Red on Black / Gone / Life in a Dangerous Time

Ok...so I've been on a writing hiatus ....arranging music with computer programs.  I have a small group of fictitious musical groups   --  Urban Sound Masons,  Topo No-No,  X99,  Makers of the MAR (Music Audio Revolution). I arranged some original music tracks  using the  JAM TRAX software by Sony(tm) and have been having a blast.  (Actually, some of the names are inside jokes  X99 is the Feature Class Code ,  MAR is Minimal Acceptable Rate but Music Audio Revolution sounds much better  and Topo No No is harder to explain haha.

The best arrangments are   two  very tropical./latin purcussion dance beats called (appropraitely enough)  Tropico and Return to Tropico  by the ''group'' Urban Sound Masons (latin beat/ dance/ techno genre) It sort of has the same feel as Jan Hammer's  Miami Vice theme at least purcussion-wise.  Tropico was composed in Jam Trax and then remastered through  Sound Forge 6.0 software to give it that treble boost and 'live'  dance club feel.  Return to Tropico features some seriously heavy purcussion (bongos, timbels etc) bass and some simple keyboards but it rocks.

X-99 (industrial/trance/ techno genere)  comes in with a short (1:27) very toungue-in-cheek and darkly humorous arrrangment called A Nice Day to End The World.  Starting out with classical music arrangment being interrupted by the blast of an aircraft afterburner followed by a very industrial trance-like beat (what sounds like a distant bomb and 'machines of war' and klaxons)  that then reverts back at the end to the classical arrangment it opened with (all is well the nice day returns..ahh) . Another track , called  Crash Dive is  more industrial sounding. Beginning with dark cinematic ochestrial strings then  FX of something akin to a sub sonar a chugging steam engine sound .. Has a video game soundtrack quality or perhaps something to that in an anime film. 

Makers of the MAR (Music Audio Revolution)  (Dance genre) come in with their downtown jazzy bass beat track called Take the Beat Downtown. 

Finally,  Topo No-No (techno/trance)  rounds out the arrangments  with Tech Tonic  (Agent Smith's Inevitibility Mix) featuring a dubbed sample from The Matrix words by character Agent Smith   ( Following a break beat "I hate this reality..whatever you want to call it"  following another break beat ..."Hear that Mr Anderson?"  the song then dives into a  rough distorted guitar riff at the end of which Agent Smith replies "That is the sound of Inevitibility".

So there you have it. my writing 'vacation' was toying around with my music maker machine :)

Actually, I had my mind in the story when i arranged Tropico and Return to Tropico.  Tropico...That would be a cool name for a Dance Club yes? (In fact, i could add that as perhaps another bar or meeting place in the city.  But in any case, it could be a song you might hear at the EMP Club. I am also thinking, what the hell...why not arrange and mix my own story "soundtrack" ??  Which i already have done with music made by others.   
 

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