Kevin Macleod songs

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A collection of songs that I like for some reason or another.

Cool Crap

Battle

This is certainly not my best work, but it's a fun little DnB song I've recently finished. Would appreciate any criticism before this goes up on Newgrounds.

Enjoy!

SkyDrive

One of the main melodies is blatantly based on Starbomb's "Luigi's Ballad."

Lately I've been taking another look at how I do my mixing and mastering, and I believe I've achieved a cleaner result with this track than I have previously. I think this one turned out pretty alright.

Enjoy!

StarDrive

Cyclops Attack

Standing Strong

The Sky Ablaze

Closing In

On The Offensive

Piano, Cello and Bass in a simple elegant piece.

Water Lily

Nothing says "It'll be okay" quite like a ukulele.
Ask your doctor if this track is right for you.

Carefree

This is a sort of electronic music with a heavy backbeat and thumpin' bass. There is a significant change in theme at around 2 minutes - so if the beginning is a bit boring, you can start there. There is another fun change at around 3:30. If you didn't like the previous bits, just start there! I think you get the picture.

EDM Detection Mode

This is somewhat relaxing, while still having some forward momentum. Kind of like sleeping on a train... or taking MBA classes. I like the spinney-sounding synths. The chorus effects give this piece a watery feel. Kind of like a shimmering pond... or being on hold for an insurance company run by sperm whales.

Jellyfish In Space

Is someone dying onscreen, but you still need some dialog so you can't go up against a solo oboe (the universal musical shorthand for death scenes)? We got this! Dark and moving, this piece will make you cry and not get in the way of those final bits of dialog! Also useful for sullen montage sequences of clergy activities.

Lost Time

This is a remake of an old song, Horizon. It uses some of the same structure, but I changed it up hugely half way through. This is my first time working with/writing lyrics, so I don't think they're the best, but using a vocoder is fun and I'm somewhat happy with how they turned out.

I don't think my mastering is up to scratch in this one, to be honest. I'm completely sick of hearing this song so I'm not really sure what it sounds like. Maybe I'm just holding myself to ridiculous standards after hearing Xilent so much recently.

I've had some comments on my snares, and I'd like to point out that in my drum and bass songs I go for a dubstep kind of snare sound. That is, fat. I like it fat. 

Consequently, this song is loosely based on Au5 and Collin McLoughlin's "Tendril." Good fucking song.

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Afterglow (ft Roy)

Very moody little piece with some melodic interest. Tension could be high grade or low grade depending on your context. Waiting for a drug deal to go through in Belize? This'll work. Concerned about the health of your hyacinth macaw while waiting at the vet office? This'll work. Waiting for the OSHA all-clear at your box factory? This'll work. It is mainly about waiting for things. Probably not good things.

Crypto

Five! Five full minutes of battle fighting action bits with a bit of an Egyptian flair! For some reason I associate English horn with desert nomads. There must have been some cultural reference in my youth to that effect. Super crazy awesome brass is super crazy awesome... wait for it... you'll be glad you did!

Curse Of The Scarab - Full With Tail

Starts small, gets big... then smaller, then REALLY big... then small again. Kind of like a turtle. Actually, it is entirely possible that I just kept seeing different turtles. I mean, they all sort of look like turtles; I wasn't tagging them or marking them with chalk or anything. Chalk will probably just wash off in the pond anyway. Oh! Kind of like a puffer fish! Like a musical puffer fish! Perfect.

Ryno's Theme

Wikipedia describes the Thunderbird as "a supernatural bird of power and strength". It will also ask you to disambiguate it from the automobile made by Ford from 1955 to 2005. I'm sure it was a nice car. I've never owned one. But there were a lot of them! The late 70's Thunderbirds are particularly horrifying... They had those headlight covers that flipped up... because that was a good idea at some point. But this piece! Oh! This piece! Atmosphere like you wouldn't believe! The flute is just so earthy! The organic drones are also beautiful. The whole thing is beautiful. Kind of like you went to an alien day spa in another dimension where days last for years, but you still never get all wrinkly when you're in the bubbly warm waters. mmmm... bubbly warm waters... with the slight possibility of a serial killer.

Thunderbird

It is the future? It certainly sounds like it... What would I use this for? Probably a video game with non-action gameplay. Certainly a montage of some futuristic film... or maybe one of those sandwiched scenes where a person is walking in the rain, but you don't get any of the sounds of the actual rain... just this piece. No dialog, no voiceover, just walking. Do they have a name for those scenes? They must.

Floating Cities

This piece starts BIG. Originally, this piece started slowly and built... and then I got bored and chopped out all the slowness. There are still dynamics, but if you need bigness from the get-go - here's what you get! Vroom! BIG BIG BIG!
Could be too big. Could be. Probably isn't.


Killers

This was finished around a month ago, but for some reason I just didn't upload it. I don't really know why.

It's extremely similar to previous pieces (except a little better mixed) and so I suppose I'm worried that it'll be another "Winter Star" (previous song that I removed because it was similar to Jetstream.)

This might not be a final version, as I have another 4-5 days to refine to for Newgrounds if I get any major criticism.

But yeah, enjoy!

Ocean of Stars

I'm a composer what writes musics for the peoples! It can be used in videos, or games, or videos games! Bus terminals, day spas, tiger-watching safaris... Anything you would like music for! See my site for attribution requirements.

Killers

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