Neal Merrick Blackwood is the owner of Merrick Music and SMR Records. Neal is a musician, composer, orchestrator, recording engineer, mix engineer and producer, and has worked under multiple Grammy award-winning production teams and monikers in world-renowned recording studio facilities and concert venues with countless legendary artists representing many styles of music.
Neal has worked with artists and clients that include: PBS, BBC, NPR, The Walt Disney Company, Paisley Park Records, Warner Classics, Universal Music Group, Decca Records, The Olympic Games, Cyndi Lauper, Johnny Cash, Bill Mize (Grammy award-winning recording artist), AO Music project (Grammy Nominated and ZMR award-winning artists), Miriam Stockley, Sandeep Chowta, Julie Fowlis (award-winning Scottish artist), Fox Lima (Grammy award-winning Enigma), SEAY (2017 ZMR award-winning recording artist), Margaret Cornils Luke (Award-winning Naxos Records classical recording artist), etc.
Neal now dedicates his entire time to working with like-minded artists composing, orchestrating, producing, performing and recording classical, orchestral, choral, instrumental, ambient, world and vocal music. Neal Merrick Blackwood’s compositions are distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group and Merrick Music. Neal Merrick Blackwood’s music is used in films, recordings, TV shows, commercials, radio, live performances, etc.
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Cinthie Berlin based DJ, producer, label owner of 803 Crystal Grooves and its sub-label Collective Cuts, we_r house, the Elevate record store and proud parent Cinthie has risen to become on the most prominent DJs in the house scene of 2022.
Her music and DJ style has gained her r...
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Jacqueline Govaert With a voice that's both silvery and raw, Dutch singer and pianist Jacqueline Govaert began writing songs at age 12. As lead singer and main songwriter, she formed the English-language Dutch alt-rock group Krezip in Tilburg in 1997 while still in her midteens. Their first fu...
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Groove Armada In 2022 it will be 25 years since Groove Armada debuted, going on to become one of the most successful dance acts of the time, and maintaining their position as an influential force ever since. Over two decades of prolific productions and tireless touring they’ve proved that...
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Gethin Pearson Starting out as a teenage music fan and working in a record shop, Gethin has always been obsessed with how songs make him feel and how records are made. Whilst pursuing individual and band based projects, Gethin began exploring creative ways to record in a converted coal she...
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Stefano Lentini Stefano Lentini is an Italian film music composer and multi-instrumentalist, who collaborated with director Wong Kar-Wai on the score for the two Academy Award nominated film "The Grandmaster". He has composed the scores for TV series including "The Sea Beyond”(Mare Fuori),...
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Marc Carolan Marc Carolan is a sound/mix engineer from Dundalk, Ireland. His clients include Muse, The Cure, Snow Patrol, Cesare Cremonini and No Party for Cao Dong. Marc works in both studio and live situations and enjoys bringing the strengths of each discipline to the other.
"Dynam...
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Elkka London-based Elkka is an artist who began her path as a singer, songwriter and has evolved into a multi-faceted producer, DJ and label boss. With her music being a cross-pollination between house, electronica, percussive beats and dreamy vocals, Elkka’s universe constantly e...
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Omar Hakim Omar Hakim is a drummer, producer/engineer, composer, educator and entrepreneur. His work spans many genres of music, and he has worked with some wonderful artists throughout his career, like Daft Punk, David Bowie, Sting, Madonna, Foo Fighters, Marcus Miller, Miles Davis,...
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Kevin Madigan "I’ve had a love of music and sound since an early age. I can remember listening to the Beatles on the Walkman which was the latest greatest new thing then back then. My uncle and aunt brought one over to Ireland from the US when I was about 10 years old. I was being astoni...
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