Popular Post InTheCity 140 Posted December 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2023 I hope you enjoy enderdrag64, Incanus, JTN and 10 others 10 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis 245 Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Thanks for this! Just skipped through it but will watch it tomorrow when I have time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,914 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 I would never have guessed this was from Williams. It reminds me a little of his lounge music from the 70's like this (where the flute comes in around 55 seconds) but maybe this is a different genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 On 12/12/2023 at 2:24 AM, InTheCity said: I hope you enjoy “Training Montage” from SpaceCamp is sort of a proto version of this with JW going full synth mode. Might be interesting to analyize and compare the two cues. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve 593 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Is this a real person in the video? He doesn't blink 😲 JTN and pete 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manakin Skywalker 4,897 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, Steve said: Is this a real person in the video? He doesn't blink 😲 I'm pretty sure that's @InTheCity Also can we take a moment to appreciate that he lives in a beautiful medieval castle? Great breakdown by the way! JTN and Steve 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 16 minutes ago, Steve said: Is this a real person in the video? He doesn't blink 😲 He’s either a living person or the most well made CGI character ever created by Weta Digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheCity 140 Posted December 14, 2023 Author Share Posted December 14, 2023 yup thats me, that's my avatar serious Mike JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,914 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 3 hours ago, JTW said: “Training Montage” from SpaceCamp is sort of a proto version of this with JW going full synth mode. Might be interesting to analyize and compare the two cues. Wow, I never would have guessed our Johnny penned this one! What genre is this, funk? Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,044 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 On 13/12/2023 at 6:30 AM, karelm said: I would never have guessed this was from Williams. It reminds me a little of his lounge music from the 70's like this (where the flute comes in around 55 seconds) but maybe this is a different genre. I love "Banning Back Home." It's just JW doing his own version of Dave Grusin's "Mountain Dance." But if you have to do a pastiche of another artist's work, you might as well knock it out of the park like he did. karelm and JTN 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,359 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 Sounds like something you would hear in an instrument demo playalong haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePenitentMan1 744 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Banning Back Home makes me think of Gran Turismo menu music for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 On 15/12/2023 at 1:29 AM, karelm said: What genre is this, funk? Space pop. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,084 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 1 hour ago, JTW said: Space poop. Fixed. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: Fixed. Don’t you like this cue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,084 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 38 minutes ago, JTW said: Don’t you like this cue? You got me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 2 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: You got me. Why don’t you like it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,084 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 16 minutes ago, JTW said: Why don’t you like it? 1. The ideas. 2. The arrangement. JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said: 1. The ideas. 2. The arrangement. I think it’s a lighthearted, unorthodox cue that shows the versatility of JW who is most well known as the symphonist. It’s not the best cue of the score, but imho it’s an inventive, uplifting, joyful, very 80s synth arrangement. I love it. ThePenitentMan1 and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,084 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 The thing is I don't think I would have liked it in an orchestral arrangement either. JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 6 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: The thing is I don't think I would have liked it in an orchestral arrangement either. I used to not like this score, either, but the last Intrada expansion made me fall in love with it and I’ve been a fan since. It’s both strange and great when JW does synth cues, one just has to love them. It’s so not him, yet he can do wonders with it. Had he decided to go the full synth road like Zimmer, he would’ve made some amazing electronic scores. But luckily he didn’t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,359 Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 4 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: The thing is I don't think I would have liked it in an orchestral arrangement either. Isn't that basically this? JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuartalHarmony 543 Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 On 15/12/2023 at 12:29 AM, karelm said: What genre is this, funk? I’d call it pop/soul but done with the most extraordinarily 80s production values. An impressive transcription, @InTheCity - thank you. I like the use of money voicings, and it’s good to see them notated clearly and explained. Putting the 7th in the bass is a trick I seem to remember Williams saying he enjoyed doing for the Nazis in Last Crusade. How amusing that he did the same thing two years later in a jazz setting! The only bit I’m slightly less convinced by is the DX7 reference. Yes, it was very popular (especially the electric piano preset) but it had been largely overtaken by the Korg M1 by the late 80s and early 90s. Nevertheless, any session synth player in 1991 would probably still have an DX7 available and might have deliberately used it since the piece was a bit of an 80s pastiche. I’m pretty sure the original DX7 couldn’t split sounds across the keyboard, but the later DX7-II probably could. Given the huge synth rigs we’ve seen Grierson et al using in scoring sessions, I’d suggest it’s more likely to be two separate keyboards being used on the same rack. Mark karelm and Loert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,371 Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Training Montage is as far from Funk as you can get. Funk is something driving, something for moving, dancing. Training Montage manages to have no drive at all, it is so static, you cannot even march to it. Maybe it's a music for... building something with Lego. Don't know. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,042 Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 14 hours ago, GerateWohl said: Training Montag You mean Training Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,914 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 2 hours ago, JTW said: You mean Training Monday. Monday, Monday is a great song! JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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