Music 4

Ray Foley has taken over the prestigious breakfast show slot on Dublin's 98FM (Monday the 19th of November 2012) and Music 4 is delighted to have created the brand new theme for the show. In addition to the main theme, we have also created new imaging for the news, travel and sport bulletins that will be broadcast during the show.

Hold on Dublin!... breakfast show radio and breakfast show imaging has just stepped up a gear!

The second album by Chris Moyles is out now (released Monday November 5th 2012). The album was produced by Chris Moyles and Music 4's Creative Managing Director, Sandy Beech. The majority of the album was recorded right here at Music 4 Studios.

The album features guest performances from Pixie Lott, The Rizzle Kicks, Olly Murs, Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams, Ricky Wilson, Ed Sheeran and many more.

Sandy and the team at Music 4 have produced every track from scratch (rather than using existing backing tracks) and the album also features a number of original tracks written by the same team behind many of Music 4's famous Jingles, TV Themes and Production Music.

Music 4 Studios were busy throughout August and September recording the album.

BE WARNED THOUGH - THIS IS AN EXPLICIT ALBUM!!

The album is in the shops now or online...(links below).

iTunes
Amazon
HMV
Play.com

We're always very proud of the long term relationships we build with our client stations and U105 in Northern Ireland is no exception. U105 ordered their first set of jingles from Music 4 back in November 2005. They have stood the test of time and remain on air alongside a 'new' package of cuts just delivered.

The recent additions include a full re-sing of the Wave 105 package from January 2010 plus re-sings of a number of jingles for the stations 'Golden Years' adapted from our fabulous Capital Gold package (originally created in May 2002!).

We always try our best to create jingles and logos that stand the test of time and we think U105 has chosen some excellent material from our back catalogue. We have worked hard with Maurice and the team at U105 to ensure they fit the stations output perfectly.

Audio coming soon.... Search 'U105' here at Music4.com to hear previous packages.

Pop sensation James Morrison recently spent the day at Music 4 Studios to undertake interviews and promote his forthcoming new single “Get To You” and his forthcoming Deluxe Version of his album “Songs For You, Truths For Me”. Both are due for release on November 16th. In addition to a number of ISDN interviews, James was visited by presenters from some of the UK's biggest and best radio stations including Rich and Kat from Capital FM, Wave 105 and many more. This was James’ 4th visit to Music 4 Studios, soon we’ll be setting up his own desk!

Ronan Keating also had a return visit for his ISDN and face-to-face interviews to promote his forthcoming album “Winter Songs” and single “Stay”, which are also both due for release on November 16th. This is Ronan’s sixth studio album and his first Christmas album. We wish him all the best of luck for the Christmas No1 spot!

For the past six weeks, Music 4's MD Sandy Beech has been locked in the studio working on the forthcoming album from Chris Moyles. Chris Moyles - The Parody Album will be released on Sony Records on the 23rd of November but is available to pre-order now from HMV, Amazon or Play for delivery on the day of release.

Sandy believes people are going to really enjoy this album.

"Chris and I have worked very hard to rework the most popular parody songs played out on his Radio 1 show and take them to a whole new level. Every track has been recorded from scratch and several tracks feature guest appearances from the likes of Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs), Calvin Harris and more. In addition, we've written a number of brand new tracks including the very catchy 'It's Never Gonna Snow At Christmas' which should get everyone in a festive mood! Whether you are familiar with Chris's parody songs or not, this album will make you laugh out loud"

Chris Moyles - The Parody Album was produced by Sandy Beech and Chris Moyles, recorded, mixed and mastered here at Music 4 Studios with additional recording undertaken at Abbey Road Studios.

For a full track listing and more details click here

PS: look out for a very funny bonus 'behind the scenes' video which will be available on iTunes once the album is released on November the 23rd.

Tim Minchin’s DVD release, “So F**king Rock Live” filmed at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre gets its first terrestrial TV screening tomorrow night (Thursday) on E4 at 10.30pm.

The DVD was mixed in 5.1 and stereo here at Music 4 Studios last November.

Click the 'go to project' link below for a highlight of tomorrow's show.

(Be warned...the Tim Minchin DVD contains very strong language and is not for the easily offended!)

The team at Music 4 Studios have created the soundtrack for an in-store and online marketing campaign promoting Nokia's latest phone, the 6260 Slide. We worked on this project back in November but couldn't share this with anyone until now.

This project demonstrates how the combination of our post production skills and music composition skills can work together perfectly for a major international brand.

The music track was created from scratch and features a ukulele which really helps with the quirky end result. The track was composed, recorded, mixed and mastered right here at Music 4 Studios.

Click the 'go to project' link below to see and hear the end results!

Music 4 Studios were chosen to record, mix and dub audio for a number of inserts featured on the ultra cool 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. Prior to the live event held in Liverpool on 6th November, Trevor Nelson visited our studios to voice a series of nomination inserts for the main show. We then created the final mix and dub of the finished inserts to a tight deadline including the intro video for Paul McCartney who picked up the ultimate legend prize.

Hosted by Katy Perry, the MTV Europe Music Awards is Europe's biggest music awards show with live performances and winners that are chosen by the public.The awards were broadcast live on MTV Europe, MTV and most of the international MTV channels as well as online.

Click here to see Paul McCartney's intro mixed by Music 4 Studios.

It's been a good few days for 'star spotting' here at Music 4 Studios with visits from Enrique Inglesias, Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) and Brit Award winning Adele. Enrique Inglesias made a return visit to Music 4 to promote his new “Greatest Hits” album due for release November 17th. Enrique undertook several ISDN interviews to regional radio stations as well as face-to-face interviews. Both Enrique and his entourage had fun on our Nintendo Wii afterwards!

Actress and singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) also came into the studios this week to promote her newly released album “Breakout”. Miley Cyrus has been nominated for Best New Act at the forthcoming MTV Europe Music Awards on November 6th (co-incidentally, we recently mixed nomination packages for this MTV show, news to follow shortly). She has our vote! Unfortunately though, we didn't manage to grab a picture for our guest gallery. Maybe next time!

We were also delighted to welcome back Brit Award winner Adele for her third visit to promote her new single “Make You Feel My Love”. Adele performed a number of songs from her number 1 platinum selling album “19”. We set our vocal booth up to accommodate Adele on vocals alongside her guitarist and pianist.

After mixing the tracks on our fab SSL mixing console, we then continued with ISDN and face-to-face interviews in conjunction with delivering the recorded tracks to various radio stations. We were delighted to receive great feedback from the record company and radio stations for the overall sound and mix on her tracks and we look forward to recording more performances here at Berners Street.

For a highlight of "Make You Feel My Love" please click the link below.