Name: Pop Goes The World [ Men Without Hats Epic Chiptune Cover ] by The Flaming Pike
Duration: 4 min 32 s
Description: Here's a little surprise: my first cover of an existing song. I've chosen this classic tune by Men Without Hats to make my first steps in the cover world. Tell me what you think!

Here's a little surprise: my first cover of an existing song. I've chosen this classic tune by Men Without Hats to make my first steps in the cover world. Tell me what you think!

Pop Goes The World [ Men Without Hats Epic Chiptune Cover ]

Putting this together and changing up that bass throughout was a challenge, but I've managed to do it! After the final revisions, this turned out really good.

There's some really great guitar bits in this in the mix of the sci-fi pads and various beats I used, which is why I chose to the title "Spacey Guitars".

I really like making these kinds of tracks. I want to use them for background music when editing my vlogs for my variety video channel. I got inspired to start doing this after listening to the awesome background music Josh and Jacob Fu of Fu Music put in when they do their vlogging videos, at YouTube.

Spacey Guitars

I was messing around on the Dubstep style on HP Music Maker this one time. I had a great start on my first attempt on this one. I knew I had to try again, and I feel pretty good about this track. I normally don't use stock vocal samples when I'm making tracks, but that effected female singer just felt so right to insert! 

I titled it "I'm Here For You" because that's some of the words being sung. I couldn't think of anything better either. ^^;

The really nice image I chose and give credit to for the CD image cover is digital art done by pointman1968 on DeviantART.

I'm Here For You

While I was listening and creating this, I could visualize a woman figure and water. "Water Girl" and "Water Girl at the Beach" weren't suitable titles, so I decided on the title you currently see.

The vocal stuff is reeeeally nice. I like everything about this track. 

I used HP Music Maker on this. When making epic tracks like this, it takes timing and knowing when to change keys and insert and take out certain things to make it the way you want it to. Also, there's of course balancing the volumes. This took two days to make.

I had to dim down some of the drums towards the end after hearing my first attempt on this project, because the snare pound beats were too loud. I also switched it up some on the reverse piano FX.

Water Goddess

Have to take a break from creating chill music for a little while. I absolutely love that genre and experimenting with it, though... To you, reading this: if you've been keeping track of me for a while, then you should already know by now that I never really stick by one genre!

There's many styles to explore on the HP Music Maker alone! I'm pretty sure I haven't actually *explored* the Drum N Bass genre before, so I swapped genre setups with two out of the three. Drum and Bass is just one of them. Did some neat stuff with the bass lines, and that simple synth is awesome too.

I was up really late at night making this, hence the title. I honestly couldn't think up anything better than that. Perhaps the sweet energy in this expresses more night-time than day-time. Although, that's just my opinion!

Late Night Activity

I haven't done a house track for so long. While swapping genre stuff on HP Music Maker, I selected the Volume 1 of Tech House. After maybe at least two hours of messin' around, I came up with this.

I like the bouncy, sweepy groove to this. :)

Those sweeping synths and the key changes, and the drums and soft FX. All those things--that's what I love most about this one. 

I couldn't come up with a good title for the track, unfortunately! *SHRUG* Maybe something better will just come to me at some later point.

Sweepy Tech House Jam

I think I had too much fun in putting together this one. That may explain why it's 6 minutes, 54 seconds in length. No worries, it's far from boring.

I have to admit, I love this genre. It's a fun one. In swapping styles on the HP Music Jam Maker, I had picked Tech House Vol. 2. 

There were some strings to use, yaaay! What I found had fit in quite nicely with all the other house elements. Very nice.

I also like the dancey beats, sweeping pads, sequences, and how I chose and timed the melodies just right.

Dark Tech Orchestra

I wanted to make something of a new track on the Music Maker Jam to play to the PC game Symphony, a shooter/music and rhythm game I bought on Steam about 2 years ago.

I think I had a bit too much fun in putting this together. I like  just about everything about this track. I also inserted an ACID House pad, and some reverbed female vocals. That worked out really cool. 

I had a bit of a hard time coming up with the title, lol. I kept picturing some female agent in a very actiony movie scene as I was creating and editing this.

Happy New Year (hopefully!)

Evacuate Now

It's been over a year since I last did any House tracks! I should do more in the near future. It's a fun instrumental genre.

For almost two days, I was stumped on deciding what to title this. So, I listened a few more times, and thought about what the music reminded me of. I liked the fact that one piece of DnB and a bit of the Down Tempo pads and synth sequences worked out pretty good.

Evening Dance Club

I just finished two more instrumentals to play the game Symphony to. I'll upload one on my SoundCloud right now. It's an awesome EDM, and I visualize people street racing in cool looking cars at night. Like in the first Fast and Furious movie.

Joy Ride

The Flaming Pike is an epic chiptune artist from Canada. His influences go from classic retro video game composers such as Tim Follin, David Wise and Soyo Oka to extremely diversified legends of music such as Aphex Twin, Dave Matthews Band, Nine Inch Nails or Aqua. His music can be found on all the good, popular platforms ( Youtube, Spotify, iTunes, Deezer and more ). He can seldom be hired on Fiverr.

Pop Goes The World [ Men Without Hats Epic Chiptune Cover ]

The Flaming Pike

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