British Composer Alec Makinson has been creating original and compelling music for the media for 20 years. His catalog of over 1,100 tracks includes quirky kids music, dramatic cues, Regal Renaissance music, and exotic World Beat tracks -- often used in documentaries, TV commercials, radio jingles, and stage productions. Alec’s compositions enjoy a wide range of major clients, like USA National Cable TV, BBC Radio 1, BBC 1 Television, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, National TV ads in UK, New Zealand, Croatia, and many other clients worldwide.
Alec Makinson is a genius in the variety and high quality range of music offered in his large catalog we offer on our site. He relishes the challenge of composing in a wide range of musical genres, and has created music that would fit nicely and enhance greatly just about any production under the sun.
Light & chirpy, feelgood & jolly festive theme. Gives a warm nostalgic glow. Holiday for strings feel with a shuffle beat. Great for fun holiday features, commercials, Christmas background & muzak. Main mix, underscore, 40sec, 30sec & 30sec underscore. Instrumental, Christmas Music, Christmas Pop
Jaunty, happy and wholesome celebration of Christmas. Warm and inviting family occasion, campy, sugary and delightful, full of twinkling bells and festive cheer. Features Jazz Guitar, Tubular Bells, synth bells and pizzicato strings. Perfect for anything Christmas including radio & TV adverts, Instrumental, Christmas Music, Christmas Ensemble
Festive, magical and original Christmas orchestral theme. Filled with shimmering bells, merry strings, ethereal choirs and holiday spirit. Fast moving, merry and wonderous, includes lighter sections and edit points. The producers perfect Christmas gift. Main mix, underscore and 30sec versions, Instrumental, Christmas Music, Christmas Pop
Exciting, bright and merry original upbeat Christmas theme, with a couple of familiar refrains. Full of joy and festive cheer, this track has pace and is great to stand alone as Christmas background music, a talk-over bed, infomercial or commercial. Various mixes and cuts - Happy Holidays ! Instrumental, Christmas Music, Christmas Pop
Quirky, light hearted & uplifting original festive theme with a nostalgic fun retro feel. Think jolly, jaunty & fun sleigh-ride. Features strings, bassoon, sleighbells, templeblocks, flute, glockenspiel & synth bells. Perfect for Christmas the way it used to be. Main mix, 60 & 30 and underscores. Instrumental, Christmas Music, Christmas Pop
Busy, bustling, industrious, modern day China. Great, powerful yet humble hard-working people going about their simple existence. Contemporary with traditional elements, rhythmic opening builds to expansive Oriental theme.. Ideal for travelogue, business, documentary, historic from the Far East. Instrumental, Chinese Music, Chinese New Age
Easy-going & laid-back version of the traditional Italian folk / operatic tune. This simple romantic wandering mistrel style version features mandolins and acoustic guitars. Great for romantic mood, travel or restaurants - A real flavour of Italy!! Main mix & 30sec versions, Instrumental, European Music, Italian Music
Bright & staccato classical baroque style waltz. Very stately, graceful and historic English Lords and Ladies curtsying and bowing as they danced. Features marcato string ensemble, oboe, bassoon and piano. PERFECT FOR HISTORICAL & DRAMA. Main mix, 60, 30 and 10sec versions, Instrumental, Classical Music, Romantic Period
Welcoming, warm & friendly nu-folk, with a real feelgood vibe. Conjours up visions of long hot sunny days in the countryside, idyllic rustic living, or good wholesome home-made food. Features small ukelele style rhythmic guitars, flutes, glockenspiel & light percussion. Great for family style ads, Instrumental, Folk Music, Folk Pop
Proud, uplifting, feel-good and sunny African township choir with tribal chants also featuring kalimba, log drums and African beats. GREAT FOR TRAVEL, HOLIDAYS & DOCUMENTARY. Main mix, u/score without chants, vocals mix, 30sec and sting versions. Instrumental, African Music, African Traditional
Vibrant, lively, happy and full of Jamaican sunshine. White sandy beaches, lined with coconut palms, the turquoise ocean gently lapping the shore, all you need now is a cocktail with umbrella. Features steel drum band and lively percussion. Perfect for holiday travelogues, documentary and adverts, Instrumental, Tropical Latin Music, Calypso
Upbeat & uplifting, wildlife safari theme, incorporating wild animal sound effects. Has a real feelgood flavour of Africa, but would be ideal for Zoos, Safari Parks, Wildlife Parks, Animal Theme Parks as well as African Safaris. Perfect for commercials, documentary & travelogue. Various mixes, Instrumental, Action Music, Action Moderate Tribal
Exotic, mysterious & haunting flavour of the Middle East. Steady, lonely, forward-pushing, dry & arid atmospheric desert trek. Features authenic middle eastern instruments & female voice. Great for documentary, history & travelogue. Main mix, without vocal & bass mix, percussion mix & 30sec version, Instrumental, Middle East Music, Middle-Eastern Music
Regal and stately grand orchestral version of Great Britain's national anthem. The 3 verse version opens with string orchestra, middle woodwind section and ends with full orchestra. The 1 verse 40sec version is strings & orchestra. Instrumental, European Music, English Music
Confident, corporate, big, modern, positive, expansive, driving modern theme. Has an upbeat business, news and current affairs feel to it. Perfect for presentations, awards, business promos, Audio Visual branding & commercials.
Main mix 60sec, 30sec & 60sec underscore bed versions. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Energizing Music
Maximum attitiude, in your face, solid 4-to-the-floor dance track. Hot and sexy catwalk high fashion. Synth based, solid hip hop / trance beats with occasional male vocal 'oh yeah' punctuations. Cardio work-out music. Mixes also available without vocal. Main mix, 60sec no vocal & 30sec versions, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Energizing Music
Comical, whimsical, slightly clumsy character, heavy footed silent movie style theme. Very Chaplin-esque & great for Silent Movies, comedy, children & cartoon marches. Featuring honky-tonk piano, tuba, flute & clarinet. Easy to edit with stops and slower passages. Main mix, 60sec, & 30sec version, Instrumental, Comedy Music, Comedy Piano
Vibrant, optimistic, uptempo and contemporary Far Eastern corporate underscore, with a flavour of traditional Japan. A picture of Japan today, from the busy city financial institutions and money markets to the people's lives. Features traditional Japanese instruments alongside modern western beats. Instrumental, Japanese Music, Japanese Dramatic Music
Uptempo, lively and jolly traditional Mediterranean style theme. Features mandolins, acoustic guitar, fiddle and light percussion. Ideal for world music, Greece and Italy, travel and commercials. Main mix (which contains slower middle section), underscore, 60 and 30sec versions, Instrumental, European Music, Greek Traditional
Cheerful, sun-kissed, energetic, up-tempo African theme. Features electric guitars, electric bass, marimba, balafon, organ and ethnic percussion. Perfect for Travelogue, holidays, Documentary & historical. Main mix, u/score, rhythm mix, 60 & 30sec versions, Instrumental, African Music, African Traditional
Inspirational, successful and uplifting, full sounding corporate theme. Proud and with the feeling of a job well done! Features orchestral strings, horns, woodwind & percussion, alongside contemporary piano and rhythmic synth sequencer. Great for Corporate & Presentations. Various mixes & cuts, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Energizing Music
Proud, celebratory, happy and triumphant patriotic marching band. Full of celebrations, the sense of occasion, pomp, majorettes and pom poms. Great for carnival, processions, circus and parades. Features trumpets, flutes, piccolos, glockenspiel, cymbals, snares and bass drum. Instrumental, Circus Music, Circus Music
Tension building drone bed, time is slipping away. Bold ticking fx, string quartet rhythm, tubular bells punctuation and crescendos. Ideal for those tricky decisions and 'against the clock' moments from game shows to Reality TV. Main mix, 60sec A, 60sec B & 30sec Challenge, Survival, tick tock, Instrumental, Dangerous Music, Edgy Music
Regal, gracious and stately string orchestral theme. Very sprightly and noble with a baroque feel, depicting grandure and proud history. Features strings, english horn, bassoon and french horn. Perfect for English history, documentary, Kings & Queens etc. - Main, 60 & 30 and strings only versions, Instrumental, Classical Music, Baroque Period
Marching band version of the well-known tune from the mid 1800's. 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' was a motivational song for soldiers returning from the civil war. Features military snares, piccolos, trumpets, trombones, & glockenspiel. Main mix, piccolo mix, alt end mix & 30sec versions. Instrumental, Military Music, Military March and Parade Music
Talk-over production bed - Useful production element that's punchy, hip, electronic, Hi-tech and upbeat. Features layered electronic drum groove with hits & fx, along with modern dance synth blips and pulses. Makes for a great bed for adding voice-over, that's easy to make any length. Instrumental, Corporate Music, Radio & Multimedia Production Elements
Big, bold and brassy, uptempo swing theme for TV or 'Live' stage show. Features trumpets, trombones, sax, organ, piano & big percussion. Supplied in kit of parts for intros, outros, guest intros, voice-over section. Perfect for lively comedy show or chat shows. Cuts from 1'58" to 10sec, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Broadway Music
Dramatic, insistent, heavy and restless corporate theme. Serious business, big deals, lots at stake, big city institutions, industrial forecasts, financial gloom. Features staccato strings, mellotron, timps, cymbals. Great as a financial theme, documentary and for corporate audio visual. Instrumental, News Music, News Music | Investigative
Sweet and pensive orchestral gypsy waltz, with flavours of Hungary and Russia. Features Gypsy Violin, Piano Sweet Strings Flutes & Glockenspiel. Various movements and moods with stops and starts. Melodramatic PBS murder mystery, silent movie. Main mix, 44sec theme, clarinet movement, string movement, Instrumental, East European Music, Hungarian Music
Feel-good, uplifting and positive upbeat corporate track. Happy, fresh and breezy lifestyle & warm daytime TV. Inspirational and caring. Features piano, acoustic guitars, strings and steady rhythm. Great for commercials through to corporate. Various mixes and cuts, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Energizing Music
Feel-good, positive, inspirational and uplifting track, with a strong corporate feel. Starts with piano pattern and swells to main theme featuring rhythmic strings, french horn, piano, acoustic Guitar, electric guitar. Great for events, presentations, awards. Various cuts & mixes, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Energizing Music
Big, imposing, strident news, corporate and business theme. Uplifting, with a real sense of importance and urgency. Great to accompany news broadcasts, financial & business programming, corporate presentations and commercials. Features string section, timps, piano, cymbals & synth sequencers. Instrumental, Corporate Music, Corporate Orchestral Music
Steady, sleazy, four-to-the-floor light rhythmic electronic dance / house track. Features occasional male voice 'Oh yeah' punctuations, electonic drums & hand claps, synths. Great for Adult entertainment, underworld, night clubs etc. Main mix, underscore (without male voice), 60 & 30sec version, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Electronic Music
Bright, joyful, welcoming and feel-good African theme with a strong dance beat. Has real movement and life. Features brass punctuation, kalimba, electric guitar and heavy bass. Ideal for travelogue, documentary, commercials. Main mix, underscore, 60, 30sec and sting versions, Instrumental, African Music, South African Music
Prestigious, grand, important & proud theme. Inspiring, forward thrusting and winning. Composed for presentations, awards & conferences, also perfect for finance, business, news documentary. Various thematic cuts and kit 0f parts - Main mix, 40sec, 30sec, Sting, Rhythm Bed, Info bed & 3 loops, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Energizing Music
Crazy, happy melody, sophisticated tom foolery, quirky and slap dash. Uptempo comedy chase or Euro-cheese Kitsch. Features Tenor sax, ukelele, organ and a strong scratchy backbeat with stops and starts. Great for Reality TV, Light Humour, Comedy sketches & Commercials. Various cuts and mixes, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Whimsical Music
Gloriously feelgood, jolly, fun and uplifting original Christmas track. Uptempo, with a 60s retro feel. Opens with an air of anticipation before full theme. Features piano, tubular bells, strings, electric guitar, glockenspiel, small bells & sleigh bells. PERFECT FOR ANYTHING CHRISTMASSY, Instrumental, Christmas Music, Christmas Pop
Urgent, prestigious & authoritative traditional news, business and current affairs presentation set. Features brass, strings, timps, sequencers and steady beat. Comprises full main mix, opening ident, talk-over bed, end ident & rhythm bed. Instrumental, News Music, News Music
Thoughtful, caring, gentle, light theme. For emotional scenes, nature, starry nights, big open skies, new love. Elegant trailer for space travel, romance, sweet dreams, sleeping baby. Rhythmic harp gently swelling synth pads & strings & piano harp. Piano underscore, 60, 30 and 10-sec versions. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Romantic Music
Modern, rolling & circular electronic underscore. Denotes a serious air, so perfect for technical data presentations, slightly gloomy subject matter such as financial downturn and documentary. Features long ethereal chords with electronic sequencer rhythmic patterns, builds with full theme at 1'05" Instrumental, Corporate Music, Corporate New Age Electronic Music
Fast moving, bright and wonderous original Christmas theme. Beautiful, glorious, epic, uptempo, jaunty sleigh ride through a crisp winter wonderland. Features sleigh bells, pizzicato strings and heavenly choir. Very atmospheric and perfect for dashing through the snow. Various versions, Instrumental, Christmas Music, Christmas Pop
Full-on cheesy, camp & cheeky, retro Bossa Nova theme. Very kitsch, outrageous, tongue-in-cheek, fun mid-tempo lounge. Featuring organs, piano, sax and trumpet. Great for Reality TV, comedy, Eurotrash, big brash costumes & characters. Main mix, underscore and 30sec versions, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Whimsical Music
Fromage-a-go-go 60's extravaganza. Uptempo groovy, tongue-in-cheek Brit pop organ / flute / sax combo. Flirtatious, sassy, street smart - Catwalk, high fashion, dancing, disco, wild, hot, cheesy, campy, hilarious. In the Style of Austin Powers - Shake that thang, Baby!! Main mix & 30sec, Instrumental, Pop Music, Euro-Pop
Expansive, expectorant and fast moving corporate theme. Contemporary, with an urgent feel. Great for news and current affairs theme, corporate & business presentations. Medium /fast piano based theme with lighter middle section. Main mix and 30sec versions, Instrumental, News Music, News Music | Themes
Simple, rhythmic clock countdown bed or quiz 60 sec timer. Starts with light ticking percussion and steadily builds to a gong cresendo. Features wood block style clock FX. PERFECT for tension builder, TV quiz shows, Panel Games, Reality TV, Daytime Television, Cable TV, Instrumental, Action Music, Action Impending Buildup (pending)
Stately, regal & grand English classical finery in the Baroque style. Featuring strings, harpsichord and bassoon. Ideal for accompanying views of English or European finery, rollings estates, larger properties and period costume. 60sec and 30sec versions, Instrumental, Classical Music, Baroque Period
