Since the later 1960s production music – sometimes known as mood music, library music or background music – has been a feature of post production work, as ubiquitous as the mixing desk. Over the past 10 years, the use of production music in television, radio and film productions has sky-rocketed, turning it into a multi-million rand industry offering high calibre, cost effective music that covers a multitude of genres. And, to keep pace with technology, the days of production music being distributed purely through cassettes and cds are long gone – nowadays, users of this form of music can access it on DVD or though internet downloads and hard drive systems.