Music 4

Three competition finalists spent the morning at Music 4 writing and producing jingles for The Chris Moyles Show, kicking off a day of creative challenges. Natalie, Luke and Jack were told on air at 7.45am this morning that they had to come to Music 4 and write a jingle each. Our studios, producer Small Paul and the rest of the Music 4 team together with jingle singer, Richard Oliver, were all on standby ready to go. The jingles were written and recorded and played out on air by 9.45am ... not a bad turnaround time!

The winners were treated like superstars (well, we gave them coffee and yummy croissants!).

The eventual winner will get to go VIP (with up to 20 of their mates!) to Radio 1's massive dance party in Torbay, Devon this weekend, celebrating the arrival of the Olympic Torch on UK soil and showcasing the best in dance music.

You can check out the audio and photos below!

Music 4 Studios has received a prestigious nomination for the newly created "Radio & Music Awards". Live music’s growing presence on UK radio is to be recognised with the debut of two awards at The Radio Academy’s forthcoming Radio & Music Forum on Friday the 27th of March 2009.

The conference and award ceremony, which is being staged in association with Music Week, will include the first presentation of both a live music award for a concert broadcast on the radio and the studio session award.

Music 4 Studios has received a nomination in the "Studio Session" category for a session recorded with Grammy and Brit award winner Adele for broadcast on a number of local and regional stations.

Radio Academy director Trevor Dann says the purpose of the awards is to reflect the different skills needed to translate the live music experience onto the radio. “The entries certainly compare very well to the numbers put in for a Sony award”.

We'll keep you posted on how we do but whatever the outcome, we're delighted to have received our nomination alongside BBC 6 Music and XFM.

Have a quick listen to how Adele sounded here at Music 4 Studios by clicking "go to project" below.

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.

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.