chris@arpix.com

Once upon a time Chris Robinson walked out of a movie theatre, having just seen Wes Anderson’s great film “Rushmore”, and exclaimed “How does a film get so much great music in it and who is responsible for making it happen?!”. Particularly, it was the use of The Creation’s “Makin’ Time” that knocked him out so.

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A short time thereafter, a chance meeting with Music Supervisor Ron Proulx (“oh, they’re called music supervisors!” Chris said to himself) proved a fateful event. Within several months of that meeting, he had joined Ron’s Arpix team and the rest is, you know…

Oh sure, some other stuff happened before that…umm, born in Toronto Ontario, spent his youth in Brantford…back to Toronto for high school, leading to his University learnin’ at York U, where he one day found himself the proud holder of a BA in Mass Communications and Political Science.

Well, clearly the sensible next step for a person with that caliber of education is to work in an indie record shop, play in bands, spend all available money to do things like traveling overseas to see The Velvet Underground reunite…hey, he sort of lived out the High Fidelity story for awhile. Music snobbery…well, no it was true love that merely appeared as snobbery at times that was the guiding (blinding?) light in life.

We won’t go through the details of the failed rock and roll career. Had a go at it, didn’t quite pan out, but was a lot of fun along the way.

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Anyhow, took a job at Canada’s then leading indie label Attic Records, and started to learn a thing or 2 about the music biz, and office life in general. Ron walked into the office one day for a meeting, they got to chatting, and the rest, as they say…sorry we’ve already been here…

Now 7 years into the Music Supervision journey, and much fun has been had along the way. Having worked on every shape and size of production, Chris still loves the opportunity to wave the flag for indie music at every opportunity. We’re at a point in time where there has never been so much fantastic music out there, and the thrill remains to finding a home for great indie tracks in film and TV.