Category: YoPo Music Blog

The Yopo Music library was born in 1993. I had just set up a radio production company called Sounds Visual making commercials and jingles for local stations across the UK. Money was tight and to be competitive we had to find a way to avoid using the MCPS licensed music libraries when producing our ads. With MCPS licensing you paid a fee each time you used one of their tracks on a commercial. In other words each time you dubbed the music onto a new production, you had to pay another fee.

We could not afford to do that and at the same time be competitive. So not only did we write the ads, voice the ads and produce them, we had to write the backing tracks and jingles too! I wrote music beds for car ads, window ads, recruitment ads, holiday ads and lots more, and it wasn’t long before I had accumulated a neat little library of tracks to use on our commercials. It soon occurred to me that I had enough material to fill a CD…a CD that could be marketed to other producers wanting an alternative to MCPS licensed music.

 

A little bit of market research on the phone confirmed my suspicion that there were many producers out there who would be interested in a library of quality production music without the expense and hassle of MCPS licensing.

Up to that point the reputation of buyout, royalty free or non-MCPS libraries was pretty poor. The music was often described as copyright free and often only available on cassette.
Yopo music would be different, and with a brand new CD packed with a variety of quality production music, not to mention a growing list of interested production companies, YoPo Music was born.

Not surprisingly there were those in the established music business who frowned on this break away from the MCPS way of doing things, and some were keen to tell me that it couldn’t work. Troubled by this scare mongering I sought legal advice. I had come across a book called ‘Music Business Agreements’, and sought out it’s author, Richard Bagehot. He immediately understood the concept of what I was trying to do, and was incredibly generous in offering to draft the original license agreement for me. True to his word, a few days later the fax machine whirred into action and started rolling out the first license agreement for YoPo Music. We were off.

Our royalty free classical piano album – “Classical Piano Favourites” – is out now.

The collection features brand new recordings of 12 of the most loved and cherished classical piano masterpieces – like Debussy’s Clair De Lune and First Arabesque, Liszt’s heart wrenching Consolations No 3 and Satie’s three Gymnopedies.

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The sumptuous solo piano work Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) is out now as royalty free production music track.

Recorded and produced by Jonathan Slatter this new release was made using the stunning Alecia Keys sampled piano – a virtual piano created by Danish sample specialist Thomas Skarbye (better known as Scarbee). The piano is Alecia Key’s very own Yamaha C3 Neo grand built in 2002 and represents the very top of the Conservatory Collection line, and the samples perfectly capture the warm, soulful and inspiring sound of the C3 – perfect for Clair De Lune.

Take a look at all the Royalty Free classical music available.

Background
Clair de Lune (moonlight) is part of Debussy’s Bergamasque Suite written around 1890, but not published until 1905. Clair De Lune was originally titled “Promenade Sentimentale”.

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In September 2011 YoPo Music is supporting the Medecins Sans Frontieres Somalia Appeal.

We are donating 100% of the proceeds from the new sound effects album – 92 More Transport Sound Effects – to the appeal. If you would like to help the appeal, please consider purchasing the new album here. The album consists of 92 new sounds of planes, trains, bikes, motorbikes, automobiles, boats and more.

Extract from the MSF UK Website

As prolonged drought grips Somalia, people are losing their livestock, homes and lives. Poor harvests, rising food prices, continuing violence and chronic poverty have further contributed to a sudden rise in malnutrition rates.

Many children are suffering from severe malnutrition with extremely low weight, signs of wasting and nutritional oedema. The security situation in Somalia is complicated, but because we are an impartial medical organisation and rely on charitable donations instead of government funding, we continue to be the only medical charity working in many areas.

There are hundreds of children and adults arriving at our clinics every day. Many of them need expert medical care for malnutrition, often whilst battling other severe conditions such as malaria and pneumonia.

You can help us save lives.

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In a broadcast and corporate media career spanning 30 years I have had regular requirements for library and composed music. In my books, buyout music purchase is the uncomplicated and ideal solution for all my music requirements especially when that music is produced at the hands of a competent composer with a feel for the director’s needs. Yopo music provides just that service. Thank you Jono.

Nick Shipley

Executive Producer

Western Eye Media.

 

“The music lends itself very well to underscore our productions and client feedback has been very positive indeed. With so much music out there it is nice to find a site with great tracks that are very competitively priced, and dovetail so well with effects and voice-overs on top. I will continue to use Yopo music and look forward to many more future releases.”

Chris Gillooly
T V V Productions Ltd.

 

We have found Yopo Music extremely useful in our productions over the past eight years.

We can normally find something that fits the bill whether it be a TV commercial or a video production.

By using Yopo Library Music we are able to keep our productions sensibly priced for our clients and Yopo has certainly helped us build our business.

Nigel
NE Advertising & Marketing Ltd