Really Slow Music founder and creative director Agus Gonzalez- Lancharro (Photo: Elisabete Faria)

Barcelona-born Agus Gonzalez-Lancharro  has done something few in the film or music sectors have achieved — launched a company that has lasted five years in Hollywood. The former journalist moved to London in 2013 and launched Really Slow Motion Music & Sound Design, which he annexed to Los Angeles in 2016.

Since then, Gonzalez-Lancharro and Really Slow Motion have provided original music for trailers promoting tentpole motion pictures including Black Panther, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi,
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Captain America: Winter Soldier (including a 2014 SuperBowl TV spot which premiered that trailer), The Amazing Spider-Man,” “Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z, Pacific Rim, 300: Rise of an Empire, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Maleficent, RoboCop (2014), 47 Ronin and many others.

Having been fortunate enough to build his company by getting his foot in the door on blockbusters, Gonzalez-Lancharr —  who in addition to serving as creative director for RSM is also  guitarist — says he now wants to expand into independent films. “We love creating fresh new, high-end, cinematic music for the world’s biggest movie trailers, but we’d like the industry to know we would also love to be considered for smaller, independent films, comedies and documentaries.”

RMA also does sound design “and any type of sonic branding for motion picture advertising,” Gonzalez-Lancharr says. In its past five years, clients have included not only every top trailer but studios such as Universal Pictures, Disney,  Paramount, Sony Entertainment, Warner Bros, Marvel, 20th Century Fox, CBS TV, Lionsgate Films and Relativity Media. The company’s client base also includes Trailer Park, Ant Farm, Buddha Jones, Create, mOcean and
virtually every other noted trailer house in Hollywood.

Gonzalez-Lancharro augments his custom scoring business by building a production library of catalogue music ready for licensing and publishing, now at more than 3,000 tracks spread over two catalogues: The X-Motion, primarily for use for television promotion and for in-show content, and Postcards from the World, which features world music available for
all media. Recent TV commercials promoting Porsche and Samsung have featured music culled from the Really Slow Motion libraries.

Gonzalez-Lancharro also regularly deals with sub-publishers in over 40 countries throughout the world, who handle licensing for Really Slow Motion’s catalogue. These include Warner Chappell, BeatBox Music,
musicDIRECTOR/BMG, Sound Machine, Echo Music, Studio Fontana, and Hi-Five, among them.

Simone Benyacar, Head of Music/Composer for Ant Farm credits Gonzalez-Lancharro and RSM with having “managed to find their voice in the trailer music world with a fresh new sound.”

Pete Hasty, director of music and associate producer for Buddha Jones says Gonzalez-Lancharro has “an amazing combination of talent, consistency, and reliability —  qualities that are high currency” in the fast-paced and demanding world of motion picture marketing.

Before professionally entering the music production business, Agus was the online editor in chief for Spanish music instrument companies Cutaway and Bajos y Bajistas, serving as editor of Cutaway magazine and interviewing artists such as Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Reggie Hamilton, Abe Laboriel, Marco Mendoza, Jeff Berlin. He also served as editor for Bateria & Percusion Magazine where he interviewed such drummers as Simon Phillips, Thomas Lang, Carl Palmer, Kenny Aronoff, and many more.

Agus holds a Master of Arts Degree in Composing for Film & TV from Kingston University. He also holds a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Music Performance from the University of East London. He also attended the Guitar Institute in London from 2005-2006, earning a Diploma in Contemporary Music Performance.