Our very own Daniel Holter and Mike Standal have scored another songwriting coup, placing their song “Fall” in the hottest flick at theaters this spring, Sex and the City : The Movie.

Through our association with the music licensing company Crucial Music (and Crucial’s Tanvi Patel), the producers of Sex and the City licensed the instrumental version (known as “Catch Me” in the movie credits) of one of our jazz ballads.

With a nod to the standards of yesteryear, the full version of the song features Marcella Mortellaro, a longtime friend of the songwriters and collaborator at The Burst Collective who now resides in Nashville.

If you’d like to support the creation of a full-length recording with Marcella, buying her songs through Amie Street is the most direct way of doing so. We’re hoping to parlay this movie placement into finishing the project we started a couple of years ago for Burst Records. Until then, enjoy the music!

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 :

Owen Sartori’s song “The Cube” is the leadoff track on the second installment of the OnMilwaukee.com CD sampler, an annual release featuring artists from the Milwaukee area.

7′ Steinway B makes a grand addition to Burst HQ

We recently acquired a legendary Steinway piano, and are eager to use it on our upcoming custom projects and records.

We’re working exclusively with one piano tuner, installing a humidity control system directly in the piano body, and setting up our new baby for a long life making beautiful music… come on by and hear it for yourself!

Burst Creative Director Makes OnMilwaukee.com’s Top 100

Burst Collective Creative Director Daniel Holter

Burst Collective Creative Director Daniel Holter made OnMilwaukee.com’s “100 Milwaukeeans You Need to Know, Part One” (not even part two)!

Well, we’re very proud of our fearless leader. He’s telling everyone he’s number 39 … but we haven’t told him that the list is in alphabetical order, yet … shhh …

Shon Hinton - Mary J. Blige Music Director

Guitarist/producer [Raymond] Shon Hinton draws his sound from a blend of R&B, blues, jazz, pop, rock and hip hop. His credits include albums for Angie Stone, Avant, Kelly Price, 112, Syleena Johnson, Michelle Williams and others.

One of our extended family, Shon has done keyboard/programming work for Burst Music’s hip hop/R&B catalogue.

Be sure to check out Shon as he goes on tour as Mary J. Blige’s guitarist/Music Director this summer!

BURST RECORDS, SONY ENTER INTO STRATEGIC ALLIANCE ON MOFFITT RELEASE: The Stolen EP Remix Contest.

Julie’s bare vocal tracks and selected instrumental loops are available on The Stolen EP (Enhanced CD) and at acidplanet.com.

Burst Records and Sony will join forces in a promotion for Julie Moffitt’s Burst debut, The Stolen EP. Hitting streets Tuesday June 6, 2006, the disc will include Moffitt’s isolated vocal tracks, instrumental session loops and a copy of Sony’s ACID XPress loop-based, music production software.

The Stolen EP Remix Contest will offer enthusiasts, producers and DJs various remix files free of charge through burstrecords.com and Sony’s acidplanet.com, while The Stolen EP will feature exclusive session loops in ROM.

Old Man Malcolm (DJ; Garbage, Citizen King) and others have already offered their time and talents in conjunction with The Stolen EP Remix Contest. Burst will announce contest prizes and details in the coming days. Check out burstrecords.com and Acid Planet for details.

Burst writer signed by Steve Lilywhite

Max’s band, Superchic[k], in studio with Steve Lilywhite

The Burst Collective proudly announces that our friend, uber-talented writer/producer Max Hsu is Steve Lilywhite’s FIRST signing in his new stint as head of A&R at Columbia Records!

Steve Lilywhite’s credits include U2, Peter Gabriel, Dave Matthews, Rolling Stones, Counting Crows, Simple Minds, XTC and many other musical lengends.

Max has been a friend of The Burst Collective since before it was born, recording demos with Daniel in the basement of his church when the two were just starting out. Since that time, Max has done some amazing work for Burst Music, including one of our most frequently licensed tracks, “Bonded”.

We sincerely wish Max and his band Superchic[k] the very best at Columbia!

Max Hsu

Steve Lilywhite

photos by Max Hsu

The Burst Collective’s Daniel Holter was invited to participate as a panelist at the 2005 Road Rally, hosted each year in Los Angeles, CA by Taxi.

Holter was introduced during the first panel discussion of the Rally, the “successful members” panel, due to Taxi’s involvement in landing Burst’s song “I Wanna Be” with Emma Roberts at Columbia Records.

Pictured below are Holter, Marshall Altman (of Columbia Records), and Michael Laskow (president of Taxi) in the presidential suite of the Rennaisance Hotel in Hollywood.

Daniel Holter, Marshall Altman, Michael Laskow

Holter was also invited to sit on Friday afternoon’s panel discussion of Production Techniques for the Home Studio, and was rewarded with over 60 demo CDs from aspiring writers after he made the dreadful, first-time-panelist error of announcing from the stage that he would be looking for new material next year!.