DL MUSIC
A full service Music Publishing,
Licensing, and Creative Services Company.
We provide advanced music licensing solutions and creative services for music supervisors, creative directors and entertainment industry professionals working in the worldwide Television, Film, Advertising, Corporate, Gaming and Web-based Multimedia businesses.
We bring you incredible hand picked music by way of our personalized service and our global network of strategic partners.
Our online library provides you instant web based access to our Background Instrumental, Independent Artists and Song Catalog music.
We also offer you a customizable online project area workspace equipped with easy-to-use organizational and music management tools.
In addition to our music content we also provide extensive creative services including Original Music Production and Score, Award Winning Sound Design services, Music Supervision, Editorial and Coordination.
We at DL Music feature a dedicated team of professionals that is fully committed to providing the highest quality music and services to all of our clients.
Thank you for visiting our site and we look forward to the opportunity of working with you.
DL Music is truly Our music, your way.
Background Instrumental Music
- We produce an average of 1,500 new tracks per quarter based on client requests.
- You can request MORE MUSIC at DL Music!
- We welcome client music requests of general styles or genres and will typically provide new selections in a very timely manner. DL Music is supported by more than 480 composers worldwide that continually refresh our music content based on your needs. This is not to be confused with our original composition service which provides specifically commissioned music.
- Our Background Instrumental Music is available through DLM-Online or on our standalone Hard Drive system. New music is posted to DLM-Online continually and is released quarterly to our stand alone Hard Drive systems.
Indie Artists
- Through DLM-Online you have access to license some of the highest quality songs by Independent Artists available today.
- DL Music's Indie Artist Catalog has over 1,100 fresh songs from Billboard's most listened to musical categories including Pop, Dance, Alternative, Hip Hop, Rock, Country and more.
- Our Indie Artist music is pre-cleared for worldwide usage, in perpetuity, in all media and is available for licensing on a per song and per use basis through DLM-Online or by contacting your DL Music representative.
Artist Select & Specialty Catalogs
- License popular songs and signed artists' music with our Easy Clear licensing system.
- We currently offer many tracks from hit recording Artists and newly signed bands controlled by our song catalog partners.
- License fees and terms are provided on a per song and per usage basis through DLM-Online or by contacting your DL Music representative. Artist Select and Specialty Catalog music is not available on our stand-alone Hard Drive system.
Derek D. Luff
C.E.O. - Derek Luff Music, Inc. (DL Music) / President - Wild Woods, Inc.
Mr. Luff, born in 1962, is originally from Boston, Massachusetts where he began a music career as a singer/songwriter at age 13 recording his material at Noel Paul Stooky's (of Peter, Paul & Mary) studio in Maine, USA.
After several years of writing and performing, Mr. Luff was accepted into Berklee College of Music and majored in arranging and audio production engineering.
In 1982 Mr. Luff became an assistant post audio engineer at Cinema Graphics / Video One, a major film and television production and post production facility located in Boston, Massachusetts. After one year of engineering, Mr. Luff was promoted to music director/composer producing and scoring original music soundtracks for national television commercials and programs.
Mr. Luff moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and continued to independently produce and compose music for television and film until May of 1988, when Mr. Luff founded Audio Visual Concepts (now known as Wild Woods, Inc.), a creative audio post production facility.
In January of 1990, Mr. Luff founded the original music service and music publishing company Derek Luff Music, Inc.
Mr. Luff has over 30 years of music composition and production experience and more than 25 years in the field of audio post production and facility and corporate management.
Mr. Luff's principal responsibilities are client relations and creative management. His extensive, long standing entertainment industry relationships and his strategic involvement has made DL Music and Wild Woods industry leaders. Mr. Luff has earned recognition in the post production sound field earning (4) Prime-Time Emmy nominations and (1) Prime-Time Emmy award.
Richard Gelles
President - Derek Luff Music, Inc. (DL Music) / Senior Vice President - Wild Woods, Inc.
Mr. Gelles was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. He received a dual Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Law and Public Policy from Syracuse University.
In 1983, Mr. Gelles moved to Los Angeles, California where he attended Southwestern University School of Law and received his Juris Doctor Degree in 1986.
From 1987 through 1990, Mr. Gelles served as legal counsel for a conglomerate of corporations in Southern California.
In 1990, Mr. Gelles joined the law firm of Codikow & Carroll, P.C. (Offices in Los Angeles and New York) and served as legal counsel for the firm's entertainment and corporate clients. Codikow & Carroll, P.C. specializes in music industry clientele, which include numerous Grammy Award winning artists and producers, as well as music publishing companies, record companies, personal management and business management companies and music industry executives.
In 1995, Mr. Gelles opened the Law Offices of Richard Gelles, which continues to service music industry and corporate clients, and counsels domestic and foreign clientele including individuals, corporations and trusts in the fields of entertainment and international finance.
Long term associates Mr. Luff and Mr. Gelles combined their knowledge and expertise in 1994 to expand both Wild Woods, Inc. and DL Music.
Mr. Gelles currently serves as President and Chief Financial Officer of DL Music and the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Wild Woods, Inc.