@BadKarma: Thank you! Yes this was done on the Korg Krome Keyboard as I have one and at the time my PC was down for the count not current PC So the urge to compose was strong enough that I purchased the Krome from my local music store. I started the track wanting to do something 80s inspired as the Krome has an unbelievable selection of 80s and 90s synths at the push of a button. I started the track and realized the percussion I was using was very much in line with what John Carpenter had used in Big Trouble In Little China, so I set out and for a straight week I did nothing but sit at my keyboard and compose this track as the krome has a built in sequencer and live playback mode on it. What I ended up with was something pretty special. I used a Logitech HD Camera to record the audio and ran it through Audacity and cleaned up the background noise best I could then cleaned up the audio samples and lowered the bit rate so the sound would come through crisp and clear for a live recording. This was the final result to all that work. *I am very proud of this track and all I achieved and learned through making it then preforming it. I still have the original file of the track on SD card located on the keyboard still. There was other tracks on it as well perhaps I will do a recording of those as well in the near future. *
- Little Prayer-Big Trouble In Little China Tribute Track
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Little Prayer-Big Trouble In Little China Tribute Track by @XxTheCreativeKitsunexX (XxTheCreativeKitsunexX)
Created on real hardware the Korg Krome sorry for the drop in sound quality as this was recorded live using a low quality microphone back in the day and with no sound editing so this is a LIVE performance.
This may go over a lot of people's head's here on Side 7 being this is movie from the 80's and I am as retro as they get when it comes to movies and some of my music.
This is my tribute to the John Carpenter Cult Classic Big Trouble In Little China. A movie that was responsible for the inspiration behind the Mortal Kombat games and has been spoofed by many television shows including the New TMNT television show with season 2 episode 23. The Legendary James Hong who everyone here will know as Po's father in Kung Fu Panda made a starring role famous with his character LoPan with Kurt Russel to create a movie panned so bad its really good. Have not seen it yet? go check it out for a ton of laughs and see why this movie makes it into my most beloved list of 80s movies.
Here is my tribute with an entirely new original track that recaptures the feel and sound of the 80s and this super awesome classic film, they don't make movies like they used to and that goes the same for the music. So here is my tribute to Hollywood of old and music that may sound cheesy to you young whippersnappers. But to old fogeys like me holds a special place in my heart.
Music is ©2017 J.Delorey Sword Dancer Studio Canada LTD XxTheCreativeKitsunexX Big Trouble in Little China is © and ® Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, TAFT Entertainment Pictures.
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@XxTheCreativeKitsunexX: That's really awesome. It's amazing the things we can learn to do when we're working with limited resources.
@BadKarma:* Necessity breeds Innovation right?*
@XxTheCreativeKitsunexX: Seconding BK: For an "analog" recording, this sounds blemishless.
My first contact with Big Trouble was a certain death scene; perfectionist pedant that I am, when I looked to appropriate the clip for a (long-suffering, currently shelved) project of my own, I sat down to watch the whole film. It's certainly not high art, but it's got a lot of charm, and isn't nearly as clumsy with the culture as B-listers of this era often leaned. Plus Kurt Russell has charisma to spare; an article on iconic car chases cited the final sequence in Death Proof, and for someone then in his fifties he still had an insane youthful energy—I can see why Tarantino wanted to boost him.
Great track! You've really nailed the 80s movie score tone and feel. And, for being recorded on a "low quality microphone", that sounded really good.