A couple semi-musical musings

[Josiah Tobin]

Just two songs I recorded over the past couple days. The first one's a mellow acoustic sort of thing, probably derived from listening to too much Jack Johnson. Pretentiously happy.
http://www.distractionware.com/josiahtob...tered).mp3

I won't harbor any ill will if you guys hate me for this next one... :lol:
It's a cover of a Silent Hill 2 song called Angels Thanatos-- I haven't actually played the game much, but a friend showed me the song from the soundtrack and it was just too cool not to cover.

Now here's the catch... Ultimate lo-fi horribly recorded trash rock production! This song is meant to sound like a crappy, clipped, over-compressed first take of a garage rock band's demo on an old dusty vinyl being played on a turntable with half-blown speakers.

For some reason I really like how it sounds. It sounds like shit, but intentionally so, and... I dunno, maybe I'm just gaining an appreciation for stupidly lo-fi stuff. :lol: Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.distractionware.com/josiahtob...anatos.mp3

Don't blame me for any damage to your ears.

~Josiah

EDIT:
Here's a version of Angel's Thanatos with redone guitars, hi-fi drums and none of the layers of distortion and noise:
http://www.distractionware.com/josiahtob...earmix.mp3
Since people on other forums seem to find the lo-fi one to be a bit much. :p

[moochthemonkey]

the first was pretty nice sounding...I didnt like the vocal much but it was a pretty cool sounding song...

[Josiah Tobin]

Hell March Redux. I guess I'm obsessed with covering this song.
http://www.distractionware.com/josiahtob...20mix1.mp3

[DrV]

Very cool - sounds much "fuller" or something than the other version I remember you doing.

[Josiah Tobin]

Very cool - sounds much "fuller" or something than the other version I remember you doing.

That other version was actually recorded by a friend; I just mixed and mastered it for him. This version is mine. :p It's not done yet though... There's a whole second half I cut out of this version because it wasn't done yet; I have a couple friends doing some absolutely ripping solos for it. (I think that's the first time I've used the phrase 'absolutely ripping')

[BadMrBox]

Crap, only the sunny island file loaded. Quite nice . I have wondered for a while, if I get my act together and starting to work on my fps for real, would you mind making a track for it?

[Josiah Tobin]

Crap, only the sunny island file loaded. Quite nice . I have wondered for a while, if I get my act together and starting to work on my fps for real, would you mind making a track for it?

Hey, sure thing. Depending on what kinda music you want, I might be willing to make you up a whole soundtrack, since I'm trying to do lots of stuff I could put on a resume sometime down the road if I ever pursue my dream of composing music for games. (Not to say that I'd just throw together random shit as resume filler; I would feel terrible for doing that. I always try to do my best )

[BadMrBox]

The Mick Turate project has been put on the shelf for a while. The weapon sprites was a pain in the ass and drained to much energy from me really. I will resume work on the game when some of the other projects we have is done. And we have a whole bunch of other projects and I don't think that Freemax want's or have time to do all the soundstracks.
I was thinking if you feel like helping out with some music for The Tales of Sophy II instead perhaps?

[Josiah Tobin]

I was thinking if you feel like helping out with some music for The Tales of Sophy II instead perhaps?

Sure, I could give it a shot. Any particular style you have in mind-- real instrumentation, tracked...? If you have a list of some of the songs you'll need, that'd be helpful too.

[BadMrBox]

Sure, I could give it a shot. Any particular style you have in mind-- real instrumentation, tracked...?

Sophy's gonna run around in a gothlike castle fighting monsters (much like in the first game) so something dark and not to happy would be great .

If you have a list of some of the songs you'll need, that'd be helpful too.

What songs I can come too think of as for now is:
A title song - shouldn't be very long
Main themes - the songs playing when running around. Loopfriendly. I'm not sure how many I will need as I'm not sure on how long I want the game too be.
Battle songs - One for ordinary enemies and one for bosses.

That's what I can think about now.