Weekly Beats 13: Terminal

week 13 (Terminal)

This Week I make a track starting with a mistake in recording from the previous one. The intinal drum hit is a sample taken from the acousitc guitar recording on Camberweel beauty but I liked the way the slap of the guitar sounded more percussive and decided to lay it out for this work.

Pad’s and sounds created on the OP1 become less of the mainstay and more suplimental as the aim is to add more traditional instruments fore the next few weeks even if they are heavily processed.

Listen to the track here:

Weekly Beats 12: Camberwell Beauty

Week 12 (Camberwell Beauty)

This weeks track wraps up the winter collection of music which will be bundled together to download soon. I wanted to send off the winter with a completely acoustic tune so I sat in front of a fire with an acoustic guitar and wrote Camberwell Beauty. It’s different to my usual stuff and I hope you guys enjoy it:

Weekly Beats 11: Whale to the Moon

Week 11 (Whale to the Moon)

This track is inspired in part by video game music from the RPG’s of the 16bit, 32bit and Playstation era. I have been a fan of video game composers especially Nobuo Uematsu for a long time.

Their work ethic puts my one track a week project to shame, In later iterations of Final Fantasy for the Playstation hundreds of tracks were produced for a single game with a limited pallet of sounds and a short timeframe, yet the quality of the composition still shines through.

On Wail to the Moon I tried to replicate some of those sounds but add a bit more modern production to the piece. Listen to it by following the link below and tell me what you think:

Weekly Beats 8: Hunter, Killer

Week 8 Hunter, Killer

This Track Is my entrance into Novations Music competition every sound is made from the free novation sample library available currently on their site.
I used a total of 16 Drum samples and 5 other samples to make the entire tune. Changing the processing of these samples Every 16 bars to alter the tone of the track. The aim was to try to make something slightly ominous which gets more oppressive as the track shifts forward.

You can hear the track below:

New Track: Week 7 (We March On!)

week7 (we march on)

Week sevens piece was a little rushed as I ran out of time making the track I aimed to do. I had to improvise by performing an old piece live, recording and then releasing is straight to weekly beats.

The Piece was created as part of a soundtrack for the film El Eco del Dolor de Mucha Gente, which I composed. Although it was my favourite piece it didn’t find a place in the film and has been on the shelf since. Maybe with some more time I will arrange it for more instruments but currently it will stay on piano.

You can here the track for week 7 below:

Weekly Beats 6: Sorry Emily

Week6 (sorry Emily)

I’ve just realised my complacency when looking at my site. I have only posted the tracks I have been making up to week 5. I’m Now at week 9 so need to step up my game and make you aware of them all which I will do over this week.

The track for week 6 is a slower more insular ambient piece of music made on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 which was then mixed down with ableton live:

Listen to the track here:

Weekly Beats 5: Moonlighting

week 5 Moonlighting Cover

So To continue My Weekly Beats section my 5th track is Moonlighting a more dance focused piece that works with some Pads on the OP1 and then extra synth sounds are from Ableton Live and Native Instruments Komplete.

I’m really happy with the way it’s turned out and hope you like the way it sounds aswell.

Click the link below and give it a listen: