its probably because he releases almost everything he writes. If I released everything I wrote, I'd have a catalogue of roughly 5,000 individual beats and songs. and thats just since I started like TRULY making decent shit. I've been producing since like.. 2010 and only in 2015 did i really start to figure things out, and in 2018 is when I started to get good. I usually spend an hour or two on a track. and some of us producers just.... straight up dont get writers block, or when we do we have methods of getting out of it. You'd be ASTONISHED at just how BIG some artist's TRUE, ENTIRE catalogues are.
It's funny but also mindblowing how Kevin was probably just thinking "Haha, this is kinda fun" without ever knowing his works would mark millions, if not billions, of lives later on.
A few months back I wanted to find a track I heard in a creepypasta. Music was listed as Kevin Macleod and Myuu and it wasn't a Myuu track so I went on spotify and search Kevin up. Only then did I realise that the track I wanted was a drop in the sea of royalty free music. I listened to his most popular tracks and recognised everyone. I looked in his discography and found more albums than I could look through. I asked on some forums and noone had an answer. Thank you so much for putting Andreas Theme into this video, I can finally sleep at night.
sneaky snitch incites goofiness. I was painting a floor with a friend earlier today and we put it on and proceeded to have some of the wackiest hijinx known to man. Shoutouts kevin for perpetuating said whimsy.
amazing video as always. it's great to see Kevin Macleod get even more recognition; he deserves it. also, can i say how much i love your video production style? the little sounds and visual effects get my nostalgia flowing like nothing else, especially since quite a few of them were sounds i grew up with (old Windows sounds, PACER test, etc).
I literally thought the other day, like 3 or 4 days ago, why we still don't have any many videos on this very specific guy Always nice to see your content man
man I remember when I first tried making my own videos and machinimas and went looking for music, I accidentally found Incompetech and it was like opening a treasure chest of the most memorable songs all my favorite UA-camrs used. Ended up using them religiously for quite a while LOL
Kevin was apart of alot of our childhoods. Even if he doesn't realize it, his music shaped alot of memories we had and brings alot of smiles to us even now. Great Vid KRB Been watching your vids for a while now. Happy to see how far you've come and that u got a sponsor man. Look forward to the next vid
3:37 lol no that is the description of trademark copyright is if the other person tries to use it your work, doesn't matter who they said used it I think its kinda understood, but it is a somewhat important distinction especially in a video about that sorta thing
Genuinely shocked to hear someone pronounce his name correctly, the number of UA-camrs who make serious long-form essays that unironically call him Kevin Mack-lee-odd makes me think that basic research is still a low priority for most.
Can we just appreciate the besutiful tags in the “recent tags” at 10:57 My favorite are “anal” “hentai” “naked” “Bollywood” “Korn” and “Oblivion”. If that wasn’t my teenage years, summed up into a few words, I don’t know what is!
11:31 Oh my god. I have been looking for that Rolphing video for literally years Thanks so much, you would not believe how hard it is to find if you forget the name. "Vomiting words" is a difficult search term lmao
Did you really think I would be excited to hear that I am now going to have to sit through commercials? Haha, Congratulations and thanks for your work(and, of course, Kevin's)
There is one man that has zero background info on the internet. All I know about him was that he made a few songs that would later be incorporated into the game "Roblox" His name is: Friedrich Kruntorad
When you got to the point where you're calling out track after track by name around 13:13..... why not just play the tracks? I'm pretty sure they're royalty free!
when the youtube copyright free library became a thing i tried to upload my music to it and uh... you can't. absolutely no shade intended towards mr macleod, but ive always pondered why he has a monopoly when theres plenty of us out there who use CC licenses
Random question, can I use his music in something I sell, I have a animated mini series and I want to make a DVD release of it and I use some of his music, some of it slightly edited, do I have to pay a special fee or can I just credit him and release it
As far as I know he answers this question on his website. As long as you are able to give PROPER credits, it's okay to use it. But if you make a lot of profit with it it would be just fair to buy the music (my opinion). I hate all those guys that use his music as it were nothing, just because Kevin give it to them for free.
@@randomizer1845 that's good to know, and I agree with you, I know if I were to make money off of a project that uses his music I'd pay for it, not in the bad way but the good way ya know
Something weird i found out is that most of the gorillaz album the fall isn't in the copyright database. i uploaded a video that was meant to be a visualizer for a song on the album (as i didn't have a music video) expecting it to be copyright claimed by gorillaz, but it wasn't. My channel isn't monetized, so i'm not making money off the video but neither are they. just an interesting finding
Bruh I’ll make music for your videos. I mainly make cloud rap in a similar style to artists in that genre. But I can make any kind of simple background tracks you need. Lofi hiphop, house, DNB, synthwave even lol.
I feel so sorry for all the people in the world who respect copyright :S I would never claim to have made something that i didn't but no one that publicly releases something can expect me to pay for using it, ESPECIALLY music.
It's wild that this is not a more popular video.. about this incredibly famous composer no one has ever heard of. Im thinking the title might be a little inside baseball. Creators are very familiar with what royalty free means, but are the genrral public? Kevin McLeod: the most famous musician you've never heard of Or something like that might be more attention grabbing
man its insane to think that theres a strong chance that unless something big happens his music and website will be used for generations potentially, considering how simple and well made they are so anyways, uhh, whats ur girth size?
Ive never heard a good reason for the right to use someone elses IP for ones own IP. I know creators hate copyright, and i know why, but its a very self serving reason.
I'll take the bait in the off chance that you're a troll (I don't think you are, but you never know). I think most people's gripe with copyright comes from corporations dragging out the lifetime of copyright protections. Beware, long winded internet screed ahead. Take the song "Happy Birthday to You" for example. It was still - debatably - under copyright as late as 2003, despite being registered in 1935 and credited to authors who either died in 1938 or 1946 (depending on what version of events you want to go with for the song's origin). It wasn't officially declared public domain until 2016, when the Warner label - who had originally declared that it was under their exclusive rights until 2030 - settled a lawsuit appeal in which they were trying to sue a party for using the music. As a non-musical example, Steamboat Willie will be under copyright until January 1, 2024. Walt Disney has been dead since 1966. Wilfred Jackson, one of the film's musicians, died in 1988 - 35 years ago - and as far as I can tell is the most recent living person associated with the film. Disney's daughter Diane, who wasn't even alive when Steamboat Willie released - died in 2013, and she was the most long-lived of his two children. No one associated with the making of these pieces of media, even tangentially, are still alive and haven't been for a long time. But, people were very recently or still are making money off it and vigorously defending it from being used elsewhere by artists wanting to riff on it. I don't even think people are offended by the amount of money being made off of those, because I can't imagine it was all that much. It's that people who had zero creative input in it are preventing others from accessing it. It's this sort of thing that most people get mad about. A good faith argument can be made about authors of work who are still alive. Should someone in their seventies, or their family, continue making money off of something they made in their twenties? I don't necessarily think so, but a reasonable person could say, "lifetime IP rights should exist," or "direct family should benefit for life," and I wouldn't argue with them that much. But stuff like what I outlined above are monstrosities of legal abuse. There are other things out there, too, especially if you want to branch out to other areas like patent abuse, that are just as gross. I'm open to hearing why things like this should be perpetually locked down, but I'm not seeing it.
ah yea i get u, I think the main concern is that a lot of people dont really know where to start w composition or find it too time-consuming, so having easy-to-access and safe-to-use music is a great way for amateur video makers to get started
his rendition of gymnopeide #1 [?v=YlTQSg4so8k] in particular gets me every time i hear it because it's used in the cube escape series - i don't remember what part of which game specifically, but every time i hear it i half expect blood and cubes and the past is never dead, it is not even past
Kevin Macleod made so many tracks it's mind-blowing.
One could say he has a many-track mind
its probably because he releases almost everything he writes. If I released everything I wrote, I'd have a catalogue of roughly 5,000 individual beats and songs. and thats just since I started like TRULY making decent shit. I've been producing since like.. 2010 and only in 2015 did i really start to figure things out, and in 2018 is when I started to get good.
I usually spend an hour or two on a track. and some of us producers just.... straight up dont get writers block, or when we do we have methods of getting out of it.
You'd be ASTONISHED at just how BIG some artist's TRUE, ENTIRE catalogues are.
@@thesixfootsixexperience8781 i see the effort and I see the intent, buuuut the joke just straight up did not land.
*New Friendly is the best* (Not kidding)
And pretty much all are royalty-free
Wikipedia says Kevin may be the most listened to composer ever and I believe it tbh
people KNOW Koji Kondo's. i'm incline to believe more people (if not a similar amount) have HEARD Kevin Macleod's
Second only to Tommy Telerico. His mom is very proud.
@@warlarksam6130Tommy who?
@@SoziFang64 don't you dare disrespect him. don't you know he has 7 guiness world records? his mother is very proud.
@@zack_420 I really don't know who that guy is though
It's funny but also mindblowing how Kevin was probably just thinking "Haha, this is kinda fun" without ever knowing his works would mark millions, if not billions, of lives later on.
"No strings attached."
One string attached, just give the man his credit.
Out of all the people that have shaped the electronic world only one decided to give it a sound.
Thank you Kevin 😁
Many artists may make claims to greatness, but even when not in the spotlight macleod stands above them all.
A few months back I wanted to find a track I heard in a creepypasta. Music was listed as Kevin Macleod and Myuu and it wasn't a Myuu track so I went on spotify and search Kevin up. Only then did I realise that the track I wanted was a drop in the sea of royalty free music. I listened to his most popular tracks and recognised everyone. I looked in his discography and found more albums than I could look through. I asked on some forums and noone had an answer.
Thank you so much for putting Andreas Theme into this video, I can finally sleep at night.
Lonely Broadcast Station, right?
@@AzureDeathHaseo you sir have good taste in creepypastas
@@jellyfisch4238 As do you, sir.
But seriously, that creepypasta is awesome, there's a "fake nostalgia" feel to it
turritopsis nutricula
@@WoolyCow You're not wrong there
Odd choice not to feature audio samples of the tracks being discussed, as it's one of the few times you'd be able to do such a thing.
bum da da da bum bummmm da da
maybe just to demonstrate the householdness and unusual recognizability of the tracks just by the name itself
this man should be publicly honoured
Bro single handedly created the soundtrack for the internet 😭
anybody else notice the pacer test go faster noise in there
I wish we could go back to his music appearing
sneaky snitch incites goofiness. I was painting a floor with a friend earlier today and we put it on and proceeded to have some of the wackiest hijinx known to man. Shoutouts kevin for perpetuating said whimsy.
Splatoon?
“Perpetuating such whimsy”, I enjoy such evocative wordplay. You earned a like
painting a floor = brutally (in a silly way) murdering and getting blood everywhere????
Perpetuating whimsy 24/7/365
I support Kevin Macleod on Patreon and have used his tracks in my videos since 2007 or so.
amazing video as always. it's great to see Kevin Macleod get even more recognition; he deserves it.
also, can i say how much i love your video production style? the little sounds and visual effects get my nostalgia flowing like nothing else, especially since quite a few of them were sounds i grew up with (old Windows sounds, PACER test, etc).
I love Kevin MacLeod's music. He's passionate and he gives most of it away. True hero. Long live the dancing mouse.
I literally thought the other day, like 3 or 4 days ago, why we still don't have any many videos on this very specific guy
Always nice to see your content man
The ABSOLUTE GOAT!
man I remember when I first tried making my own videos and machinimas and went looking for music, I accidentally found Incompetech and it was like opening a treasure chest of the most memorable songs all my favorite UA-camrs used. Ended up using them religiously for quite a while LOL
Kevin was apart of alot of our childhoods. Even if he doesn't realize it, his music shaped alot of memories we had and brings alot of smiles to us even now. Great Vid KRB Been watching your vids for a while now. Happy to see how far you've come and that u got a sponsor man. Look forward to the next vid
10:11 Boy, am I a statistical outlier here… 🤓 And happy to be so. Your work is excellent. Subscribed.
Thanks for doing this. You see Kevin's name in video and podcast descriptions absolutely everywhere. It's nice to hear his story.
It's crazy how underrated you are.
I really like that you put a short space between the end of the ad and the start of the video, it helps when skipping on mobile
3:37 lol no that is the description of trademark
copyright is if the other person tries to use it your work, doesn't matter who they said used it
I think its kinda understood, but it is a somewhat important distinction especially in a video about that sorta thing
Glad to see you’re posting again. I like your stuff, Cap
I first heard of Kevin Macleod on Chad Vader. The oddest place I've heard his music was in the audio book for Kizumonogatari.
Genuinely shocked to hear someone pronounce his name correctly, the number of UA-camrs who make serious long-form essays that unironically call him Kevin Mack-lee-odd makes me think that basic research is still a low priority for most.
you're super underrated bro keep it up!
Only a few weeks ago I found out that some of my childhood songs were from Kevin Macleod
Can we just appreciate the besutiful tags in the “recent tags” at 10:57
My favorite are “anal” “hentai” “naked” “Bollywood” “Korn” and “Oblivion”.
If that wasn’t my teenage years, summed up into a few words, I don’t know what is!
what the hell right lol
i never watch the ad part of videos but watched yours because you added a counter so who wanna skip know where to skip, thanks for your honesty.
I love it when someone teaches me something.
this video would be a lot more fun if u included examples of the iconic tracks
11:31 Oh my god.
I have been looking for that Rolphing video for literally years
Thanks so much, you would not believe how hard it is to find if you forget the name. "Vomiting words" is a difficult search term lmao
Wait! You're only 19?
Jeez, I'm older than you and I already feel like I've wasted my entire life...
Side note: Oddly specific, but keygen tunes [and chiptunes in general] can usually be good (if not great!) background music without copyright
i love piracy🔥🔥
@@lakelakelakelakelake - nah i'm not there for that aspect, i'm just there for the tunes
@@-throat- true
thank you for the sponsorship segment timer
was a weird choice to mention so many tracks by name, but not to include them briefly in the audio
CAPTAIN KRB WITH A SPONSOR!!!! CAPTAIN GETTTING THE BAG!!
dude your videos are amazing man!!!!!!!!
Did you really think I would be excited to hear that I am now going to have to sit through commercials?
Haha, Congratulations and thanks for your work(and, of course, Kevin's)
New sub. This is high art man. Keep it up and enjoy yourself
There is one man that has zero background info on the internet.
All I know about him was that he made a few songs that would later be incorporated into the game "Roblox"
His name is: Friedrich Kruntorad
congrats on the sponsor!
When you got to the point where you're calling out track after track by name around 13:13..... why not just play the tracks? I'm pretty sure they're royalty free!
If you have ever listened to a spooky podcast, you have probably heard "Lightless Dawn".
Nice vid big mans 👍
Kevin McCloud is THE MAN! I think I've used some of his tracks to create bumpers for a couple different UA-camrs...all with attribution.
LET'S GOOO
Satiate and Controlled Chaos are a vibe and a half
I hate copyright.
I ate copyright
I nine copyright
Captain KRB the type of guy to upload high quality while getting less than 10k views a video
Love that man
gotta love how the track list for this video is purely comprised of kevin mcleod songs
Kevin Macleod is the real G
For a few years I thought that emotion from black and white was a Kevin macleod
Letttss goo new vid
when the youtube copyright free library became a thing i tried to upload my music to it and uh... you can't. absolutely no shade intended towards mr macleod, but ive always pondered why he has a monopoly when theres plenty of us out there who use CC licenses
He gave me hope that one day my own songs will be used!
Royalty Free Music Is The Best Invention Made By Man Kind.
kevin macloed and jake chudnow [made a lot of music for/used by vsauce], absolute legends of the youtube audiosphere
What a cool guy.
The Power of Free.
Great vid
Random question, can I use his music in something I sell, I have a animated mini series and I want to make a DVD release of it and I use some of his music, some of it slightly edited, do I have to pay a special fee or can I just credit him and release it
I don’t see why not. If his music is in monetized UA-cam videos, it would be hypocritical to deny any use where profit is motive.
As far as I know he answers this question on his website. As long as you are able to give PROPER credits, it's okay to use it. But if you make a lot of profit with it it would be just fair to buy the music (my opinion). I hate all those guys that use his music as it were nothing, just because Kevin give it to them for free.
@@randomizer1845 that's good to know, and I agree with you, I know if I were to make money off of a project that uses his music I'd pay for it, not in the bad way but the good way ya know
Image of LA Beast vomiting is forever tied to Kevin's music for me
Wait, did I see season 2?
Yooooo
Maybe the real VanossGaming was the Gmod Prop Hunt Funny Moments we made along the way
I remember bumping ice flow by KM on my brand new Corsair SP2500 speakers thinking I was so badass.
amazing video
"King of Royalty-Free"
I'd love to see a video like this about TeknoAxe, assuming such a video would be interesting.
Until now I thought Sneaky Weasel was some classical arraignment, like it somehow came from a Tex Avery cartoon way back when
CAN WE GET UA-camRS TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY LIKE MACLEOD APPRECIATION DAY TY
It's been a weird experience seeing the rise of UA-cam as a millennial who was on the internet way before UA-cam was around
You should have mentioned object shows they are the ones that only use it unless they make their own music
Yeah, New Friendly has become the BY DEFAULT Kevin Macleod song to represent the OSC.
Something weird i found out is that most of the gorillaz album the fall isn't in the copyright database. i uploaded a video that was meant to be a visualizer for a song on the album (as i didn't have a music video) expecting it to be copyright claimed by gorillaz, but it wasn't. My channel isn't monetized, so i'm not making money off the video but neither are they. just an interesting finding
Humble af and still made goated music heard by anyone, nice vid tho i hate when ppl give examples and just use english ones, Kevin is king worldwide.
sometimes i b sneaky snitch and sometimes i be ICE DEMON
Skip da ad 3:10
How do your videos only have 3k views?!
Even Commodore 64 music gets flagged as copyrighted as some completely other song.
Bruh I’ll make music for your videos. I mainly make cloud rap in a similar style to artists in that genre. But I can make any kind of simple background tracks you need. Lofi hiphop, house, DNB, synthwave even lol.
Most based composer to ever exist
I know he chose to give away his music for free but I hope he made good money from it somehow. Generosity like this should be rewarded.
He has a patreon!
i always pronounced it as kevin mac lee ode
....shinema?
Thank you for the timer on your sponsor. I didn’t want to watch it. Love ur vids tho
I feel so sorry for all the people in the world who respect copyright :S
I would never claim to have made something that i didn't but no one that publicly releases something can expect me to pay for using it, ESPECIALLY music.
If everyone was like you no one would ever share anything
It's wild that this is not a more popular video.. about this incredibly famous composer no one has ever heard of. Im thinking the title might be a little inside baseball. Creators are very familiar with what royalty free means, but are the genrral public?
Kevin McLeod: the most famous musician you've never heard of
Or something like that might be more attention grabbing
tip : make your own music
man its insane to think that theres a strong chance that unless something big happens his music and website will be used for generations potentially, considering how simple and well made they are
so anyways, uhh, whats ur girth size?
I thought it was pronounced Maclee-ode
...I've been mispronouncing Macleod for a decade.
Ive never heard a good reason for the right to use someone elses IP for ones own IP. I know creators hate copyright, and i know why, but its a very self serving reason.
I'll take the bait in the off chance that you're a troll (I don't think you are, but you never know). I think most people's gripe with copyright comes from corporations dragging out the lifetime of copyright protections. Beware, long winded internet screed ahead.
Take the song "Happy Birthday to You" for example. It was still - debatably - under copyright as late as 2003, despite being registered in 1935 and credited to authors who either died in 1938 or 1946 (depending on what version of events you want to go with for the song's origin). It wasn't officially declared public domain until 2016, when the Warner label - who had originally declared that it was under their exclusive rights until 2030 - settled a lawsuit appeal in which they were trying to sue a party for using the music.
As a non-musical example, Steamboat Willie will be under copyright until January 1, 2024. Walt Disney has been dead since 1966. Wilfred Jackson, one of the film's musicians, died in 1988 - 35 years ago - and as far as I can tell is the most recent living person associated with the film. Disney's daughter Diane, who wasn't even alive when Steamboat Willie released - died in 2013, and she was the most long-lived of his two children.
No one associated with the making of these pieces of media, even tangentially, are still alive and haven't been for a long time. But, people were very recently or still are making money off it and vigorously defending it from being used elsewhere by artists wanting to riff on it. I don't even think people are offended by the amount of money being made off of those, because I can't imagine it was all that much. It's that people who had zero creative input in it are preventing others from accessing it. It's this sort of thing that most people get mad about.
A good faith argument can be made about authors of work who are still alive. Should someone in their seventies, or their family, continue making money off of something they made in their twenties? I don't necessarily think so, but a reasonable person could say, "lifetime IP rights should exist," or "direct family should benefit for life," and I wouldn't argue with them that much. But stuff like what I outlined above are monstrosities of legal abuse. There are other things out there, too, especially if you want to branch out to other areas like patent abuse, that are just as gross. I'm open to hearing why things like this should be perpetually locked down, but I'm not seeing it.
make your own music lol
i do
also btw i didnt mean it as a rude thing i meant it as like "making music is fun, and you dont have to struggle with copyright"
ah yea i get u, I think the main concern is that a lot of people dont really know where to start w composition or find it too time-consuming, so having easy-to-access and safe-to-use music is a great way for amateur video makers to get started
@@CaptainKRB i mean yeah, i guess. it takes some practice, but you dont have to read notes or anything crazy
first or something idfk
Damn, second I guess.
@@lanceuppercut8220 gee willikers. third i dare contemplate.
@@SlushFiend Do it, everyone post their view place below!
I would be 1,635th, then.
his rendition of gymnopeide #1 [?v=YlTQSg4so8k] in particular gets me every time i hear it because it's used in the cube escape series - i don't remember what part of which game specifically, but every time i hear it i half expect blood and cubes and the past is never dead, it is not even past
Spellbound Secureteam10 just love it
Or... You know.. Make your own tracks for your stuff... like me. :>