Max Bell rewrites history without a pen
You’ve heard library music. Though you may not have known it at the time. For the unfamiliar, library music (also known as production or stock music) is essentially music of any genre or style composed by work-for-hire musicians and owned by library record labels. Those labels then lend that music to various TV shows, films, radio shows, etc. So, if you’ve heard the theme for “Monday Night Football” for example, you’ve heard a portion of Johnny Pearson’s “Heavy Action”, which was released in 1974 on library music label KPM. However, more often than not, records like these serve as sample material for producers cut from the same blunt wrap as Madlib and Alchemist. (For more on library music, see this fantastic piece over at Pitchfork written by our friend Nate Patrin.)