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From the newscasts to army clips, from volunteer clips to patriotic commercials, our music was heard in the Israel-Lebanon conflict. For more than a month the world's media was focused on the fighting between Israel and Lebanon. Started with the terror attack of Hezbollah on an Israeli border-patrol, killing several soldiers and kidnapping two, six years of quiet in the north was over. The Israeli TV channels transformed themselves from broadcasting channels into news channels. Channel 10 created a special intro for the newscasts, using the musical track "Ultimate Limits Sting" from the KPM library, as the background to it. They used many tracks from our libraries in their dramatic and emotional articles. Due to the missile attacks on cities and villages in the north of Israel, the army produced a special TV program that explained to the Israeli citizens what to do during an attack. The track "Daytime Nighttime " from EVO was used as the background of this program. The Israelis showed their solidarity with the people of the north by contributing money, food, games and more items in order to help the people who stayed in shelters for almost five weeks. Many small businesses in the north were crushed because of the fighting. A non-profit commercial was produced to encourage people to buy products and services from the north in order to help those businesses to rebuild themselves. The track "Luscious" from KPM was used in the commercial. Lot's of citizens were inducted to military service, including many pilots from El-Al, the Israeli national airline company. El-Al produced a commercial clip to encourage its pilots who had been called for duty and uplifting the spirit of the citizens who were under the attacks. They used the music track "The Miracle" from Gottham music library for the commercial. A cease-fire was agreed a few days ago. Hopefully it will last. Clips: News 10 Special Intro / Buy From The North Commercial / El-Al Commercial |
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MMG is glad to introduce the Turkish version of “OH OH THERE GOES MY HEART AGAIN”, a song from the Kobalt Music Group catalogue. Four young and beautiful girls (Gulcin, Eren, Yasemin and Cemre) made up HEPSI in 2005 and their first album released in May 2005 and got a huge success. All are also ballet students and this helped them create a stunning stage show. Their cute approach immediately created a huge group of youngster fans including their parents. Also in 2005, HEPSI got "The Best Pop Group" award of Kral TV - one of the popular music channels in Turkey. Their second album newly released in June 2006 in cludes the Turkish version of “OH OH THERE GOES MY HEART AGAIN” called “Saklanbac”. |
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Our publishing catalogue continues to grow. Here are some of the new catalogues. Kobalt Music Kobalt Music has entered into an agreement with MMG which covers the territories of Israel and Turkey. Kobalt is an independent music company who administrates song performed by artist such as 50 Cent, Anastacia, Britney Spears, D12, DMX, Eminem, Janet Jackson, JAY-Z, LL Cool J, Mase, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, Pink, Santana, Tupac Shakur, Wet Wet Wet , UB40 to name but a few. Domino Publishing We are delighted to inform you that we recently entered into an agreement via Universal Music Publishing representing the exceptional Domino Publishing catalogue. Domino Publishing is the music publishing arm of Domino Records the home of well known bands such as Artic Monkeys and Franz & Ferdinand. Although the publishing of these particular bands does not fall into our deal due to pre-existing agreements there are many other exciting (new) artists that do. Missing Link Missing Link Music grew is a leader in R&B and Hip-Hop music publishing with thousands of songs in its catalog. They are covering all genres of music from R&B and rock to hip-hop to jazz and all styles in between. They have facilitated soundtrack placements with Dreamworks, Miramax, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, ESPN, MTV, VH1, UPN, NBC and many more. Dartmoor Music David Rosner started Darville Music. LLC just a year ago, after he sold The Bicycle Music Company, which he began in 1974. He retained administration of Dave Frishberg's catalog, Swiftwater Music, and also own several Frishberg songs. He administered Neil Diamond's and represented George Harrison's and Robbie Robertson's catalogs. In the early seventies, he ran Dick James publishing in the U.S., at the time they brought Elton John over for his first appearances, handling also Northern Songs, then co-owned by Dick. Dartmoor is a company which contains only Margo Guryan 's songs, David’s wife, and dates from the mid-sixties. Margo is a rare discovery -- a songwriter and arranger with amazing vocal talent who had a brief - but nonetheless significant - impact on pop music. During the highpoint of her career, her songs were recorded by some of pop music's most important stars. http://www.myspace.com/margoguryan Rocket Racing Rebels Who doesn’t know the film director Robert Rodriguez, (El Mariachi trilogy, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico)? Rocket Racing Rebels and Shrub Music/Trace Elements catalogues are mainly composed of his songs and also songs written/composed by the talented Andrew Halbreich
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Impossible love between Israeli and Palestinian men. Group of foreigner workers that performed as drag-queens. Those are the subjects of two new Israeli movies that used songs from our catalogues. The "World Gay Pride Parade" that was supposed to take place in Jerusalem this month was canceled because of the fighting in the north of the country. However, other gay events took place in the Israeli capital city. A feature film and a documentary film that deals with gay issues use our songs. The theme song from the loveable animation series Pinocchio, was used in the feature film "Habua" (The Bubble) from the director Eytan Fox ("Walking on Water", "Yosi and Jager"). The film brings the story of three young people living in Tel-Aviv. The movie follows the group's difficulties of living in Israel's reality. Their routine breaks when Ashraf, a young Palestinian man, enters their life. A love story evolves between him and one of the Israeli guys, but reality is too strong. "Paper Dolls", a documentary film by Tomer Heyman tells the story of a group of gay Filipino migrant workers that meet every weekend in a small apartment in southern Tel Aviv. Throughout the week they work as caregivers of elderly Orthodox Jews in the Tel Aviv suburb and on weekends they performed before an audience of Filipinos migrant workers across Israel on their drag-queen show, called “The Paper Dolls". "Pinocchio" - Filmkunts Muzik |
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Here are several clips of commercials using our music (publishing and library)
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Shakira, Pink, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna and more artists are hot in the ring-tones and radio charts in Israel. If you are walking in the streets of Israel, you can't miss the ring-tones all around. Most likely that you will hear a ring-tone of Shakira, Pink or Black Eyed Peas. Most likely it will be a song from MMG, this is what happens when 50% of the top ring-tones of the month are from our catalogues. The radio charts are also full with our songs at the top 20. Here are the charts.
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