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DOWNTEMPO INSTRUMENTALS in the MINIMALIST and MODERN style of Philip Glass are needed by a successful Independent Music Licensing Company with several high profile clients. They're looking for DREAMY and CALMING instrumentals that can work well for various scenes. QUOTING THE COMPANY: "No solo piano or brass. A great track to reference would be 'Pruit Igoe' by Philip Glass." Be sure your instrumentals have repetitive melodic motifs with plenty of movement and dynamics. IMPORTANT: Be sure your track maintains a specific tempo and has a clearly defined REPETITIVE or ARPEGGIATED STRUCTURE. This company offers a non-exclusive, 50/50 deal. Broadcast Quality is needed (great sounding home recordings are fine). Please submit one to three instrumentals online or via CD. All submissions will be screened on a YES/NO BASIS - NO CRITIQUES FROM TAXI - and must be received no later than Tuesday, February 19, 2013.

"Downtempo" is a type of ambient ELECTRONIC music usually with a slower tempo than dance electronica with softer sounding beats. It tends to be relaxing or romantic. But the chosen sample by Glass is definitely Orchestral.

"Minimalist" music has a steady pulse, repeating motifs, drones, harmony... so that makes some sense in the context of the listing.

When I listen to 'Pruit Igoe' I hear cinematic orchestral... with dynamics that move towards the end.. with a repeating motif... lovely piece but I never would have called it downtempo - or even particularly calming... am I out of date in my thinking?

A few other folks have been confused by this listing as well. There are a couple of recent threads on this forum where this very topic was discussed and you may want to give them a look over:
Primarily: http://forums.taxi.com/topic103906.html
as well as: http://forums.taxi.com/topic104491.html

As a matter of fact, TAXI was actually contacted about this because of the confusion and the one thing they mentioned was to reference the slower, repetitive beginning of the song and NOT the brass/choir section where it's pretty chaotic.

I worked with Suzanne Schnite on a piece for this (can be found on Suzanne's TAXI Page as the track "Numbers"). I think it's maybe a little TOO close to the a-la but we've given it a shot nonetheless.

If you decide to work on this one yourself, please post a link to the track - I'd love to hear it!!!

Good luck,

Rich

https://soundcloud.com/#saltysalt-1/glassbounce

Heres mine, I put it up on the peer page too- and am happy to hear stuff specially while i can still make changes to it...