A cover I did from the underrated Bill Wyman track Valley for the Dario Argento film "Phenomena". The original didn't have a lead guitar part (only Wyman's bass) but I thought It would work well with one.  I think it's one of the most powerful pieces of music I've heard on a soundtrack. Shame Wyman didn't go into scoring more films frequently. This was the only track on the album by him. 

INSTRUMENTS USED
Fender Stratocaster
Prophet-6

EQUIPMENT AND EFFECTS
Soundcraft Signature 22MTK Mixer
Roger Linn Adrenelinn iii Guitar Effects Box

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE
ASUS Zenbook Pro Computer System
Presonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation


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Valley (Bill Wyman Cover)-(Fender Stratocaster/Prophet-6)

Another cover installment. This time for a more obscure title. 1983's Scalps. The soundtrack has never had an official release but I think it has a really nice theme. I don't know what synths were used on the original but I'm assuming given the time of release, a Prophet-5 is most likely. I added a lot of "SLOP" to the oscillators and had them drift in and out of tune and I also added some analog distortion to the signal to give it a really lo-fi and "low budget" type quality. I think it works well.

INSTRUMENTS USED
DSI/Sequential Prophet-6
DSI Tempest Drum Computer

EQUIPMENT AND EFFECTS
Soundcraft Signature 22MTK

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE
ASUS Zenbook Pro Computer System
Presonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation.

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SCALPS (Drew Neumann and Eric Rasmussen cover)

This is an original piece I did. I wanted to get away from the drum machine driven soundtracks for a second and focus on something more free flowing. No direct influence but there's obviously touches of Carpenter as well as John Harrison in there. Only the original Prophet-5 patches on the Prophet-6 were used as well as the Roland V Piano which was slightly detuned.

INSTRUMENTS USED
Roland V-Piano
Prophet-6

EQUIPMENT AND EFFECTS
Soundcraft Signature 22MTK

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE 
ASUS Zenbook Pro Computer System
Presonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation


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Sequence 5 (He Kills)-Roland V-Piano and DSI Sequential Prophet-6.

One of my all time favorite soundtracks to one of my all time favorite films. I present this cover of Tim Krog's score for The Boogeyman. Again, only the original Prophet-5 presets of the Prophet 6 were used.

INSTRUMENTS USED
Prophet-6
Moog Sub 37

EQUIPMENT AND EFFECTS
Soundcraft Signature 22MTK

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE
ASUS Zenbook Pro Computer System.
Presonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation.


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The Boogeyman (Tim Krog Cover)(Prophet 6, Moog Sub 37)

Just a quick cover of the underrated Rob Walsh score for Revenge Of The Ninja.

INSTRUMENTS USED
Fender Stratocaster
Prophet-6
Tempest Drum Computer

EQUIPMENT AND EFFECTS
Soundcraft Signature 22MTK 
Roger Linn Adrenelinn iii Guitar Effects Box

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE
ASUS Zenbook Pro Computer System
Presonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation


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Revenge Of The Ninja (Rob Walsh cover) (Fender Stratocaster, Prophet-6, Tempest)

Just a very rough sketch of the opening of The Shining. The song Dies Irae is a classical Gregorian Chant and can also be heard in a number of scores including And Now The Screaming Stars..., The Screaming Skull, The Car as well as Gerald Fried's score for The Return Of Dracula. Ironically Gerald Fried scored all of Kubrick's early works (Day Of The Fight, Fear And Desire, Killer's Kiss, The Killing And Paths Of Glory). I was always puzzled why Kubrick didn't keep using Fried for his later films.

The only synth used on this was the Moog Sub 37.


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The Shining (Wendy Carlos cover)(Moog Sub 37)

This is a score I did for the film "Humanity" by Daniel Everitt-Lock. No direct influence really but as it's a WWI piece I wanted to give it a bit of a battle hymn. So Malcom Arnold's Bridge Over The River Kwai score was a big influence among a few others. Daniel instructed me to gear more towards a classical or more orchestral type piece. The last part is heavily influenced by Akira Ifukube's slower pieces from his Kaiju scores. 

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Humanity Score

Well....here is my first recording with my brand new Prophet X. I've already managed to design some patches and as you can tell...this thing sounds killer. 

The Patches Are As Follows
1.) Past2FuturePiano (A blend of a 1920's Steinway and a Prophet VS)
2.) I HAVE HAIR!!! (A nice nod to Carpenter's Body Bags)
3.) Airport Abduction (A nice Big Trouble In Little China sequence)
4.) Pray For Death (Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness)
5.) Twin Peaks variation (Angelo Badalamenti's masterpiece)
6.) The Sawyer Symphony (A Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 tribute)
7.) BOY!!!!! (Phantasm theme)
8.)Barbarian's Question (An original epic Sword And Steel type of theme)
9.) HeNrY (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer Theme)
10.) THE OWL! (Simon Boswell's Stage Fright tribute)
11.) Bestiality (A chaotic Morricone nod)
12.) Black Lagoon (Creature From The Black Lagoon stinger)
13.) Godzilla Awakens (Ifukube tribute)
14.) MARK13 (An original composition inspired by Simon Boswell's computerized score for the film HARDWARE)
15.)DEATH1 (Stefano Mainetti's score for Zombi 3-One of my faves)
16.)Godzilla March (Another Ifukube tribute)
17.) Horror Of Dracula(A nod to James Bernard's score for Hammer's Dracula)
18.) HUGE BRASS (just testing out using the sliders, filter and FMing the brass samples if I could emulate some huge brass swells and growls-it gets close to that Hans Zimmer type brass I think)
19.)Scanners (Howard Shore's theme for Scanners)

Prophet X Demos

I wanted to test out the Prophet X in a more traditional orchestral sense. Harry Manfredini's scores for the Friday The 13th films in the 80s were not the typical synth driven soundtracks one would expect in an 1980s stalk and slash film (Although he did use synths for sound effects and textures) instead he used his background in jazz to create one of the most chaotic and frantic string and brass pieces a film ever had.  I can't play any of Manfredini's actual work but I did this by ear and as more or less a tribute to the man and the franchise. 

99% Of this performance is Prophet X while I added a little Prophet 6 textures in places.

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Crystal Lake (Harry Manfredini tribute) with Prophet X/Prophet 6

It is no secret that Les Baxter is my all time favorite composer. The versatility the man had was absolutely phenomenal. From his tiki jazz records to his fuzzed out surf rock scores (Hell's Belles)to his minimalistic noise scores (Pit And The Pendulum) to his synthscape experimental pieces (Frogs)to his final score for one of my all time favorite films: The Beast Within. Here, Baxter combined almost his entire catalog of his life's work into one beautifully haunting masterpiece. Beautiful strings symbolise the innocence of youth while gurgling analog synth lurks just beneath the surface...a perfect representation of a coming of age story disrupted by a monstrous festering that lurks deep down inside.

Most of this piece is done by the Prophet X but I also added some slurping Prophet 6 stabs and chaotic cicada noise at near the end.

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The Beast Within Improvisation (Les Baxter tribute)-Prophet X/Prophet 6

I wanted to test the Prophet X out again in a more classical/orchestral composition. I chose a variation of the great Ennio Morricone's score for the Oliver Reed/Fabio Testi film "Revolver". What I love about the PX is you can mute and unmute various instruments that are playing along with a sequence via the mod wheel or Sliders. Doing this in a random fashion really captures that disjointed Eurocrime feel. 

Also using an Oscillator to frequency modulate a brass or wind instrument sample can closely emulate articulations like growls and flutter tongue. I demonstrate this with a Trumpet sample doing a lead. I use Slider 1 on this sound to open and close the Filter Cutoff which closely emulates muting/unmuting the Trumpet or perhaps even running a Trumpet through a Wah pedal...which was also a popular technique by Morricone for his more Acid Jazz scores. 

The Tempest is playing the highhat and kick drum beat. For this I tried to use more "natural" samples on the Tempest as opposed to the Linn Drum/LM1 samples I often use. I think it works well. Especially with a bit of reverb.

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Shades Of Revolver (Morricone Tribute)

Haven't uploaded anything in a while so I wanted to just do a quick little piece. No direct influence but it certainly has a 80's big city slasher type of vibe. 

The Tempest is doing most of the work with it not only sequencing the arpeggiator on the Prophet X (The panning synth runs)but it's also doing quite a bit of percussion work. I kept a somewhat tribal feel (almost as if the killer envisions himself as a big game hunter). The congas have a midi delay on them to simulate a rapid percussion. I really like the rapid tambourine hits as well. Really moody. 

The PX is doing the synth arpeggiation as well as a Fairlight-esq choir sound. Lots of aliasing and decreased bit rate on the sound as well as Sample Stretch to give a Lo-Fi 80's Sampler type of sound.

Nothing crazy or elaborate but I think it's a nice moody piece. 

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The Stalker (Prophet X, Tempest)

One of my favorite composers is Jay Chattaway. I absolutely adore his scores from the 80s with films like Maniac, Red Scorpion, Invasion USA and Maniac Cop. I love how he combines traditional acoustic and orchestral instruments and compositions with electronic elements, drum machines, sludgy synths. Peter Levin often did the keys and synths for Jay's scores and one of his key sounds is an Oberheim SEM 6 Voice. I haven't got 6 SEM's but I recently acquired a Tom Oberheim SEM-Pro and I couldn't do this tribute without getting some slurping Oberheim drones in there. 

Hope you enjoy! 

INSTRUMENTS USED
Sequential Prophet-X (For 99% of the score)
Oberheim SEM-Pro (Low slurping filter sweeps)
Tempest Drum Computer(Played by hand)

Maniac Cop Lives!  (Jay Chattaway Tribute)-Prophet X, Oberheim SEM Pro, Tempest

Recently I got around to watching 1974's House Of Seven Corpses and it's quickly become one of my favorite films. It was awesome to see stars of the 40s and 50s like John Ireland and Faith Domergue and John Carradine star in a 1970s horror flick about a film crew filming a horror film in a legit haunted house. Some genuinely creepy moments with a really creepy choir based score.  I decided to do a little tribute to this flick. Not a cover but my own composition inspired by the film.

I used the Sequential Prophet X for this one with two choir samples split across the keyboard with loads of Reverb, BBD Delay and a thick Phaser over top of them. There's also some Hammond Organ samples and Ambient samples underneath as well fading in and out. I also used various cymbal samples loaded with long delays to add to the atmosphere. 

There is some incidental Moog Sub 37 bleeps and bloops saturated in reverb and delay as  well.

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House Of Seven Corpses (Prophet X, Moog Sub 37)

One of my all time favorite films is Richard Stanley's Hardware. A punk rock, visually stunning, industrial nightmare. The score was done by none other than Simon Boswell who, in line with the cybernetic feel of the film, sequenced the entire score on an Apple 2E with a Greengate Sampler software. I attempted to recreate the same feel with the Sequential Prophet X sampler. 

Dark synth pad driven landscapes with sweeping melancholy strings and some bluesy slide guitar go on for what seems like forever...until you meet the Mark 13 at the end.


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No Flesh Shall Be Spared (Hardware tribute)-Prophet X

And now for something completely different...

Inspired by the Jerry Goldsmith score for The Mephisto Waltz, I wanted to use the Prophet-X in a more classical oriented score using only the amazing piano and string samples from 8Dio. I synced all the sequences from my DAW (Studio One) and used the onboard effects, sequencer and features of the PX. 

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The Devil Commands (Prophet-X)

This one goes out to my best friend Allan. Thanks for letting me taste The Devil's Honey. What a movie! 

The whole track is done in one take on the Sequential Prophet X.

 "When you have spent your life like a fortune that never seemed to end. 
A second chance will come like a long lost friend.
 Great joy will fill you and flush you hot. 
No more will you ever be cool
for she is the Devil's honey pot. 
And you'll drown in her you fool."

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The Devil's Honey (Prophet X)

One of my all time favorite synth composers is the highly underrated Carlo Maria Cordio. While this isn't directly a cover of his score for the film Body Puzzle (aka Misteria) it is heavily influenced by it. 

There's no sequencing or arpeggiating whatsoever here. The acoustic guitar and reversed piano strikes are simply looped and playing back at different speeds. No overdubs at all. Everything is played in real time in a split patch on the Sequential Prophet X. On the upper half the melody is played by a Prophet VS wave layered with a choir. The choir is having it's sample size stretched and shrunk by an LFO creating a "glitch" type effect.

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Body Puzzle (Prophet X)

This is an original piece I recorded last week and I'm really proud of it. It's something completely different. I've always been a big fan of combining dark synth music with slow jazz. Here I brought out my trusty Prophet 6 and the ever versatile Prophet X. The PX is doing the drums as well as the Wurlitzer for the main them as well as the saxophone solo. The Prophet 6 is doing some vintage sounding brass/pads. I think it fits very well. Hope you enjoy.

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City In Fear (Prophet X, Prophet 6)

So what's the good news? 

Here's a nice original jazz number done entirely on the Sequential Prophet X (drums, detuned piano and trumpet. Overall...it was good efficient butchery. 

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Bay Street Killer (Prophet X jazz)

While I'm not a huge fan of the Nightmare On Elm Street series, the films have some heavyweight composers attached to them. From Charles Bernstein's iconic original to Christopher Young and Craig Safan. Each soundtrack has it's own identity. This piece is heavily influenced by Angelo Badalamenti's synth score for Part III: Dream Warriors but it's also given it's own flavor. 

The Prophet X is doing everything. There's no overdubs except for the scream at the end. Everything else is real time. I tried to give it a really lo fi sampler type feel. 

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Freddy's Not Dead (Prophet X)

Just did a little quick recording tonight. No overdubs at all, everything is done in a single take on a patch I made on the Prophet X. 

An ethnic percussion kit is looped on one half of the split (along with some "wind" sounds via an LFO opening the filter cutoff). On the upper half is a 12 string guitar layered with a choir that has a lot of glide applied to it. 

The title comes from the Jess Franco film of the same name. 

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Oasis Of The Zombies (Prophet X)

Haven't posted on my SoundCloud for a long time but did this track while over at the studio this weekend. Totally off the cuff but really proud of how it turned out. 

Inspired by my love of Italian Horror/Sci Fi flicks from the 70s/80s, this one I envision about a killer shark in the style of films like Tintoera and The Last Shark. 

The Sequential Prophet X is doing pretty much everything except guitar. The timpani samples and gong hits are user samples while the string runs are all done with the onboard 8Dio Samples and sequenced with the onboard sequencer. 

The guitar is an American Fender Stratocaster running through a Roger Linn Adrenalinn iii Effects Processor with an octave fuzz effect...totally evoking those Alessandro Alessandro fuzzed out guitar stings.

The Sequential Prophet-6 is doing a few stingers and filter sweeps as well as a bass line near the end during the "attack" sequence

The structure of the track is actually in two parts, the first would be what a title sequence or main theme would sound like while the other is what one might hear during the shark stalk/attack sequence. 

ENJOY THE BEACHES!

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Tiburon-Ripple Of Death (Prophet-X, Prophet-6, Stratocaster)

I'm a composer for film soundtracks. My influences range from classical to jazz to rock to synth. 

My biggest influences as a composer are
Les Baxter
Alessandro Alessendroni
John Carpenter
Ronald Stein
Tangerine Dream
John Harrison
Jay Chattaway
Brad Fiedel
Jerry Goldsmith
Luis Bacalov
Vangelis
Akira Ifukube
Pino Donaggio
Goblin

I'm a big fan of analog and digital synthesizers and love using them for a complete composition or using them along with more traditional acoustic instruments to add flavor. 

Top 5 favorite soundtracks
Les Baxter-Dunwich Horror
Ronald Stein-Dementia 13
John Carpenter-The Fog
Jimmy Page-Death Wish II
Alessandro Alessandroni-Killer Nun.

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