04/08 | Repo website goes live

The website for the movie “Repo! The Genetic Opera” is now live and features all the info you could want about the movie. Make sure and stop by the music section to see who worked on the enormous soundtrack (including Eric Powell from Musicwest / 16VOLT). Eric contributed music programming, sampling and sound design to over 45 tracks in the movie. http://www.repo-opera.com/flash_home.html

03/08 | Re-Scoring The Wizard of Gore

We just wrapped up the final week of scoring and sound design for the director’s cut of the movie “The Wizard of Gore” (Open Sky Entertainment), directed by Jeremy Kasten and starring Crispin Glover, Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips and Jeffrey Combs. For more info on the movie visit the website.

02/08 | Drag Race High on Speed TV

We are excited to announce that Speed TV has licensed our track “Okay Okay” (Eric Powell/Kraig Tyler) for use in the opening titles of their new original television show “Drag Race High” in addition to several other placements throughout the first season of production. The show features high school rivalry auto shop students turning regular cars into drag race champions. For more on the show check out Drag Race High on SpeedTV.com.

01/08 | Microsoft Office: 2008 Mac

Microsoft has once again chosen Musicwest to provide the soundtrack to one of their latest major product offerings. The song “Spun” penned by Eric Powell and William Sarver has been licensed for use in the demo video created by top interactive agency, Avenue A - Razorfish for the Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 product suite. If you were at the 2008 Macworld conference you saw it at the Microsoft booth and you can now see it all over the web and at more formally at the Microsoft website. Head over to our work section to hear the beautiful track.

12/07 | Mixing for “Maggie”

We recently wrapped up mixing two tracks for the indie film “Maggie” by writer/director Sanjay Nagar. With music being composed by the brilliant Saar Hendelman (”Anne Stewart: A Most Successful Failure”, “The Blue Line”). For more info on the film go to http://www.beechwoodfilms.com and to hear some of Saar’s beautiful work head over to http://www.parlourbrawlmusic.com/.

12/07 | KMFDM remix

We are happy to announce that Musicwest founder and producer/composer, Eric Powell recently completed a remix for the upcoming KMFDM release, “Brimborium” (their first full blown remix album ever). The album features 13 tracks and clocks in at over 73 minutes including Eric’s remix of “Not In My Name” from “Tohuvabohu” (KMFDM’s 2007 release). Brimborium is a joint release between KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records.