@Thorvald: I didn't want to do what everyone else was doing, the thought of remixing a track didn't feel natural to me as I wanted to be able to create my own thing. One of the main things I wanted to do though was to keep the spirit of the music from its source material alive and well, so I spent many hours listening and picking up on key elements of the music that would best work in creating a track. Years of watching movies and playing video games also aided my studies as I didn't just go into a theater to WATCH a movie but to study its music. The same thing with a video game as I am always paying special attention to the music and able to know what sounds help define the sound in the music that stands out the most.

For instance with MegaMan I owned Mega Man 2 on NES and I remembered the beat in the password screen really standing out and how the music was very fast and matched the level it was in. Or how a movie like the terminator had strong slow and threatening synths to indicate something dangerous and mechanical was present. I listen by ear and from years of doing this I am able to listen to something and pick out its core elements and either replicate or build on what I just heard.

@XxTheCreativeKitsunexX: Film and TV soundtracks don't get nearly the recognition they deserve—not just the John Williamses and Howard Shores, but the diegetic background tracks that set the mood of the scene and have to twist and turn to fit the action. One thing that always stood out to me listening to the music on its own is how a single piece can be a tonal roller coaster in a way chamber compositions could never get away with. The whole, as they say, is greater than its parts.

@Thorvald: While John Williams is the exception to the rule, if a composer does not sing or has vocals that are tied to him or her then music that is considered background noise to most people will not stand out as a famous you-tube rapper or singer will. Considering most music written by supposed singers is actually written by a shadow composer who most times goes unmentioned, instrumental music does not have the grab that other music does as its considered to be like classic music, while it has its fans that are hardcore the consensus is that it does not fit mainstream radio or concert halls. There ARE some music composers and music that people will go see in a concert, mostly video game related music and a few tv shows here and there. For the most part instrumental compositions or Orchestrated pieces take up a lot of time to listen to and even more so to understand what the composer was going for. A lot of people don't want to spend the extra time to respond to that kind of music when a meaty beat or a rapper throwin down on the mike is more appealing cause its more involving to them and they can sing along. Star Wars is literally the only Orchestrated score people know off by heart along with the Super Mario Brothers World 1 theme but those are rare few tracks who actually become mainstream. There are probably a lot more others out there who will add to my two examples but yeah. Most people that includes this site won't even read past the first few lines I wrote if it isn't engaging to them. Just the way people are but it does not mean everyone is "different strokes for different folks"

@XxTheCreativeKitsunexX: Now that you mention it, The Shadows are literally the only band I can think of from the 60s pop scene that had a high profile doing only instrumentals. Without launching into a whole diatribe on the current state of radio, there's been a definite shift in the industry toward mass-marketing the audio version of fast food, and tonal complexity has been bulldozed as a result. Why shell out for an orchestra when you can just run a stock drum loop?

@Thorvald: *Precisely, it takes no time to listen to a manufactured track cause they go through them like a theatre goes through popcorn in a 4 hour movie marathon. *