When the majority of radios, TV stations and audiovisual departments busied themselves getting rid of their obsolete and bulky stocks of vinyl in the mid 90s, the world looked on, bemused, at the huge piles of strange records which had, until this point, been reserved uniquely for industry professionals and were inaccessible to the average music lover.
The door was opened wide to discovering the sheer variety and richness of library music produced in the 60s and 70s.
DJs, producers and the more adventurous of music fans quickly identified the hot spots in this vast territory, and lists of ‘most wanted’ records began to circulate discretely, with the names of the composers to look out for being repeated over and over.
And so the name Janko Nilovic quickly became synonymous with quality and originality within the meanders of library music where, more often than not, creating fillers is the order of the day...