Well, not quite. But they are our new partners in an exciting new production music venture… we should be able to divulge a lot more detail next week. Fingers crossed.

In the mean time… official news here, personal perspective from producer Daniel Holter here.

As we’ve posted about at the Burst Labs blog, there’s a host of new features now available at our online production music catalog.

We’ve been listening to our clients and friends over the past 6 months as requests were made and complaints were registered. While there are a few issues left to tackle, we wanted to get an update activated so some of the major issues would be addressed (recently played tracks, all forms in Flash, that sort of thing…).

There’s a quick 5 minute video walkthrough at the end of the Burst Labs blog post about the update, for those interested in moving picture demos, and some more detail on the upgrades right here :

The production team at American Idol are digging our music again this year.

The opening scene for the Dallas segment of American Idol’s 7th season featured “Heroes” (by D. Holter/C. Mosher), from VL-032 Dramatronica v3, part of the Velocity Music Library we created for FirstCom Music (from Dallas, of all places… appropriate, eh?).

Pulsing strings and stately horns underscored the first minute or so of the FOX hit show as the stage was set for another night of America’s favorite singing competition.

There’s more music where that came from, of course, as our good friend and regular Burst Collective composer Chris Mosher contributed to our new collection of dramatic trailer music at Burst Labs : Trailer Toolkit vol. 1.

Those of you who watched the 2 hour premiere of The Sara Connor Chronicles - the hot new FOX television show based on the Terminator movie franchise - may have noticed some “bumpin’ beats” (in the teenage vernacular) during the show’s pivotal scene at a shopping mall. I know you were probably jolted from the gripping drama, thinking “who on earth made that fabulous hippy-hop?” Well, quell your wonderings, because it was us.

Back in 1999, when Burst creative director Daniel Holter was an in-house composer at LA-based commercial music house Groove Addicts, electric cars were all the rage… and General Motors’ launch of their EV-1 was ahead of the curve, ready to take over the car-buying public with thoughts of saving the planet and leaving our dependance on fossil fuels behind.

We’ve made a collection of some of our latest holiday music productions available in a sweet little gift package called Wishes Dreams & Melodies.

It’s available exclusively as a gift at Groom (Milwaukee’s killingest salon for men, located in the Third Ward), or you can get it included with any CD from Burst Records during the month of December.

Wishes Dreams & Melodies preview (2:59)

Some details on the songs and the artists :

Those of you looking for information on Feels Like This, the song heard in MTV’s The Hills, can hear the mp3 (and read the lyrics, as many of you have requested) at our Burst Labs music licensing blog.

The Burst Collective has licensed our holiday themed production music tracks to NOTCOT for their brand new Holiday Gift Guide.

Star Trak recording artists Chester French overdubbed horns at Burst HQ earlier this month, with Daniel Holter engineering and D.A. and Max (of Chester French) producing.

Indie darlings Maritime recorded their new album at Burst HQ a couple of months ago with Stuart Sikes (Modest Mouse, Cerys Matthews, Cat Powers, Jack White).

We recently discovered this Thank You note from Maritime and Stuart on a drum head box here at Burst HQ… figured we’d share it with you here.