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H A V E N

Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over

Here's the finalized version of the score "The Assassination of Henry William McCarty". This piece I decided to focus on the 1928 Steinway Legacy piano sound. I had been listening to a lot of Thomas Newman's work so everything from "The Road to Perdition" to "Cinderella Man" to even soundtracks like "A Beautiful Mind" by James Horner and "The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford" by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis. Actually it was "The Assassination of Jesse James" that inspired me to write the music with that subtle tone and it was Thomas Newman's styling that helped develop this score. 

Anyway, as the title also entails, this is my submission for the 8Dio contest where you highlight one instrument of theirs in your score. So as I mentioned I picked the 1928 Steinway Legacy scoring piano for my main instrument. I wish I had the Adagio Strings because I know that would have enhanced my score WAY more but alas I'll have to work with my EWQL strings until then. 

Anyway, enjoy the piece and I'll have my other "A Farewell to the Infamous William Henry McCarty" piece finished soon. Share, Comment, Like.

F I R S T | E D I T I O N S - The Assassination of William Henry McCarty by J Scott Rakozy

Enigma - MMX (The Social Song)
Music &amp; Lyrics by Alise Ketnere (Fox Lima) / Marcelo Amaral Pontello (Mark Joshua)
Jérôme Pringault (J. Spring) / Rasa Veretenceviene (Rasa Serra)
Recorded &amp; Engineered with Merlin Mobile Studio
Produced by Michael Cretu
Published at 1-2-3 Music / Crocodile Music
Cover Artwork: Lars Doerwald

ENIGMA - MMX (The Social Song) Fox Lima,  Rasa Serra, Mark Joshua, J. Spring

EO2 Lights out asia-Outstretched to the middle of the sky

still rough and i know the mix off the top is bad and bassy and mid-rangey. haha i'll fix it up!  All in all a really nice emotional track, one of my faves!

The Cogent Project - Movement and weakness  - new mix

The battle has started...
A powerful, driving orchestral piece with brass and choir capturing the Heat of War in a battlefield.


Heat of War

A dreamy seascape and the first track produced using the wonderful new Bitwig!

Ocean Dreams

Started yesterday as an 4 bar idea on my iPad with Figure and finished  today in Bitwig.

Figured it Out

A reflective mood, looking back and remembering those who have fallen in the wars. Featuring piano, double bass and strings.

Memory of the Fallen

An atmospheric piece - As life on Earth evolves from the oceans and the swamps the first Dinosaurs can be seen through the mists roaming across the land.

Mists of Time

A short blast of cinematic epic drama to end with. With drums, trumpets, violins, cellos and a little choir! A longer version is available on request. 

Written for 100 SoundCloud collaboration.

Triumphant Ending

Here's a piece I did back in October for a client down in New Zealand for a six and a half minute time lapse sequence. The imagery itself is unbelievably beautiful! Anyway, so I had a blast writing the music for it where I used some programs I hadn't used in a long time, namely the Heavyocity AEON collection. In addition to that I also used Heavyocity's DAMAGE and Evolve Mutation 1 & 2 and EVOLVE as well. 

The project took some time because when writing to a time lapse sequence as long as that, you gotta figure out where you wanna place hits and you gotta have music that's captivating enough to hold the listeners through the entire video. It reminded me of when I wrote Time Lapse for a client out in Atlanta for their 8 minute video that took me a weekend to write up...it was tough, but so worth it. Same applies to this project! It took me a while to figure out what genre I wanted to go with and then within 3 days I wrote out the entire thing. Anyway, enjoy!

EDIT - also wanted to give credit to my brother, Greg, with the photo that I used for the cover.

H Y P E R D R I V E

Enigma - Sadeness

Lisa Gerrard & Hans Zimmer -  Now We Are Free (ENiGMA Dubz Mix)

After watching The Dark Knight Rises a second time at the IMAX I had an idea...to do an entire cover of The Dark Knight Trilogy. The simple idea was to implement Batman's theme, Joker's theme, and Bane's theme all into one large piece of work. I started it Friday night and have been working on until today, Tuesday. 

So to break it down, the song is divided as such: The Joker's theme is introduced with the dissonant vibe that was pretty much the entire soundtrack of The Dark Knight. It then switches into the main Batman theme with that triumphant sound. It then later comes to Bane's lovely theme....the theme itself wasn't so much complex because it literally is two notes alternating, but it's the rhythmic pattern that defines the theme.....more so, it's suppose to be the same pattern as the chant from The Dark Knight Rises when Bruce Wayne goes to climb the wall. After that theme, then brings back the familiar tunes of Batman's theme and ends exactly like Batman Begins. 

So writing the music, you'd be surprise that I only used EWQL Symphonic Gold and EWQL Storm Drum 2 for this entire project! The only none EWQL instruments I used were from Logic Pro's library.....the synth bass, the GLAM bass, some rhythmic percussion sounds/electronica sounds and the tremolo strings (with a multipressor). And that's it. I saw a lot of batman covers on youtube featuring Symphonic Gold and other programs but the people doing the sequencing and such didn't really put a lot of effort into shaping the sounds to be realistic sounding....so that's when I go and do this and show off what one can really do with Symphonic Gold and Storm Drum 2 if they just dig a lil' bit and not go and splurge their money on numerous other libraries can do the same effect.

ps...also to note. All written on a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8 GB of RAM. Sequenced and Edited in Logic Pro 9 (I upgrade haha!) using EWQL Symphonic Gold and Storm Drum 2 and Logic Pro's own library. Performed on an M-Audio 88es Keystation MIDI controller. All sound was run through an Apogee ONE to a pair of SRH840 studio headphones. All sound libraries are carried on a 500 GB OWC Mercury Elite Pro external hard drive.

So enjoy and share!

Credit goes to Hans Zimmer for original themes
Arranged by J Scott Rakozy

F I L M S || The Dark Knight

Enigma - Return To Innocence (Lenticular Clouds Remix)

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I drew a concept for this remix, based around the hook vocal from the original version "your a million miles from reality". 

i imagined myself undergoing brain surgery, drifting in and out of consciousness whilst it was taking place, on one hand hearing the instruments as they sliced and drilled my brain and then my mind using those sounds and emotions to create an alternate reality deep within the expanses of space, an environment very mechanical,sharp and scientifically structured....

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Knight Riderz-Million Miles (SIA's Nanotech Remix)

This is the 1st musical version for Enigma's "Social Song", which is characterzied as a sort of chill out musical style. Please note that this take is for demonstration purposes only and does not present a full track.

Demo I - Enigma Social Song

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To celebrate two amazing years, Dank 'N' Dirty Dubz brings to you this 11-track Free EP. The release features a wide variety of styles and includes the following tracks:
01 Pink Floyd - Marooned (ENiGMA Dubz Remix)
02 iFa - Omnidub
03 Maddman - Wut U Seyen Bach
04 Requake - I Love
05 Retro - Dreamin'
06 Craggle - Sweet Talk
07 A-List - Voyager
08 Dillard - Lost
09 Sparc - Turntablah (Lokrian Remix)
10 Sub Antix - Culture Shock (p0gman Remix)
11 Controlled Kaos - Other Worlds (VIP)

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THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!!! WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING QUALITY MUSIC WITH YOU FOR MANY MORE YEARS TO COME!!!

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Pink Floyd - Marooned (ENiGMA Dubz Mix) [Free Download @ DANK N DIRTY DUBZ]]

Out to all the supporters and fans, this ones to celebrate 10,000 Facebook likes, can't thank you guys enough!

The vocals on this are by Lisa Gerrard, the same vocalist on the 'Now We Are Free' track I remixed from the film Gladiator.

Also out to Dead Can Dance on some truly amazing music!

Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim (ENiGMA Dubz Mix) [10k FB Likes FREE DOWNLOAD]

This is strictly a demo of what you can achieve with just EWQL Symphonic Gold and Logic Pro's library. So I went and did a rendition of Danny Elfman's beloved score to the first Mission:Impossible (and the best of all 4 of them in my opinion) and decided to show off the power of EWQL's Symphonic Gold program and sounds. All of the rhythmic instruments are found within Logic Pro's library so if you want to know what Logic Pro has to offer, then there you go, otherwise enjoy this short demo!

All rights pertaining to the melody and so on belong to Danny Eflman.

F I L M S || Mission: Impossible

<a title="Request license for this Track." href="http://www.tracksandfields.com/track/request_license?track_name=Imagine+%28Finalized%29&amp;user_name=jscottrakozy&amp;from_sc=1">Request license for this Track.</a>So this piece is a song for a promo video for a backpack designed by students at BYU called the Tessel Jet Pack. The idea for this piece was to keep the idea of when you were a kid you used your imagination for everything. So the marimba is to give way of the idea of still being a child at heart and by keeping it as simple as possible didn't distract the viewers watching the film, but more so being engaged with what this backpack could do. 

The original idea for this piece was a lil' more rock-driven with a shuffling brush kit rhythm but I decided to scratch that all together and re-thought the entire process, wrote it all out in a single night, and presented it to my client who then presented it to his team and they loved it. So there you have it, all written in Logic Pro with all the guitars from Logic Pro's library with instruments from EWQL Symphonic Gold (strings at the end and the marimbas). Anyway, download it for free and enjoy!

Imagine (Finalized)

Thank you SO MUCH for the support over the last 4 or so years people,

To hit 20,000 followers is just madness and I really appreciate the love I get from such sick fans,

Nuff love to everyone :)

ENiGMA Dubz - I Love You (20,000 Followers Free Download)

Composer for Hogwarts Legacy

For inquiries of licensing or projects, please contact at jscottrakozy@gmail.com


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