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[SPAM] 1980s Film Theme
 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-02-05 17:13 [#02045449]
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In honour of just getting the Tango & Cash
soundtrack, I whipped up a little film theme for an
imaginary 1980s film, featuring two LA cops, Mango & Trash.

Mango is a by-the-book kinda guy, buff and good looking...
and always looking for love! Trash is a moody and troubled
young man, trying to get by, haunted by the accidental
killing of his police dog one bitter night two years back.

Mango & Trash

Composed entirely in FL Studio 5 using Edirol Hyper
Canvas VSTi. Not affiliated with Tango or Cash.



 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-02-05 18:08 [#02045475]
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Ha! It's brilliant, you should do more of these fantasy 80s
film soundtracks, it's very authentic sounding, genius.

I am going to write these very same words in an email to
you.



 

offline uviol from United States on 2007-02-05 18:35 [#02045477]
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Good work, very nice sound to it.. and I could just eat
those drums right up. Harold would be proud.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-02-05 19:05 [#02045485]
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It's thanks to you that I got this idea :)

I'm currently working on the slow sad theme, complete with
80s sax soloing :D


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2007-02-05 19:11 [#02045487]
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I don't remember anything the music in that movie (all I
remember is that crazy vehicle) but I like this a lot.
Although it kind of makes me think of Unsolved Mysteries,
not a buddy movie.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-02-05 19:17 [#02045489]
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Thanks Ophy. It's not meant to be like the music from
Tango & Cash, just have a certain evocation of the
soundtrack music from that time, particularly Faltermeyer's
:)


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2007-02-05 19:26 [#02045491]
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It definitely works. But it sounds foreboding to me, this
must be darker fare. One of the cops must bite it at the
end.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-02-05 19:36 [#02045494]
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Shh don't give the ending away ;)


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2007-02-05 21:14 [#02045519]
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The tune sounds great and is catchy, but maybe it's a little
more Military Madness than buddy cop soundtrack I think.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-05 22:25 [#02045561]
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end credits for that one old movie where some porn star
fights a space vampire.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-02-06 13:08 [#02045993]
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Debbie Does Transylvania?

It's annoying that Edirol VSTis reset the instruments when
you re-open them. A right pain in the backside :\


 

offline shady from chicago (United States) on 2007-02-06 13:30 [#02046005]
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yeah this was realy good, awsome job.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-06 13:38 [#02046009]
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lovely. i felt like i was there, Mango holding me in his
tree-trunk-like arms.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-02-06 14:03 [#02046036]
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more reverb on the snare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

other than that, awesome!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-06 15:38 [#02046112]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-06 15:39 [#02046114]
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i mean


 

online big from lsg on 2007-04-02 15:40 [#02068665]
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these are two of my favorite pieces of the moment


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2007-04-02 16:08 [#02068666]
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Terrific composition and orchestration. I'd love to hear
what you could do with one of those crazy ass huge
orchestral sample sets instead of just an edirol plug
(though the sounds here definitely suit the material).


 

offline B123 from The wicked underbelly (Australia) on 2007-04-02 20:32 [#02068733]
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That was excellent. Great theme too, love 80's 'by the
numbers' movies.


 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-04-02 20:38 [#02068734]
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Nicely done. I was hoping for an Axel F style tune though!



 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-04-04 13:27 [#02069311]
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Thanks for the new listens :) I was planning on composing
the 'Main Theme' for it, more in the style of Axel F et al,
but the power pack on my laptop was broken (by my daughter),
and it's taken nearly a month to get a new one - fiasco
because HP laptops now have to have a very specific
powerpack, and they don't supply it themselves... anyway,
I'll get to work on it once I've completed the cover
version/remix of The Everly Brothers' All I Have To Do Is
Dream
, which I'd started before my laptop became
unusable.


 

online big from lsg on 2007-04-04 13:40 [#02069314]
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was the sax played in live (with a keyboard) or pianorolled?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-04-04 15:18 [#02069364]
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The sax was programmed note by note in piano roll :) I don't
have a MIDI keyboard (well, I have a Roland electric piano
with MIDI capability but don't use it for such), so all my
stuff is programmed note by note: I actually prefer it that
way.


 


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