Feel the vibe!
West Vibe Publishing brings you a tight collection of tracks from the city's hottest emerging artists for immediate download and licensing.
All of our music is pre-cleared and ready for use in any project.
ABOUT US
The music industry, like the music that it sells, is locked in a constant cycle of tiny deaths and rebirths. When audiocassettes hit the market, Chicken Littles bemoaned the death of recorded music at the hands of home-taping pirates. Did the music industry keel over? Of course not—and the mixtape was born, an invention without which record-collector geeks could never get laid.
Nowadays, both record industry types and recording artists themselves are telling us the sky is falling because of mp3 filesharing, the demise of the album, the fracturing of popular tastes into insular genres and so on. But of course the music will survive, and it’s up to savvy creative types to figure out just how to stand up and ride this chaotic wave of innovation.
Two such visionaries are Nikolay Georgiev and Daniel Beltran at West Vibe Publishing, guys on a mission to connect exciting new acts with projects that need hot tunes. West Vibe is a novel idea—a music publishing house with a living catalog of real bands making real music—all available on the web for instant download by music supervisors, filmmakers and advertisers to add that special bam! to their projects.
Nikolay and Dan are instrumentalists and producers themselves, educated in Hollywood and dialed into the local music scene. They understand what it’s like to be an up-and-coming artist in this tough but exciting city—and what it takes to break through. They take musicians under their West Vibe wing, assisting bands as they move projects from concept to completion, laying down tracks, coming up with promotional strategies—the works.
For new acts trying to get a foothold, signing on with West Vibe Publishing means huge visibility for the tunes, industry connections galore, and best of all—no strings attached. Unlike a major label, West Vibe Publishing signs artists with a non-exclusive agreement, meaning their talent is allowed—and encouraged—to seek additional deals and place their music elsewhere. It’s like having the best of both worlds—the freedom of being an unsigned act combined with the exposure of a record deal.
On the flip side, West Vibe provides a huge hookup for content producers who need fresh, hip, affordable tracks for their projects. Dan and Nikolay aren’t just signing blah bedroom musicians making instrumental hokum on their keyboards. The West Vibe catalog contains a few hundred songs of full, edgy music, from established local bands, singer-songwriters and instrumentalists with professional-grade production. For websites, commercials, films and so on, tapping into the West Vibe goldmine is like borrowing a crate of great indie records.
From hip hop to alternative rock, electronic to classical music, West Vibe has it all, hot, new tracks from Los Angeles’ deep pool of talent, pre-cleared and ready to be dropped into your project. Like the digital revolution itself, West Vibe Publishing is redefining what music licensing is all about. The music’s not dead, it’s just marching to a new beat. So come on over and feel the vibe. You’ll like what you hear.