http://www.truestories-music.com/welcome daily 1.0 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1510939876872-HUL6W8WI3FS41OC156TS/web-full-true-stories-2.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1740757931510-GB1UZT408CH8AIGK92YC/agence-olloweb-9wYdW55NbnY-unsplash.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1511274091608-GSIAOFQNBFKDM7GL4FUA/shutterstock_552638833.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1511274091244-JPJKNRKOSF13CFBU1E4E/shutterstock_276760268.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1511274090654-GQMD93NBDVDFGXSVAY1S/shutterstock_115858915.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1511274091012-5ZJ7Y8JZ531TW2F3GE8X/shutterstock_157135019.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/f529edf2-5ea3-4e45-bae0-7dae1cb6ebcf/Asset+1.png Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1472226549317-4UGOM1KT3PV4UZZD99D8/image-asset.jpeg Welcome Based in Los Angeles, Andy Hopkins is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist working in documentary, drama and film. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music, Andy had a successful career as a session musician working for artists such as Dido, Zero Seven and Groove Armada before he started scoring music for picture. He scored his first BBC production “Horizon - The Truth About Violence” which led to many landmark documentaries such as “Stephen Fry’s Planet Word” (BBC/Sprout Pictures), “Child of Our Time” (BBC), “Filthy Cities”(BBC/Discovery) “David Beckham: Love of the Game” (Big Earth/Seven) and last year’s “Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice” for BBC/RTE. Working from his studio in the heart of Soho, Andy’s versatility and determination to bring character and heart to every production have made him a regular on UK productions such as BBC Horizon, “Secrets of the Asylums”(ITV/Wall to Wall) and in the US with hit Drama-Docs “Paranormal Witness”, “Locked Up Abroad” and “Web of Lies”. Andy’s music has featured in productions by all major broadcasters including BBC, ITV, SKY, PBS, Discovery, SYFY, RTE and National Geographic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1472227093629-Y5SNWOZTRQ2UUE4XAKLV/13403378_317152385282578_7464888226303394016_o.jpg Welcome Ian's works include: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, The Great British Sewing Bee, Valiant Hearts, Walking With Dinosaurs, Napoleon: Total War, Rome II Total War, Xmen2 Wolverine’s Revenge, Batman Begins, Battlefield 1943, The King Maker, Company Of Heroes, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Ian Livingstone is an Ivor Novello-winning multi-instrumentalist who began his career as a session musician, engineer and midi programmer. After taking a music degree at Salford University Ian began scoring video game soundtracks such as “Starlancer”, “Lego Harry Potter”, “Star Trek Invasion”. He had his first break into films providing a full orchestral score for a cult joint Thai/USA movie “The King Maker” (2005). Ian has since gone on to score numerous video games and TV documentaries and series. His video game career spans over 100 titles including more recently Lego: Dimensions, Walking With Dinosaurs, F1 2014, Valiant Hearts, Total War Attila, Napoleon Total War (earning him an Ivor Novello award), Batman Begins, Harry Potter, Star Trek, X-Men2, Predator Concrete Jungle, Battlefield 1943, Bionicle Heroes. TV documentaries and series include “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings” ,“The Great British Sewing Bee” for BBC2, "Daredevils” for Ch4, “Survival: Tales From The Wild” for ITV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/1472227391467-7HCIWK06TQSVHL21SSOI/image-asset.jpeg Welcome Jake is the True Stories mix master and producer. He joined AIR Studios in 1998 and has 18 years of world class experience of orchestral and band recording and mixing. He specialises in projects working to picture and has recorded and mixed at all of London’s top studios, including AIR, Abbey Road, British Grove, Angel, AIR-Edel, RAK and Strongroom, encompassing all recording genres on projects that have been awarded many Soundtrack Awards, as well as Oscars, Baftas, Grammys, BRITS, & Golden Globes. The score to "Under the Skin" which he mixed has recently won 9 score awards, and "Alien Isolation" was nominated in the 2015 BAFTA games awards. Jake's credits include: Disney's Cinderella - Patrick Doyle Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’s scores to The Road, Jesse James, 20000 Days on Earth, which he produced, recorded and mixed. Under The Skin - Mica Chu Alien Isolation - Christian Henson / The Flight A Little Chaos - Peter Gregson Foxcatcher - Rob Simonsen He recorded and mixed the Worlds National Anthems for the 2012 Olympics for composer Philip Sheppard. He has worked with Murray Gold for the last 9 years on scores including Doctor Who, and Life Story. He has mixed for Sheridan Tongue for 5 years, mixing the scores to Silent Witness & DCI Banks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/c3833ff8-9b5b-4a09-b01d-de6cecd97c4f/tempImagegRSrq2.jpg Welcome Dean is a composer, producer, music publisher and bass player with 25 years’ experience in the media music business. He is based in London. As a composer and musician, his music has appeared on TV around the world, on channels including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, MTV, Discovery, NBC, Netflix and Sky; and for shows including The Repair Shop, Embarrassing Bodies, Don’t Tell the Bride, Come Dine With Me, Long Lost Families and A New Life in the Sun. He has music in feature films including Someone Else (RSA Films), Girl Trip (Universal Pictures) and Caged (Brenn Films). As a publisher and consultant he has worked for several high profile production music companies, including 10 years as General Manager of Focus Music, growing the company worldwide until its acquisition by Universal Music Publishing in 2015. He sat on the PRS Production Music Advisory Group for 12 years, helping to steer the direction of the UK business in a time of huge change. 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Bright, happy and fun: acoustic folk pop with guitar, ukulele, hand claps and whistling. https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/c1f4f692-a708-4003-919c-07bd0c06ffcc/playlist.m3u8 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/c1f4f692-a708-4003-919c-07bd0c06ffcc/thumbnail Media Dive into the making of "Dark Drama" with TrueStories! Join us behind the scenes as renowned composer Ian Livingstone, known for his work on BBC's The Repair Shop and the Formula One video game franchise, crafts suspenseful, complex, and tumultuous hybrid orchestral cues. This album, perfect for horror, drama, and twisted fairytales, is brought to life by the talented Bulgarian Session Orchestra and Choir. 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Very subtle beds and underscores for factual programming, investigations and light tension. https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/834b108f-03c7-47d2-80eb-56fcf21c36bf/playlist.m3u8 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/834b108f-03c7-47d2-80eb-56fcf21c36bf/thumbnail Media Media https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/d882c83d-c897-4971-b95b-5eab4b5d0d64/playlist.m3u8 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/d882c83d-c897-4971-b95b-5eab4b5d0d64/thumbnail Media 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 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/b1c29fcc-795c-4465-80e7-f2f50b88301d/playlist.m3u8 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/b1c29fcc-795c-4465-80e7-f2f50b88301d/thumbnail Media Simple Science: our first album for 2025 out now on Universal Production Music. Synths, simple patterns and clinical sequences for tech, science and medicine. https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/b30fce0e-5cd2-472a-ba37-57597f6e0457/playlist.m3u8 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/b30fce0e-5cd2-472a-ba37-57597f6e0457/thumbnail Media New album out for Halloween! Spooky, sinister backdrops and drones for ghost stories, horror and the paranormal. 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Thanks to Universal Production Music. https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/a58d6d17-a7f2-42ee-9d71-9e9a1148c070/playlist.m3u8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/bfa9d38b-edd8-4c5a-8b4d-110c10a5d405/TRU_204_3000px.jpg Media 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. https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/24c7bf0b-73ca-4ff1-ac7a-574e29cc843d/playlist.m3u8 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/24c7bf0b-73ca-4ff1-ac7a-574e29cc843d/thumbnail Media Media https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/08dc2a0b-6c71-4fdd-9730-9638d5623411/playlist.m3u8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/7ed6795b-e572-4089-b39b-801ae6f49da5/TRU198_740.jpg Media 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. 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Full album here on Universal Production Music. https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/112e9418-b684-48b5-95f9-63a43adbabfb/playlist.m3u8 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/112e9418-b684-48b5-95f9-63a43adbabfb/thumbnail Media 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 https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/9a929335-a540-49e7-8ead-345eccb1621d/playlist.m3u8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bc868c8419c2441f7a6dc9/e265d2ab-f512-417f-9361-3b989663d473/TRU192_3000px.jpg Media New album Magic and Sorcery: Magical, fun and curious tales of enchantment, wizards and mystery. 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