Companies hire composers to write music, the music is then fully owned by the companies who can easily licence the music, which is useful for people who make television etc.
There are quite a few blogs dedicated to spreading library music, and the amount that was made is incredible.
They were never available for public sale, so blogging them is sort of the only way for them to really exist nowadays.
A lot of of the composers who were involved are fairly anonymous in the sense that it's hard to find out much about them even if the names are clearly labelled, although I think some of them might have used pen names, and there are a few cases of musicians who did this sort of work for a bit to make money then became famous for other things.
As I said there are a lot of blogs dedicated to Library Music but the one that seems to have the most consistent results is The Library Hunt.
This is also to do with the fact that all of the posts are quite clear about what style of music each collection holds.
Saying that, the records themselves had to have quite clear titles for commercial reasons.
Two particularly good ones I've come across are "High Tension" and "Thrills and Spills", both from the company Bruton Music.
It's a bit different to some of the other tracks I've come across in the sense that it's less atmospheric and a bit more like a wacky instrumental pop song.
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