[Ambient Groove] Tea in a Martian Cafe (mp3)

[tvdude]

Hi everyone.  Here is a new tune from me.  It features some familiar default windows sound fonts (edit: NOT modplug sounds...duhhh me), and I hope you enjoy it.  Comments are always welcome.  Here is the link:

http://213.129.73.14/members/my_tracks/audio/DT_ACF32899804115.mp3

[Sam_Zen]

Nice build up. It appears to be a special brand of tea after a while..

[bvanoudtshoorn]

I like it! I think I recognise your bass drum sample; is that one of the "familiar modplug sounds"?

[tvdude]

Hi bvanoudtshoorn!

The bass drum sample is actually from www.breakbeat-paradise.com but where they got it from I don't know, maybe they got it from modplug...lol.  At any rate, it was not one of the samples that came from the default modplug instruments.  Good guess though.  Any other guesses?

Sam Zen, it is indeed a very special brand of tea. :wink:

[Harbinger]

Weird, but somehow strangely attractive. The title fits the music, that's for sure!

[bad2989]

The closed hihat in the middle part sounds very familiar; but then again, how much different can a hihat sound?
Nice piece. Somehow it makes me think of a modern muppet show act.

[Saga Musix]

Quite an interesting tune, but the screams in the middle part are a bit weird...

how much different can a hihat sound?

oh, really! every hi-hat sounds different! the hi-hat in the middle part is clearly a TR-909 hi-hat, this is a very popular drum machine.

[tvdude]

lol...actually Jojo, those only sound like screams to a human.  It was, in fact, a very pleasant waitress asking if I wanted milk and sugar for my tea, and making some small talk. But you should have seen the look on all the martians faces in the cafe when I actually drank the tea in the same place I spoke out of!  They thought that was the grossest thing they'd ever seen.  It just goes to show that what is strange in one culture, is very normal in another.

Ok, who am I kidding? You're right, the screams are pretty weird.  Kinda creepy actually.  But it sure was a fun song to write!

btw..you are right about the hi hat.  It is a 909. :lol:

[bad2989]

909, okay. That's what makes it familiar! But is it one of the "familiar modplug sounds" you were referring to earlier (I can't remember what instruments were in the initial download...)?

[tvdude]

No, I don't believe the 909 hi hat was in the modplug library.  I have a 909 sample library that I dowloaded after getting modplug.  The familiar sound samples I used from modplug are: a door creaking, a laser gun, a siren, a shaker, and you guessed, a scream.  All of which except for the shaker have some sort of vst effect on them.

[Saga Musix]

i guess you mean the default windows sound font when referring to "modplug instruments" (which are not modplug instruments at all, remember, they are part of your MIDI setup!). But the default windows sound font is sooooo crappy, it does not even have a 909 drum kit!  :lol:

[tvdude]

guess you mean the default windows sound font

Holy cow, you're right, I completely forgot about that, what was I thinking????lol....I should just stick to writing music and let it speak for me.  Thanks for the correction Jojo.  Sorry for misleading everyone.  An edit has been made to the initial post.

[bad2989]

lol! I don't think I have ever even listened to the rest of the midi library after having heard the piano...

[mrvegas]

Nice tune -- is that the cafe overlooking the Valles Marineris or the one in the Syrtis basin?

I liked the drums and sound effects in this one -- they complemented the main melodic figure instead of dominating the song.  I hear more interesting stuff on this forum and on Modarchive these days than I can find on the radio or in CD stores.