Dating celebs, K-Pop, road trips, riots, Monday Night Football and poker. Some great TV music placements for True Stories this winter. Thanks as ever to our composers, the editors and our fabulous partners Universal Production Music
Simple Science: our first album for 2025 out now on Universal Production Music. Synths, simple patterns and clinical sequences for tech, science and medicine.
New album out for Halloween! Spooky, sinister backdrops and drones for ghost stories, horror and the paranormal. Listen on Universal Production Music
D-Day, dogs, long lost families, golf clubs, storms, scandals and conmen.
Some great TV music placements for True Stories over the summer. As ever thanks to all our writers, the editors and our fantastic partners
Full catalogue here:
Drama, surprise fortunes, masked singers, dragons and toolsheds: some great TV music placements for True Stories over the spring. Thanks to Universal Production Music.
New album Posh and Fancy out today on Universal Production Music
Upper class airs and graces, antiques & comic classical moments for the posh and the pretentious. Written by Guy Thackeray and recorded with the True String Quartet.
True Stories reaches its 100 hundred album milestone with Will To Win.
Recorded with a 32 piece string orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria and mixed at Sonic Fuel Studios in LA, the album is full of rousing orchestral pop. Ideal for sport stories, triumph, emotion, pride and winning against the odds.
Watch the 'making of' film for behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Will to Win, and an interview with composer and co-founder Andy Hopkins.
Listen to the full album here: https://bit.ly/3Os9Byx
Something a bit different for True Stories this month. New album 'Voices of History' out today on Universal Production Music
Epic, orchestral voices: choirs, chants and wordless vocals for history, ancient worlds, legends and cinematic trailers.
Choirs and orchestra recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Some great music uses for True Stories over the summer: celebrity chefs, basketball, the Pennines, perfect pooches, RAF pilots, scary people and emergency callouts. Thanks to our great partners Universal Production Music and all the editors and TV producers.
New album out now - Politics and Power. Politics, current affairs and power games: underscores, music beds and themes for news, investigation and serious factual.
Full album here on Universal Production Music.
Some great TV music placements for True Stories this Spring. Gordon Ramsay, The King, Ant and Dec, Eva Longoria, Mariella Frostrup and Danny Dyer!
Big thanks to all the editors, producers and our amazing publishers Universal Production Music
New album Magic and Sorcery: Magical, fun and curious tales of enchantment, wizards and mystery.
Out now on Universal Production Music.
Some great music uses for True Stories over the winter: dragons, coups, 22 kid families ( 😲 ), women's football, sick animals and Stanley's Italian wonders. Thanks to all the editors and our brilliant partners Universal Production Music.
New album out now on Universal Production Music. Royal Scandal: Regal string quartet and woodwind for royal drama, history, stately homes and scandal. If only there were some royal news stories at the moment….
We’ve had some awesome TV music placements this autumn. Ambulances, chefs, horrible crimes, Italian food, USA travel, NFL, soccer, stolen art, nightly news… the list is long. Checkout a selection below.
New album out now! Dance Pop Promos. Polished dance pop: mainstream EDM, radio hits and club beats. Songs with short vocal hooks plus instrumentals.
Backstories: Warm, organic, indie folk and acoustic backdrops for sports interviews, people stories and unscripted shows. Out now on Universal Production Music
Inspired Strings - new album out now:
http://links.universalproductionmusic.com/MUUnZq
TRUE CRIME
Drones, pulses, tension and mystery for murder and true crime investigations. New album out now on Universal Production Music
AUTUMN TV PLACEMENTS
Earth stories
Epic and moving orchestral pieces for wildlife, the natural environment and the climate crisis. Recorded in Sofia with the Bulgarian Session Orchestra. Out now on Universal Production Music.
wilderness usa - new album
Brand new on True Stories: Americana, slide guitar and acoustic blues for hunting, fishing and roaming the great American outdoors. Full album here.
cinescapes - Contemporary drama and filmscores
New album of contemporary atmospheres, tension and drama from composers Andy Hopkins and Dean Mahoney. Great for crime, factual entertainment and cinematic footage. Full album here
TV PLACEMENTS - SUMMER 2021
Some great TV uses for True Stories so far this summer: hospitals, dragons, vets, cops, antiques, beasts and monsters:
Mallets in Motion
New album out on Universal Production Music. Minimal patterns of marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel and other things that you hit.
RETRO FUNK
New album out now on Universal Production Music - Funky horns, hammond organ and wah-wah guitars: live grooves with a retro funk band
DOCUMENTARY PLACEMENTS
Some great unscripted and documentary uses of our music this week. Doing what we set out to do. Via our partners Universal Production Music and FirstCom Music
CAR CRAZY
Our latest album Super Drive builds on our recent placements on ESPN, Sky Sports and Euro Sport: driving electro synth rock hybrids for gaming, racing, motorsports, cars and speed. Scream if you wanna go faster. Out now on Universal Production Music
TRUE STORIES ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU
Our placements are growing every week, with more shows and channels using our music around the world. Thanks to all our brilliant partners and clients. Here’s a selection of them this month:
LOCKDOWN STORIES
Our new album made in lockdown for factual programmes about the virus, quarantine, medicine and the global pandemic. Serious, neutral, ominous beds, underscores and drones. Out now on Universal Production Music
PLOT TWIST TENSION
Key changes and subtle movements to build tension in a storyline. Great for crime, investigations and light tension. Watch the interview with our composer Andy Hopkins, and the director and editor Sebastian Smith about how music can be used to highlight and reinforce plot changes. Out now on Universal Production Music
VINTAGE KITSCH - ORCHESTRAL ARCHIVE FUN
New album of 1950s style orchestral kitsch, light music styles for vintage footage and retro vibes. Beautifully written and orchestrated by Vince Webb and Matt Norman. Out on Universal Production Music now
PULSING PIANO - NEW ALBUM
Simple, beautiful piano pulses for documentary and emotional scenes, out today on Universal Production Music
Lovely live piano from Ian Livingstone and Andy Hopkins.
NEW GAVISCON COMMERCIAL
Great to hear ‘Drive All Day’ from the Super Massive album used in the latest Gaviscon ad. Heartburn from fast food, something we no nothing about obvs…
DRUMS FOR DRAMA
Dramatic percussion, huge drum hits and military snares for factual TV, promos and moments of drama.
Out now on Universal Production Music
BACKROADS USA - new ALBUM
Check out the atmospheric Americana, blues and slide guitar on our latest album Backroads USA. Out now on Universal Production Music. Some great playing cooked up in our studio for this one. Stripped back and bluesy.
NORDIC NOIR
Brand new for drama, documentary and crime. Icy landscapes and moody soundscapes in the pared back Scandinavian noir style. Out now on Universal Production Music
FRAGILE PLANET
Neo classical, ambient, emotive piano, strings and voices for ecology, climate change, environment and the natural world. Composed by Zed Parker, out now on Universal Production Music. Sad and beautiful.
ROCK RIFF INDIE
Hard riff indie rock mania with heavy guitars and fuzz bass. Out now on Universal Production Music
HOMEMADE HAPPY - UKUELES AND KITCHEN UTENSILS
Great fun making our latest album. Ukuleles, glockenspiels and some stuff we found in the kitchen.
Homespun folk for daytime TV, cooking and lifestyle shows.
NEW ALBUM - RETRO JAZZ COOL
Fantastic playing on our brand new jazz album, Retro Jazz Cool, out now on Universal Production Music.
Vintage jazz flavours on organ, piano, upright bass, guitar and saxes. Recorded like it could be 1962.
I can hear your heartbeat. New album out on Universal Production Music. Simple heartbeats and pulses, great for light tension, documentary underscores, science and tech.
NEW ALBUM - UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
Brand new True Stories album out this week. True crime, suspense, unsolved cases and mysterious documentary stories. Beds, underscores and themes with a distinctly noir flavour. Available now via our friends at UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION MUSIC
Loving the cover artwork
TRUE STORIES - BRAND NEW LABEL FOR DOCUMENTARY AND FACTUAL TV
Watch our short launch film to find out what we're all about. It's all true.
super MASSIVE DROPS
Our writers Andy Hopkins, Ian Livingstone and Joris De Man have smashed it out of the park on this new album of hi-octane, massive beats and macho car driving tunes for sport, promos and action footage. Released Friday 15th June on UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION MUSIC.
Check out the promo film.
THe KENNEDYS - CNN DOCUMENTARY SCORE
True Stories composer Andy Hopkins has written the fabulous score for American Dynasties: The Kennedys, a six part documentary airing now on CNN. Produced by Raw TV, the show explores the Kennedy family's rise to power through momentous events from the Cold War to the Wall Street Crash.
Andy wrote the original music for all six episodes, and co-wrote the stirring theme tune with fellow True Stories writer Ian Livingstone.
True Stories brings this documentary scoring expertise to a production music label available worldwide via Universal Publishing Production Music
TRUE STORIES PARTNERS WITH UNIVERSAL PUBLISHING PRODUCTION MUSIC
TRUE STORIES has signed a global publishing and distribution deal with Universal Publishing Production Music (UPPM), the world's leading production music company. The deal will see the TRUE STORIES catalogue of music for documentaries and factual entertainment available around the world via the UPPM's international network, including Focus Music in the UK, Kapagama in France, FirstCom in the USA and Universal Production Music worldwide.
TRUE STORIES Director, Dean Mahoney, said: "We are totally thrilled to be working with the biggest and best production music company in the world. We want our new brand of documentary and factual TV cues to be heard on TV productions across the globe and our partnership with Universal will help to achieve that."
"Our writers all come from the world of documentary and unscripted productions. They write to picture for the biggest broadcasters and production companies, and TRUE STORIES brings that specialist expertise to a new production music label."
The first 10 TRUE STORIES albums are available to license now, and 10 more will be available by the end of 2018.
France: www.kapagama.fr
USA: www.firstcom.com
Rest of the World: www.universalproductinmusic.com
TRUE STORIES STRING SESSION
TRUE STORIES MUSIC'S Andy Hopkins writes and arranges this orchestral string recording session at Smecky Studios, Prague
ANDY HOPKINS - DOCUMENTARY SHOWREEL
TRUE STORIES MUSIC'S Andy Hopkins scores major documentaries and factual TV shows - here's a selection