Posts Tagged ‘Hip Hop’

B.o.B and Fort Minor Mashup:
Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams)

Happy September everyone.  Where the heck did August go?  Well, T|M is back this week with an exciting update on a small project I announced a few weeks back: a mashup between B.o.B and Fort Minor.

The main track comes from B.o.B and is called “Airplanes“ which features Hayley Williams from the band Paramore.  I’ve been a big fan of this song since I first heard it on the radio.  There have been a lot of mashups inspired from the song, to say the very least, but one morning when I was listening and thinking about the words of the chorus, I realized that tracks from the Fort Minor album would work extremely well!  The subject matter that Mike Shinoda raps about on the album worked frighteningly well with “Airplanes”.  It originally started with one track from FM, but I kept on finding additional tracks from The Rising Tide that worked just as well.  One thing led to another, and the complete version of the track included SIX different Fort Minor tracks, all from the debut album!  The list of tracks, in order, are:

Right Now
Remember the Name
Feel Like Home
High Road
Be Somebody
Slip Out the Back

Check out the music video I made for the mashup.  Unfortunately, there isn’t any video footage for three of the six tracks from Fort Minor, so I condensed the video down just four FM songs!  Watch it:

For those of you who want the FULL version of the song with all six tracks, check it out here!

Well, there you have it!  You can see the video over on the VIDEO page and hear the full song at the MUSIC page.  As always, I’ve got some great new project announcements coming soon, so don’t stray far; more to come!

B.O.B. and Fort Minor Mashsup:
Airplanes

Hey everyone.  I usually don’t do multiple posts in one week, but this one is just too good to wait.  I’ve been working a small mashup track using the song Airplanes by B.O.B. (feat. Hayley Williams)and taking multiple parts from multiple tracks from Fort Minor, one of my favorite hip hop groups!  I’ve had a man crush on Mike Shinoda for a very long time and it was great to be able to do this.  I’m still working on the piece and I’m contemplating making a movie for it, but I haven’t decided yet.  I wanted to make a post with a small sample so you guys can listen to the direction of the piece.  It is REALLY bitchin’!!  Take a listen:

And here is just an audio version. You can get better audio quality in the YouTube player if you select 480p instead of the standard 320p. Why YouTube doesn’t let you default to 420p is beyond me, but here is just the audio for those of you interested!

And there you have it for now.  The final version will be coming out soon.  This sample only has a snippet of one Fort Minor song (Remember the Name), while the full thing will have SIX different Fort Minor tracks!  It’s not to be missed, so check back soon!

Tweex Music Introduces New “Before/After” Series for Media!

This week, Tweex Music is proud to introduce a new media series entitled “Before/After”.  As the name implies, it will showcase pieces of work both before completion, and after completion.  Many times, clients will ask what a composer/programmer is capable of and in many cases, they want to hear the beginning sound in comparison to the final product.  This ongoing series will highlight work from the T|M database to help anyone see what Tweex Music is truly capable of.

In this installment, T|M brings you two different pieces of music.  First is a Hip Hop/R&B piece written by Greg Fairbanks entitled “Red Wine Concubine.”  The original track that Greg provided utilized only a couple sounds which repeated continually through out the piece.  There were no dynamic shifts and the instrumentation became increasingly repetitive!  After some work, Tweex Music created a new electro synth hip-hop feel for the piece, bringing life and uniqueness to the track.

Hip Hop Before/After

The second track comes from a recent movie trailer that T|M co-scored in association with Hummingbird Productions.  The piece was modeled after a track Steve Jablonsky scored for the film “The Island.” The first part of the Before/After piece is the file that Hummingbird gave to T|M.  It has an incredibly intense midi-esque sound to it that plagues the overall quality.  After a little work, Tweex Music turned the piece into a glorious fanfare with full orchestra and choir.

Orchestral Before/After

That wraps up the first installment in the Before/After series.  Be sure to check back often as new installments will be added!  Also check back soon for new T|M updates.  In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving!