Discontinued 5 Alarm Libraries

[Pigman]

Hey everyone. Recently, I've been looking at mid-late 2000's Cartoon Network USA content and finding music from there. Right now, I would describe it as both easy and difficult. Easy because of services such as AHA and audfprint, but hard because of the vast number of libraries that were in use (Extreme, APM, Killer Tracks/Firstcom, Non-Stop, Audio Network, Megatrax, VideoHelper, De Wolfe, AirCraft, Telepictures, WCPM, etc.), and not everything can easily be picked up by an online identifier. One library that stood out as the most difficult to reverse search was 5 Alarm Music. This distributor has a highly inconsistent history of libraries that makes searching for music more complicated. I looked at the archived site circa 2007 and picked out the listed libraries that were no longer part of the service and their current whereabouts:

Amplitude (unknown)
Blazed Out Music (on current music)
Claire Music (on Nichion)
Dasca (unknown)
Drone Zone (unknown)
Epervier (unknown)
Focus (on UPPM)
Hibou (has its own site)
Jukebox FKA eMu (unknown)
Justement (on APM)
Mondiophone (semi-archived by Kosinus)
Music For Sport (has its own site)
Off the Shelf Music (...SoundCloud?)
OnLine Production Music (now known as 9 Lives Music on WCPM, probably not fully archived)
Parry Music Library (on BMGPM)
Parry Music Classical (on BMGPM)
Pierjenn (unknown)
Pixon (unknown)
Point 12 (unknown)
Primrose (on APM)
Primrose Classical (on APM)
Soundtrax (on NICHION)
Studio G (on upright media)
Tone Row Music (unknown)

If anyone knows anything about the libraries labeled 'unknown,' please let me know. Thanks in advance!

-Pigman

[LibraryGuy78]

It seems that Jukebox/eMu has been semi(?)-archived by SOHO, as looking at the library tracks used in the FitnessGram PACER Test (all sourced from 5Alarm) 2 tracks from eMu attributed to Chris Goulstone are listed, and if you go to the description of the YouTube uploads of the PACER Test, 2 tracks in the "music in this video" section come from SOHO, attributed to a Pete Stanford, i looked in the UK Aliases in Library page, and it turns out that Pete Stanford is an alias of Goulstone. I'm not sure how many eMu tracks are archived by SOHO though.

Also, the first 30 Justement Music CDs aren't on APM's site (or any other site that has the label)

[DoctorDoodle19]

Haha, is it sad that the music from the PACER test is the only reason I know this library's name..? 😆

[Walk the Skies 202]

Although I don't have anything to add regarding the various labels they no longer represent, visiting their archived labels list led me to a supposed label with a site entry of its own, Rescue Records.

hxxps://web.archive.org/web/20121002023356/http://www.5alarmmusic.com/about-2

From its description, Rescue Records seems to have been 5 Alarm's own label catered to and hosting indie artists. While I don't know if it had its own catalog of searchable material or whether it used full albums or individual submitted tracks, but its seems to have been where The Office got a small few indie tracks, including:
- Climb Onboard the Train by Steven Jeffries, Lenny Zakatek, and George McFarlane (from Café Disco)
- Take Me by Cierra Montgomery, Shaneima Montgomery, and Lorenzo Pryor (from Café Disco)
- I Want Some of That by Forrest Bibbee (from Happy Hour)
- For You by Mark Miller (from Finale)

The latter three all have Engine Co 35 or 30 in their GEMA entries, which indicates 5 Alarm publishing, but looking again the entry for "Climb Onboard the Train" specifically mentions Rescue Music UK Limited, which seems to confirm this is where the series' sound team got those tracks from.

Whether they're still available in any capacity (outside of Climb Onboard the Train, which has been posted to YouTube before) I've yet to determine.

[Pigman]

Although I don't have anything to add regarding the various labels they no longer represent, visiting their archived labels list led me to a supposed label with a site entry of its own, Rescue Records.

hxxps://web.archive.org/web/20121002023356/http://www.5alarmmusic.com/about-2

From its description, Rescue Records seems to have been 5 Alarm's own label catered to and hosting indie artists. While I don't know if it had its own catalog of searchable material or whether it used full albums or individual submitted tracks, but its seems to have been where The Office got a small few indie tracks, including:
- Climb Onboard the Train by Steven Jeffries, Lenny Zakatek, and George McFarlane (from Café Disco)
- Take Me by Cierra Montgomery, Shaneima Montgomery, and Lorenzo Pryor (from Café Disco)
- I Want Some of That by Forrest Bibbee (from Happy Hour)
- For You by Mark Miller (from Finale)

The latter three all have Engine Co 35 or 30 in their GEMA entries, which indicates 5 Alarm publishing, but looking again the entry for "Climb Onboard the Train" specifically mentions Rescue Music UK Limited, which seems to confirm this is where the series' sound team got those tracks from.

Whether they're still available in any capacity (outside of Climb Onboard the Train, which has been posted to YouTube before) I've yet to determine.

Here it is: hxxps://my.jinglepunks.com/artists/129885

[Walk the Skies 202]

Here it is: hxxps://my.jinglepunks.com/artists/129885

Didn't know this label had a Jingle Punks artist page, thanks for this!

Searching for relevant terms it seems that only "For You" is available on the page, although there are previous uploads of "Climb Onboard the Train" out there, which only leaves "Take Me" and "I Want Some of That" unaccounted for. ("I Want Some of That" was also released instrumentally as "Fried Chicken" attributed to The Bendegos, of which Forrest Bibbee was a part of.)