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Our production music library features live players, current tracks dripping with authenticity + vibe, full songs with vocals and instrumentals.
Our recording studio in Milwaukee WI features the latest in digital technology matched with vintage mics, eqs + compressors.
Our song “I Wanna Be” has been licensed for use in Walmart’s online back-to-school campaign, The Hub.
Students can create their own space at the site, complete with video clips, wish lists, and a soundtrack… where one of the options they can select is the Emma Roberts single, “I Wanna Be”, written by Daniel Holter and Mike Standal of The Burst Collective.
Danny, Geoff, Kristian (prod), Daniel (prod), Zach, Evan, Nate
Tracking has begun on The Farewell Circuit’s debut EP, with Kristian Riley and Daniel Holter working with the band in the studio, tightening up arrangements, tracking initial parts, and plotting world domination.
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!
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.
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
Producers of Fox’s “American Idol” have chosen Burst music to tie their top-rated, fifth season together.
Material from the Burst Music catalog adorns many of the interlude segments and street interviews.
Most recently, American Idol “Auditions 6″ spun slices of Burst songs Teen Novella, QWERTY and Twister throughout the show and during the entire minute-long closing. Back Bacon, also from Burst’s Velocity Music Library, greased the twins segment the week before.
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!.
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 & The 4 Forces Of Evil hosted the “AIWTS” EP Release party at Points East Pub on July 22, 2005.
The 4 Forces Of Evil just getting off stage : Nick Verban, Nick Pipitone, Don Moore, Kevin Ponec
The EP features five songs written by Pipitone, and has been gathering praise from all over :
OnMilwaukee.com says “Incendiarily hummable, the five-track EP is tuneful and addictive”
“this EP is a strikingly memorable work” - Left Off The Dial
“ambitious and confident” - Not Lame Records
The AIWTS EP studio team celebrating. Daniel Holter, Nick Pipitone, John Ferraro, Bryan Mir.
Check out more on Nick Pipitone at his site, or at his Burst Records profile.
The Burst Collective offers custom music production and music licensing for commercials, tv, film, corporate media, software and video games.
We also offer a catalog of production music at BurstLabs.com, develop independent artists through our record label, Burst Records, and host recording sessions in our recording studio, Burst HQ.
