De Wolfe Music Limited

De Wolfe Music Ltd is home of one of the largest collections of production music in the world. Housing multiple collections covering all production music needs, de Wolfe Music is a collection of over 70,000 tracks and contains a back catalogue spanning 50 years from contemporary tunes through to the Jazz and Classical eras.


Meyer De Wolfe

The company continuity and success comes from a family who have mastered their industry for nearly 100 years. From the humble beginnings of 1909, De Wolfe Music was founded by the highly respected and iconic figure, Meyer De Wolfe, who began his career as a Music Director within the film industry. Born in Holland in 1887, Meyer came to England at the turn of the century to join the orchestra of the Duke of Devonshire, as well as conducting the scores of countless silent films including Charlie Chaplin, D.W Griffith and Mary Pickford. He soon became Music Director and Conductor of the Rank Organisation, the North Metropolitan Theatres and the Electric Pavilions, having 400 orchestras under his control in which he selected music from a classical repertoire.

In 1927, with the advent of talkies, it was possible to synchronise and record music onto film and thus, the first production library of recorded music was born. In its infancy, de Wolfe recorded music for the cinema onto 35mm Nitrate Film. From this were gramophone recordings cut from wax with a mother and master that were produced from shellac and played at 78rpm. Into the fifties came the magnetic tape and the beloved vinyl followed playing at 78 and 33rpm through to the CD’s and download facilities available today.


Today's De Wolfe

Mr James de Wolfe has carried on the family legacy and is the current Chairman of the company with his son Warren de Wolfe serving as the Managing Director. As a hands on firm, Rosalind de Wolfe runs the contemporary Rouge collection and Janine de Wolfe runs the prolific Sounds Effects Department. Fused with a creative production crew, a thriving and enthusiastic marketing team and experienced music consultants, de Wolfe continues to providing the best in production music and providing clients with specially composed music and a download service.


Angel Recording Studios

De Wolfe also own the prestigious Angel Recording Studios in Islington, which in 2005 won the accolade of the best recording studios in the world. The studios serve the biggest names in commercial music that use the facility for their work.


The De Wolfe Library

From Hip Hop – Jazz, Classical – Rock, Corporate – World Music, de Wolfe houses all styles of music. Unlike many, de Wolfe Music comes with a personal touch having been in the business since 1909. Dewolfe provide music for every application from feature films to television commercials and from video games to web applications. Recent hits include placing music in multi-award winning Brokeback Mountain and the Gorillaz Album, Demon Days. Clients such as the undisputed kings of hip hop, Jay Z, Fat Joe, Nas and Ja Rule have sampled de Wolfe for their releases. De Wolfe have also placed tracks into shows such as Funkmaster Flex’ Riding and Style by Kimora Lee Simmons, featuring artists such as De La Soul, Kurious and Vic. De Wolfe are also committed to providing a vast library of Classical Music and have the exquisite harmonies of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at hand.

DeWolfe Music has and continues to work with the many of the industry's most prestigious and respected clients including BBC, Channel 4, Sky, ITV, Viasat, Playboy, IBM, ESPN, MTV, National Geographic, VH1, Anheuser-Busch, Nissan/Lexus, the Food Network, HGTV, Univision, Disneyland, Burger King, Mastercard, Sony, The In Laws, Coca Cola, AMEX, Cingular, Exxon-Mobil, America's Most Wanted, Telemundo, Inside Edition, VISA, Saturday Night Live, Dateline, Discovery, Dreamworks, History Channel, A&E, E!, Late Late Show, McDonalds, Sopranos, Disney, and Waterboy.

In Advertising, De Wolfe's music is featured on array of ads from Natwest since 2001,VW Golf, Walkers Crisps, Gibbs SR Toothpaste Commercial, Grolsch, McDonalds, and Boddingtons, Burger King, Levi's, Nestle - After Eight to name only a few.