New Age Instrumentals

[cymbolik]

Thinking of submitting my songs Runners High and Dream Flight for this pitch
What do you think? I believe they fit the Brian Eno and Loscil quote but not so much the Pan American.

Cheers
Scotty
http://www.taxi.com/cymbolik

NEW AGE INSTRUMENTALS in the stylistic ballpark of Brian Eno, Loscil, Pan American, etc., are needed by a Video Production Company that specializes in Action Sports Videos. They re looking for ORIGINAL Instrumentals that have an AMBIENT and DREAMY vibe that can add the perfect JUXTAPOSITION to a high energy Sports Film, TV Show, Videos, Commercials, etc. In other words, DOWN-to-MIDTEMPO instrumentals ONLY, please. Instrumentation is open, but MUST be in a similar wheelhouse as the referenced artists without ripping them off in any way, shape, or form. Original Instrumentals ONLY, no covers or sound-a-likes please. Broadcast quality is needed (excellent home recordings are fine.) You must own or control 100% of your composition and master recording. Please submit one to three songs online or per CD. All submissions will be screened and critiqued by TAXI and must be received no later than Thursday, March 28, 2013. TAXI #S130328NI

[Russell Landwehr]

Hi Scott

Welcome to the TAXI Forum!

It sounds like you are in the Ambient ballpark of Eno and Loscil. I see you commented in another post how Pan-American is the odd man out with the percussive instruments. But actually I could see how Pan-American might be more "sports" oriented... When I see listings like this one, I try to picture how the client would use the tracks... I'm having a hard time taking the leap of faith and picturing football players floating down-field to Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)"

Anyway, I say go for it. Those two tracks of yours fit the a-la's for sure.

Good Luck, and again, Welcome to the Forum!

Russell

[cardell]

Nice Scott!!

Stuart

[cymbolik]

Thanks Stuart and Russell, I've submitted them, and from what I see you both have some very fine music on your
sites, best of luck.
Cheers,
Scott

[tordenspyd]

Thinking of submitting my songs Runners High and Dream Flight for this pitch
What do you think? I believe they fit the Brian Eno and Loscil quote but not so much the Pan American.

Nice tracks. Well made. I think your evaluation is correct and worth to go for.

But you never know. At least I don't. And I think very often in New Age category they go for something different than what I think they have written and different than what I hear in the examples.

Actually your Runners High resembles An Ending (Ascent).
One interesting issue though is that it does contain vocals(choir) and the listing asks for instrumentals, so that may be a reason for return.

I could absolutely imagine floating music used as juxtaposition to many high energy scenes, and it is very much used.

like war movies, a war battle scene, then the bomb hits and everything flyes off in slow motion to floating music, the next scene is the hospital or the chuch yard.

Boxing match, our hero is hit by a knock out - again a switch to slow motion and floating dreamy music while we see sweat droplets and teeth fly slowly through the air. next scene: Nut house.

Car chase scene - car crash -followed by dreamy music .. etc

I can see these uses, but I can not imagine the reviewer may have a similar vision and there is no way to tell him/her.

Any how, good luck

[richmstudios]

Hey Scotty, I just finished listening to both of your tracks start-to-finish. I must say, nice job!

I've been working on this on too (overly-stressing about it actually) so I've been analyzing the a-la's pretty extensively. I like the way your tracks seem to cover all the bases TAXI's looking for: "Runner's High" being more dreamy and ambient while "Dream Flight" incorporates more percussive elements commonly found in the reference tracks. I think that the percussion loop in "Dream Flight" may be just a bit too up-front in the mix but it by no means is bad at all.

Bottom line: great mixes that put the listener in the same vibe as the reference tracks. I feel the both of these are contenders for a forward.

Congratulations on the good work and let us know if/when they make the cut...

Rich

[cymbolik]

Hey Tordenspyd and Rich, Thanks for the great insight , It's my first time on Peer to Peer and I must say it is quite valuable
and worth the time, very helpful, and quite cool that you can check out the work of people giving advice to see if
they are on point with there own creations. As a seasoned musician I do have a thick skin so advice and critiques I always see
as helpful coming from the right source. Appreciate it guys.
Keep on creating,

Scotty