A Year Later…
It’s more than a year now that the idea of website for trailer music came into my mind. First I started to write about it in my old blog in Hungarian language along with movie reviews, scores and many other thing. Afterwards I decided to dedicate a blog to trailer music. It was a year ago. So the idea of this blog is one year old, but as you can see on the right side of the page I had a really long intermission when disregarded the blog for months. But one shiny day Greg asked me to let him write on my blog that was hosted by Google that time. So he joined to the “crew” as a co-writer and he wrote some news. That time the basic motivation for me was that I can not let him write more news on my blog than I did so I started to care of the blog hence started to shed a lot of news.
Later I felt that Google’s system was not good enough. It was too simple, had some deficiencies and I decided to change to Drupal. With Drupal the site moved to my friend’s server. That time we tried to rope in MAC. We talked much about the website and its future and we agreed that the basic step to be a professional is a domain. So I bought trailermusicnews.com. For various reasons I couldn’t store the site on my friend’s server anymore so the site moved again to where it is now.
During the months over hundred posts are born. I think we posted every important news, but we tried to keep up the interest to the site with posts in other topic like film or game score. We tried to involve our readers into the life of the site with games, like picture puzzle, some quiz question etc. But I think, our greatest achievement is the interview with Chris Filed till now.
Since the site is started we got constant positive feedback from our readers and from the companies as well which we got in touch with. Let’s see some!
“Since we too, are fans of trailers and trailer music in general, we’ll have to bookmark your site and visit it more often.” – VideoHelper
“Site looks great. Glad you are covering the genre.” – Position Music
“We think your website is a great idea. We are flattered that you would like to include us.We are a much smaller company than our competition.” – Future World Music
We try to secure our legitimcy so this site will never support any kind of illegal music sharing. We just want to inform people and drew people closer to trailer. So I just want to have an overview here of 2008 about what happened around the trailer music. Without the pretence of fullness.
In January 2008 E.S. Posthumus finally released Cartographer. After 7 years it was pleasure to hear something from them, but I think we expected something else. Something that more similar to Unearthed. For me Cartographer was a bit of disappointment.
Later, we got some words of Immediate Music that they wanted to release of a new album with a bunch of trailer music. So on spring and on summer we burnt in fire to get Trailerhead. I think it was a great album, because it contained some tracks from Themes from Orchestra and Choir 3. So it was truly “Fresh from the Fire”. Immediate Music released the concert DVD of Globus on summer.
On second half of 2008 the whole amount of public releases were available on iTunes or on Amazon which just simple shocked us. Cavendish Music, Abaco Music, Stripsound Music and later West One Music released a lot of great albums from their library for which we were really grateful. It seems that Immediate Music’s invention made an innovation.
From the most popular company Two Steps From Hell we could hear a completely different music that is strange from their style we used to. I think of Ashes now. Legend was released; I mean we could enjoy a lot of tracks from this album during several trailers.
And finally I just want to write down all of albums those are worth mentioning. Of course it is possible I miss something: Anubis, Feed the Beast, Canis Maximus, Argos, Top Dog, Dog Rock, Dogs of War, Mechanimal, Alpha Dog, Water, Earth and Fire, Heroic Action Trailers, Power Percussion Trailers, Epic Journeys, Epic Action and Adventure, Eton Path, Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head, Apocalypse 2012, Rock Hybrid Trailers, Cinematic Trailers 8: Epic/Drama, Dreams & Imaginations, Orchestral Series Vol.3, Platinum Series 2. (Thanks to Jp Perdition & Elendil)
Hmm… And I am just wondering what is about the mysterious Scoregasm? But later about this. I will write about what we can expect from 2009 in 2009.
