Listen?! Don't talk to me about listen! YOU listen! Here's a selection of (what I think are) the best tunes I've written for our games so far. I've been meaning to put this together for a while and I'm glad I've finally got round to it. It's much more of a mixed bag than I remember writing, especially with the new BBXE tunes added in. Anyway, enough words - here's sounds!
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Embed Embed this video on your site This is the full-length theme for Blazin' Balls Xtreme Edition. Using the same bassline and main riff, but re-arranged in a tight metal sound. Agressive but still fun I think, it really sets the tone for the game.
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Embed Embed this video on your site At one point this was the theme to Carrum. It's maybe the best ambient tune I've written. It fits the game very nicely with it's floaty presence.
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Embed Embed this video on your site Another downbeat electonica number, but this also features my very own ropey guitar playing. I like the way the stuttering drum pattern interacts with the rolling bassline.
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Embed Embed this video on your site This is another of my frequent "reworking" efforts on a song I wrote about 8 years ago and never found a use for.
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Embed Embed this video on your site This is pretty downbeat. The marimbas were orginally a vocoder part but it was just too weird and disorientating. This cut is nicely mechanical and creepy - makes me think of robotic, spindle-legged spiders creeping around in the dark. Not normally my bag but I still like it.
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Embed Embed this video on your site Ah, Rolling Dragon. This came together in about 6 hours of sustained work. A headlong rush toward who-knows-what. I let a few rough edges go on this tune, but I love the giddy energy in it.
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Embed Embed this video on your site The main theme to Carrum. I remember some weird chess program which was on the BBC when I was a kid which had a bizarre military brass style to it. I wanted to produce a similar feel with a bit more swing and funk to it. The bass and drums are real tight, and although the brass part isn't great, the sense of progressive motion is just what I was after. Always makes me smile.
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Embed Embed this video on your site My current favorite. It's a reworking of a song that Djellicon and I wrote years ago - he used it on one of his albums, but I'd always wanted to put that jarring choral arrangement behind it. I almost got blisters doing a thrash guitar part which you can only just hear in the mix. I wish I could remember if I wrote the bassline or he did. Whoever came up with it though, I love it. Sinister and driving, and I expect it's the closest I'll ever get to writing a drum and bass tune...
So, there we are. I hope you like them. There are others in the back catalog, but I'm not happy with all of them, and these are my pick of the bunch!
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