This one is inspired heavily by the whole space-age movement and UFO fascination back in the 50s-late 60s (and a little bit longer of course; Star Wars was inspired by that sort of stuff). And, of course, inspired by all the alien and UFO sightings going on right now...

Project Alarm - Space-Age Bops / UFO Crash

A New Mission ~ Stage Select (Shitty Mix)

This is kind of my tribute to the very addictive but short-lived "sambass" phase around the very early 2000s, but also a bit of the Japanese influenced side of things like some of what Cornelius did with Pizzicato 5. I have been loving that type of stuff going on RYM and going through the tags to find something interesting to me, because of how much I love these little microgenres. I have also been into bossa nova and samba for a long time so it flowed pretty easily. 

This may be the most "composed" sambass track ever made, next to some of the greats of course like Kaleidoscópio and Marcelinho da Lua. I wanted to respect that culture of music and not just mercilessly loop samples without changing things up or adding my own story to it.

Project Alarm - Amazin' Rainforest

I don't know what the fuck this is but I worked too hard on this to not post it lmao. 

Count this as another remix like my Steamboat Willie track.

CARTOON RIDDIM (Cartoon Network Samplecore)

This one is another "nocturnal beat", but this time inspired by the old crime jazz/big band periods. I think that is important to capture with this project as well is that era because it was the type of thing used so often in cartoons a long time ago! I wanted to capture that scheme-y feeling.

Project Alarm - Trouble in Catlin's Tower

I don't know how it sounds even like this lol

Tina & Tom - Love My Soul (OLD VER BAD PRE MIX)

Believe in me barchboi

During this one's mastering phase I really studied how to make it sound like a vinyl record. Of course, there are many VSTs that emulate that effect and I actually use one of the more popular ones on here in the mix bus and on other busses, BUT, I didn't spam it and it's effect actually turned down quite a bit, mainly because I wanted to sample some of the records I had in my archive. So, I used it to mix real 60s samples with midi instruments!

Otherwise I used an old-style aural exciter on certain parts, and spring reverb, to really give it that retro mastering technique it needs.

For my next album I plan on not using multiband compression, even, but for now, this one used good old Maximus as usual, but with me really studying it to really deliver a 2000s-esque sound, especially in my uploads that will be coming later, of my other finalized tracks ;) Think of the mastering style like the in-between period in the 2000s where DAWs were around but real analog hardware was still used!

Tina & Tom - Theme of the Acoustikitties

Artist & musician living with chronic pain, but inspired by the fun things in life

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