Remastered Metapop Entry for a comp I entered almost 4 years ago! Goodbye Metapop! Now with a better mix as well (replaced previous upload)

Julia Kahn - Lights On - a niCKed remiX

Second entry for BB59 - this time picking up the seasons I left out before. Starts in Spring and ends in Summer - and what could be sunnier than some Latin flavours, woodblocks and shakers? Perhaps it's cutting corners rolling two seasons into one, rather than doing each of the four individually. Fantastic challenge from MSGSaltsweet and Alynne. I really enjoyed putting this together. Comments welcome. Oh - and doing brass with MIDI instruments is tough - sometimes it works and sometimes it does not - I am undecided here!

BB59 April Showers / Summer Rain

Matoma's excellent track, redone for the much older Indy Rock generation. Competition is running on SKIO

Matoma - Sound of Shadows (niCKed Rocky RemiX)

For beat battle 67 - a challenge to do something sub aquatic. Passages are from Jules Verne's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. Everything else done using Pigments 5. And I do mean everything!

Nemo's Nefarious Nautilus (BB67 Sub Aquatic miX)

Another Beat Battle. Number 75 feels like an EPIC landmark! So, taking some African style samples from friend HC and arranging them into something more western and casual sounding turned out to be a bit of a challenge. Don't know if I succeeded - there was a lot of de-tuning and melodyne involved! But maybe it works... just.

BB75 Kalanaah

Moog synth Challenge on Discord channel MUFO https://discord.com/channels/1080881941160665109/1239115171327246376

So - this song heavily relies on Arturia's Mini Moog Emulation - the Mini V. The only thing that isn't a "mini Moog" are the electronic drums, the vocals and the ocean SFX. Enjoyed doing this one. The Mini V is a LOT more CPU friendly (and I think sounds better, or at least more musical) than the CS80. Lemme know what you think! There are a LOT of synth layers in this one...

Ocean (Sea of Moog miX)

Made for the Repost Exchange remix challenge. And what could be better than flipping this song into more smokey-jazz territory. I even think it works quite well, but am open to criticism and/or roasting! Comments welcome here :)

Big up to Ink Instruments - their "Amateur Orchestra" is just so damn good!

Kisses (feat. bbyclose) niCKed Jazzy miX

Excellent song, but sorry - I just cannot help myself and flipped this into a more folky genre - two genres even, Country AND Western. Hope people like it - I had a lot of fun making it. Thanks to Symmetrik for making their stems available!

Caroline by Symmetrik (niCKed remiX)

So here we are - and only the second time I have attempted a track like this. And boy is this a fun genre to work with. I like it because it is fairly minimal without a ton of layers - which gives you room to breath and try things out - especially with the bass. If it was any more fun I'd probably get myself arrested, or at least have to get naked. And nobody wants that.

Thanks to my friend @onedarksid313 for inspiring me to take part in this beat battle - this won't be the last time I make a Riddim/Dubstep track!

UR So Beautiful (Darkside Tribute Mix)

Remix of M0usewhisperer's superb mix... I went more acoustic for my version, with UJAM Mellow bass, acoustic and electric guitars and, of course, a Hurdy Gurdy.

The original (which I advise you to hear) can be found at this link: 

https://soundcloud.com/random_landscaping/terminal-absolution?si=e5f06bb5da094728a17cb28dfba30171&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

@random_landscaping

Terminal Absolution (niCKed Organic Mix)

Make the soundtrack for a battle with an "end boss". So that's what I did (I thought of the "Murder of Crows" character in Biosphere 3 - that's how long it's been since I played computer games). Apart from the drums (and the crows) - all instruments are from Arturia Pigments version 6. What a fantastic synth.!

The Big Bad Scary Boss Fight Song (Murder of Crows)

Same sort of idea as "Keys of Fate" - but with strings...

Strings of Destiny

Another beat battle track with the snare chopped from a drum loop and placed on the third beat. A more orchestral bent to this one on this occasion.

Third Snare from the Sun

First SKIO remix I have done for a while - this one was just BEGGING to be turned into reggae. I think it works, lemme know what YOU think!

Flight Facilities - Crave You (a niCKed remiX)

Only human voice in here. 

Something I made a long time ago - a challenge to use only vocal samples provided by friend Ian Collins for a track. 

Vox in Socks (BB10 challenge)

Skio Remix competition entry. My version of Major Lazer "Powerful", turned into Americana pop music.

Major Lazer - Powerful (feat. Ellie Goulding & Tarrus Riley) niCKed remiX

Track made entirely from Venus Theory Noctua and presets from Lunacy Audio's Cube and Beam. Drums are from Cameron's wonderful "Drum Shoppe" - which turned out to be really punchy and interesting (I'll def use again).

Roll VT

Beat Battle 102 - make a "Cinematic House Track" - hosted by friend MSGSaltSweet. I have never made a house track in my life - and I think it shows. Had a lot of fun bending the given samples into wierd shapes though!

Grounded (BB102 Cinematic House Thing miX)

So I did a lounge rock cinematic thing...

BB102 Cinematic Lounge

For Beat Battle 103 - make and "intelligent" drum and bass track - which to my mind is a sub-genre of drum and bass from the 90s (when dance music became the intellectual choice and rock, the opposite). I suppose now you might call this Ambient Drum and Bass, or Cinematic Drum and Bass. I think of it as music with breakbeats. Hope you like it and I welcome your comments!

Sunflower Prayer Bowls (BB103 Drum and Bass miX)

BB 1 zero 3

My country version of the excellent "Crash" - by Kennedy Wilde. For In The Mix remixing competition. This version is just for fun - will submit something else as my entry to the competition...

Kennedy Wilde - Crash (niCKed Country remix)

For Sonic Labs! Make a track using predominately free synth plugins. Well alright then. And seeing as UAD's Polymax was recently made FREE - I made this. All instruments are Polymax and all drums are made from synth samples. I think it kinda works - what do you think? Comments expressing love or hate are equally welcome.

Only Synths

NOW UPDATED AND IMPROVED

Tribute to my boy cat, Danté. Still missed and now immortalised in song.

Wrote the lyrics first (inspired by psychedelic folk artists The Incredible String Band) with the thought to sing this myself - but I sound nothing like frontman Mike Heron, so I trained AI to sing my lyrics for me (sorry). The rest are folky instruments as befits the style. No sitars, but maybe next time. For Beat Battle 104...

LYRICS
Danté, oh Danté, lord of the curling tail
You danced on my table, you knocked over the grail
You sleep in the sock drawer, you purr in the void
You scratched at the cosmos till Neptune was annoyed

In the corner of my cottage near the curtain made of dreams
Lives a velvet-footed whisperer who slips through astral seams
He came on the breath of a twilight fog, with an eye like a gypsy flame
And though I named him Danté once, he never spoke his name

Danté, oh Danté, lord of the curling tail
You danced on my table, you knocked over the grail
You sleep in the sock drawer, you purr in the void
You scratched at the cosmos till Neptune was annoyed

He eats only when Jupiter’s high and the moon is feeling shy
And he stares at my shadow like it might learn to fly
I asked him once for wisdom; he blinked a slow reply:
“The birds know more than you do, man, and they never even try.”

Danté, oh Danté, lord of the curling tail
You danced on my table, you knocked over the grail
You sleep in the sock drawer, you purr in the void
You scratched at the cosmos till Neptune was annoyed

He’s written poems in the litter
That only ants can read
He sang a song to the moths last week
And they crowned him forest seed

Danté, oh Danté, lord of the curling tail
You danced on my table, you knocked over the grail
You sleep in the sock drawer, you purr in the void
You scratched at the cosmos till Neptune was annoyed

He walks like a priest in a pagan rite
Through candle wax and starless night
He bit my ear and stole my cheese
Then vanished into the swaying trees

Danté, oh Danté, my fickle furry sage
You’ve shredded the curtain between the world and the stage
You sleep in my teacup, you dream in my shoe
I think I belong to you

Danté of the Moonbeam Paw

Beat Battle 104 - Make a psychedelic track in a 1960s style. Kept it simple and used The Doors for inspiration - with Arturia's Vox Continental, Electric Guitar, Bass and NI's Abbey Road 1960s drum kit.

Continental Psychonauts

Above and Beyond - Start a Fire - for the remix comp on Label Radar.

Start a Fire (niCKed Remix)

For the UJAM "Chromed" Beatmaker challenge!

Praise You (niCKed Moon miX)

For Beat Battle 105 - make a track that conveys colour and space. Well OK - here is what I came up with. Comments always welcome!

Lyrics
[Verse]
She's got that green hair shining,
Bright as the stars, no denying.
Every glance pulls me in tight,
In her smile, I see the light.

[Chorus]
Oh, my heart's a racing beat,
With her by my side, life feels so sweet.

[Verse 2]
She's got that laughter ringing,
A tune that keeps my soul singing.
Every step, a joyful sway,
In her arms, I want to stay.

[Chorus]
Oh, my heart's a racing beat,
In this love, I found my home,
With her, I’ll never be alone.

Green is the Colour of my True Love's Hair (BB 105)

For Soniclab - the discord home for Metapop. The challenge was to create a track with heavy orchestral elements. Instruments used - UJAM Braass, the excellent Arturia Augmented Brass, Augmented Woodwinds and Augmented Strings. Voices by Insanity Samples "Tilda". Hope people enjoy this little diversion. Comments good or bad always welcome!

Goat Horn Soup

For Beat Battle 107 - Make a folk song! So I did. Promise to make something in the future with my own vocals - but I chickened out the last minute (and besides, these ones I used are beautiful). Avoided quantise and the usual trickery. Lemme know what you think!

See Myself in Colour (Folksprung Durch Technik BB107 miX)

Slow Ballad remix - enjoy! Check out the original on SKIO Music.

NURKO & HALIENE - Retraced (niCKed Remix for SKIO)

Middle aged geezer who has lived in London since Elizabethan times. Understand how to edit and mix, as well as an interest in music theory and a bit of guitar/bass/keyboards. Doing this very much for the fun of it and not really interested in copying anybody else. Love "hybrid" music and sound (or sound design) - meaning I love crossing different genres. Into LoFi and Electronic Folk right now...

n1CKed

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