Mission Statement
About Max Vasquez
Credits
Maxx Vaxx Music Publishing (BMI), started in 1996, is a publishing company dedicated to serving the needs of writers and providing the Film/ TV/ and New Media industries with high quality music at a fast pace through online licensing services. Maxx Vaxx Music represents composers in a variety of ways including rights administration, song placement and securing license quotes. Maxx Vaxx is also in the business of acquiring diverse material onto our licensing catalog for the many requests of varied nature.
Maxx Vaxx Music BMI (MVMBMI) is an emerging music publishing house offering the music and media industries, in an innovative format, a completely self-contained company capable of providing high professional grade compositions for media professionals in any part of the world. MVMBMI is currently in talks with several writers from Asia and Latin America and the UK in order to provide a fully international product.
Marcos Vasquez, owner and head administrator / composer / producer / musician of MVMBMI has thirty years of experience in the music industry, working with several music professionals on a variety of skill levels. He has been active in the industry as a producer, songwriter, studio musician, sound engineer, and music consultant. A gifted artist Vasquez has, in the short time that MVMBMI has been in existence been able to place his compositions with other music publishers into movies, sports shows, commercials, and major network television.
MVMBMI offers a high quality product for any budget and any media channel in a way that allows the client to select pieces that they need rather than be bombarded by product like traditional music publishing houses. Through expansion and recognition of the quality that MVMBMI provides to its clients, this company will surely flourish into an established music publishing company and licensing resource.
A composer since 1978, Max Vasquez embraces all styles of music with a keen instinct for the nuances of each genre he excels in. At the age of nine, he performed with choirs, in musicals and plays, taught himself how to read and write music by the time he was 13. Legendary giant Doc Severinsen was amazed and encouraged him to pursue music: upon having looked over Max's first orchestral jazz arrangement for Jazz orchestra, it astounded him that Max was only sixteen when he wrote it! By age 14 he worked professionally playing trumpet in horn sections of bands all over L.A. and bass with members of punk band Verbal Abuse, whom Rodney Bingenheimer loved He also played with Black Flag members Sam and Henry and met and hung out with The Doors’ Ray Manzarek and John Doe of X and others at the Whiskey Agogo. He is somewhere in the mosh pit shots from Penelope Spheeris' "Fall and Decline of Western Civilization-The Punk Years". In 1984, Swedish Eagol played his demo tape on KROQ when it was easier to give cool DJs your band's tape without needing to sign a mile of legal stuff! With further training from some of the leading jazz educators/studio-men in Los Angeles, Max went on to play and study with Gary Foster, Clare Fischer, Alan Broadbent, Bobby Bradford, Freddie Hubbard, and even wrote for the Count Basie Orchestra! Dick Grove School of Music and Berklee College of Music taught him the art of writing/arranging and recording engineering and publishing/legal aspects of the music industry, respectfully, and Max and his colleagues were among the first pioneers in MIDI and Electronic music.
In the 1990s, Max partnered with Treavor Walton, and formed Euterpe, which had their first release on Priority Records’, and performed at the big Raves of that time. Shortly after, he joined Bassland and formed lasting relationships with Q (Uberzone) and many other Electronica artists and DJs. Among them, Tim White became his protégé and in 2005 formed The Magnus Project together. Their first CD "Vintage Vibrations" is out on iTunes, Napster, beatport and other download distribution sites.
As a "Rave" performer and promoter he played to tens of thousands at a time in huge Dance events such as Narnia and We Are One, Burning Man and was involved with a collective called Moontribe. This group was famous for producing full moon desert raves in the Mojave Desert every month for twelve straight years! He also recorded, performed with and mentored Carl A. Craig, Treavor Walton, Bassland and several gifted others, as he feels it is important to pass the torch to other dedicated young artists.
Max formed Maxx Vaxx Music Publishing (BMI) in ’96. Max says, "Although performing has always been fun and a great way to connect with my fans and new listeners, composing will always be my first love". The last few years find Max in the studio producing new projects for Jimmy Street and Jeff Stetson and new solo ventures. In 2006, Max has begun to resurface as a live player, first in South East Asia, then the U.S.
As event producer Max had success with Moontribe events, "Area 51", "Beauty All Around", an Art Rave featuring over 400 artists and sculptors (including Gronk and Al Herion). Repeat performances at the legendary "Magic Wednesdays" weekly club in Hollywood, and other venues including his own after hours on Hollywood & Vine.
A master producer, Mr. Vasquez is skilled in ProTools, CuBase, Wavelab, Nuendo, Reason, and many others as well as running the boards and playing his heart out on trumpet, keyboards,guitar, voice and more!.
As a distributor he helped gain exposure for record labels representing The Crystal Method, Electric Skychurch, Uberzone, and Rabbit On The Moon. Now, as a music publisher he has been placing his songs on TV, films, etc on a regular basis. Ten other writers have recently joined Maxx Vaxx Music (BMI) and the catalog is adding up to almost 300 original compositions!
Born in East Los Angeles in 1963, Max Vasquez, the artist formerly known as Maxx Vaxx, continues to run his business not far from his birthplace, Montebello.
In 1982, He joined a group of excellent musicians, "Water Colours", playing in all the Jazz venues of the day. His performance strengths are trumpet, voice, keyboards, guitar, bass - and the studio, of course. An internship at Group IV Reording Studios led to working on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", “The Abyss”, and “Back To The Future Pt 3” among many more sessions including Will Smith, Sly&Robbie, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, and Jon Hassell's Grammy nominated "Cityscapes". At the time, Max observed carefully the work of Alan Silvestri and Mike Post among many others. He has also performed with Oingo Boingo members John Avila and Johnny Vatos, Mel E Mel&Whipple Whip(Grand Master Flash), The Jazz Crusaders' Stix Hooper and Joe Sample, War and Tower of Power side-men, etc. The list of luminaries Max has worked with is long and accomplished. Manhattan Transfer comissioned one of his pieces.
In the 1990s, Max partnered with Treavor Walton, and formed Euterpe, which had their first release on Priority Records’, and performed at the big Raves of that time. Shortly after, he joined Bassland and formed lasting relationships with Q (Uberzone) and many other Electronica artists and DJs. Among them, Tim White became his protégé and in 2005 formed The Magnus Project together. Their first CD "Vintage Vibrations" is out on iTunes, Napster, beatport and other download distribution sites.
Max officially registered Maxx Vaxx Music Publishing with BMI in ’96. Max says, "Although performing has always been fun and a great way to connect with my fans and new listeners, composing will always be my first love". The last few years find Max in the studio producing new projects for Jimmy Street and Jeff Stetson and new solo ventures. In 2006, Max has begun to resurface as a live player, first in South East Asia, then the U.S.
The TV show "Latin Lifestyles" currently uses a Max Vasquez original as its theme song. The latest shows Maxx Vaxx Music songs have been placed on are "Judging Amy"(Amy Brenneman) on CBS Max has also written music for the indie film “October 22 “(Jay Mohr, Amanda Plummer), The 1999 Super Bowl, Levar Burton's “Reading Rainbow”, and most recently, "My Name Is Earl" on NBC, “The Spearmint Rhino Amateur Competition on Pay-Per-View”, and a TV1 History Special, and "Robbie Knievel's Stunt Show" on A&E. Each piece he composes, vary from Rock, Jazz, Electronica, Classical, Country and Latin, Urban and Film Scoring. His first release was on Priority Records' Vox Lumania album"Luminescence" in 1994.
Max also released a few "white label" underground EP vinyls for DJs in the Electronic Dance Movement of the 90s. "Pacific Rhythm" on Harthouse Records, Lord Runningclam's "Fun For The Whole Family" on Moonshine Records, and produced and mastered Tribe Music Records’ "Hell To Tha Heavens And Beyond" and Transition Music's Box Set enjoy his tracks and performances as well. His own releases, “Sound For Shadows” "Butterfly Garden", "Beauty All Around", "While The City Sleeps", "Dawning of the Light Ages" and "Return of the Phoenix – An Anthology of Film Music" on Maxx Vaxx Music have all been received with praise. All the new releases can now be downloaded now onNapster, rhapsody.com, e-music.com and iTunes as well as many other download sites!