I’m back with another experimental and sampling post with more free downloads. These two tracks are from a holiday video from Black Gang Chime which is an amusement park on the Isle Of Wight and also I used clips from the film Pink Flamingos. I have made three tracks from the samples from the film and I got one Jungle, one House, and now one Experimental, and probably the last one I might make four though and release it as an unreleased EP on SoundCloud. Once again I used my cassette recorder and it’s coming out more wobbly but I actually like the wobble to it and have cleaned it up a bit I might have to switch over tapes or stop using the same bits as they weren’t the best quality tapes but sounded good on the first couple of recordings. I didn’t use many filters not the heavy-duty ones but I did use Fabfilter on them to make them sound better and less harsh I also did use a lot of delays, especially on the last track Divinity but I did use some heavy-duty filters on one or two tracks. I like to go in blind and not have any expectations except to make it good and mess about with FXs like delay and reverb and also those heavy-duty filters from Arturia and SoundToys. It’s a whole lot of experimenting which I love to do and is just a break from the main genres I make but I do enjoy making experimental music and also sampling which I did for all the tracks and are some of my older tracks I made and also I made the samples too.Â
Here are the tape recordings of the samples I recorded onto the tape and are from another holiday video when I went to the Isle Of Wight in 2018 and a place called Black Gang Chimes another amusement park.
Here are the samples after I cleaned them up I only used Fab Filter and I didn’t use any effects also the samples are a free download the link is at the bottom of the page to the final samples from both tracks.Â
Here’s the original track I got the samples from, I found them all on my computer, and is a short intro to a track called Long Cross a place where I lived and is off the EP also called Long Cross I made it quite sometime now and is now unreleased but all on SoundCloud home to all my unreleased stuff.
Here is what I recorded onto the tape and from the cult classic film Pink Flamingos starring the late Divine and if you know you know lol, also some of my older tracks I resampled from a track called Angry Days off my album called Mental Tape. Â
Here are the final samples from what I recorded and that I Eqed and compressed not any effects on this one too I’m trying not to use the filters all the time as it will make it sound different.
Here is the demo track I got the samples from and are old tracks the first one is from an album called Mental Tape and the track is titled Angry Days and the second is from the original Jungle track Divinity and off the album Inner City Ravers both now unreleased and can be found on SoundCloud.Â
This post is an experimental post all about the experimental music I made using a cassette player, Tascam and FL Studio. I recorded the samples onto the tape player and used the Tascam device to get the sounds from there. The sounds are from my holiday videos and were when I went to a place called Flambards, an amusement park in Lizard, Cornwall in 2017, and also I used a public information film from the 70s. I also used RX7 to clean the file up a bit. This is the start of a series I’m doing with all experimental tracks using the cassette player and more experimental fun and is me trying to make use of the cassette player as I still haven’t used it that much I mean a couple of times. I’ve done some experimental tracks in the past so I thought why not do more with doing the Baby Bot and everything, also I posted quite a few experimental tracks on SoundCloud recently as I noticed I’ve done quite a few in the past but this is all for my website but all the links are in the description. It’s not one of the main genres I do but I thought I make more but something different from the Baby Bot 3000 and make something out of it on my website which is what I’m doing.
Here are the tape recordings of the samples I recorded onto the tape and are from my holiday videos when I went to Lizard Cornwall in 2017 and a place called Flambards, an amusement park.
Here are the samples after I cleaned them up I only used Fab Filter and I didn’t use any effects also the samples are a free download the link is at the bottom of the page to the final samples from both tracks.Â
Here’s the original track I got the samples from. I found them all on my computer and is a short intro to a track called Flam Bars off my holiday album Rebitten By The Lizard I made quite some time now and is now unreleased but all on SoundCloud home to all my unreleased stuff.
Here is the final track made from the samples and will be soon released once I have enough tracks for a album but for now it’s on SoundCloud.
Here is what I recorded onto the tape and from the public information film which I think is called Dark And Lonely Water and is a PIF about the dangers of swimming in lakes and other water dangers. The other samples are from what I made ages ago and still have the samples of and some of my older track samples.
Here are the final samples from what I recorded and that I Eqed and compressed not any effects on this one too I’m trying not to use the filters all the time as it will make it sound different.
Here is the demo track I got the samples from and is an old track from my album called Unsafe Dummies the samples are from a public information film which I think is called Dark And Lonely Water and from the 70s.
Here is the final track with all the samples from the tape recording and will also soon be released on all major platforms once I have enough tracks for an album.
The 80s and 90s had some good games that will always be remembered for the game and characters but what I loved apart from the game itself was the music that was played on the games throughout the 80s and 90s. My favourite was Sonic and Alex The Kidd as I had a Sega Master Drive rather than the Nintendo but I did play it a lot around people’s houses after school or when I was seeing family in London, oh and Mortal Kombat I used to be good on that with Sonia and Sub Zero two of the characters from the game. The music helped keep me from throwing the joystick out the window on the harder levels but that was one of the reasons why I enjoyed making music on my keyboard it was more enjoyable to do rather than scream at the TV every time I failed the jump or what have you. I was okay on the keyboard and nearly finished an ensemble which was the hardest bit but I just couldn’t stretch my fingers long enough to make it to that note so I took up practicing hard gaming music but a bit easier only some keys didn’t exist so an H sharp and for those who don’t play an instrument like a piano or a keyboard, there are only seven keys A -G then back again along with five sharps and one-note wrong parts will come across as flat and not sounding as it’s meant to. That’s why I always respected the ones who made the songs that made the tracks and it was on a 16-bit card that used to take knowledge and skill to program it in or at least know how much ram and what you have for each song and what it adds up to. The good thing to come out of it was the amount of ram space you can have on your computer before it was only 1GB that was a ram and then the gaming experience happened after they decided games needed to have more gamer experience in there and music was the answer to the problems after they did a survey and found out Tetris theme tune was the most loved theme tune of all time and beat all the TV and Film scores that come before it. Gaming music became a staple of the gaming diet which was led by the simpler 8-bit tracks that were from the 70s and was abandoned as the sounds were said to be too harsh and too samey and people were getting confused on what game track was what so when the 16 bit came around it was much needed and held more space which meant a new wavetable form like the triangle or square. The gaming experience is different now and gaming music has dramatically changed as now it’s more cinematic but of course, that does depend on the game in the 70s, 80s, and 90s it was simpler but complex to play rhythms which were on waveforms out of the box. They say there wouldn’t be gaming music without the square and triangle waveform and that is true I think in fact it was the only two waveforms that fit on the ram or though I’m told it’s not the Ram it’s on the motherboard which had to be carefully put in place for each one. Tetris is said to be the first-ever gaming music that was designed especially for a game and that turned out to be the blueprint of future gaming music that was out after in the 80s and 90s which were jolly, dark, and sometimes mysterious. Anyway here are my top 5 gaming music themes from worst to best but they are all my favourites and spent a lot of time in gaming land and on the keyboard listening to them. When I was eight and above I used to go to the arcade it started early on but it was my thing to go down to the arcade and swear at the machine for apparently messing me up once again I gave up eventually took to playing out in the fields again but I was there for a year or two on and off and it was expensive after awhile 50ps quickly run out and I had to go home or somewhere else but I did enjoy playing the arcades and do you know what I can’t remember what games I played but I do remember when Mortal Kombat and Streetfighter was put up I was always on them quite a bit. Pac-Man didn’t have music until Mrs Pacman came out and that caused the earlier games to be released with music something that was unheard of and a great thing to push sales back up and bring in more in the future. The evolution of gaming music which was around the same time Mrs. Pacman was released in 1981 made the games more fun and they said that Mrs. Pacman was something new but they weren’t sure what it was. By the time Sega Master Genesis and Nintendo came out, it was changed from 8 bit to 16 bit and the music got jollier and less piercing in the arcade where the square or triangle waveform used was high pitched and thick sounding which came out the speakers at an alarming rate. Moving to when the Playstation was released the music changed to cinematic with the only game to play on PS1 and I know there was a few but it was Tomb Raider or Crash Bandicoot and the music in both is different but I feel it lacked musical spark which actually Tomb Raider took some while to get used to but I did note I could go to sleep to some of the tracks as they were actually quite therapeutic, but by the way that was because I was used to more upbeat in your face tracks not ones that might put me to sleep and not being rude. And you can’t mention gaming music without mentioning the Grand Theft Auto series which I felt pushed the boundaries of music and there were a lot of copies of GTA which were all good selections even Mafia. It had its own universe and dimensions which were different from what came before and pushed all sorts of limits and boundaries in gaming but the music was unforgettable and a key feature to the game and any game following GTA.
This song is a great happy beat to try and beat the Cortex (the boss) with. It half reminds me of cowboy music and the start reminds me of famous synth intros from the 70s and the rest is just happy filler. I like bass on this and at the time the bass came out okay as I had a chunky TV still which was bassy and loud. I think the theme is quite catchy and gets stuck with you and as I said it reminds me of cowboy music like walking in a saloon and everyone looks up to see the newcomer of the town. Also, it was a great change to traditional gaming music which came before that.Â
This theme is jazzy and I love the snare action which got me into snares and the start kind of reminds me of House which you know I love House. I used to play it down at the arcades before they took it away but I did enjoy playing it. I practiced this on a keyboard and I doubt I could play it now not the exact notes not from the top of my head but I wished I could still but it’s not really an issue, to be honest. Playing it at the arcade was fun but got hard when they put the balance button and you had to press it I did the alternative whack a mole style which never worked that wasn’t fun at all.
Aw, don’t you love swimming around avoiding fish and puffin and drowning to the miracle swim theme tune it’s bliss lol. All jokes aside what a happy song and it reminds me of the circus weirdly enough it’s really catchy and when I first had it I couldn’t get the theme out of my head it drove me mental but always struggled with the game as I said back then I was good on playing the keyboard rather than computers it’s not that I just enjoy it more and not the practicing just messing about with rhythms and timing which I still do till this day after a long, short break.
I don’t care this theme track is exciting and is way over catchy and it does take me back I’d play it just for the theme track. Another track I used to play on the keyboard and took some practice and patience as it’s quite a hard one to play if you have small fingers like me. I think it’s one of the catchiest theme tracks and something I never get bored of but saying that I don’t play it that much I have a remix I made and play sometimes which is on this post but apart from that I don’t play it that much but it’s a great catchy track and great level too. Â
Aw, the ambiance of this track is just wonderful and definitely has that underwater feel to it I just love this track. I never had a Nintendo but I played it a lot in other people’s houses and this track always amazed me for the chillout appeal to it and the fact it was so underwater and it has that old skool drum kick pattern which I love in 80s music, especially the slower tracks. The music is tranquil and I love that submarine sound in there and the harp it makes it feel warm but the whole theme track is a warm and nice feeling which has a lot of appeal even now.
Another catchy theme track that gets stuck in your head and I think it’s the Eastern music in it it’s uplifting and jolly which I love in music in general. It’s funny how much I craved to play the track when I was out and not home and I attempted to play it on the keyboard. You needed a quick hand flow to play the arp on the keyboard but the rest is good to play but again not sure if I could play it now as it was a long time ago I would make my own tracks out of it but hey that’s what midis for and not the ones I play myself which is everything but the gaming music and the Christmas carols.
My favourite and another fighting Eastern Music music theme, it has to be Eastern music which is something I was always fascinated about. It’s quite dark but really energetic and very catchy. The energy on this is absurd and it’s also over funky as well but has that dark but catchy appeal I do like music like this no matter what they say it’s fun but goth fun lol. It’s like you are being chased and you are in some sort of nightmare which you are running away from. I just love this and put it at number one as the other Palace Gates theme was going to number one but this came on and I thought ah.
First of all, I’m now what I call a part-time gamer but back in October 2004 I was a full-on addict and GTA San Andreas was the game that defined my gaming habits like most people who played it around that time. There was no game like it before on the PS2 console and there were a lot of things to do that kept me occupied for many hours for weeks and months and years of playing it over and over. I played the first one on PS1 and had fun but still thought it lacked something and the next instalment fulfilled all that I love about gaming and wasn’t like the old skool retro games I played as a kid on the Nintendo, Sega Master Drive, and the games on the computer at school. At that time the graphics were good for the time and looking back now I can’t believe how well the graphics are compared to when the game came out in 2004 when everything was tech-savvy and futuristic but they still looked good and I was impressed but not looking back. With me I like a game with lots to do it has to be entertaining in some way and it must have random bits I can go and use at any point and San Andreas had all that and more everywhere you go there was something new and for activity-wise, it had too much to do and was overwhelming. I remember when I was looking up stuff online I came across the guide and there were pages and pages of tips and tricks and a guide also going in the game shop the book was quite thick in fact it was like a bible I wouldn’t be surprised if some people called it a bible as there was so much to look at you couldn’t do it all in one day. At one point I photocopied or at least tried to and it would have cost me over £40 as I didn’t have the internet at home back then and I really didn’t know what to do at first it took some time to get used to the controls and also following the map to the destination and it was really hard right from the jump, but yeah over £40 on paper if I did which I can’t remember what was I thinking I could have bought the book for a bit more I can’t remember how much it cost, to be honest. installment.
After you finally get to the Countryside after meeting that crazy witch Catalina and you are at the strip you will get a mission where you find a jet pack and you have to escape out of Area 69 and you get to keep it which is fun to travel around flying in the sky and causing mayhem whilst hovering and is also handy for getting around as it’s a long drive to the start where you start out at Pop’s Smoke House I used it where ever I went and even did a few missions with it when it was time to escape just as long as the helicopters are not on you. The jet pack was one of the top highlights of the game and I couldn’t believe they would put it so far in the game I could have done with that in the beginning when I was being shot out by the street gangs and obviously traveling around I don’t think you are aware how many cars I flipped over on the way to the country I lost my temper a few times actually quite a lot as I had to restart the whole mission or journey again I mean the mission where you have to steal a truck in the country with that ridiculous turn that would unhinge the container and people chasing you too damn it was hard. Same within Area 69 that was such a hard level I don’t know how I survived it to be honest especially lifting off in the jet pack with all the people shooting you whilst you escape. obviously.
Without the soundtrack, it wouldn’t have been as zoned out in the game and I liked all the stations even the country station K Rose which ain’t my favorite but a station I would put on after running through all of the other stations. It has all my favorite childhood songs I was bought up with and a good selection and my favorite from the GTA series. My favorite stations are Bounce, Radio Santos, Playback, and CSR in fact I like them all but they are my best stations to drive to or be chased. It’s not just the music though it’s the commercials and radio hosts that really light up the station and every station have lots of funny moments even though it can be dark weird and forbidden at times. The weird thing is I never got bored of that and always laughed or found new bits that made me laugh hysterically and at times it put me off and I would die or crash the car where I was concentrating too hard it definitely made me concentrate much harder and I would pass the missions easier when I’m zoned out listening to the radio and concentrating at the same time. Just three of my favorite genres are house, Reggae, and Funk and there is a lot of good tracks from those genres which I could listen to all day not exactly but I can keep coming back to them and listening to them day in day out with rests in-between.Â
When I’m bored and I feel like doing a hunt I spent time looking for packages that are scattered around the city. I was impressed with the idea of finding them even though it was hard without the map that would tell you where to find them and the ones I already found were hard to remember what ones I already got until later games where it was marked out and a lot easier. I never found all the packages as I said it was hard to know which ones I already had and that was the downside in the quest but I spent hours looking for that one package and without the internet, I didn’t find most of them but I had fun and spent lots of time looking for them hopping out vehicles and avoiding the police and gangs on the streets the radio was the only thing that got through the journey but most of the time I would give up and look for the next one it was frustrating but fun at the same time. What I liked was there were types the package and the horseshoe was two of the collectible items you had to find what I didn’t like was the fact I looked and looked only to find out it was on a high roof the whole time and you would need to get the helicopter and still find it on a side ledge you had to risk your life to get only to die but I was in love with the fact of going on a hunt for the collectibles and wished I didn’t collect them before I had the map but there was a lot of side missions to do so it wasn’t that bad.
Wow, how impressive the strip is all the lights but more importantly all the stuff you can do I spent most of my time at the strip especially at the casino and at the flight school which was one of the most annoying things to do in the game but was fun kind of at the same time. How I struggled with flight school but passed most of them eventually but the last couple took me forever to do and I was stressing a lot again it was fun, especially at first but the more you try the more annoying it got. My favorite part is going to the casino and spending and losing/winning lots of money on the real games that I really enjoyed even though I’m not much of a gambler I still enjoyed playing Black Jack and Poker on the machines and tables. I feel that was another highlight of the game and was hard getting there and was worth spending all the time there to make up the time I spent getting there. The missions were good there and are where the heist happens with Catalina I think it took me ages to do the Strip levels and thought I would never get past them but I did eventually with all the I ain’t going quit attitude but wow they were hard missions the more you get into the game the harder it gets but with the cheats which are another key factors to the game unfortunately but yes what I would have done without the cheats I would be out the window but I’m a lot better now playing it more recent but it was too unforgiving at parts but what a game. Â
