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Each week, our fantastic music directors pick the top five tracks from various genres to make your search a lot easier.  This week, we are featuring our top Pop tracks from our music director, Mark Gracious.

Why are women astonishingly underrepresented in our industry? APM Music held its International Women’s Day Celebration last March 11, in Woodland Hills, which was a fitting time to shed some light and awareness around this question.

After moving to the US in the 1980s, Tal Bergman eventually found success as a drummer in New York. He played with seminal acts like Chaka Khan and Billy Idol, composing movie soundtracks, and eventually set up Tal Bergman Music, a library label distributed by APM. 

Each week, our fantastic music directors pick the top five tracks from various genres to make your search a lot easier.  This week, we are featuring our top folk tracks from our music director, Ashley Chafin. 

Emmy-winning composer, producer, and guitar hero Brian Tarquin released the official music video for his single “Speed of Sound,” featuring legendary guitarist Joe Satriani.  

Federico “Deca” De Caroli is a prolific film composer and one of the greatest music producers Italy has ever produced. Born on August 7, 1964, in Savona, Italy, he studied classical piano at an early age and later, after hearing music by Pink Floyd, Genesis, Kraftwerk, Jarre, Vangelis, and The Cure, pursued a career in pop, rock, and electronic music. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Italian electronic music. 

The rise of eSports’ popularity in popular culture has created a new wave of creators who create multimedia content to keep their audience engaged. One school that is on top of their game is California State University Dominguez Hills. Aside from having one of the best eSports programs in the US, they also produce content during their Twitch livestreams.

Each week, our fantastic music directors pick the top five tracks from various genres to make your search a lot easier.  

Dropbox Audio, the London-based library that produces high-quality sonic atmospheres and textures for films and media, released two albums this month that continue to push the limits of sound design. 

A Jazz Fusion group out of Paris called The Harlem Pop Trotters came together for a late-night recording session at La Comédie des Champs-Elysées in 1975. The resulting album of twelve tracks is a masterpiece and a great representation of the genre and era.