Urban Nerds Records: Recent Episodes
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Mostly focused on improvisation, post-jazz, avant-rock, experimental "classical" and noise genres. Also includes some production music.
Symphonic glitch music for a science fiction movie maybe. Experimentation with symphonic colors and electronica.
New Remix of a song with Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Daniel Lanois kind of vibes
Pop/Rock Instrumental guitar track with horns. Thanks to Omar Hakim for playing on this... ;)
Jazz rock fusion with some dubstep and 80's techno textures. This piece evokes the imagery of a group of people being chased by aliens that are going to eat them once they're caught. Some didn't make it... maybe they all didn't make it...
Slow, repetitive music with apocalyptic tinges. Features fretless bass on repeating melody w/ various guitar counter melodies along the way. Bridge is a Pink Floyd inspired drop and track ends with a short bass solo outro.
Video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3Alq_6g9k
Modern, intense soundtrack for Nosferatu. composed by Daren Burns.
Created in Logic Pro with Native Instruments Kontakt: Analog Strings, Damage, Evolve, and Kinetic Metal; plus, EXS, Fabfilter Pro Q2, and UAD plugins.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJA2qGWFCOo
1922 animation of Felix the Cat: Felix Lends A Hand. Music and sound by Daren Burns. Music and sound is a bit like the Pink Panther or Tom & Jerry.
Created in Logic Pro with Native Instruments Kontakt and EXS instruments. Uses a jazz type score and has been "vintage-ized" with Fabfilter Pro Q2 and Saturn, plus a Fairchild 660 compressor, to be reminiscent of of the time period and to blend with the film better.
Ambient track with radio, percussion, horns, computer sounds, water, and noise elements popping out of the texture. Dense, repetitive, but always shifting.
Epic track featuring fretless bass, electric guitar, japanese min-yo vocals, strings, mellotron choir, and more.
Dark and melancholy track produced as an homage to Jaco and Bill Laswell, Solo fretless bass, bass harmonics loop, w/ percussion and synth drone.
Simple diatonic song reminiscent of the video games of the 80's and 90's. Consists of simple set of chip tune voices: drums, bass, arpeggiated chords, melody, plus some 80's style video game sound effects.
Slow grooving track incorporating rock, jazz, electronic, and rap elements. Includes ambient elements and a Dr. Who-like bridge. Piece started of as me trying to copy NIN... and then morphed with nods to other musical heroes. In the end, it sounds nothing like how I envisioned and the overall vibe sounds a bit like some of Jeff Becks last few electronic based recordings (Not the guitar playing though! Theres a ways to go....)
Track I made as a demonstration for my classes. I used only my IPad into a Line 6 Sonic Port, into JamUp Pro, and into Garageband for the sounds. I decided to mix and release so I mixed in Logic X using built in plugins, some UAD stuff, and Fabfilter Saturn. The track is an ambient rock track with mellow verses and heavy rock choruses. 6-string bass tuned E-A-D-G-B-E, plays all of the melodies, chords, and the bass line.
Here's a track for my imaginary/fake world music album... Afro-Pop/Calypso influenced track created in Ableton Live. in 5/4 and Grooves! but is in 5/4. Influenced a bit by Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, and Paul Simon besides the Hi-life, South African, and Calypso artists like King Sunny Ade, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Boogsie Sharp.