Ithaca Audio collaborated with DDB South Africa to create this in depth sound design piece for the icon Volkswagen Beetle.

The ad recreates the sounds of a Beetle being unlocked, the sun roof being opened and then the car being driven away. To highlight the tag line "More outside on the inside", we were tasked with recreating all these sounds using a collage of natural sounds. For example the sound of the car engine starting is a combination of ducks, chaffinches, a flock of pigeons taking off and two horses.  

This spot was followed up by a advert focusing on using more suburban sounds to the same effect.

Client: Volkswagen
Agency: DDB
Sound Design: Ithaca Audio
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Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet  - Radio Commercial: Nature

This genre is typically characterized by fast breakbeats (160bpm), with heavy bass, sub lines and occasional infra-bass lines.  This track attempts to take the traditional concepts of Drum and Bass and present them in new experimental directions.

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Activity Arcade

We're big Marvin Gaye fans here at Ithaca and 2014 marks 30 years since his untimely death. So we put together this live, projection-mapped mix featuring one of our favourites as a tribute to the 'Prince of Soul'. 

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We specialise in audio visual remixing, sound design and out of the ordinary interactive works for digital, TV and live performance.
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Tracklist
Ludivico Einaudi - Waterways
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
The XX - Intro
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Louis Armstrong - It Don't Mean a Thing
The Who - Baba O'Reilly
Radiohead - High and Dry
The Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight

That Feeling

Civil Decay is an instrumental Hip Hop track with a strong rhythmic structure. Hip hop music, also referred to as rap or rap music, is a style of popular music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s.

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Civil Decay

Our 'unofficial' mashup mix of all the nominated artists for the 2014 Mercury Prize

Tracklist:
Anna Calvi - Sing to me
Bombay Bicycle Club - Whenever, wherever
Bombay Bicycle Club - Eyes off you
Damon Albarn - Hostiles
East India Youth - Total strife forever
FKA Twigs - Numbers
GoGo Penguin - Shock and awe
Jungle - Busy earnin'
Jungle - Accelerate
Jungle - Platoon
Kate Tempest - The heist
Kate Tempest - The truth
Nick Mulvey - April
Polar Bear - Two storms
Royal Blood - Come on over
Royal Blood - Figure it out
Young Fathers - Get up

Mercury Mix 2014

Orbital is an Electronic track created with electronic devices. The piece would fall into the genre of EDM, also known as Electronic Dance Music.

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Orbital

A quick Parks and Recreation/Daft Punk mashup ahead of the last season. 
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSmBaQulIo

Daft and Recreation

A quick mashup of Dr Who and Blondie's 'Call Me' 

Call Me Doctor

Friday Soundscape 19: This week we used a lot of electric guitar, temp synced synths and skippy beats to create this melodic track.

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Free to download and use under a Creative Commons license.

Lights Out

An audio version of our 24 video mashup: http://www.vimeo.com/ithacaaudio/rolling-in-the-beats

Featuring:
The Prodigy - Mindfields
Ludovico Einaudi - Nightbook
Haddaway - What is love
The Streets - Turn the page
4th Avenue Jones - Move on
Layo & Bushwaka - Love story
Adele - Rolling in the deep
The Killers - All these things that I've done
Death in Vegas - Aisha
Beyonce - Crazy in love
Felix Mendelssohn - A midsummer night's dream
DJ Shadow - Organ donar 
Destiny's Child - Bug a boo
DJ Shadow - The number song (T La Rock - Breakdown / Don Covay - Bad Luck)
Daft Punk - Around the world
Queen/David Bowie - Under pressure
Aretha Franklin - Deeper love
Peter Carpenter - The theme from Magnum P.I
Klaxons - Gravitys rainbox (Soulwax remix)
Michael Jackson - Scream
The Verve - Bittersweet symphony
Run DMC/Aerosmith - Walk this way
Basement Jaxx - Do your thing
Faithless - Take the long way home

Free to download - Wav version via the SoundCloud download link
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Rolling in the beats

A History of Rock in 15 minutes. 

348 rockstars, 84 guitarists, 64 songs, 44 drummers, 1 mashup.

See the video version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zflDkNJ99o

Download audio version: http://bit.ly/1W5YMyO 

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Tracklist 
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
The Yardbirds - For your Love
The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Cream - Sunshine of your Love
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times 
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part 1)
The Kinks - You Really Got Me
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Queen - Don't Stop Me
Queen - Radio Ga Ga 
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
Queen - A Kind of Magic
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Who - Baba O'Riley 
The Who - Eminence Front
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Deep Purple - Living Wreck
The Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
Aerosmith - Walk this Way
Aerosmith - Dude Looks Like a Lady
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
The Clash - Train in Vain (Stand by Me)
The Police - Roxanne
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Duran Duran - Girls on Film
Duran Duran - Wild Boys
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
David Bowie - Let's Dance
David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
Guns N' Roses - Mr Brownstone
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
AC/DC - Back in Black
Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack
Rage Against the Machine - Guerrilla Radio
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Oasis - Supersonic
Oasis - Live Forever
Blur - Song 2
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Radiohead - High and Dry
Radiohead - Idioteque
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
Foo Fighters - All My Life
U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Linkin Park - One Step Closer
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
The Strokes - 12 51
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

History of Rock

This week in our Free Library Music project we have an epic orchestral Dubstep track. This is following on from our Dubstep tracks from the previous two weeks:

http://soundcloud.com/ithaca-audio/good-morning
and
http://soundcloud.com/ithaca-audio/iron-lungs

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As always the track is free to download and use under a Creative Commons license

Black Leaf

This weeks Free Library Music track makes us of a lot of 80s style FM synthesis. You can find out more at:

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Nineteen eighty four

11 track live mashup.

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Tracks used:
Hans Zimmer - Time
Howard Blake/Aled Jones - Walking in the air
Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle without honor or humanity
Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams - Drop it like it's hot
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Beastie Boys/Jeremy Steig - Sure shot/Howlin' for Judy
Jay-z - 99 Problems
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
Max Sedgley - Happy
Led Zepplin - Whole lotta love

Walking in your mind

Number 28 in our Free Library Music Project. This track features a four on the floor beat with a string quartet, oboe, piano, dudek and various percussion and electronic elements.

The track is free to download and use in your own projects under a creative commons license.

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Dante

Number 29 in our Free Library Music Project.. This week we have gone Electro again, but with a bit of a twist. Featuring some interesting keyboard sounds from the excellent Omnisphere synth/sampler, live bass and an atmospheric build in the middle.

Created in 4 hours.

The track is free to download and use in your own media projects under a creative commons license. 

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Daze Machine

Number 31 in our Free Library Music project. This week we have an eerie tremolo strings phrase accompanied by marimba and a boys choir. 

Free to download and use in your own projects.

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Kyrie

Track number 32 in our free library music project. This week we have gone for a laid back summer vibe with mellow strings, sitar, gospel choir, celeste and piano.

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Summer is coming

Our Free Library Music Project track was created this week by Andy from Ithaca Audio. 

The track mixes repetative piano phrases, string elements and woodwind melodies into an evolving piece of music.

Free to download and use under a creative commons license.

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Spires

This weeks free track features evolving strings, acoustic bass, and lots of interesting guitar parts.

Created by Andy from Ithaca Audio
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Free to download and use under a Creative Commons license. 
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Grey Horizons

For our free track this week we have focused on minimalist composition principals. Making use of piano, gospel choir, double bass and some advanced sampling and synthesis techniques.

Created by Chris from Ithaca Audio in 3 hours. 

Free to download and use under a creative commons license.

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Beyond the black door

Week 38 of the Free Library Music project. 

This week we have an electro track with a brutal bassline inspired by the likes of Justice and SebastiAn.

Free to download and use under a Creative Commons license

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I'm only dancing

Week 43 of the Free Library Music project. This week we have a piano led, atmospheric orchestral piece for you.

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Free to use under a CC license.

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Night Hopes

Our new London Themed 26 Track Live Projection Mapping Mashup.

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Tracks used:
Eurythmics - Winston's diary (1984)
Night and the City
Mary Poppins - Stay awake
Queen - A kind of magic
Amy Winehouse - You know I'm no good
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Blur - Song 2
Amy Winehouse - Stronger than me
Jamiroquai - Deeper underground
Dizzee Rascal - Fix up, look sharp
Quincy Jones - It's caper time (self preservations society)
Adele - Rumor has it
John Murphy - 28 days later
Led Zepplin - Whole lotta love
Faithless - Insomnia
Florence & the Machine - You got the love
The Clash - London calling
Eastenders
Queen - We are the champions
Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
Klint - Diamond (Snatch)
The Kinks - You really got me
Are you being served
Only fools and horses
Queen - Another one bites the dust
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

Created using Ableton Live, Max for Live, Resolume Arena, Madmapper, 3 laptops and 

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The City is London

This week we try our had at a bit of electro disco. With some reversed piano, electric guitar, and a whole ton of synths and off beat hi-hats.

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Safe Sushi

This weeks free track is a dreamy piano based orchestral piece that reaches a climactic end by taking advantage of pounding drums and staccato strings.

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Free to use in media projects under a CC license.

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Lucid Dream

A real mix of a track with vintage drums and double bass, mute trumpet, flamenco guitar, string pizz, cut up vocals and lots more thrown in.

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Free to use in productions under a CC license

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The Speakeasy

This week we experimented with a large number of sounds and effects to create a truly atmospheric electronic piece featuring heavily processed guitars, strings, drums and sound design elements. 

Free to download.
Free to use in media projects under a Creative Commons license.

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Beyond All Control

Our latest 16 track live mashup performed on a 23 year old Tascam 1” tape machine.  

Celebrating 50 years of the cassette tape. The format that brought us mixtapes and the birth of home sampling culture.

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Tracks used:
Jose Gonzalez - Crosses
Etta James – Something's got a hold on me
Florrie - Give me your love
Soul II Soul - Back to life
Katy B - Katy on  a mission
Reverend and the Makers - Champion of the world
Labrynth - Eathquake
Liquid - Sweet Harmony
Gwen Steffani - What you waiting for?
The Ohio Players - Fire
La Roux - In for the kill
Prodigy - Smack my bitch up
Deadmau5 - Ghosts n Stuff Nero Remix 
Deadmau5 - Raise your weapon
Adele - Skyfall
The Supremes - Come see about me

The Mixtape

Ithaca's bespoke soundtrack to our Waterfall installation for Christmas at Kew 2019.

Christmas at Kew - Waterfall

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A 19 track live mashup performed on re-wired video game controllers.
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We took a look back at 35 years of video game music (Space Invaders, released in 1978 was the first game to have a continuous soundtrack), picked some of our favourites and mashed them with other tracks we love.

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Game Theory

Ithaca Audio is a dynamic music composition and sound design company based in Brighton, UK. We specialise in music for advertising, marketing, TV and film.

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