We’ve blogged before about how the internet is putting our clients more in touch with the magic and wizardry that goes on behind the scenes here at Oakslade, but we’ve now put it to use as a virtual music researcher. Anyone who has visited our rather swanky, hi-tech office will have seen the mountainous pile of CDs that made up our music library tucked away in our sound studio. However, with new releases arriving every other day and finding that one special track becoming ever more difficult, we’ve taken drastic action and sent the lot for recycling. But don’t panic! With the majority of production music studios falling under the umbrella of just a handful of large companies, they’ve all got speedy web sites that allow us to search, preview and download thousands of tracks in seconds, as well as save playlists that we can send to our clients so they can pick their favourites before we drop them in to the edit.We’re obviously very excited by this - not only does it now take us minutes to find the perfect piece of music rather than hours, but we’re also not being sent lots of nasty, environmentally unsound plastic cases each week.

And, with the CD shelves lying empty, Steve now has somewhere to display his vintage Star Wars figures (once he’s made the alarmed perspex doors to keep our grubby hands off them)!

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