Musicians Of The Horror Board

[wheels128]

What style of music is your band, Arioch?

[baileyrecords]

SInce we're talking music... I'm more into creating "sci-fi electronica" but I'm currently scoring my first indie horror film. I'll have samples from that album up soon... but right now, my current project...

Free Windows Media Player & Real Player formatted streaming audio samples of two complete songs from the upcoming CyberNet Official Roleplaying Soundtrack by Stratos.

#1. Vegas Caches Out
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=354494&T=7145

In order to create a dynamic soundtrack to a "pencil-n-paper" game I needed to conceive various characters, backgrounds, and scenerios that thoses characters would find themselves in - kind of like creating a huge adventure played in my head... and hopefully translated into music.

'Vegas Caches Out' is an example of the "score" of the soundtrack... a short song depicting the death of one of my characters... a cybernetically enhanced young hispanic woman named Vegas.

#2. Dogs of War
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=354499&T=3040

'Dogs of War' is all action. There's 4 distinctly different guitar styles throughout the song... ranging from heavy grunge and punk to flangy funk. This song was sort of inspired by events like the famous Matrix lobby scene and/or just about any other sci-fi gun fight (notice the machine gun under the distorted guitars?!).

'DOW' features guitar work by my college buddy Eric George of the band, All Things Considered.

Both songs are available now for free streaming listening. In about a month I'll make actual mp3 downloads available for free as well (for registered ACIDPlanet.com citizens). If you take the time to register early... you can leave me some reviews on these two songs!

Thanks & Enjoy!

- Stratos

[wheels128]

Bailey,

Hey I really like your stuff. I just listened to Vegas Caches Out and I can see why it's on a soundtrack - it's the sort of music I'd make if I was producing a video game. You've got good scene-setting bits, and when the drums kick in it creates a good upbeat section.

I'd like to hear some more tracks, preferably longer though ... I'm a fan of epic electronica tracks :)

[Arioch]

Nice stuff Bailey.

I liked alot of the stuff going on in the Vegas track. Do you mind if i ask what you used for that?

There is some nice guitar in the 2nd track, but its a little too freeform for my taste. But then again it is a soundtrack so i think it would fall right in line with that genre. I'm more partial to the first track tho.

Nice stuff tho, and welcome to the board.

[baileyrecords]

Thanks wheels128 & Arioch - glad you guys like the songs. Thanks too for the positive feedback.

More songs will come shortly after March 17th. The album drops online on May 11th. I have several gaming convention appearances throughout the Summer & Fall scheduled where the soundtrack will also be available. Lots of opportunities to pick it up!

As for the length of the songs... generally speaking I do 4-5 minute songs. However, for the CyberNet Official Roleplaying Soundtrack I opted for 24 shorter tracks filling in 70+ minutes on one CD instead of 12 or so epic songs. Every track I recorded tells a little piece of an imaginary tale... and the numerous short tunes was a better format than longer.

As for recording... I use Sonar on my PC. I had access to 5 different keyboards/synths/electric piano - including my favorite little microKORG. I use a Korg Electribe rhythm synth (ER-1), and lots of layered loops & samples from Sony/Sonic Foundry Acid packages, Computer & Future Music magazines, and online resourses. I also played a lot of the bass guitar myself and had guest musicians on most of the guitar work and some of the drum patterns.

Thanks again guys!

- Stratos

[Evisceration]

w00t!

My new band finally recorded our first song, although it does have bad acoustics, it sounds great.

But we'll probably touch it up also once we get done recording the others.

Hit me up on AIM or something to get it, since I don't know how to post it.;)

[Arioch]

Hey Evis, great to hear man. You should hit me up on aim (ariochPRIME is my sn) so i can hear it. I might be able to host it for you on my site as well, so you could post it. But im not sure how much space i have left so ill have to check. Im really interested in hearing it though, and we should find a way to let all these people hear it.

Anyone else got anything coming up? Im about to finish up the 2nd song of the 2 i said i was working on like forever ago. So i should be posting those pretty soon. Ill keep you guys updated.

[Evisceration]

liek, my band (Flood The Veins) has been very very busy as of late. We played our first show at the begining of the month, which went great. I have tons of pics. (Even got some chick to flash me, great turn out.:D ) And we've made an ass load of songs.

Right now we're working on this really strange remake of Metallica's "Master Of Puppets." We don't really want to make a typical cover song, so we're trying to do it all in a 5/8's time, while keeping the Metallica sound somewhat. It's definately a challange, but we're looking foreward to what it sounds like when we get everything figured out.

Our next show is on the 12th, hopefull we'll have MOP done by then.

[last bad move]

well my situation is kinda weird i was this named section 8 but i moved from mi to az well i figured that i was out but one of the guitarist called me up and told me he wanted me to play the bass for the band instead so latley ive been getting and sending emails full of tabs. so far we have about 20 songs made and 5 recorded and we havent seen eachother in months. hopfully ill be able to put some on here as mp3 (if i ever figue it out)

[Arioch]

First of all thats a pretty cool name for the band.

Thats great about your first show, how long have you guys been together?

Thats hardcore about the MOP song. My guitar teacher used to tell me if your gonna do a cover do it "as good or better" than the original. It sounds like you guys are gonna do some really cool shit with that, i never would have thought about putting it in a different time signature, thats hardcore. I bet its gonna own, especially around that slow part with that solo. Youll HAVE to get some mp3's of that shit.