Sci/fi short film directed by Rob McLellan. Soon to be an MGM feature film.
Score by Vanessa James

- A shimmering turns uplifting version of Hans Zimmers theme. Reworked the chords/mode, changed tempo, sampled/played to create the atmospheric tones, world instruments, vocal, electronic guitar swells & quick acoustic strums. 
- HZ stems used: perc, trumpet, solo vocal, tuned perc. 
- vanessajames.music@gmail.com. 
- Thanks for everyone's support and likes. Good luck to everyone!

Discovering Destiny_Bleeding Fingers Contest

- A laid back, ambient electro take on Hans Zimmers theme. Re-arranged chords, sampled lots of FX like piano knocks/hammers or reversed guitar swells to create atmospheric elements, used gamalan tones, sub bass (forget it laptop speakers!), custom made drum kit.
- HZ stems used: trumpet (re-mixed). 
- vanessajames.music@gmail.com. 
- good luck to all the great entries out there!

Stargaze_Bleeding Fingers Contest

- A darker, synth based take on Hans Zimmers DD theme using eventide guitar delay pedals on opening synth and fat kit sound. 
- HZ stems used: perc, synth and edited string stem. 
- vanessajames.music@gmail.com.
Best of luck to everyone!

Dark Passenger_Bleeding Fingers Contest

Audio Clips Courtesy of Hans Zimmer and SoundWorks Collection. Okay, so this was just a bit of fun / tongue-in-cheek etc... Wanted to do a version like this for a while but was unsure how to 'frame' it. I just thought "Composers like to sample a lot of stuff, I wonder if anyone has ever sampled a composer?". Stems used: Brass, Percussion, Solo Vocal, Piano/Bell/Harp, Trumpet. As well as using the original stems, I've replayed the musical ideas using different sounds too - whether or not you happen to notice them amongst the chaos, I don't know! :)

Please vote for this track here:
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/4284
My other entries can be found here:
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/1787
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2122
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/3612
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2258
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/4598
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2691
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2254
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/6224
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/5825
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/6365
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/1985

Made On A Mac (Bleeding Fingers)

Stems used: Trumpet. Once again, can't really explain this one - wanted to do a purely orchestral version this time, but developing the theme in to something quite  harmonically different from the original (and who doesn't love the sound of a duduk!)

Please vote for this track here:
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/5825
My other entries can be found here:
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/4598
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/4284
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/1787
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2122
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/3612
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/6224
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2258
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2691
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2254
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/6365
www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/1985

Blood Of Angels (Bleeding Fingers)

- A more dramatic/urgent take on Hans Zimmers DD theme.  
- HZ stems used: trumpet, perc, woodwinds (looped).
- www.vanessajamesmusic.com

Obsession_Bleeding Fingers Contest

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1. Ben Lukas Boysen - Sleepers Beat Theme (Unreleased)
2. Darkstar - Hold Me Down
3. Holy Other - Yr Love
4. Teebs - Verbena Tea with Rebekah Raff
5. Nils Frahm - More
6. Songs of Green Pheasant - I Am Daylights
7. Jónsi & Alex - Daníell in the Sea
8. Evenings - Babe
9. Letherette - After Dawn
10. Jon Hopkins - I Remember (Exclusive Yeasayer cover version)
11. David Holmes - Hey Maggy
12. Alela Diane - Lady Divine
13. Four Tet - Gillie Amma I Love You
14. School of Seven Bells - Connjur
15. Peter Broderick - And It's Alright (Nils Frahm Remix)
16. Health - Before Tigers (Gold Panda Remix)
17. Last Days - Missing Photos
18. Bibio - Down To The Sound
19. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Requiem For The Static King 1
20. Helios - Emancipation
21. Rick Holland - I Remember (Exclusive Spoken Word Piece)

Requiem for a dreamstate. It’s possibly somewhere between heaven, hell and high water, down the Thames Delta towards Eden. It may involve techno and a distorted state or simply mates sat listening to music together, drifting on the open sea of their minds. This is Jon Hopkins’ world, not so much joining the dots as colouring the whole damn picture in. 

After releasing his debut album 'Opalescent' at the rookie age of 21 in 1999, he’s gone on to work with Brian Eno and David Holmes, produced King Creosote and via Eno, worked on three Coldplay albums. He released the breakthrough album 'Immunity' in 2013, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. 

The story arc with which Hopkins succeeded on 'Immunity' makes its appearance on Late Night Tales too with a perfectly sculpted excursion on this widescreen mix. . Opening with the unreleased 'Sleepers Beat Theme' by composer Ben Lukas Boysen, ghostly pianos skip elegantly hither and thither, among rising strings, as on Darkstar’s ‘Hold Me Down’. Nils Frahm is here, his sonic palette perfect for the job, while labelmate A Winged Victory For The Sullen contribute ‘Requiem For The Static King Part I’. Sigur Ros offshoot Jónsi & Alex’s heroic ‘Daniell In The Sea’ sends us forth towards the Baltic with tears streaming. 

Beats occasionally appear, as on the Grace Jones-sampling ‘Yr Love’ by Holy Other or the pair of Black Country acts Bibio and Letherette, whose ‘After Dawn’ is almost spry in comparison to the minor key symphonies on display here. The perfect contrast to this comes from Alela Diane’s wistful ‘Lady Divine’ or even Four Tet’s mesmerising ‘Gillie Amma I Love You’, with its enchanting kids’ choir. Exclusive to this release, Jon Hopkins provides a startlingly vulnerable new piano version of Yeasayer’s ‘I Remember’. 

Poet and fellow Brian Eno collaborator (their joint album 'Drums Between The Bells' was released by Warp in 2011) Rick Holland narrates the exclusive spoken word closer 'I Remember', underpinned with additional sound design by Hopkins.

"Putting this album together was a unique opportunity for me to present music that I have been listening to for years, free from the constraints of a club setting or from trying to stick to one genre. I chose tracks not just because they have been important to me but because of how they sit together, putting as much thought into the transitions and overall narrative as I did into the track choices. I mixed by key and by texture more than anything else, using original sound design, pivot notes, and often recording new synth or piano parts to link things together in a way that flows as naturally as possible." - Jon Hopkins, December 2014

Late Night Tales: Jon Hopkins (Sampler)

Vanessa Forero is a film/TV composer, once based in London, now scores from her self-build studio in the mountains of Colombia. Since 2004 she has worked on a mixture of feature films, shorts, documentaries and adverts, with film festival and cinema screenings as well as broadcasts on major channels world wide, working with the Liverpool Philharmonic and winning 'best score' from the Hollywood mini-cinema awards for sci-fi movie 'ABE'.

Aside from scoring, Forero also produces her own records, the solo piano album 'Paintings on Piano' as well as her south-americana singer-songwriter artist side, touring worldwide and playing from the backs of Colombian bars to Abbey Road studio 1. Her last 16-date tour sold-out within a few weeks, now a follow-up tour is coming to the UK this autumn.  

Forero is also co-author of the book she wrote about her mother "The Girl With No Name", which became the National Geographic documentary: "Woman Raised By Monkeys", for which Forero scored part of the soundtrack. A movie is in talks.

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