This post came across my dash the other day and obviously, being the instrumental junkie I am I wanted to totally highjack it. Instead I decided to put this brief list together of non-movie score and non-video game score artists who have great tracks for writing and programming. Some of these are pretty famous in the instrumental realm, a few are a bit more obscure. A few primarily do trailer type music. I think a couple have done some film/television scoring but usually very obscure projects. I hope you guys find it helpful. ( @nowforruin )
(This is my no means comprehensive, I have something like 10k tracks in my library and I just did a quick scan of my go tos that end up on a lot of my very specific playlists)
Really Slow Motion
James Dooley*
Audiomachine*
Two Steps From Hell
Adam Hurst
Peter Gundry*
Brand X Music
Ivan Torrent
Jo Blankenburg
Wardruna
Baltic House Orchestra
Cirque De Soliel albums (various)
Danny Cocke*
Epic Score
Hidden Citizens (mostly trailer style cover songs)
Immediate Music/Trailerhead
Instrumental Core
Lorenzo Piggici
Midnight Syndicate
Nostalgia
Tommee Profitt
Vitamin String Quartet
Zack Hemsey*
*These are good for building playlists for very specific scenarios (sci-fi, witchy, heist, etc)
