Inspired by Buying In Bulk

Here's a new track that we recorded after a recent trip to Costco.  It's always fun to go digging around in that big metal crate of cardboard boxes when you are done checking out.  Glock bought a ten-pound bag of apples.  I bought $40 worth of coffee.  Looks like we're good until next week.

Enjoy the tune and, as always, thanks for listening!

Another Battle Track

This time it's for a Boss Battle!  For this track, we tried to maintain the same feel as the previous battle theme.  Complete with the same one...two build that we use during the breakdown into the build up.  The though behind it was to try to keep the track familiar but to also raise the tension level so that the player would know that they were, indeed, fighting a tough opponent.

I really like how the toms turned out on this track.  Switching to the floor tom from the snare for the second phrase worked out well.  That's something I do quite often during our jams but rarely does it make its way into our actual compositions.

Enjoy!

Carny Death Peddlers Released

Carny Death Peddlers  has been released!  Old-school beat 'em up action at its finest!  We did the soundtrack and it rocks your face!  Download and play it for FREE!

Another Surf Song

So here's a new surf track that we are working on.  I'll probably end up remixing it, but I think I like the structure.  We used a bunch of different instruments and really tried to create a lot of layers for this one.

Hope you dig!

Carny Death Peddlers B-Side

This is the first track that we made for Carny Death Peddlers.  As the soundtrack progressed, however, it just didn't fit in with the overall tone of the rest of the tracks.  It killed us, but we decided to cut it.  We still love this track, though, and think it deserves some kind of attention.

So here it is!  Attend to it.

Bad Ass Battle Theme

The one track that we always have fun making while working on RPG soundtracks is THE BATTLE THEME.  Most traditional RPG soundtracks are kind of hard for us.  The instrumentation is usually limited to more organic sounds.  The time signatures are sometimes funky (for us, anyway.)  And, worst of all, we are limited to about 40-45 second loops (due to the prevalence of random battles, there is simply no sense in making the loops any longer; the player will never really hear beyond 30 seconds before being interrupted.)

The one track that doesn't seem to suffer from any of these down-sides is the battle theme.  For whatever reason, battle tracks just seem to jump out of us. We usually start our brainstorming by imagining the pixelated battleground.  With this image in mind, we start jamming.  Within seconds, we always seem to have a good skeleton of a track that we can then expand upon.

This is the Random Battle Theme for the game Dungeonmen.  Honestly, this soundtrack was a bit of a chore to get through.  There were nights that were downright painful for us.  In the end, we turned out a really good soundtrack, but man was it tough.  A looming deadline didn't really help matters, either.

Having said all that, the three battle themes actually came quite easy.  Maybe that's why they stand out so much.  Then again, maybe it's all in our heads and these tracks are no better or worse than the rest of the soundtrack.  Anyways... hope you dig it.  We'll post more of our BATTLE THEMES in the future.

Surf Set, Suckas!

So the pixel artist on Carny Death Peddlers asked us to do a surf track for the title theme of the game.  We have never really had an opportunity to make a surf track, so we were psyched to finally do one.  We have both been HUGE fans of The Ventures since middle school.  Glock honed a lot of his guitar chops by learning each and every track off of their Live In Japan album.

As it turned out, we did a pretty good job on this track.  All of the feedback has been positive and it is one of our most frequently played tracks on Soundcloud.  So we've decided that we are going to be making some more surf songs.  We have until Halloween before Carny Death Peddlers is released and we don't really have any other projects lined up at the moment.  Seems like a good opportunity to expand our work in the genera.

We will post more songs as we finish them.  Until then, enjoy this one!