Music 4

Dublin has a brand new drive show and brand new imaging from Music 4 London! The station launched "The Big Ride Home with Dara Quilty" just a few hours after the jingles were delivered earlier today (Mon 25th Aug 2014).

We were still mixing the jingles at midday!

Anyway, they sound great (as does the show) and we are really chuffed to be part of this new show on 98FM

Take a quick listen via our Soundcloud page.

PS: How cool is this photo!!!!

Friday 5th July 2013: Juice FM in Liverpool has a new on-air sound this week as part of our ongoing relationship with the UTV Radio Group. The new imaging is fresh and is designed to fit perfectly with the stations young and fresh music policy and presenters.

We will add some audio here to Music 4.com as soon as we can!

UTV Media's network of stations have a new sound thanks to Music 4 in London. The new groupwide package is now airing on Signal, Signal 107, The Pulse, 96.4 The Wave, Radio Wave, Tower FM, Wire FM, Wish FM and Peak FM. The jingle package follows the recent appointment of David Dunne as Group Music Scheduler and Terry Underhill joining as Group Programme Director last Autumn.

UTV's Calum Macaulay, Director of Local Radio, said: "The sound of our stations has been lifted to a new level today and we believe that our listeners will love the new, fresh sound on our stations. Terry and the senior programming team here have delivered an exciting new jingle package that will help us to continue to grow our audience."

Sandy Beech, Managing Director of Music 4, said: "We were thrilled to have been commissioned to produce the new sound for the UTV local radio stations. The project went without a hitch and we are extremely pleased with the results."

Music 4 Studios was blessed with a visit from the Lady Killer himself. He was here doing a set of live and pre-recorded radio interviews via ISDN on Friday afternoon. This is not the first time we have been graced with his presence, and it was a pleasure to welcome Cee Lo back to his favourite London studio. Back in October Cee Lo was with us for 4 days finishing off his second single "It's OK". With the release of his number 1 album The Lady Killer, Green has been busy promoting his sound showing Gnarls Barkley and Goodie Mobb fans another facet of the man that is Cee Lo Green

We're a little late adding this one to music4.com, but Spin Southwest (the hit music / CHR station for the south west of Ireland) has a fresh new sound and sonic logo thanks to Music 4. Created towards the end of 2009, this package works seamlessly with all the latest hits from artists such as Lady GaGa, Rihanna and JLS and as well as sounding red hot on Spin, is now available for syndication around the world.

Young, fresh and totally 'now'...checkout the demo by clicking 'go to project' below.

We have recently completed a series of virals for Holiday Extras (sound design, voice record and mix) on behalf of Crispy Thinking - www.crispythinking.com.

Check out the link below - be careful where you park your car next time you go on holiday!

We have recently completed the full audio mix (voice record, sound design and audio dub) for a new series for Cartoonito which is the pre-school sister channel to Cartoon Network.

"Go And..." is a 26 x 11' Live action and animation activity-based series hosted by the 6 Cartoonito characters: Lolly, Ringo, Bubble, Spike, Cuba and Ting. Children are inspired to Go And...find out about the world around them in 6 different ways: Explore, Learn, Make, Play, Be, Sing & Dance.

The series is due to start at 9am on Monday 12th October

Go And... watch it, it's great!

Watchdog returns to BBC One this evening with a whole new look and a fab new theme tune created by the team here at Music 4. The extended hour-long show presented by Anne Robinson, Anita Rani and Matt Allwright will feature hard-hitting investigations, celebrity tests and also now incorporates 'Rogue Traders'.

Working closely with the show's producers, the team at Music 4 have composed new themes, beds and idents and additional sound design was added by the team at Music 4 Studios for the opening title sequences of the main Watchdog show and 'Rogue Traders'.

The show is a major part of BBC One's autumn schedule for 2009 and will air every Thursday night in a new prime time slot at 8pm.

Audio/Video coming soon.

Rockcorps 2009: Preview airs on Channel 4 this Saturday (25th) at 11.20am.

Lady GaGa and Alex Zane visit the volunteers who are working to earn tickets to the first Rockcorps concert at the Apollo in Manchester.

Music 4 Studios were responsible for the voice record, sound design and overall audio mix.

Music 4 has created a HUGE theme tune for 'Scott Mills The Musical'. 'Scott Mills The Musical' will take place at the Edinburgh Festival in August and one lucky Radio 1 listener will get to play the part of Scott Mills!

Music 4 have created a stunning and totally camp theme tune and branding package for use on Radio 1 in the build up to the big event. The tracks feature a huge brass section and would sound perfectly at home in a real West End musical...watch out Andrew Lloyd Webber!

Take a listen by clicking here!

The versatile team at Music 4 Studios have recently been commissioned to supply custom music for Expedia’s new campaign for the Scandinavian market. Alongside providing the sound bed for over 30 TV commercials (to be aired shortly in Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands and Denmark), we also provided the sound design and audio mix for each ad.

Click the 'go to project' link below to see and hear the Danish version of Expedia's "London" commercial.

The award winning promo for film channel Picturebox "Rollercoaster" has come back to Music 4 Studios for a makeover! The promo has now got new visuals so we spent a few hours with our friends at Th1ng redesigning the sound to picture along with recording the voice over.

The nominations for the 2009 Sony Radio Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Music 4 clients BBC Radio 1 and City Talk who both have nominations in the Station Sound Award Category. We are very proud that we helped Magic 105.4 win a gold in this category at last years awards and we of course hope one of our client stations walk away as winners this year too.

Best of luck to all our other clients who received numerous nominations in a wide range of categories for these prestigious awards which take place on the 11th of May at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

You can hear lots of projects for BBC Radio 1 in our radio jingle catalogue and you can listen to our City Talk package by clicking 'go to project' below.

New jingles from the team here at Music 4 now feature on all of the 'Real' stations in Scotland, Yorkshire and Wales and on the re-branded stations broadcasting across the northwest and northeast of England (previously Century Radio).

This package features a fresh new vocal sound from Music 4 and has been designed to maximise listener recall for RAJAR with the ultra powerful message "you're listening to Real" built into every cut. Sounds simple, but we reckon this is going to prove to be very effective.

John Simons, Group Programme Director says: "We’ve always aired high quality jingles on Real Radio and to coincide in with the re-branding of Century to Real, we were looking for a change of style. Music 4 came up with some great ideas for us".

Real Radio is one of the strongest regional radio brands in the UK broadcasting to key markets and successfully reaching millions of listeners every week. Working with the team at GMG has been an absolute pleasure and we are certain the new jingles will help take these stations to their next stage of development and make sure their listeners know for certain that they are "listening to Real!".

Take a listen to a fairly comprehensive selection of the jingles created for Real Radio in the northwest by clicking 'go to project' below.

A promo for film channel Picturebox (operated by NBC/Universal and broadcasting on 5 platforms across 3 countries) has picked up a coveted award for 'Best Film Promo' at the recent Promax/BDA European Awards.

The "Rollercoaster" campaign was created by our friends at Th1ng with stunning sound design by Music 4 Studios.

Click the 'go to project' link below to see and hear the award winning Rollercoaster promo.

Owned and operated by Celador Radio, The Coast is the new regional radio station for the Solent area of the UK. The station launched on Thursday the 30th of October 2008 and Music 4 worked closely with the station on both the jingles and themes for the station and the overall 'production sound' and voice casting. This station has a very unique format and playlist and our brief was to create a subtle and classy sound for the station to fit perfectly with the stations output.

We produced a number of instrumental jingles and themes based around a short yet memorable audio logo and worked closely with the programming team to identify the perfect voice for the stations jingles and liners.

All the voice sessions for the stations are recorded at Music 4 Studios.

Audio examples of our work for 'The Coast' have just been added ...click the 'go to project' link below to take a listen.

A viral campaign for World Vision has picked up a coveted award at the recent Epica Awards, the largest advertising awards competition covering Europe and the EMEA region. This provocative campaign, created by our friends at Meteorite & RSA and featuring sound design created by the team here at Music 4 Studios, grabbed the attention and imagination of a large global audience, clocking up over 242,576 views in little over 8 weeks, raising awareness for the 1.1 billion people in the third world living without clean water.

The campaign was spearheaded by a viral film that introduced dirty, worm-ridden water into the lives of a first world suburban family, and generated an 11% drive to the main World Vision site.

Click here to see and hear this award winning project.

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.

Paul Weller recently performed a live set featuring a number of tracks from his number 1 album "22 Dreams" from our newly refurbished studio 1

The live set and interview was sent via ISDN to the USA in real time for the influential syndicated radio show "World Cafe"... The set featured Paul on vocals and acoustic guitar accompanied by Steve Cradock from Ocean Colour Scene. Paul even added in a live Cello player into the set.

We also recorded the set into Pro-Tools to facilitate additional mixes for future use by Paul’s record company and management.

Paul and his team enjoyed the session and was extremely complimentary about the studio, the sound and the overall audio mix. This was the first live music session to take place at Music 4 studios since the completion of our recent upgrade but we are looking forward to many more in the future.

Music 4's music imaging for London's number 1 radio station, Magic 105.4, picks up a Gold at the Sony Radio Awards 2008 and Chris Moyles wins a Gold for Best Breakfast... It was an exciting evening at The Sony Radio Awards for the Music 4 team as our work for Magic 105.4 helped the station secure the gold award for station imaging.

Judges comments:

"There was one word that all the judges said when they heard this entry “Class”. The playlist and the production feel perfectly at home together - this is imaging that totally works on the air. Consistent imaging/brand positioning. A rich feel and depth of sound in all imaging executions. Very clear messaging making it easy for listeners to understand the proposition".

In addition, Chris Moyles picked up the coveted Best Breakfast Award. Music 4 creates a vast amount of custom music tracks and jingles featured on Chris's show and are very proud to be a part of Radio 1's most successful breakfast show for many years. Many other Music 4 clients walked away with awards at the ceremony so congratulations to all this years winners.

Previous successes at the Sony's in the station imaging category featuring our work include a Gold for BBC 7 and several bronze and silver awards for BBC Radio 1.