Showing posts with label Soundtracking Your Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soundtracking Your Life. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Soundtracking Your Life is available for download--sort of
...OK, so it's not the final versions, just the demos* (i.e. the versions you've been listening to nonstop on this site and Youtube, with some modifications**), and it's not every song, just the eight that are finished so far, but it's free (but if you can please give me some money, they only give me like so many free downloads; also if it's less than thirty cents I don't actually get anything because of servicing costs).
As for the other songs, at least some of them will be up soon. Everything's in order, but it takes a long time to upload files. If you're impatient, keep checking here. It's easy to remember, it's the same as this site, but with "bandcamp" instead of "blogspot."
*Devotees may recall me mentioning this exact plan earlier.
**For more information on what modifications, I've written something up on the individual song posts:
1. "Dread"
2. "Rose"
3. "Two Warriors Meet on an Ancient Battleground"
4. "Leitmotif for X"
5. "Insanity in 9:8 Time"
6. "Rise"
7. "Fencing Wire"
8. "Angels Dressed in Black"
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
"Angels Dressed in Black"
Soundtracking Your Life Part Eight--The Last Stand*: There's a specific moment in a lot of movies, when the female lead enters and one of two things happens. In the first she's shot from behind, then turns to reveal she's The Most Beautiful Woman He's Ever Seen (TM). This is generally accompanied with strings, or perhaps a harp, and may or may not be in soft focus. The other way of doing this usually shows up in Badass Movies That Don't Play By Your Lame Rules, Old Man (TM), so of course it's the more common of the two. The girl walks into the room as the camera pans up from her feet to reveal She's A Sex Bob-Omb (TM). The music in these scenes is usually "Bad to the Bone" or "Born to Be Wild" or one of its cooler offspring (Wolfmother's "Woman" is a good choice), and may or not involve a wind machine.
My idea was to marry the two, hence the title. It sort of moved away from that to a more generic "entrance theme", but that was my starting point. This was actually (albeit accidentally) a pretty good idea, as it gave me a good way to do an instrumental verse-chorus-verse structure. My initial plan was to have each "verse" end with a guitar solo, then go into the chorus, but the rock guitar solo is sort of my Kryptonite, because my normal playing/writing style is so different from it, so there's only one solo now, and as a result the "verses" (especially the second) ended up a lot shorter. I decided instead to end them with the noise blast you hear at the beginning, which is a tone cluster on a guitar synth played 2 octaves below a guitar's natural range, then I set the volume to fade in, then back out out quickly (I changed this part when I was remixing stuff, so it's wrong here but right for the later version which no one but me has heard).
I always knew the song would have this riff, but learning how to play it took a long time. It's actually two guitars, one playing the chords and one playing the response. I used a borrowed wah pedal (thanks, Tito!), and the overall sound is played by working the pedal while scratching the pick one the strings. I actually got the riff wrong-- I worked so hard trying to get the sound right I forgot there should be two dead notes at the end of each bar. This is basically the definition of missing the forest for the trees.
The synthesized vocals were played once (actually, I think it took about four takes), and then I used lots of copying and pasting to get them to sound at every vocal range, for a choral effect. I wrote them on piano and then had to basically custom-make a synthesizer that sounded just right. I originally wanted to use an organ, and add a bunch of harp and string sounds on top of it, but the fake choir just sounded more "clear," I guess.
*It's not the last StL song, just the last that you'll see on the blog. At some point in a million years or so I want to do a proper album of it, possibly with real musicians who can actually play guitar.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
Rerelease Notes: I wasn't able to fix the riff, but I did fix some mixing problems, mainly changing the way the noise blasts are used and making the bass louder.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
(Title for Indexing Purposes Only...Or Is It?)
"Fencing Wire":
Soundtracking Your Life, Part Seven: (words will be here. check back later)
I refuse to say the SotWW word or I'll curse myself. Let's just say I'm making up for lost time.
UPDATED 4/22: I've been trying to learn more about scoring and composition*, mainly because I'm a dork but also to help me with this project. One of the things that intrigued me was the idea of underscoring, where you have music in the background, but it's not super important to the tone or whatever of things. Basically background noise. The other thing that I keep coming back to is trying to find new and interesting sounds (considering I've previously used a piece of paper, TWO trashcans, and various toys as instruments, you have only yoursleve to blame if this surprises you).
So it was inevitable that these two ideas might intersect (read this sentence again if you didn't catch that). I was sort of just tapping on a guitar and liked the sound (again, an idea with some precedent), and decided to record it so I wouldn't forget it. I knew going in that the sound quality would be kind of crappy but figured the idea was interesting enough to post anyway. By the way, if you've ever wondered the difference between what makes the cut for release and what doesn't, "interesting" is probably the criterion I is using more than anything else, including "good."
An additional note on Sountracking Your Life: there probably won't be much more StYL, at least in the near-term. It's not because the project is over so much as I want spend more time on each song than SotW gives me.
I have another song I want to do for the blog just because I want to write about it (it has a strange concept that I feel might need an explanation), but even though it's sort of partly written I haven't started recording yet. It might get posted tommorow, it might get posted next year, I don't really know yet.
In the long-term I want to rework and most of the songs you've already heard, and start recording new ones. When I'm all finished I'm hoping for something like 15 or 16 full-length songs, and then a smaller number of short pieces like this or "X's Theme." And you'll be able to download it and take it with you, which was kind of the point anyway. I'll probably release the blog versions of these songs as "demos" or something (I'm thinking of signing up for a site that'll help me do all this).
*Bear McCreary, who did the score for Battlestar Galactica and a bunch of other TV shows, has a pretty informative blag on the subject.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
[This song can only be downloaded by downloading the full album. To see the page for this track, go here.]
Rerelease Notes: As with "Rose," I mixed a new version, but ended up reverting to the old one because songs always sound worse when published then when played in GarageBand.
I refuse to say the SotWW word or I'll curse myself. Let's just say I'm making up for lost time.
UPDATED 4/22: I've been trying to learn more about scoring and composition*, mainly because I'm a dork but also to help me with this project. One of the things that intrigued me was the idea of underscoring, where you have music in the background, but it's not super important to the tone or whatever of things. Basically background noise. The other thing that I keep coming back to is trying to find new and interesting sounds (considering I've previously used a piece of paper, TWO trashcans, and various toys as instruments, you have only yoursleve to blame if this surprises you).
So it was inevitable that these two ideas might intersect (read this sentence again if you didn't catch that). I was sort of just tapping on a guitar and liked the sound (again, an idea with some precedent), and decided to record it so I wouldn't forget it. I knew going in that the sound quality would be kind of crappy but figured the idea was interesting enough to post anyway. By the way, if you've ever wondered the difference between what makes the cut for release and what doesn't, "interesting" is probably the criterion I is using more than anything else, including "good."
An additional note on Sountracking Your Life: there probably won't be much more StYL, at least in the near-term. It's not because the project is over so much as I want spend more time on each song than SotW gives me.
I have another song I want to do for the blog just because I want to write about it (it has a strange concept that I feel might need an explanation), but even though it's sort of partly written I haven't started recording yet. It might get posted tommorow, it might get posted next year, I don't really know yet.
In the long-term I want to rework and most of the songs you've already heard, and start recording new ones. When I'm all finished I'm hoping for something like 15 or 16 full-length songs, and then a smaller number of short pieces like this or "X's Theme." And you'll be able to download it and take it with you, which was kind of the point anyway. I'll probably release the blog versions of these songs as "demos" or something (I'm thinking of signing up for a site that'll help me do all this).
*Bear McCreary, who did the score for Battlestar Galactica and a bunch of other TV shows, has a pretty informative blag on the subject.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
[This song can only be downloaded by downloading the full album. To see the page for this track, go here.]
Rerelease Notes: As with "Rose," I mixed a new version, but ended up reverting to the old one because songs always sound worse when published then when played in GarageBand.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wait, I could have sworn I've done more than six of these
"Rise":
(Soundtracking Your Life, Part Six): This song is very old. I want to say two, three years old, but at the least I know it's older than Song of the Week itself, let alone Soundtracking Your Life. And today I did it.
Once I realized that this project already had a song named "Rose" and another (as-yet-unfinished) named "Rising", I remembered this old idea I had called "Rise" (which mostly consisted of its title as the only lyric, and a sound I describe as "dun-dugga-dun-dukka-dun"). Somehow that became this.
I like to have a story in my head when I'm writing StYL songs. Here the story was that they were trying to summon a monster or something, but nothing was working, so they had to keep starting over and trying something new, hence the start-stop nature of it. By the time I had finished the drums and bass, and played them back, the story seemed very different; it became sort of a war story, which I like because it connects "Rise" with "Two Warriors Meet On an Ancient Battlefield", which sounds similar, and is also about fighting (I've been trying to walk a line of making the songs all fit together very tightly while at the same time being distinctive and unique).
My guitar is broken; you can hear it cut out and back in if you listen closely. Normally I'd rerecord it, but I like the effect, and it fit the chaotic nature of things. It sounded better when I was recording, though. Probably put the microphone in the wrong place.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
Rerelease Notes: This version is largely unchanged; I removed the drum loops because you couldn't really hear them anyway, and I think the effect works better when the drums are "one man, one take," as it were.
Once I realized that this project already had a song named "Rose" and another (as-yet-unfinished) named "Rising", I remembered this old idea I had called "Rise" (which mostly consisted of its title as the only lyric, and a sound I describe as "dun-dugga-dun-dukka-dun"). Somehow that became this.
I like to have a story in my head when I'm writing StYL songs. Here the story was that they were trying to summon a monster or something, but nothing was working, so they had to keep starting over and trying something new, hence the start-stop nature of it. By the time I had finished the drums and bass, and played them back, the story seemed very different; it became sort of a war story, which I like because it connects "Rise" with "Two Warriors Meet On an Ancient Battlefield", which sounds similar, and is also about fighting (I've been trying to walk a line of making the songs all fit together very tightly while at the same time being distinctive and unique).
My guitar is broken; you can hear it cut out and back in if you listen closely. Normally I'd rerecord it, but I like the effect, and it fit the chaotic nature of things. It sounded better when I was recording, though. Probably put the microphone in the wrong place.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
Rerelease Notes: This version is largely unchanged; I removed the drum loops because you couldn't really hear them anyway, and I think the effect works better when the drums are "one man, one take," as it were.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Oh God, the horror. The horror. Look at all that blood. What have we done to deserve this. Who could do such a thing.
"Insanity in 9/8 Time":
Soundtracking Your Life, Part Whatever We're Up To: This one is hard to explain. It's essentially an accident, dependent upon three separate, distinct events converging.
The first was my discovery of Garageband's Auto-tune Effect. I don't like Auto-tune--it's pretty much the musical equivalent of outright lying-- but if you're honest about it, it has its uses. I figured there was no harm in playing around with it, even if I never actually used it.
The second was learning how to use Garageband's built-in monitor (coincidentally*, from the same video). Previously I had though it was a worthless setting that did nothing but generate a metric fuckton of feedback. Apparently I was doing it wrong.
The third, and this is the one that was really important, was that I had been playing with the program's built-in metronome, trying to write a song in 9:8 time, just to see what it would sound like. When I was done I saved the file instead of deleting it, for some reason, and an hour ago I opened the (empty) file by accident to try some stuff out.
Anyway, headphones plus feedback plus trippy special effect meant equaled strange whooshing sound and long echoes every time I made any noise (even something like picking up a drumstick off a shelf). It turns out the special effects that sound like a famous R&B star at 90BPM sound like Hell opening up at 55BPM. It reminded me of the part of the movie where the guy is going insane so I though "Soundtracking Your Life gcrrble flrrgl flob" (I'm an abstract thinker). Live and learn and know when to exploit it.
I hit record and just started hitting stuff to see what sounds it made. Then I layered some fake piano to up the creepifictation, and the easiest Song I've ever written was done. And now you can hear it too. Wear headphones.
*Actually, it's pretty much the opposite of a coincidence? What's that word?
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
Rerelease Notes: This was the only StL song that was fully redone, partly because of audio quality issues and partly because there were some things I wanted to add to it, like the use of windchimes as percussion or using a half-decent MIDI instead of a MacBook keyboard. As a result, the album version is almost a minute longer. I added two new "noise" tracks as well, one of which has me playing, in turn, twelve different harmonicas (one in each key; this is my first song to use harmonica, though I've been playing it for years). The other new track has me playing various screeching noises on the violin, an instrument I'd only started on the day before--this is probably the only song where that wouldn't make a difference.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Song of the Week Week 2! (Part Two)
"X's Theme or X's Lament or Letimotif for X":
(Soundtracking Your Life Part Four). So I'm not sure where this fits into the whole scheme of StYL, but I liked it. Originally* this was a part of a (slightly) longer songer, sort of a takeoff of "One" (Metallica's "One", not the"One" I wrote, or any of the others). Except my version would have been 1 and a half minutes long instead of one and a half hours (Burn!). But then I realized this would stand taller on its own, and decided to cannibalize it for the Sountrackage. And yes, I know that's not what cannibalize actually means. Fu--I mean, sue me.
That said I feel kind of lazy using this. This was recorded at the same time as yesterday's so it's like I didn't even do anything today (it doesn't help that this one is so very short, and only has one instrument with literally zero production). I guess that lazy doesn't mean bad (this is actually pretty good), it just feels like I should be doing more or something?
But let me tell you why. I don't know if there's some kind of clinically definition of exhaustion, but I got maybe five minutes of sleep and drove an hour in a car with no air conditioning (and this car, keep in mind, had been sitting in the midday sun for almost three hours). Most days, when the guitar parts I'd did needed another take or the mike levels on the drums turned everything to mush**, I would ignore the suspicious omnipresent ringing in my ears and just push through it. Today I'm just glad I already had something in the can. See you tomorrow, if I can still move.
* Try and find a Song of the Week post not containing that word.
**God, you should be glad you don't have hear that.
Oh, right, about the song.
I'm not entirely sure what a leitmotif is supposed to sound like, but this totally is one. As a bonus, it also bears a passing resemblance to "Dread" (normally that'd have a link), from earlier, so it gives the whole project a little more cohesion. I'm not sure whose or whats theme music this is, but it seems like it would fit a place more than a person, especially a place you're not too fond of (hint school hint hint/ been made more money wherever I went/ rollin' in green like I'se lives at the mint*/ some something blahdy blah blah spent), or someplace you find depressing (like I'm not sure where/ but when I get there/ I'm dropping more dollas than I can spare/ I spend it on ice/ I spend it coke/ Just a couple months 'til I be broke). Now what was I talking about?
*'Cause mints are green so it's a pun. I am the world's greatest rapper!
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
[This song can only be downloaded by downloading the full album. To see the page for this track, go here.]
Rerelease Notes: Same recording, but mixed completely different--more echo, less static, more presence blah blah blah.
(Soundtracking Your Life Part Four). So I'm not sure where this fits into the whole scheme of StYL, but I liked it. Originally* this was a part of a (slightly) longer songer, sort of a takeoff of "One" (Metallica's "One", not the"One" I wrote, or any of the others). Except my version would have been 1 and a half minutes long instead of one and a half hours (Burn!). But then I realized this would stand taller on its own, and decided to cannibalize it for the Sountrackage. And yes, I know that's not what cannibalize actually means. Fu--I mean, sue me.
That said I feel kind of lazy using this. This was recorded at the same time as yesterday's so it's like I didn't even do anything today (it doesn't help that this one is so very short, and only has one instrument with literally zero production). I guess that lazy doesn't mean bad (this is actually pretty good), it just feels like I should be doing more or something?
But let me tell you why. I don't know if there's some kind of clinically definition of exhaustion, but I got maybe five minutes of sleep and drove an hour in a car with no air conditioning (and this car, keep in mind, had been sitting in the midday sun for almost three hours). Most days, when the guitar parts I'd did needed another take or the mike levels on the drums turned everything to mush**, I would ignore the suspicious omnipresent ringing in my ears and just push through it. Today I'm just glad I already had something in the can. See you tomorrow, if I can still move.
* Try and find a Song of the Week post not containing that word.
**God, you should be glad you don't have hear that.
Oh, right, about the song.
I'm not entirely sure what a leitmotif is supposed to sound like, but this totally is one. As a bonus, it also bears a passing resemblance to "Dread" (normally that'd have a link), from earlier, so it gives the whole project a little more cohesion. I'm not sure whose or whats theme music this is, but it seems like it would fit a place more than a person, especially a place you're not too fond of (hint school hint hint/ been made more money wherever I went/ rollin' in green like I'se lives at the mint*/ some something blahdy blah blah spent), or someplace you find depressing (like I'm not sure where/ but when I get there/ I'm dropping more dollas than I can spare/ I spend it on ice/ I spend it coke/ Just a couple months 'til I be broke). Now what was I talking about?
*'Cause mints are green so it's a pun. I am the world's greatest rapper!
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
[This song can only be downloaded by downloading the full album. To see the page for this track, go here.]
Rerelease Notes: Same recording, but mixed completely different--more echo, less static, more presence blah blah blah.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
I did it!
"Two Warriors Meet On an Ancient Battleground":
(Part three of Soundtracking Your Life). This is the battle theme. Because every great story has a great fight scene, and now you can pretend you're in one! Now every opponent, be it the morning commute* to that crap on your teeth to the giant samurai warrior right in front of you right now as you read this good god why are you still reading this get up and fight man, can seem as important as, I don't know, some kind of Japanese fighting guy. You know, like a ninja or those other guys. The ones with the swords. Jedi, I think they're called.
This one just sort of happened. I was playing drums and came upon this riff I liked (it's the doo-dododo-doo-dododo part), and decided to build a song around it. I was going to give it a more complex arrangement, but everything I tried sounded worse, not better. Maybe if I could afford a gong.
*Provided your morning commute is less than 3 minutes 19 seconds long.
Not sure when the next two will be done. I wrote 2 and a half minutes of one and realized all I had was a great intro to a song, and now I have to write the actual song. The other song I was gonna do (covering this'n before my birthday invalidates it), I decided I couldn't do anything interesting with it. End transmission.
UPDATE, 1/20/2011: The song mentioned in the previous paragraph almost became the last song of year two; issues of guitar tone forced me to scrap it and do "Lower" instead.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
Rerelease Notes: None. This is the same track as above.
Friday, May 15, 2009
SorryIhadthesedonehoursagoandthenIkindofforgotOhwellwhat'sdoneisdonehere's SongoftheWeekIhopeyouenjoyit
[Song of the Week is...screw it, you should know by now]
What you are looking at is but one reason why I'm two songs behind. Well, not really, I just thought it was interesting-looking. I mean, I had spares. I'm not a total dumbass.
No, the real reasons were boring and logistical and had everything to do with just being unable to spend one to six hours making as much noise as possible. I wanted to do threefer, but the other two songs I did today turned out--well, they didn't really turn out at all.
"Dread (023-3202)":
For a long time-- probably dating back to when I first started this project-- I've been obsessed with movie (and video game) soundtracks. It's not really intentional, but this song bears a lot of resemblance to some of the stuff by E. S. Posthumus, who do a lot of the soundtracks for movie trailers. Anyway, I've been kind of obsessed with the idea of creating a soundtrack for everyday life-- to make the drive to McDonald's feel as important as blowing up the Death Star. My plan is you can put this on your headphones, go outside, and instantly feel (estimate) 300,000% more awesomer. I call it Soundtracking Your Life. Obviously you can't download this, so consider it (and the next song, which is also a part) a preview for the whole thing.
As for the song itself, it was my attempt to avoid some of the ruts I've been falling into. A lot of my songs are fast or mid-tempo, so I made this one intetionally slow and dirge-ey. I feel like I've been overusing guitars, so I didn't use any here. Originally it was going to be more of a drum 'n bass thing, but I put in the MIDI strings to give it some more definition and variation. Also the bass kind of sounded shitty. I came up with I thought was this great riff and then it came out kind of flat, muddy and not nearly loud enough. (here I'm talking about sound quality. It's not the riff's fault it came out wrong).
Also, the song's title is the riff, not a phone number. I was calling it that till I got a better view of how it came out, which is when I added "Dread". The More You Know [chime and star].
"Rose":
This song is one of few songs in existence named after another song (I can only think of one other*), though upon listening to it, I'm not sure where I drew the connection. The original title was "Gypsy", but I'm pretty sure that's kind of offensive, plus it doesn't fit the finished product very well, though it should give a hint what I was originally shooting for.
Anyway, as I mentioned, this is part 2 of Soundtracking Your Life. I think my plan is to release the whole thing for free on the blog, and then take all the videos down and force you to pay for them. I'm just a little evil that way. I'm calling this the "Dream" section, because for some reason I can't listen to it with my eyes open. This is about half on purpose and half just how the chimps fell.
I've mentioned before how I think we need more improvising in music, and I think it works better here than anywhere else I've done it. This is more about tone and emotion than melody, and the unfocused directionlessness of the whole think just make it more illogical and dreamlike**.
*As I was writing that, I thought of a more obscure example, but I've decided to keep it a secret.
**If you liked that BS, contact me and I can make one of your accidents look intentional, today! Only $19.95. Accident not included. (Will not actually be done today. Expect a ten-to-ten-thousand-day waiting period.
Rerelease Notes: For this version, I re-edited the bass and drum loops to remove the gaps and pauses. Doing this made the song shorter, so I also had to re-record the strings (which I probably would have done anyway). I also added a fourth strings track and changed some mixing and volume issues, mainly to make the drums louder and change the bass tone.
Release Notes: I remixed this song to make the drums more prominent, and give the guitar more volume, but changing the EQ settings gave the guitar a weird, robotic sound that was all wrong for what the song is. So I ended up just using the original version that you hear here, though the download should be significantly higher quality.
What you are looking at is but one reason why I'm two songs behind. Well, not really, I just thought it was interesting-looking. I mean, I had spares. I'm not a total dumbass.
No, the real reasons were boring and logistical and had everything to do with just being unable to spend one to six hours making as much noise as possible. I wanted to do threefer, but the other two songs I did today turned out--well, they didn't really turn out at all.
"Dread (023-3202)":
For a long time-- probably dating back to when I first started this project-- I've been obsessed with movie (and video game) soundtracks. It's not really intentional, but this song bears a lot of resemblance to some of the stuff by E. S. Posthumus, who do a lot of the soundtracks for movie trailers. Anyway, I've been kind of obsessed with the idea of creating a soundtrack for everyday life-- to make the drive to McDonald's feel as important as blowing up the Death Star. My plan is you can put this on your headphones, go outside, and instantly feel (estimate) 300,000% more awesomer. I call it Soundtracking Your Life. Obviously you can't download this, so consider it (and the next song, which is also a part) a preview for the whole thing.
As for the song itself, it was my attempt to avoid some of the ruts I've been falling into. A lot of my songs are fast or mid-tempo, so I made this one intetionally slow and dirge-ey. I feel like I've been overusing guitars, so I didn't use any here. Originally it was going to be more of a drum 'n bass thing, but I put in the MIDI strings to give it some more definition and variation. Also the bass kind of sounded shitty. I came up with I thought was this great riff and then it came out kind of flat, muddy and not nearly loud enough. (here I'm talking about sound quality. It's not the riff's fault it came out wrong).
Also, the song's title is the riff, not a phone number. I was calling it that till I got a better view of how it came out, which is when I added "Dread". The More You Know [chime and star].
"Rose":
This song is one of few songs in existence named after another song (I can only think of one other*), though upon listening to it, I'm not sure where I drew the connection. The original title was "Gypsy", but I'm pretty sure that's kind of offensive, plus it doesn't fit the finished product very well, though it should give a hint what I was originally shooting for.
Anyway, as I mentioned, this is part 2 of Soundtracking Your Life. I think my plan is to release the whole thing for free on the blog, and then take all the videos down and force you to pay for them. I'm just a little evil that way. I'm calling this the "Dream" section, because for some reason I can't listen to it with my eyes open. This is about half on purpose and half just how the chimps fell.
I've mentioned before how I think we need more improvising in music, and I think it works better here than anywhere else I've done it. This is more about tone and emotion than melody, and the unfocused directionlessness of the whole think just make it more illogical and dreamlike**.
*As I was writing that, I thought of a more obscure example, but I've decided to keep it a secret.
**If you liked that BS, contact me and I can make one of your accidents look intentional, today! Only $19.95. Accident not included. (Will not actually be done today. Expect a ten-to-ten-thousand-day waiting period.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSIONS:
Rerelease Notes: For this version, I re-edited the bass and drum loops to remove the gaps and pauses. Doing this made the song shorter, so I also had to re-record the strings (which I probably would have done anyway). I also added a fourth strings track and changed some mixing and volume issues, mainly to make the drums louder and change the bass tone.
Release Notes: I remixed this song to make the drums more prominent, and give the guitar more volume, but changing the EQ settings gave the guitar a weird, robotic sound that was all wrong for what the song is. So I ended up just using the original version that you hear here, though the download should be significantly higher quality.
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