New song: "The Gamblers"

 Hi again folks,

despite I haven't uploaded a lot of songs lately that doesn't mean I've been idle. Not at all! So here goes my latest song: The Gamblers.

This epic orchestral song was created to be the main theme for the Digital Combat Simulation's "The Gamblers" campaign by Baltic Dragon.

After creating other songs for him, Baltic Dragon contacted me in the winter of 2022 to create a new song for his new F16 Campaign. The song took many iterations until reaching its final form, and despite being much longer initially, the final version was shortened to suit the trailer lenght.

This version was completed in April 2024. It was originally uploaded on May 3rd 2024 but wasn't publicly available until July 11th, the release date of "The Gamblers" DCS campaign.

"The Gamblers" DCS campaign official trailer (only music):

"The Gamblers" DCS campaign official trailer (music and audio):

(Trailer video by Max Pettersson)
 

Stream/purchase the song at Bandcamp:

 

Hope you enjoy it! More music comming soon ;)

Have a nice summer!

Talk To Me, Goose!

 Hi again,

yep, I know, I know... I just released a new song. But here goes a new one!

"Top Gun: Maverick", the sequel of the movie "Top Gun", has been premiered a few days ago and it's going to be available for the general public in a few weeks.

Being the original movie an icon of the 80s, and the premiere of "Maverick" having being delayed for two years due the COVID-19 pandemic the hype has been pretty high about this one.

The Fighter Pilot Podcast is going to release a series focusing in the US Navy Top Gun weapon school, and they needed a song to fit the theme. After some demos I decided to do a partial cover of the original Top Gun Anthem, changing it a bit, most notably adding a new original section at the end (which can't be heard in the version used in the podcast).

Here it goes, I hope you like it :)

Best regards

Happy new 2022 and a new song!

 Hi again folks!

so, 2021 has passed and we have a brand new year to waste. And with it comes a new song! The Fighter Pilot Podcast requested a new song to be used as theme for the whole 2022 year. Once again it had to be a metal song, so that is what I created!

The final version wasn't the usual song though. It had been created to be easily editable by the podcast production team so it could be cut or looped to created the bumper of each episode depending on the needed lenght. Thus it had a long 45 sec loopable intro, followed by two different sections separated by a few seconds so the trails of the first one didn't overlap the second section and they could be used independently or merged, depending on the needs.

Once finished I created this edited version which you may consider a "normal" song. Anyway, here it is:

Hope you like it. As always, take care out there and see you here again soon!

Regards

The 80s are back!

 Welcome back folks!

In case you didn't notice: the 80s are back. Haircuts, clothing, movies and of course... music. Yes... even John Mayer has released an album with sounds, art and videos like the ones we had during the eighties.

So... believe it or not my next song had to be inspired by that decade. I can't deny I dig a good amount of the music and movies that were done back then (others was utterly bad though). I listen or watched them quite often, and for some time I have wanted to create some music with the kind of sounds we were listening on the radio or as movie soundtracks then. But I didn't really sit to do it. Until I was offered the opportunity to create a theme for a new podcast focused on the F-14 Tomcat. If you don't know what that is: does "Top Gun" rings a bell? Yes... that airplane :) So, the podcast is called "F-14 Tomcast" (I love the name, hehe), in case you feel inclined to give it a listen.

Anyway, with that movie in mind I created this song, "Catapult". The name is descriptive enough if you're interested on jet fighters, aircraft carriers and that kind of jazz. And for this special occasion I've even created a music video. Here it goes:

As always the song is also available as audio streaming on Bandcamp:

 I have to say that despite it's not perfect  I'm quite proud of the final result. I think the goal was achieved (sounds like the music you may expect hearing while watching a jet fighter movie from the 80s) and I think my recording and mixing are improving. And I kind of like the song itself too.

Enough talking... hope you like it.

See you on the next one!

Celebration!

 Hey folks,

I hope you're doing extremely well :)

Year 2020 is coming to an end, and it's also the moment when The Fighter Pilot Podcast has reached its episode 100th. To celebrate such special event I've composed this new song "Celebration":

Believe it or not it started as a funk/disco song inspired by Kool & The Gang's "Celebration". Then it morphed into a kind of western movie soundtrack But in the end it has ended as an orchestral fanfare, very, very far from the first version of this song.

I do hope you a Happy New Year (Xmas has already passed but let me wish you a belated Happy Christmas too). Let's hope 2021 will bring back some of the things we've lost during 2020.

Regards

New song and Happy Summer!

Hi again folks,

 Summer is already here and here goes a new bumper song for The Fighter Pilot Podcast.

This one is inpired on a renowed german industrial metal band, and despite it wasn't originally meant to be used as song for the spy aircraft episodes Vincent prefered it to the one I created for them. So be it :)

This song was composed and recorded on February 2019, but hasn't been released until the SR-71 Blackbird episode has been published. I love this amazing spy aircraft since I was a kid, so I'm extremely happy to be involved somehow in something related to that rocket-like plane :)

Hope you enjoy the Summer. I'm keeping myself really busy creating more music, despite that isn't showing up here. But it will, eventually... :)

Kindest regards

Ridin'

Welcome back,

another ten days have passed and I've released another song. This one is a metal cover of the famous Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", which is part of the second opera of the "Der Ring des Nibelungen". The fade in and fade out sections are original though:

Story behind is: there were plans to feature helicopters in the Aircraft Series of The Fighter Pilot Podcast, so we needed a song which could be linked to them easily.

It didn't take me too long to remember the famous movie "Apocalypse Now", where the original song was played through loudspeakers mounted on US helicopters while they attacked a North Vietnamese village.

Again, I didn't have a lot of time to record and mix this one, but It worked OK for the episode. Hope you like it.

As always you can get the full podcast episode here. The song appears at the begining and the end of it:

www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/episodes/040-h-60-black-seahawk/

An old friend is back

Well, once again too much time passed between posts.. sorry!

The reason I've decided to write this post is to say thanks. I have found in YouTube a lot of uploads of the music I originally made for Forgotten Hope. I can't deny it has been a nice surprise.. I'm really glad to see people did enjoy it that much and stills do it today. I even found a video of a guy doing a cover of one of my songs. Seriously, how cool is that? :)

But that shown me that my music is not accessible enough for those interested about finding it. Yes, it has been always available at my Soundclick page. But I have decided to make that easier for them uploading my songs to my YouTube channel. The first one is an old friend of those who played (or play today) Forgotten Hope: "Forgotten Hope theme", which I did available today.

Thanks to all of you who liked my music enough to take the time to upload it to YouTube before so others can enjoy it. And thanks also to those who left nice comments about it too :)

I'll finish this short post saying that I'm still working in a new orchestral song. I have created several songs after the ones I did for Forgotten Hope, but not war themed. So after finding these videos in YouTube I thought it would be nice creating a new one. I'll keep you updated about my progress :)

Kindest regards