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I’m doing a John Murphy Cover.. Just Because.

Daniel — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:08:38 +0000

So in production right now i'm doing a cover of a fairly popular John Murphy song (of 28 Days Later & Sunshine fame). Most would probably recognize the tune "In the house, in a heartbeat" from the 28 days later soundtrack as it was used in the most memorable scene from the movie, even if they don't know the name of the song directly. Ever since seeing that movie it became one of my favorite songs from a film. There's just something about the simple piano line and haunting guitar melody coupled with the intensity of the climax that has always been like sex to my ears. If you don't know what song i'm talking about, check it out here:

John Murhpy - In the house, in a heartbeat.

Anyways.. while watching the movie Kick-Ass recently (awesome movie, by the way, I suggest you see it) I noticed that they had used the song (to my surprise) in the intense battle scene where big daddy whoops some mob ass. Hearing the song again reminded me of how much I loved (the original) and I thought it'd be fun to try my hand a doing a remake of it. It's great because the style of the song falls in so closely with my own style of writing music (soft, quiet starts, powerful, explosive finishes) that laying down the tracks for the song just feels really natural and fun. I'm going to draw the song out a little longer than the original I think, and I hope to make it a bit more ambient and intense and hopefully make it evolve a bit more organically.

Anyways! That's what i'm up to. Will have the song up as time permits.

First presets are out!

Daniel — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:08:11 +0000

I finally got around to adding some of my first publicly released presets to the site. You can find them over in the newly added Downloads section. It currently consists of one preset for Addictive Drums and one for Amplitube 3. Both presets were used in my previously released song Coalescence if you want to hear what the presets sound like in a mix.

I do have a lot of presets that i've done over time that I want to share and i'll try to get them up as time permits, but for now hopefully someone finds the current ones useful!

Coalescence

Daniel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:33:43 +0000

I've been on a bit of an acid jazz kick lately thanks to my brother, so I thought it'd be fun to try my hand at doing something sort of similar but in my typical trademark fashion of melding it into a highly progressive structure. The first half of this song has a strong, steady bass line with a calm, simple and detailed drum backing without too much deviation. It borders on simple ambient, almost. Towards the middle the song takes a bit of a breather and gains more of a blues vibe, and then finally comes together in an explosive finish with a bit of a Porcupine Tree flair (I confess, i've been listening to them a lot too lately ).

Fun facts: First song i've done in 3/4 time. First song utilizing the new Amplitube 3 from IK Multimedia for all stringed instruments (amazing!) and first song i've ever managed to get a drum sound i'm completely happy with. The presets that I used for some of the instruments in this song (drums & guitar) will be available in the downloads section.

Edit: I apologize for the lousy sound on the Bass at the intro if you are streaming this song, this seems to be some sort of problem with flash and mp3 files, as the weird artifacts do not exist on either versions of the proper download copies below.

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