I just watched Ridley Scott's 1985 movie LEGEND starrting Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. It was a great little cheesy fantasy movie with great sets and costumes, unicorns, elves/faeries, goblins and a dark lord (Tim Curry). Enjoyed the soundtrack alot and it turns out it's by Tangerine Dream! Hell yeah.
Pretty inspiring flick for this project and the soundtrack is great - check it out. Just reminds me that this current project will need some synth flute with pitch bend somewhere on it.
hey everyone,
I'll be switching my main communication mode (for those of you i've contacted on facebook/text) to email. Please PM or text me your email address! or simply email me - bwilliam.young@gmail.com
thanks! -braden
EDIT: any ideas on a better form of communication? forum thread? facebook page? google ear goblet
Alright, this post is a two part taste for everyone!
First off, here is a collection of the submissions i received last week, thank you - in order of sounds appearing the the sampler ( Rachel, Nate, Winston, and the last beat is me.) Here's the first course ---
Loved getting both some more completed peices as well as some beats that we can all add to and improve! I'd lke to send some of these Reason files over to Mo Juiced to beef them up. Maybe throw a new synth bass sound on Rachels file, - less grainy?? Anyone want to add to these?
Also, thanks to George for undertaking that beat idea from my last post - looking forward to it!
Secondly, I present you with a sample pack from stuff I recorded around the house the last few days. There are 85 individual samples - most notably are some gated toms, splashing sounds and a full octave of charanga notes. I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with from this, and feel free to use these on any other music project as well. Let me know if you have any trouble downloading it. Fantasy Sampler Platter zip file
Would anyone be willing to make this idea into an actual beat?(i'm not so good with the drum machine) Let me know if you want this assignment so i can update this post as taken!
UPDATE: thanks George for taking on this beat challenge!!!
Alright folks, we're getting started on this 'high fantasy themed electronica pop recording collaboration'! I'm very excited about this and i'm stoked to have all of you on board, got a good group of people so far (introductions down the road - most of you probably know each other).
I'll be using this blog as an update of what's going on and adding inspirational material as well as links to sound ideas, lyrics, conceptual ideas, artwork and the like...
THE PROJECT: Lets build songs over the internets. We'll start by collecting some stems , however incomplete. Would like to sound like... sparkly - bubblegum pop(but bubble gum that elves would chew) - magical sounding (in the literal sense of casting magic spells)
What i'm getting right now is skeleton beats and song ideas from those of you who want to submit (just got my first rough song from nate and it's amazing already!) i'm working on some myself but not so good at the drum machine stuff. I see my role as organizing and putting together the pieces as well as filling in any necessary gaps.
This video is what i've been sending everyone for the initial idea, there's alot more out there but i have yet to settle on anything as spot on as this. let me know if you come across anything that you like!
And finally here's some art from one of the great fantasy artists Boris Vallejo ... -b
