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 has signed an agreement to represent Fold Music in the UK and Ireland.

 launched a year ago as the first production music platform to work exclusively with independent labels, publishers and artists. The company is committed to a fairer deal for the artist, and has set a new industry benchmark with a royalty rate of 60%, while also allowing artists to retain control of their own catalogue.

represents production music libraries of respected independent music companies including Domino, Fat Cat, Mute, Minds On Fire, Accidental and EPM. Its catalogue includes works from artists such as Steve Mason, Denis Bovell, Laura Cannell, Oakra, CFCF, Villagers, Miro Shot and Laaraji.

Clients and usages so far include Balmain, Burberry, Valentino, 3 Mobile, KEF, Mango, and the Disney+ series Camden.

, head of production music, Standard Music Library, said: “Fold’s innovative and forward-thinking model brings some of the finest creative talents from commercial record labels into the production music landscape. We’re excited to explore all the sync opportunities that come with fusing the cutting-edge sound of their roster with the convenience and fluidity that production music gives to clients.”

, music consultant, Standard Music Library, said: “This is a major step in our strategic development of the Standard Music Library. We have a bespoke working structure with Fold, varying from a traditional production music sub-publishing arrangement. We will continue to utilise Fold’s fresh, intuitive search system. Further, we look forward to realising various collaborative projects we have in the pipeline.”

, director, Fold Music, said: “We feel extremely positive about Fold’s future. Standard have a strong pedigree in the production music world and we feel there is a real alignment with our values - I've worked with Howard [Price, head of media, Bucks] and Smit very closely over the years and have full trust in their abilities so I'm very excited at being able to work together again and with Imran. Standard and their parent company Bucks Music Group understand the challenges in the music industry for artists to earn fairly, and Standard fully support our model, which operates outside of traditional library music setups enabling more flexible collaboration with commercial artists.”

, director, Fold Music, said: “We are so pleased that this partnership has come together at this stage. It is the perfect time to position ourselves within the new team at Standard alongside such an established catalogue. We will provide a perfect counterpoint to each other’s catalogues, providing broad choice to our clients.”

 Fold Music joins Standard Music Library

: an unashamed nostalgia-fest, harking back to a time when you tuned in at the same time every week to see what crazy antics your favourite characters had been up to. Meticulously produced to be authentic to the time-period and featuring vintage keys, drums, guitars, and live strings and brass, this album covers everything from spy thrillers to sit-coms, romance to serial drama, lifestyle shows to sports. Styles include jazz-pop, funk, soul, orchestral, romance, and cinematic and all with the infectious hooks you'd come to expect from themes of the era. Provided with the usual array of versions, underscores and edits, 

 is ideal for documentaries, fashion, culture and so much more beyond.

Retro Themes - Picture Box Music


As the seasons change here in the Northern Hemisphere, 

 finds that perfect blend of emotive reflection and summer sounds to give a soundtrack rich in colour and warmth. Chilled R&B and hip-hop beats fused with captivating synths and hooks give a contemporary aesthetic to these cues making downtempo grooves ready to drop seamlessly into a range of programming including Reality TV, drama, lifestyle, and documentary.

 brings together influences from metal, rock, and electronica to form a powerful, energetic, filth-fest. Gritty guitars, pulsating synths, and hard-hitting drums and beats come together to create edgy, relentless, combative cues suited for use in drama, horror, thriller, and even extreme sports.

Summer releases from Cinetiks

 brings together a captivating collection of emotive pop ballads telling tales of love, loss, hurt and regret. Atmospheric productions of electric guitars, poignant pianos, sparse percussion, ethereal synths, and rich reverbs provide an understated backing for the engaging female voices that draw the listener into their world of hurt and pain. Perfect for use in Reality TV, docudrama and emotionally charged programming as well as being provided with instrumentals and underscores that will drop into a host of productions needing a contemporary atmosphere.

August Releases

This latest offering from Picture Box Music takes us on a wonderous journey with all those travelling creatures we are lucky enough to share our planet with. A musical exploration of jazz and electronic minimalism, creating aerial atmospheres, motivational moods, tasking tension, and worldly grooves, all skilfully created to ready them for dropping right into your production. Anything to do with the natural world is an obvious contender to use this, but with a myriad of alternate versions 

 will find itself equally at home across the board of documentary, drama, and daytime TV.

Latest releases from Picture Box Music

 is a mesmerising collection of chamber orchestral cues full of elegant, raw intensity. These timeless live recordings make them ideally suited to a full range of drama and film productions looking to soundtrack reflection, sorrow, melancholia, calmness, or sentimentality.



Gritty electronic rhythms, spooky evolving drones, and swirling sound design; 

brings a new batch of otherworldly soundscapes to give productions a strong sense of restless unease and ominous danger.

Latest releases from Cinetiks

 fires out of the blocks with a banging collection of powerful pop tracks full of energy and drive. Strong drum & bass rhythms, solid bass, catchy hooks, and captivating vocals feature throughout giving this album a fresh, cutting-edge sound. Notably, this album showcases the talents of composers and vocalists with commercial pedigree in the world of drum & bass and pop, providing a level of authenticity that would see these tracks seamlessly placed onto any radio playlist. A full selection of instrumentals, edits, underscores, and stems (on file and available on request) allow for full versatility and make these tracks ideal for everything from Reality TV to sports, promo, or advertising. Get in quick, if you want to keep up!

July Releases

Stark Futures takes you on a tense journey to a dystopian future. Filled with haunting atmospheres, sinister sound design, and unearthly textures, this album provides an electronic soundtrack to the end of the world. Fully explored compositions provide plenty of options for editors whilst still evolving just enough to give the perfect backdrop to a scene without hogging the limelight. Eerie, mysterious, haunting, reflective, and sentimental: Stark Futures transports you to exactly where you hope you'll never be.

 takes us on a journey to places far beyond the reach or our solar system. Otherworldly textures, sci-fi sound design and haunting processed instruments such as organs and guitars combine to create a soundtrack from another place in space and time. Perfect for documentary, crime, tension, science and technology programming, 

 covers moods from mysterious, ominous, and dark, all the way through to thoughtful, dreamy and ethereal and executes them all with the captivating depth you've come to expect from the Cinetiks catalogue.

July Releases from Cinetiks

Feel-good, upbeat, indie-folk hooks

Box-fresh and ready for the summer and beyond, Catchy Indie-folk springs onto the scene ready to inject positivity and hooky earworms into the heads of all who hear her.


Crammed with jangly guitars, effervescent ukuleles, punchy pianos, bright percussion and infectious whistling and vocals, these tracks are sure to get the mood going. Their universal appeal makes them perfect for advertising, or ideal for lifestyle and daytime programming. Moods including uplifting, hopeful, dreamy, optimistic, jaunty and playful, coupled with organic instrumentation gives Catchy Indie-folk a timeless sound that will make it a go-to album for years to come.

May Releases

At Standard Music Library we have experienced our fair share of stress over the years. Fed up with lost hair, bitten nails, and holes in the wall, we have invested in Stress Balls to help us through the day. Paired with some of our 

, this is the perfect combination for a stress free month!

Stress Awareness Month

A third foray into the world of synthwave: Future Dreams 3 builds on the dreamy and dramatic cues of the first two albums to provide arguably the most uplifting offering in the series to date. Chock full of retro-futuristic synths, motoring arpeggios, rich synth bass and powerful drum machines, Future Dreams 3 brings a fresh collection of commercial-leaning tracks ready to drop straight into TV productions and advertising alike.

An epic exploration into post-rock and sound design, Intrigue: Post-rock Atmospheres delves deeper and darker than any before it. A mix of ethereal organic sound design, synthetic textures and post-rock atmospherics, this collection covers all things dark, gloomy, melancholic, dystopian, ominous, sinister and everything in between. These extensive and expansive cues provide an almost endless array of options for editors to shape and craft them to fit the dynamic and narrative of their productions.

March Releases

Irresistibly energetic and contagious tracks in the British ska and rocksteady tradition from young Leeds outfit, The Indecision. Bouncing rhythms, rich horns and engaging male vocals feature throughout this upbeat collection of reggae-infused floor-fillers which lend themselves to advertising and TV production alike, conveying feelings of celebration, party and sunshine.

Sensibility 2: Neoclassical - ESL-CKPM041 

Following up on the success of CKPM026 (Sensibility), Sensibility 2: Neoclassical builds on the elegant and majestic productions of its predecessor and gives a more Neoclassical approach. Charismatic, articulate and emotive strings are laced with atmospheric, rich reverbs and in some cases otherworldly organs to give a deep, cinematic aesthetic making this album a great fit for film, TV, documentaries and drama.

Intrigue: Post-Rock Atmospheres - ESL-CKPM042

February Releases

Our first album of 2024 comes from Cinetiks.

Backdrop Beats brings you a selection of brooding, seductive hip-hop tracks tailor-made for TV and advertising alike. Composer Cyril Laurent (”Future Dreams”, ”Velvet Grooves & Trip Hop”) has crafted these tracks to fit seamlessly into any programming where a modern, effortless cool is required. Instrumental versions are provided where necessary and stems are available on request.

Backdrop Beats

Welcome Smit and Imran to the Standard Music family!

Smit joins as Production Manager, he has worked on many No 1 albums and singles over the years before moving to the world of production music at KPM in 2014.

Imran joins as Music Consultant, proud Yorkshireman with a varied background, joined the music industry in 2021 after a foray in Film & TV.

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New Year, New Team, New Website

2023 was a prolific year for Standard Music Library.

We released 18 new albums across 4 labels & 16 compilation albums of re-released archive material ready for a new generation of listeners.

Standard Music Library joined the streaming world with numerous albums now available on DSPs and more to come.

Check out a selection of our favourites below and see you all in 2024!

Best of 2023

DJ, producer and record label owner Boca 45 has just released a 7" on his label reworking two funk classics from the Standard archive, "Evil Flower" by Herbie Flowers and "Viva" by Max Middleton.

Listen to both tracks along with their instrumentals and the OG versions 

Funked-Up Classics

 - Orchestral and Electronic. Powerful orchestration and colossal electronics meet in a fight to the end. Epic and climactic.

 Playful, quirky vignettes and variations, with sprinklings of fun, nostalgia & extravagance.

Listen 

Future War

There's two new albums in the Musica Britannica catalogue out this week...

From soaring stings of joyousness to the intimate and curious calm of soft
pianos, quirky pizzicatos and a feast of musical moods and emotions.

A collection of compositions perfect for any crime drama or documentary. Beautiful, tender and drenched in sadness.

Light Drama and Nordic Noir

Picture Box Music returns with a brand new release, ESL-PBM016 Groove Society.

Bright, clean, rhythmic, funky electro pop for lifestyle, leisure, reality TV, sports, promotion and advertising. All tracks were composed by Warren Bennett.

Groove Society

One of two new albums out now in the Musica Britannica catalogue, ESL-MB031 Light Orchestral Moments.

A collection of beautiful light orchestral moments that fill the soul with wonder and pure emotion. All tracks were composed by T J Curran.

Light Orchestral Moments

A collection of cheesy good natured kitsch compositions full of smooth fun and comedy. All tracks were composed by Michael Berrich.

Kitsch And Comedy

Clean organic soundtracks for nature, beauty, discovery and travel, composed by none other than Brian Bennett.
Listen to it 

Natural World

We have a brand new release in the Standard catalogue, ESL254 Superfine! - Grooves For Good Times

Sassy, sexy club grooves with male & female vocals: soul & funk for the
street & dancefloor. All tracks were composed by Ray Flowers.

Find it 

Superfine

We're super pleased to announce the release of ESL255 Summer Love
Indie pop songs for summer….and summer romance. Driving, energetic & upbeat. All tracks were written and composed by Sam McCarthy aka Pets
Find it 

Summer Love

We're very happy to have received 2 nominations in this years Production Music Awards!

Best Soul/R&B track "Love The Way I Feel About You" by Geo Jordan

Best Acoustic Pop/Rock track "Love At First Sight" by Dan McDougall &
James Thompson