It’s official! Our song “I Wanna Be” has been selected by Columbia Records to be the first single shipped to radio off Emma Roberts’ debut CD.

Emma Roberts “Unfabulous and more”

The full album is set to be released September 27, 2005. Not only is “I Wanna Be” featured as the first single, the video appears on the dual disc version of the retail release and it’s being used this summer and fall to promote Emma’s hit show on Nickelodeon, “Unfabulous”.

Press release here, Billoard article here.

Many thanks to Marshall Altman (A&R at Columbia Records) and Michael Laskow (president of Taxi.com) for making this happen!

“I Wanna Be” was written by Burst composers Daniel Holter and Mike Standal. If you’re interested, our demo version can be heard at broadjam.

Nick Pipitone’s “Anything I Want To Say” is the leadoff track on OnMilwaukee.com’s Summer Music Sampler.

Nick Pipitone and friends at the OMCD release party

The OMCD_01.0 Summer Music Sampler will be available throughout summer all around southeastern Wisconsin.

Thanks to Bobby Tanzilo at onmilwaukee.com for making it happen!

For the fourth year in a row, industry giant Spectrasonics hired Burst president Daniel Holter to demonstrate their cutting edge instrument software to the movers and shakers at the NAMM show in LA.

Daniel Holter presenting Stylus RMX at the Spectrasonics NAMM booth

NAMM is the premiere event for showcasing new and exciting technology from the world’s leading manufacturers. “It’s a long four days on my feet, but I get to meet so many incredible people - even some longtime heroes of mine” says Holter. In addition to this demo session for Apple Computer (pic below), he met “Stevie Wonder, Bob Clearmountain, Hans Zimmer, BT, David Was, Will Lee, Bob Wilson, Abe Laboriel (Sr. and Jr.!), Ricky Lawson, and on and on… I mean, c’mon!”

Daniel Holter presenting Stylus RMX for Spectrasonics at NAMM

“I’m blown away that Eric Persing - acknowledged by virtually everyone in the music industry to be the Elvis of sound design - asked me personally to do this for his company. I consider it such an honor to be trusted with the public introduction of software the entire music world has been waiting to hear.”

Daniel Holter and Eric Persing