Groove Worx
Groove Worx (formerly known as Groove Addicts) is a custom music house that produces music for various categories of media. Based in Santa Monica, CA, GrooveWorx was founded by Dain Blair in 1996 as a custom music house for television commercials, scores for TV shows, feature film trailers and ids for radio stations worldwide. Over the next two years Groove Worx quickly expanded into other areas of media by building a 30,000 track strong production library.
In 2004, Groove Worx began creating custom cues for hit television shows such as Extreme Makeover, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Deal or No Deal. Groove Worx also embedded itself into the realm of feature film advertising with the release of the Full Tilt, Volume 1 music collection, which became an instantaneous hit. Full Tilt, Volume 1 was followed up by Full Tilt, Volumes 2 and 3 and Full Tilt Trailer Tools 1 & 2, additional collections of trailer music compositions.
In October 2006, Groove Worx collaborated with composer/drummer Stewart Copeland of the Police to create Eardrum, a collection of film trailer music that was exclusively created for Groove Worx. In 2007 Groove Worx released Full Tilt, Volume 3, the most ambitious project to date and will be working on a follow-up to Eardrum, as well as work with new composers to further round out their film trailer collections.
Full Tilt Rising has since been released. Yet another album by the name of Glory,Oath and Blood quickly followed. Groove Worx recently produced the background track for the movie trailers Robin Hood, Avatar, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Prince of Persia, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Inception and The Wolfman. Full Tilt Convergence is the latest album released by Groove Worx.
In 2012, Full Tilt End Game was released for advertising clients.
Groove Worx worked on the musical score to Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty.
Groove Worx and beyond
In 2010, the Groove Addicts Music Library was sold to Warner Chappell Music and the owner of Groove Addicts, Dain Blair rebranded the remaining company as Groove Worx. In 2012. GrooveWorx continues to score commercials, TV shows and feature film trailers.
In the summer of 2013, Groove Worx released their first new trailer industry release since their sale to Warner Music Group, entitled "Rogue" by feature film composers Atli Orvarsson and David Fleming. The album combined orchestrated melodies with heavy sound design in combination with high-intensity hits. Since then, the company have continued to release several more albums, including "Abbattoir" by feature film composer Tyler Bates (300 & Watchmen).