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CD Reviews by Scott G Combining pop music with surrealism can be instantly appealing but it’s a fine line between “trippy fun” and “comedy album.” Fortunately, the Tyrants in Therapy (or TIT, as they often refer to themselves) never cross that line. The musical content remains high even as things go completely loopy on about a quarter of the tracks. Comprised of an ever-changing number of musicians, but centered around Michael Jaye and Abbe Kanter, TIT is thoroughly delightful. Sex is Back, Om Shanti Om and Down in Flames Together are the immediate standouts on a quirky, peppy album.

About Scott G (The G-Man) Scott G is a creative director for NARIP, a member of NARAS, and a journalist for the Immedia Wire Service and MusicDish. His primary business is G-Man Music & Radical Radio, where most recently he is the voiceover talent and music composer on commercials for Verizon Wireless, Goodrich, Micron, NASSCO, and The Auto Club.

Everyone knows that commercials use voiceover artists to speak the sales message and musicians to create the tunes that play in the background but one man in Los Angeles is doing both jobs. Meet Scott G who is recording artist THE GMAN whose albums are on iTunes and distributed by independent label Delvian Records. It is a thrill to be able to do the voice and music for these giant companies G says referring to Verizon Wireless Goodrich and The Auto Club. His voice work and musical compositions are on 4 radio commercials for Verizon Wireless 8 for aerospace firm Goodrich and one for TripleA The Auto Club. As the owner of GMan Music amp Radical Radio and creator of awardwinning radio commercials and music for both radio and TV spots Scott G is very aware of the needs of ad agencies and advertising clients. The main point of a commercial is dissemination of information he points out. You want your target audience to respond by picking up the phone clipping a coupon ordering a product going online or simply remembering your product or service. The commercial has to insinuate its way into the consumer’s brain in a very short period of time. In addition to his ad and marketing experience he is very involved with utilizing the web for alternative distribution of his music. Earlier this year hundreds of websites and newspapers ran a story PeertoPeer to Launch a Career of how The GMan made history by giving his music away on the Internet encouraging P2P filesharing of his work and even sending individual tracks to DJs and remixers so they could create new versions of his songs. This resulted in club play airplay an indie record deal a publishing deal and worldwide press attention. Songs by The GMan have been called Moby meets Bowie by producer Pete Anderson Moby meets Devo by TV producer Paul Rich and The rhythm of machines with melodies of the heart by music writer Janis Amy. Released by Delvian Records The GMan’s albums are GRIN GROOVE 2002 ELECTRO BOP 2003 and PLATINUM AGE OF THE REMIX 2004 and each has been hailed as a sonic masterpiece by reviewers. A fourth album SONIC TONIC is completed and currently being mastered for release in 2005. The REMIX album features GMan songs in dancetrance mixes by Matt Forger who has worked with Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney and features tracks that reached 1 in Russia and 5 in Europe. PLATINUM AGE is now in its third month in the top forty on the Masspool DJ Association DanceCrossover Chart. Scott is a member of The Recording Academy NARAS a creative director of the National Association of Record Industry Professionals NARIP and writes about music for many organizations including MusicDish. com and the Immedia Wire Service. The GMan’s songs are on iTunes and Amazon. com as well as at the following siteshttpwww. delvianrecords. comhtmlthe_gman. htmlhttpwww. digipie. comdigipiedefault. aspArtistID239httpwww. 96decibels. commusic. aspartist1339httpwww. 96decibels. commusic. aspartist1340httpwww. myspace. comthegmanGMan’s music and commercial production work for clients such as PayLess Shoes Warner Bros. Records and more may be played athttpwww. gmanmusic. com I love working with clients like Goodrich and Verizon Wireless G stated. They want material that catches your ear without distracting from the spoken message yet they desire the music to be inherently valuable in its own right. The GMan’s music is on lots of commercials but you often wouldn’t know it because I work in many different styles G states. The tracks on my albums are electronicpop but my commercial music is in pop rock jazz electronic hiphop alternative or ambient. Whatever the project needs is what I compose and that’s the challenge. GMan Music created a polka last month something that is about as far removed from The GMan’s electropop or dancerave songs as you can get. As I said when it comes to music for commercials I compose whatever it takesContactBrian ForestImmedia Wire Serviceimmediapacbell. net8182238486Scott GGMan Music amp Radical Radiohttpwww. gmanmusic. com8182238486