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Back in October 2009 I ordered this…thing. It’s a plank of wood with strings on it and it makes noise, kind of like them geetars the kids are into. It’s a 24-string tapping instrument. It’s tuned to a whole tone scale (C, D, E, F#, G#, A#). It also has some interesting tech built into it. The bass and melody strings go through separate built-in pre-amps. When you lift your finger off a string it stops immediately thanks to the per-string mute system. Also, it sustains forever, which is weird.
Anyways, a few months into the build they offered to upgrade it from the D1 to the new K24 model they were working on, but that it would add a few extra months to the build. Decline a free upgrade? Hell no! So now, nearly seven months later, it has finally arrived. Yay!
Here be some upbeat chiptune rock stuff for dat ass. Guitars, bass, drums, SID synths and strings. This is a track for the upcoming Xbox Live Indie Game, “Biplanes HD”.
More on the game later. For now, check out the music:
I like jazz, a lot and this is an attempt at a particular style of jazz. It’s got a vibraphone, a trumpet, two guitars, an upright bass and some drums. I didn’t add any big beats or synths to this one. I also didn’t crush the shit out of the mix.
So yeah, it’s chillaxed and it’s jazzy and I’m happy with it, particularly the trumpet.
Some music for driving through Hollywood at night. If you’re not in Hollywood, just pretend you’re surrounded by palm trees, bright lights and trash; and everything is moving in slow-motion.
This track is a Chillout track with some ideas pulled from Dubstep and more ambient styles of music. There’s a lot of bass in this track and and a lot of granular fuckery on the drums.
I’ve spent a good 50 or so hours in the Mass Effect universe; having played the original and the recently released sequel. The music in both games is fantastic.
There’s a particular piece of music in Mass Effect 2 which begins with low brass drones and percussion with snares and anvil strikes. That’s what inspired this piece.
I guess you could call this a tribute to Mass Effect. :)
