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This weeks' ambience is Black Rider, my take on the infamous Nazgûl from the Lord of the Rings. This is a high-octane chase/action track but it has some ebb and f...
2023-01-25 16:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's track is the type of happy, cozy tavern setting that only halflings can provide. It was a particularly fun (and challenging) one to make as almost all the instr...
2023-01-18 16:54:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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I hope your 2023 is off to a good start! I've been watching the second season of the excellent spy drama, "Slow Horses" and have been loving the very non-glamorous world of...
2023-01-11 16:48:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Happy New Year to all! I started the year off by giving my studio a much-needed tidying. It's incredible how many bits and bobs get strewn around in the process of creation...
2023-01-04 16:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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I just wanted to drop in to wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season. My best gift arrived last night when my older son returned from his semester abroad and I now g...
2022-12-24 17:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Dec. 28th - This has now been released to the public.
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Just in time for the holidays, here's the 31st installment of the SoundPad series, Viki...
2022-12-21 14:27:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: I had forgotten to include the id3 tags in the files so they have been re-uploaded. If you downloaded these before Dec 19, 2022 you can re-download these. The tracks themselves are unchan...
2022-12-14 16:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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A recent request for an 'elven celebration' stuck in my head and refused to leave. As you may know, I write down every request I get on an ever-growing list. I refer to thi...
2022-12-07 16:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit Dec 7 2022: I noticed there were some unintentional digital clicks in the files containing music so I've repaired those and re-uploaded them (see below). The files are:
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Another action/chase themed track for this week. This time it's set on the high seas, in old wooden sailing ships.
I've always appreciated the slow pace of nava...
2022-11-23 15:46:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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I had a specific request for an ambience last week that took me down a bit of a rabbit hole (usually a good thing!). I was vaguely familiar with the Japanese spirits, known...
2022-11-16 19:38:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's track is a chase, it's an escape. It's what happens when a simple action sets off a chain of events, and an entire plan gets tossed out in favor of running like...
2022-11-09 15:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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I didn't really have a handle on where to set this week's track until a couple of days ago. The music came first on this one, but the more I worked on it, the more it seeme...
2022-11-02 14:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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All great cities have a dark side. A place that doesn't show up in brochures, a place that's not for tourists. In fantasy fiction, this is the home of the downtrodden, the ...
2022-10-26 14:57:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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I had quite a stressful week as I decided it was time to replace my 9-year-old, workhorse of a PC with a new one. The 2 days I gave myself stretched to a solid 4. And then ...
2022-10-19 15:24:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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When I first started working on this track, the file name for the initial idea was: 'druid_forest_thing'. And yet, the finished version is quite literally, million...
2022-10-12 14:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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After last week's spooky Halloween track I thought I'd bring it back with something nice and uplifting. Here's a staple of fantasy adventure, the ever-present Adventure...
2022-10-05 15:23:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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As the spooky season approaches, I thought I'd do something with a horror bent. I should note that the title of this track doesn't really have anything to do with the book ...
2022-09-28 15:35:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is one of those tracks that I assumed I had already done, but hadn't. I've remedied that now. Medieval Banquet, is just that. It's a grand feast in a great ha...
2022-09-21 15:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's a moody gothic reverie set in an old, decrepit chapel. Nature has burst through the walls. Vines cover the pews and dais. Birds nest in the beams. Leaves blow across...
2022-09-14 14:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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The family beach trip was excellent, but I'm excited to be back in NYC, and most importantly, back in my studio.
The first thing I did was create a complete amb...
2022-09-07 15:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Before I introduce this track, just a short message to say that I'll be out of the studio next week for a much-needed trip to the shore with my family. So, there won't be a...
2022-08-24 17:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's a magical, off-beat, slightly creepy(?) track that, after the music was finished, I decided to set in the dark recesses of the earth, lit only by bioluminescent fung...
2022-08-17 16:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's track features a setting inspired by the new D&D starter set, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. The drowned sailor/zombie trope is fairly common in fanta...
2022-08-10 15:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's ambience takes us into the dystopian future of cyberpunk. A teeming mass of humanity is forced to live in close quarters and eke out a living. This trope is cent...
2022-08-03 15:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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I began working on this as an exploration of some new percussion. A simple frame drum and bells in an almost arrhythmic pattern. I knew it was a desert scene after a ...
2022-07-27 14:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm disrupting my usual Wednesday release schedule to bring you a special post (Don't worry, I'll be back on Wednesday too).
Many (many) months ago, I ...
2022-07-25 16:02:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: These tracks were re-uploaded with a different track number. The new # is 328_ and that is what will appear on the site. The files are otherwise identical. You can simply rename the track...
2022-07-20 15:07:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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I saw an interview with one of the authors of the latest D&D adventure books speaking about the ...
2022-07-13 17:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's another classic RPG scenario. The ever-popular cultist hideout. This is designed as almost pure underscore, as in, the score holds a single level of energy throughou...
2022-07-06 15:12:33 +0000 UTC View Post