[Thor Joachim Haga]

Alan Hawkshaw, who died in 2021, is probably the greatest “superstar” of library music, but as with Elias and Franke, his catalogue is huge. It’s hard to know where to start. But there’s plenty to explore on Spotify and YouTube. I know that he particularly liked funk, so there’s a 2018 repackaging of some of these tracks I’ve heard good things about, named FULL CIRCLE. Taglined “tranquil funk for laidback, panoramic journeys”, it’s exactly that. Here’s an example (a little bit of crime jazz thrown in):