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11minLoop - 2002 World Cup Anthem (by Vangelis) (JS Radio Edit)
updated
The images of the CD covers aren't necessarily the same as the source. A few of the "Themes" (Jaws, Olympics, Star Wars Main Title) are from a John Williams Greatest Hits album, so they may not match the film version.
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Image: Bing AI (DALL-E 3) prompt: "Miami Vice Logo" with titles extracted in photoshop from other images online.
The artist will realize I alternate between 2 versions of the loop, and I brought the beat back in a might earlier than his original. (I also lowered the bass by 4 dB; it hit too hard my soft ears). I hope you enjoy it!
My recollection is that the 3 Gymnopedies by Erik Satie were written as background/ambience music to avoid being distracting to customers. In that way, it's there, but barely. And yet the vibe is so moody. It's also shockingly short. So I looped it.
When I first stumbled across it online, I realized it sounded like the Microscope puzzle in The 7th Guest (a.k.a. "Bolero"). Maybe that's a stretch. Or maybe Gymnopedie No 3 sounds more like it. But in listening to this loop, it sort of reminds me of Interstellar now as well!! What do you think?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnop%C3%A9dies
Image credit goes to "Bing Create" Image Generator (which uses DALL-E 3). I used the prompt "1920s composer playing piano on a crane, in new york, wearing modern headphones, on a rainy day, grayscale". ("Erik Satie playing piano on a rainy day" was blocked because I can't use proper names for prompts). Then I expanded the sides using Photoshop's generative fill crop (after updating and installing the correct plug-in). I also fixed some oddities using content aware fill and cloning and then blurred the edges.
Leveled from a CD I found at the thrift store to reduce obnoxious dynamic range. RCA Victor (C) 1993 BMG Music. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Charles Munch.
Some points of interest:
01:43 Jollity
02:55 Bells of a Funeral/Death Knell
03:19 The Shining Theme (Dies Irae)
06:00 Fantasia / Looney Tunes Vibes
06:18 Is this used in Independence Day, or a Star Wars?
07:30 "The Ball" By Hans Zimmer
08:00 Transition into Broken Arrow
"The Ball" is to me a triumphant version of the Shining Theme. The part at 7:30 was sampled in "The Ball" an unreleased demo track of the "Spies" album by "Helden" (Hans Zimmer, Warren Cann)
The last bookmark is where it transitioned into a rock theme that sounded like the theme to Hans Zimmer's "Broken Arrow" (1996).
More reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_fantastique
Fun Fact: The lullaby theme (looped here) from the Circle of Life is the same theme "Mother Africa" from Power of One (1992), another Zimmer score he made 2 years earlier, that got him the gig for Lion King and where he met most of the musical talent he used in Lion King, including Lebo M.
"Electric Sheep" video clips were taken from the first 30 minutes of this video: youtube.com/watch?v=t6jlhqNxRYk and HEAVILY edited (retimed) to match the bpm and mood of this song. Then I up-res'ed it to 4K (from 1080) using Topaz Video Enhance AI.
Have a nice trip! (I can't believe it's already fall!)
Listen to the 1983 Album: Helden Spies Playlist:
youtube.com/watch?v=4dO0Wo4Ib9s&list=PLCCJ_xylQ4E21nwATldT_FAEKxnvldzqU
Pyramids of the Reich
youtube.com/watch?v=uIr5OYGxewk&list=PLCCJ_xylQ4E21nwATldT_FAEKxnvldzqU&index=4
Driving video screensaver stolen from VisualDon (then leveled darker): youtube.com/watch?v=7TKfYo3syT4
Loops are made using Audacity.
The song is pure madness until you become hooked. Then you can listen to it on loop indefinitely, and it brings peace rather than madness.
Also known as the Microscope Puzzle theme in The 7th Guest (video game), the MIDI file was opened in FL Studio, harps were moved to piano and duplicate notes were deleted. A few other notes were deleted to make it appear to be playable, but I'm no pianist, so I'd love to see a real person try their hands at this! Drum kit was removed, and reverb was added twice. Enjoy! (The loop of the CD version is also found in my 11minLoops playlist).
I'm not sure why Team Fat called it "Bolero" on the 11th hour CD. I don't see how it relates to Revelle's Bolero. Maybe the repetitive nature of it all? To me, I hear more Gymnopedie Part 3. Or maybe I hear that in the other T7G tracks. What do you hear? Let me know if you perform a cover in real life!
Definitely the longest mix I've made so far. Just so much great music! I mixed it in Audacity maybe a decade ago from a rip of the CD I own, with one or two unreleased cues from the internet (e.g. the chemical shower scene). One edit has a distortion effect from mixing two different sample rates (41 kHz and 48 kHz); it sounded cool so I kept it. Let me know if you hear it.
One curious thing I discovered while making the mix was that the music in the opening montage is the exact same music as was used in the shower room, and matches more closely the shower room edit than the opening montage, meaning in my opinion the mix for the shower room scene was used for the opening montage and not the other way around.
Also, the NAVY seals theme was truncated in the movie. I bet there was too many helicopter shots (you know, being Michael Bay) and they had to remove a few shots last-minute and nicely blended the edit in the movie behind chopper blade sound effects. Thus you'll see some freeze frames in my edit of the NAVY seals deployment scene.
Part of our ongoing creative outlet to extend our favorite Zimmer's scores/tracks to an arbitrary length of about 11 minutes:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL430DBB09355A770C
"Dolls from Hell" ocremix.org/remix/OCR01263 (Youtube: sB1yBbcK1rE)
"Microscopism" ocremix.org/remix/OCR01491 (Youtube: NYthpndTqxU)
The rest is by George Alistair Sanger ("The Fat Man") and his crew who scored The 7th Guest (and The 11th Hour). Fat because his music is fat... not him..
Tracks 03 to 24 were converted from MIDI files and titled by me using gameplay mp3 captures to identify the puzzle (I painstakingly recorded mp3 audio captures of the gameplay before finding the MIDI files online, oops; but the MIDIs were untitled, numbered 001 to 074). The MIDIs were converted to wav. Most were looped and given a fade out. Puzzles tend to have a movie before and after, thus Pre-Movie and Post-Movie (i.e. the movie before the puzzle is pre-, and after is post-). I omitted any MIDIs that I didn't enjoy or think would fit into a playlist.
Tracks 25 to 40 are from the T7G CD. On the CD is one uncut 20-minute track, which I split up and titled using the gameplay titles and reference titles from the 7-11 audio CD (an album released separately containing music from The 7th Guest and the 11th Hour). Track 20 was titled "Bolero" because that was its title in the 7-11 CD. I used the CD version for higher quality, which I had to loop to create a clean intro and clean fade out.
Track 41 is a mix of two midi files with a synthetic room echo on the last note so I could fade out the abrupt stop to the last note.
All tracks were edited in Audacity, and leveled by ear to reduce dynamic range.
I made this playlist 9 years ago and have been listening to it on mp3 ever since. It's my go-to album on rainy days. And I'm pretty proud of it but I'm ashamed that for 9 years, no one was able to hear it the way I do, so here it is for the world!
They're all perfect tracks to me, but my favorites are (in order) Mazedude's remixes, Walking the Halls (a.k.a. Bishop's Puzzle), the Queen puzzle, and Bolero (Microbe Puzzle). Walking the Halls and Bolero spring into my head whenever I have to focus in and start thinking deeply about something. That's how impressionable this music was on my young developing mind 20 years ago.
For an in depth discussion about the soundtrack from the man himself, read this interview.
http://www.soundtrack.net/content/article/?id=205
It used to have a working link to the MP3 I used to create this video, but now that link is broken.
Summary of the story of the genesis of the Pirates 1 soundtrack:
Basically, the story is as follows. Alan Silvestri gets hired to score Pirates (proof is in the credits for all Pirates 1 movie trailers). At the last minute, Gore and Bruckheimer decide its not working, so they fire him. Fortunately for Hans, both Gore and Bruckheimer had worked with Zimmer on previous films (Gore's The Ring and Bruckheimer's Crimson Tide & The Rock) and call him up to finish the job. Unfortunately, Hans is in a binding contract with Ed Zwick and Tom Cruise to not work on any other film for the next 6 months until they release The Last Samurai, so Zimmer can't officially work on it. So what does Zimmer do? He gets drunk and jams out with his composing friends for a whole night and produces a 5 minute demo track that contains the Pirates theme and the film score's "sonic world". They finish at 4:56am and title the demo track 4:56am and send it to Bruckheimer who signs Media Ventures (Zimmer's studio which houses under one roof several composers including Klaus Badelt, Blake Neely, Geoff Zanelli and others) to finish the 2 1/2 hour score in 19 days. Thus the crappy mixes, harsh quality, derivative themes, and high energy of the score.
The photo I used to cover Johnny Depp's face is a photo a Hans Zimmer from the 80s or early 90s. He looks a little different now, but that's to be expected after 20 yrs and 100s of film scores.
Part of my 11minLoop playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAmIlCGXhs&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&index=32&playnext=1.
Check out my other loops (including some more DBZ loops) in my 11minLoop playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBa74BX5BA&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&index=30&playnext=1.
Part of my 11minLoop playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J5ck_gmZdI&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&index=38&playnext=1
P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adr8JoJGfI
P2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQbIRTl2IWQ
P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adr8JoJGfI
P3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4D5PVjK89I
P2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQbIRTl2IWQ
P3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4D5PVjK89I
Enjoy!
Part of our 11min Loop playlist, which features many score tracks that deserve to be extended and/or looped for as long as possible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInTQfTQb3k&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&playnext=1
We've looped tracks from Broken Arrow, The Rock, Goldeneye 64, Sim City, Star Craft, and others. We hope you enjoy them. And thanks for listening.
I loved since I heard it in the movie. Maybe because it sounds like an upbeat version of the guitar theme from Hans Zimmer's "Broken Arrow".
Now part of my 11minLoop Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jPqPO7dzI0&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&playnext=1
Part of my 11minLoop playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hDU2K6otE&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&playnext=1.
Part of my 11minLoop playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD38xVXcFDk&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&playnext=1
Bruce Faulconer scored the American Soundtrack for DBZ. Order his CD's or MP3's at http://faulconer.com/dragon.html. ...DBZ ROCKS!!!! :P
P.S. That's my guitar... Cordoba. The Terminator picture I made a while back for fun!!
If you want to know how i did these effects keep reading. If you want the source files (for the logo sequence) please suggest a clean easy way for me to upload it to the internet (maybe I can get Sam n Niko to host for me if they got a site). You will need AfterEffects to do this. I bought it using a Student discount for $900 along with Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop in the Master Collection. I used all of the above for making the video. Yes, it cost me $900 to make this video.
[How-To Coming soon... Below is just me rambling, i'll proof read later]
Logo Sequence:
It's a combination of two layers and a mask. Layer 1: The spiral is its own vector object created in Illustrator (so I can scale it to HD resolution) by importing a screenshot from the Goldeneye opening sequence, then using the Live Trace to Live Paint tool to create the vector points. I then modified the points to clean it up. Layer 2: The background is a jpeg created using Photoshop's clone tool on two source screenshots (one from Goldeneye another from some other earlier bond flick that I found on the internet). The goal was to have a BG without the spirals so I can distort it and not distort the spirals as well. I created a composition in After Effects that had the spiral vector object over the jpeg. Then I added the bulge distortion on the jpeg and moved the bulge from left to right over 4 seconds and moved the jpeg right to left, while keeping the spiral overlay centered. Then when I used the composition I put an ellipse mask over the composition to create the barrel hole. Furthermore, I could use Time Remapping to make the warp occur over a shorter period of time.
[I can provide the jpeg and the illustrator file when I figure out how to upload it somewhere permanent].
Blood Falling: Easy: I created a shape object over the composition that had a red fill and a blend mode of multiply? (i'll have to check). The shape was formed by bezier curves with handles pointing horizontally and points at the top and bottom of an arc (wow, these terms have got to be wrong, plese someone correct me). I then keyframed the points to fall down by changing them by hand at several times. I made sure to have the blood drops race ahead then slow down and the reverse drop (the clean part) was the same but out of phase with the drops.
Gunshots/Blood
I used Action Essentials stock footage: two types of muzzle flares, a dirt charge for the blood (colorized using HSL effect in AE), and one other stock that i can't remember right now. I also used the 3D rotation tool that AE has built in but freddiew showed me how to use in his video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0dPCZS6DU) for the blood flying at a 3/4 angle. The last blood effect was a 2D stock dirt charge colorized and poorly animated.
For animating the gunshots I used the rules set forth by Sam and Niko in their muzzle flash tutorial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtHe76pWfEs).
Music:
All infringed. The first part is from track two of the Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack by David Arnold (something I listen to on a regularly basis for hourS at a time), and the second is the Parodi Fair rendition of the Bond theme.
Bond Footage:
All from Goldeneye. I tried to get shots where people died by falling backwards ridiculously, but these were the only shots in the movie. There's very little gunfight action in that movie.
Title Font:
I downloaded the font from this site: http://www.fontspace.com/filmfonts/007-goldeneye. It's a zip of a ttf. It's safe, I ran a McAffee and anti-malware on the zip, but when i opened it it was just a ttf file. I copied it into the fonts folder by typing "fonts" then enter in the start menu search bar in windows 7 and dragging the uncompressed file into the fonts folder. good luck mac users.
Part of my 11minLoop playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW4e0KoNCI&feature=PlayList&p=430DBB09355A770C&playnext=1
Part of My 11minLoop Playlist (even though it's not a loop): youtube.com/watch?v=iT2tfNikWpw&list=PL430DBB09355A770C
Closing of the Year 11minLoop: youtube.com/watch?v=fDTKypXUwoI&list=PL430DBB09355A770C
In our opinion, the background beat sounds much like the closing theme of "Blade Runner". We noticed how catchy this tune was in the theaters, but realized it went nowheres, but always built up, so we looped it.
Part of my 11 minute loop playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9btVOc4wZdA&feature=BF&list=PL430DBB09355A770C&index=26
Please thumbs up if this video pissed you off thinking about how some people can actually like this shit enough to pay money to the "artist" to get this into a museum, because that's exactly what it was meant to do.
*I put the visual as Hans Zimmer's TDK because he undoubtedly composed the main themes for joker and batman and most (if not all) of this track. He's admitted (source needed) that he brought in James to write Bruce Wayne's persona for the first. James is not involved with the writing of the sequels.
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**Thanks to ErickLVI for writing up what tracks I used for the mix:
- Like A Dog Chasing Cars 0:00 - 3:26
- Why So Serious 3:27 - 5:08
- And I Thought My Jokes Were Bad 5:09 - 6:28
- Agent of Chaos 6:29 - 8:22
- Introduce A Little Anarhcy 8:23 - 11:00
- A Dark Knight 11:01 - 12:43
Cannikin (5 Megaton Nuclear Device Amchitka, Alaska). Excerpt from "Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero". Mind you, the footage is directly above the epicenter, whereas the epicenter of most earthquakes (like the one in Japan) are like a mile or more below the ground and a few miles off-shore. (Don't quote me on that, though). I don't recall how deep this one was buried, but I think 1-2 miles is about right. (Don't quote me on that either!).
(Formerly: "Best Explosion Ever!! Underground Nuclear Explosion! Amazing Upheaval!")
Hannes Kästner
Album:
Bach, J.S.: Organ Music - Preludes and Fugues - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Chorales Preludes.
This album was released in 1988 and it's also available on ITunes :
itunes.apple.com/ca/album/bach-j-s-organ-music-preludes-fugues-toccata-fugue/id389168578
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part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxqXbkcCos)
part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo90LOvGXDY)
part 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URZguldzz3U)