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2013/03/13 02:05:30
Rain
http://www.youtube.com/wa...ed&v=uKjlXwVCabI#!

Years ago, I put a bunch of projects together, and that particular side-project seemed to be the one I wrote the most for, by far, because there was no question whether I was being too self-consicous in my writing or what... I just wrote and kept putting songs together. 

I let it flow and tried to combine what I liked into music - old horror movie music, dark electro, funk, disco, Morricone, Pin Ups, and so on... All warped up in one common and funny theme - death. But from a tongue in cheek angle. I wanted it to sound like trance music that you'd have heard playing on an 8-track tape in a car during a 70s Roger Corman horror flick.

I think the music was good but I worked in a crappy little rectangle room ( 6 X 12) w/ crappy equipment, and, worst, I thought I could figure it out and make up for that w/ talent still come up w/ decent mixes. That's back when I thought I could actually give people advices on these boards. lol

Truth is I couldn't hear a thing, I was not trained to hear a thing and I was just too full of myself anyway. But the ambience was right. :P






I still can't give advices, I still work in a crappy room, the monitors are still inexpensive ones (though much better imho), but I'm having fun and I thought I'd share this little thing I put together using only Logic's sampler and the included stuff...

Listening to it right now, there's too much reverb - I had set one buss and just sent everything to that long reverb.

Anyway, here it is - a tiny little something, much inspired by looping DVD menus.


2013/03/13 02:38:06
Jeff Evans
It is very nice Rain. A pretty cool groove. I like it a lot. Sounds like something that would fit a TV series about things dark and heavy. eg Silent Witness etc.. Or a murder series etc..
2013/03/13 02:45:54
Rain
Thank a lot Jeff! I don't get much feedback these days as I'm mostly just filling the portfolio and preparing songs for my wife. 

That's pretty much what I had in mind, simple but w/ lots of texture - kinda like American Horror Story.
2013/03/13 02:52:47
craigb
Damn.  That sucked!  (It should have been much longer ;-)

Movie background music aside, I can also hear some slammin' guitars coming in as another direction to take.
 
Me likey the groove.
2013/03/13 03:03:02
SongCraft
The EXS24 and Logic stock sounds are surprisingly very good. A very nice composition, perfect for TV/Film placement. Has an eery dark vibe about it. Well done! 
2013/03/13 04:00:30
chuckebaby
man I would die to throw a vocal line on that.
open it right up.

good stuff right there.
2013/03/13 11:42:57
bapu
Coolio Julio Rain.
2013/03/13 14:35:37
Starise
  Nice work Rain, although I'm not much into the dark stuff. I thought it was well done. I wish I knew more about making a vid like that.
2013/03/13 18:15:56
Rain
Thanks guys. :)

Starise - I'm sure you could do better than this. These are jpegs that I've created in Photoshop for a couple of PMS songs, years ago. 

I've simply placed them on a timeline in iMovie (the default free Apple movie editor), entered a duration for each slide, enabled an effect and picked a direction for the movement on each of them.

That's as basic as it gets.

2013/03/13 19:19:15
SteveStrummerUK

Very nice.
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