Fantasy Production Music

7 jun 2018 | label

Fantasy Production Music

Not just another music library!

Stock Music is partnering with the London-based library label Fantasy to offer their catalogue of high-end production music in Belgium. Fantasy Production Music – aka FPM –  is the brain child of Ossi Bashiri, one of the founder writers and original owners of the unorthodox production musicpowerhouse Extreme Music. With Steve Cole – ex-Universal production music managing director – at the helm, FPM’s aim is to deliver only music that has something unique and creative to it, in composition and arrangement.

FPM is home to 5 easily distinguishable catalogues of music making it extremely user friendly.

The very successful Sexy Series is a contemporary, ‘in yer face’ collection some people have dubbed Extreme on acid. Editors can listen to youth-oriented, punchy, and new urban commercial sounds that reflect edgy, aggressive, and very catchy styles and make the series ideal for programmes that would benefit from an injection of ‘youth’.

The Film Series is loaded with authentic scoring sessions (“live” instruments) and stellar sound design in traditional genres like Drama, Epic, Action and Rom Com.

The iDOCS Series is perfect for reality and documentary series scoring. Hundreds of hours of wall to wall music set the scene perfectly with fresh underscores in a wide range of ahead-of-the-curve styles with titles such as ‘Cucumber Cool’, ‘Quirky Comedy’ and ‘Django Duelling’.

Focus on the Easy Listening Series: this is a ‘must’ have catalogue for all programme producers looking for authentic kitsch (60s/70s), period music goodness or more classic styles like ballroom dancing and marching band music with a bit of disco and funk thrown in for added fun.

Finally, the Masters Series is a world-class classical collection of brand new recordings of the world’s most enduring music which has been recorded superbly with The London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

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Making A Start…

Ossi and Steve joined forces in 2009 to form Fantasy Music. FPM is about developing, supporting and partnering with great artists and producers. Thanks to their great partnership, the drive to push the envelope and explore new possibilities they have grown the catalogue into something much bigger than they ever expected.

Ossi Bashiri is the Creative Director and Founder of Fantasy Production Music.  He is a graduate of London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Music and a fine composer in his own right. He has an excellent track record in the industry, having started Extreme Music in 1997.  Prior to Extreme, he worked with some of the biggest commercial artists in music such as Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran and Sade. His focus now is producing the Fantasy catalogue and continually adding recordings to the Classical series.

Steve Cole, CEO of Fantasy Production Music, started the Cavendish label and was the managing director of Zomba / BMG / Universal for 15 years in all. He is responsible for the iDOCS series which gives him a great opportunity to research and record all genres of music from Peruvian folk songs to circus music. To say Steve loves the music business is an understatement… he lives and breathes it.

Go to smipm.com to checkout all albums of Fantasy Production Music

Music Submissions Guidelines

If you would like to submit your music for consideration for our music catalogue please pay attention to the following:

  • Do not call or email asking if it is okay to send music, we listen to everything that comes across our desk. Sometimes this takes a while, so please allow four to six weeks before querying if your music has been received and reviewed.
  • Our core focus is high-quality production music. If you care enough about your music that you want other people to pay attention to it, you need to make sure it stands out. We love new and exciting music. For your music to stand a better chance to get noticed, make sure you send us finished tracks NOT demos, unless they are brain-meltingly good.
  • You must own and control 100% of the copyright in both the composition and master recording. Sound-alikes and samples are not permitted.
  • We do not accept any music on a non-­exclusive basis. We act as the exclusive music publisher for the compositions in our library, promoting and representing them to our clients worldwide through a network of sub publishers.
  • Make sure you are not under an exclusive agreement with another publisher.
  • Please do NOT email mp3s as they will be deleted.
  • Please submit a streaming link ONLY for 5-8 songs using our contact form and any other info that you think is pertinent.

And last but not least: here is something to remember: the music library business is a long term journey. Chances are you will not become an overnight millionaire! Music libraries are all about growing a steady stream of long term income. Compare it to rolling a snowball, but a snowball that sometimes rolls quickly, sometimes slowly. Quick or slow, it still grows.

We know it is not a great sales pitch but it is the reality of the business. And it says something about the Stock Music philosophy: we don’t over-sell or make huge promises to you. We just work hard, do our utmost best and with that attitude we hope you will stay and grow with us.