About

Built from two decades of crafting music for picture.

Joel Dean, founder of Echocraft Sound Labs

Founder & Curator

Joel Dean

The founder

Echocraft Sound Labs was founded by Joel Dean, who leads its creative direction. For nearly two decades, he has worked across sync, custom music, and campaign-driven composition. Since 2018, he has been the founding partner and CCO of JDM Music + Sound.

His work spans album releases and custom music for campaigns including Michael, Avatar: Fire and Ash, One Battle After Another, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Knives Out, and hundreds more. Before JDM, Dean was a composer and creative director at Butter Music + Sound, composing and leading music across hundreds of national television spots. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music.

Why Echocraft

Echocraft Sound Labs was built from that experience: years of moving between briefs, searches, notes, approvals, licenses, files, and final delivery. The platform brings that workflow into one focused place, built for editors, music supervisors, agencies, and production teams, while giving composers a direct home for their latest and most inspired work.

One focused place, from the first search to final delivery.

The catalog

Every release is curated, not collected, and held to the standard the screen demands. The composers are working professionals with credits across HBO, Netflix, A24, Apple TV, and Marvel Studios, the kind of work you have likely already heard without knowing the names behind it. Here the work leads; the names sit with their catalogs, a sign-in away.

The work is in the catalog.

Browse the catalog

Need legal clarification, custom licensing terms, or a bespoke music request? sync@echocraftsoundlabs.com