the puzzle pieces that were commercials or brands and the music that captured just the right feeling. The ending credits on Grey’s Anatomy last week. The first few seconds of the Canon commercial that sounded like Spring. That space in between intro and first lyric that felt like the loveliest lull of a nap. 

I want to connect the music and the lyrics to the words and the pictures and I want everyone to have a soundtrack for those big moments in their lives. 

You shouldn’t be without a soundtrack.

Tell me and I’ll listen for you.

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Place: London Face: Jorja Smith

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Totemo : PGS Sync Sampler

Her Name Is : TOTEMO Okay, so you never heard of Totemo before, but she’s a big deal back in Israel, and all you need to do is push ‘play’ (along with a peek of the video) of &#82…

The extraordinary component of Totemo’s music – Rotem Or simply creates pure beauty.

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(via Funk Music Essentials :: PGS Sync Sampler)

Groovy, retro & soulful. Gritty street funk, all with fat bass lines and loads of funky, vocal and instrumental groove. A playlist of both contemporary and obscure classics but also pearls to be urgently discovered by the beginners!

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The Soul of 'Scandal': How Shonda Rhimes Uses Music for TV's Most Dramatic Show

During season three of ABC’s hit show Scandal, a montage scene closes out the eighth episode, “Vermont Is for Lovers, Too,” where we see a gruesome murder. Then one of the show’s main characters, Huck (Guillermo Diaz), insinuates he’s going to torture his colleague Quinn (Katie Lowes), and Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) sees her long-lost mother moments before the credits flash.

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Great music supervision when music pulls things from visual unapparent otherwise.

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Aziz Ansari on the Music of "Master of None": Father John Misty, Aphex Twin, Arthur Russell, and More

On using Toto’s “Africa”: “The Toto people were like, ‘Do they genuinely like this song or are they making fun of Toto?’ We were like, 'No, we love this song! Please, Toto. Why do you have such low self esteem?’”

By Jeremy Gordon

“Master of None”’s music selections are prolific and distinctive, featuring tracks by Aphex Twin, the Animals, the Slits, Arthur Russell, Lou Reed, New Edition, Spandau Ballet, and more. (You can find a soundtrack playlist here.) There’s one episode that’s entirely set to country music, as Dev and a love interest take a weekend trip to Nashville. There’s another where he invites a date to a Father John Misty show, where Josh Tillman runs through “Chateau Lobby #4”.

To discuss the show’s music, Pitchfork hopped on the phone with Ansari and music supervisor Zach Cowie.

Pitchfork: Some of the picks are a little more on-the-nose—"Cheating" by the Animals scores an episode about cheating.

AA: Zach and I were both sensitive to using stuff that’s on-the-nose, but I think the vibe of the song ultimately trumps everything. There’s an episode when we use that Arthur Russell song “A Little Lost"—obviously that’s kind of on-the-nose but I think it’s also, for both of us, one of our favorite songs ever. When we started the show we were like, ‘Oh, we gotta use that song somewhere,’ and that was even before we decided on having a different theme song every episode. Did you see the first episode without any music or anything, Zach, is that what you saw when we talked the first time?

ZC: No, I started with the scripts.

AA: But we talked a lot about Arthur Russell. We almost named the show “A Little Lost” but then we decided not to.

ZC: He’s huge for both of us. Arthur Russell’s music, and Serge Gainsbourg’s music, were really strong through-lines for everybody that worked on this show in terms of getting some unity in the vibe.

Pitchfork: What draws you to both of their music?

ZC: [Russell] made so much stuff that there’s a perfect thing from him for just about every moment. Actually, Serge Gainsbourg is kind of the same. Both those guys, their music is always distinctly theirs, no matter what kind of style or sound they’re morphing into.

AA: The challenge was: How do you craft a sound for a show that’s not been done before? The go-to is jazz—I think that’s what Woody Allen uses and “Louie” has jazz stuff. It’s tough—jazz works really well, it’s quiet, it doesn’t get in the way of the scenes, but what can you do that’s different if you want to push yourself to do something different.

Pitchfork: One episode, about the different acting roles for men and women, is explicitly feminist. You’ve got music from X-Ray Spex and the Slits in there; you’ve also got a scene where a woman walks home with the Halloween theme playing as she’s pursued, while we see the guys walking home to “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”.

AA: To me, that’s the best horror movie score I could think of. Then, I was trying to think of the dumbest songs I could play. “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is pretty stupid.

That scene—it’s really crazy how much it’s made by the music. That was a tough scene because it’s a dark scene that’s happening. To be able to get the humor out of it, the music really is what kind of helps sell that scene in a lot of ways. Even the little thing like when that one guy grabs the door and you hear that [high pitched noise] –that little thing is from Halloween too. All those little flourishes help that scene work. It’s a woman getting followed by this creepy guy, so the music actually really helps.

ZC: It was really tough for us to choose the Slits and X-Ray Spex, because we had a really long list of their contemporaries that we loved. That was kind of the funny thing, between the two of us we had too many ideas. That’s something that became a big challenge with this show, to find the perfect one out of a very long list, because we both are just massive music freaks.

To read the full interview go to source

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The Geeky But ‘Gangster’ Music of ‘Silicon Valley’

Hardcore rap and rock songs show that tech nerds aren't just "vanilla," says music supervisor Rudy Chung.

These guys do a great job creating a unique musical environment for this series.

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Helsinki based pop artist Lyel creates pop perfection with a beat driven ballad titled Shadow. The track brimming with solid synths and confident strong vocals will definitely make her voice and presence well known to listeners. Check the track out above!

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feel good, empowering indie!!!

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(via 16 Already Heard Bands To Watch in 2016)

Plutonic Group Syncs presents our first annual list of the most compelling artists to emerge from around the globe. We’ve focused on artists who are on the verge of finding a much larger audience.. Like Scramble-off-kilter Pop auteurs The Fatty Acids or the new ‘Supergroup’, The Family Silver. It’s an eclectic list that reflects the weird and wonderful state of current-day indie music.

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chanson française is the new chic: ‘Oui Oui C'est Vrai’ playlist ft. GRIFON, Daprinski, PLAISIR DE FRANCE, Vaudou Game, Biga* Ranx, Stranded Horse, Arlt, kumisolo, AQUASERGE, Le Couleur,French 79… ℘ Deezer bit.ly/1PyZCzI ℘ Spotify spoti.fi/1SdjYnT ℘ Youtube bit.ly/1mp8Fe9

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The 70 Best Musical Moments on TV

Thomas Golubić. Alex Patsavas. Andrew Charles Kahn. Gary Calamar. These are the people who helped craft the Don Drapers and Tony Sopranos of our golden TV age, but they don’t often get their due. Music Supervisors are the men and women behind the curtains; they are the reason you go to explain that perfect scene to a friend, but give up describing it after a few details because, “you just have to see it.” Often, what we really mean is “you just have to hear it.” And even before the golden age, there was excellent TV with strong themes, poignant messages, and unforgettable dance moves highlighted by the great music that made some of our favorite scenes so memorable. Here are our picks for the 70 Greatest Musical Moments in Television. This list does not include theme songs (except for one major exception, because we just had to), or performances by musicians on TV shows. (Warning: some of these blurbs contain spoilers.)

Check out the actual list at Paste Magazine, we sure as heck did! And congratulations to all the talented folks that make the list. 

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6th Annual Guild of Music Supervisor Awards - Winners

BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION - FILM OVER 25 MILLION

“50 Shades of Grey” - Music Supervisor - Dana Sano

“Creed” - Music Supervisor - Gabe Hilfer

“Kingsman: The Secret Service” - Music Supervisor - Ian Neil

“Pitch Perfect 2” - Music Supervisor - Julia Michels and Julianne Jordan

“Straight Outta Compton” - Music Supervisor - Jojo Villanueva – WNNER

BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION - FILM UNDER 25 MILLION

“Carol” – Music Supervisor - Randall Poster – WNNER

“Paper Towns” - Music Supervisor - Season Kent

“Magic Mike XXL” - Music Supervisor - Season Kent

“The Prophet”  - Music Supervisor - Howard Paar

BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION - FILM UNDER 5 MILLION

“The Diary Of A Teenage Girl” - Music Supervisor - Howard Paar – WNNER

“Miss You Already” - Music Supervisor - Jojo Villanueva & Jennifer Ross

“Tangerine” - Music Supervisor - Matthew Hearon-Smith

“Welcome To Me” - Music Supervisor - Sean Mulligan

“I’ll See you In My Dreams” - Music Supervisor - Natalie Cervelli

BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION - DOCUMENTARY

“Amy” - Music Supervisor -  Iain Cooke

“Janis: Little Girl Blue” - Music Supervisor - Jonathan McHugh

“The Hunting Ground” - Music Supervisor - Bonnie Greenberg & Christy Gerhart

“Cobain: Montage of Heck” - Music Supervisor - Howard Paar

“Meet The Patels” - Music Supervisor - Brooke Wentz

“The Wrecking Crew” - Music Supervisors - Julie Houlihan, Micki Stern, Suzanne Coffman – WNNER

BEST SONG/RECORDING CREATED FOR A FILM

“Love Me Like You Do” from 50 Shades of Grey (Written by Savan Kotecha, Ilya  Salmanzadeh, Tove Lo, Max Martin and Ali Payami; Performed by Ellie Goulding) - Music Supervisor - DANA SANO

“One Kind of Love” from Love and Mercy (Brian Wilson and Scott Bennett; Performed by Brian Wilson) 

“See You Again” from Furious 7 (DJ Frank E, Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa and Andrew Cedar; Performed by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth)  UNIVERSAL PICTURES - Music Supervisor - Rachel Levy – WNNER

“Flashlight” from Pitch Perfect 2  (Sia Fuller, Christian Guzman, Jason Moore and Sam Smith) performed by Hailee Steinfeld and cast. - Music Supervisors - JULIA MICHELS / JULIANNE JORDAN

“Better When I’m Dancing from The Peanuts Movie (Meghan Trainor, Thaddeus Dixon) performed by Meghan Trainor - Music Supervisor - JOHN HOULIHAN

“The Light That Never Fails” from Meru (Adrian Gurvitz, Andra Day & Lauren Christy) performed by Andra Day) - Music Consultant - TRACY MCKNIGHT

BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION - TRAILERS

Steve Jobs (Trailer #2)  - Maura Duvall Griffin, Ali Pistoresi – Motive – WNNER

The Martian (Trailer)  - Marcy Bulkeley - Wild Card

The Angry Birds (Teaser) - Jordan Silverberg - Transit

Captain America Civil War (Trailer) -  Sanaz Lavaedian - Mocean

Suicide Squad (Comic Con First Look Trailer) -  Bobby Gumm  - Trailer Park– RUNNER UP

GUILD OF MUSIC SUPERVISORS LEGACY AWARD

Chris Montan – WNNER

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Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners of this years ‘Guild of Music Supervisors’ Awards!

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Always Be Nice To People. 

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it cost you absolutely nothing to be nice...