Biographies
Terry Eckersley - CEO-Composer-Writer-Producer-Publisher
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Think Media Music's founder and CEO, Terry Eckersley has been involved in music for as long as he can remember. first as an avid listener and fan and more recently in areas including composing, producing, publishing and performing. His first albums bought were Motown Gold and David Bowie listing his inspirations as The Clash, R+B and anything with soul.
(Insert, Terry Eckersley (Middle) and friends Lee Dawg (Left), and DJ Jenny (Right) Broadway, New York, New York)
Terry had a regular slot on BBC Radio Solent as a thought for the day broadcaster.
With his broadcast experience and regular radio slots Terry is becoming a sought after voice over artiste. With his warm, northern yet rounded vocal style, his humour and rich overtones shine through any TV or multimedia production. Please contact us to book him.
 His music as well as many of the projects he has worked on are gaining him a reputation for delivering quality that is exceptional. Some of the clients that he has written, produced or provided music for include: NHS, ITV and many stations on the SKY Channel.
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 He regularly writes music reviews for the local press, once predicting that Corrine Bailey Rae would be a success two years before any of us had heard of her! Terry is a published author after receiving a publishing contract. The book Service User Involvement can be found at jkp.com
This is a book about leadership, music and community.
He is in demand currently writing music and producing for many projects previously including the NHS and TV programmes with a worldwide audience. He was part of a movement of existing and rising media influence in Southampton.
Terry is now based at Woking YMCA in Surrey. This makes for easy access to our latest partners at www.fremantlemedia.com with other partnerships in the pipeline. He was also well received as a lecturer in master classes at Europe's largest music academy www.acm.mu Academy Of Contemporary Music.
Ivor Novello winning writer producer Mark Hill (left) getting creative with Thinkmediamusic's CEO Terry Eckersley (right), Mark was also involved in a community music programme, giving a seminar on himself, the industry and how he produces music. Terry really appreciated his time and effort and congratulates Mark on his latest www.craigdavid.com success and www.thestix.co.uk
www.thestix.co.uk www.stopdroproll.com www.craigdavid.co.uk www.wokingymca.org.uk
Andrew Bates - Composer - Producer
Andrew was inspired by rock and pop music early on and started playing on a cheap keyboard in his pre-teens. Bands like Queen and Pink Floyd, along with synth virtuosos like Vangelis were doing their thing and they did a lot to inspire him, and after a couple of years on the keys, he changed to guitar, 21 years including 11 years of live band experience later, he retained a versatility that encompassed a plethora of genres
Andrew's agenda is very much the creation of music from classic to funk, he's always interested in trying something new, mixing modern technology with traditional instruments, in his own home studio he uses Cubase, Kontakt, acoustic and electric guitars, bass and keyboards
Andrew's influences are diverse, drawing on concept artists and funk music. He is a big fan of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pink Floyd and music with powerful tunes, and sweeping soundscapes.
As well as writing and producing his own songs and compositions, Andrew has played lead and rhythm guitar live to hundreds of people, and understands the demands required playing in a demanding environment. Currently writing and producing for international TV projects, and overseeing our Hampshire studio and office.
Andrew has now started his own band with a vision for playing his Sozo heaven music live.
He is really inspired and a big fan of epic soundtracks. He gets a great buzz out of people like Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach and Monty Norman's work and writes to this vibe and capacity. Andrew is your man for Film scores!
Andrew also updates and admins all the TMM websites, aswell as this one including our new myspace site, and the reverbnation profiles
www.myspace.com/sozoheaven
www.reverbnation.com/andrewbates
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Paul Longland - Composer-Songwriter
 Paul Longland is a songwriter/composer. He has a fully equipped recording studio, using the industry standard Logic Pro music software on Apple Macintosh mixed through the Yamaha 02R digital mixing desk providing master/broadcast sound quality.
The composer/songwriter/producer, Paul Tony Longland has recently relocated to the Dorset "Jurassic" coast, an area of incredible natural beauty and renowned for giving inspiration to creative people, musicians, writers, and artists, where he has set up a state of the art recording facility to produce world-class quality music productions of incredible diversity.
Drawing on his valued experience as a top UK composer he is currently enjoying success as the writer and producer of the music for the major TV advertising campaign for Pantene Pro V Colour Essentials hair care product range. This key project was commissioned and coordinated by Jon Hall at Soho based music publisher Oomph Music.
Further demonstrating his musical diversity, he has successfully completed the production of Fransisca London’s debut album (Title TBC) for Miami based Sunshine Sound Records.
Paul has already achieved UK chart success with the song “Love me like you Do” featured on the debut single of Jonathan Wilkes released on EMI Innocent records March 2002 chart position 24.
Previously he was involved in the success of UK pop/RnB act “Another level” who recorded his song “Something to live for” (produced by Rick Wake for BMG Northwestside records)
He also has worked with the singer Tiff Lacy who was the featured vocalist on the Paul Oakenfold single “Hypnotised” and has co-written many songs with successful UK writer/producer “Peter Wright” who was also involved in that project.
Other examples of co-writing/producing credits include;
Rob Davis (Kylie, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Enrique Iglesias), for the song “Imagination” (also co-written by Peter Wright).
Over the past year Paul has continued to add to his varied catalogue of songs and increase his scope of activities within the music industry He is very excited about his involvement with Mark Hill (who is also based in Southampton) who is an Ivor Novello winning writer/producer famous for his success with Craig David. Paul and Mark have co-written the songs “Summer Rain” and “Drive”.
Owen Wilkins - Composer-Songwriter
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Owen started playing guitar at 9 years of age and played in rock, pop and folk bands throughout his school years. He added electric bass and MIDI programming to his instrument list in the early '90s gaining orchestra-pit experience while studying for a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts at the College of North West London.
He soon began to develop his production skills at home using an old, 4 track ¼" tape machine.
Owen got a taste for soundtrack score composition through writing and producing for a local theatre group's show in 2000.
After relocating to Sheffield he trained for 6 months on Logic software, signed to Think Media Music and continues to write soundtrack music for TV shows on BBC, ITV and cable and satellite networks worldwide. Owen loves TV themes, jingles and incidental music.
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Viktor Janusev - Composer Songwriter
Born in Macedonia, now residing in the UK, its been quite a journey for this 28 year old. Brought up in a flat in Veles, central Macedonia (part of Yugoslavia back in the day), Vik has been exposed to music from an early age thanks to his big brother who was and still has an influence in his music style. Brought up in an era where music was becoming more electronic, Vik’s first bought tape was from the Prodigy, the experience album who happen to influnce his future significantly. During the teenage years he listened from punk music (Green day, Offspring) to dutch hardcore(Thunderdome, Earthquake), never a fan of mellow music. Always very agrresive, from crazy dance beats to killer guitar riffs. In his own words: "History was made when I signed with TMM on the 25th of september 2008".
Vik weekly plays electric guitar in front of 600-1000 people, always going crazy and taking the crowd to another level with his performance. He works under the current name Christian08, and has a band called Salt of the earth. Two separate projects, the solo project is Djing and playing electronic music to the masses, whereas the band project is punk rock with no holds barred. He’s been writing music for 13 years now, works at the moment in his home studio called Universe Studio. For more info, check out his first 2 debut albums: Good News and Out of the box.
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Viktor also has several artist sites:
www.myspace.com/artistchr1stian08
www.reverbnation.com/chr1stian08
www.myspace.com/bandsaltoftheearth
www.purevolume.com/chr1stian08
www.reverbnation.com/saltoftheearth
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Think Media Music is the No1 source for television music, film music, production music, library music, advertising music, theme music and incidental music.
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