When I am washing the dishes I like to have some music in the background. Over the years I collected many mashups, mixes, Xmas songs, game soundtracks, own CD-rips and more
( maybe a bit illegal stuff ?).
So I put a DVD-R in my half-broken DVD-boombox ( remote control and display are broken) with some Lounge music and Virtual Audio Project (synthesizer music, see earlier Happy Halloween posts) and I was breathless by the instrumental techno sounds coming out of the speakers. I had to know what the music was and from who. It was labeled TrackMania 2 Canyon, so it was the OST of that game.
In total 8 tracks for 4 canyons and 2 menu music. I never want to buy the game itself, cause I bought a previous version called TrackMania United Forever and that game was good enough (or should I say difficult enough). Every TrackMania has almost everything a good race game should have, a track-editor, changeable car-skins, local and internet multiplayer, downloading new cars / car-skins, save replays, make screenshots, but no damage or guns.
Check out the 20k replay movie.
For this mix, I had 8 tracks, but 4 of them were almost the same. They even sounded a bit like the menu music. But I liked all of them. When I first hear all tracks from the DVD-R I assumed it was all 1 mix. When I looked on my computer on the DVD-R, there were 10 tracks with different titles. In the end, I used 9 in the mix instead of 10 tracks, cause 1 of the menu music sounded just 1 of other tracks and the mix sounded a bit too boring.
I also cut a bit off the last track the menu music for a better fade out, hope you don't mind.
( maybe a bit illegal stuff ?).
So I put a DVD-R in my half-broken DVD-boombox ( remote control and display are broken) with some Lounge music and Virtual Audio Project (synthesizer music, see earlier Happy Halloween posts) and I was breathless by the instrumental techno sounds coming out of the speakers. I had to know what the music was and from who. It was labeled TrackMania 2 Canyon, so it was the OST of that game.In total 8 tracks for 4 canyons and 2 menu music. I never want to buy the game itself, cause I bought a previous version called TrackMania United Forever and that game was good enough (or should I say difficult enough). Every TrackMania has almost everything a good race game should have, a track-editor, changeable car-skins, local and internet multiplayer, downloading new cars / car-skins, save replays, make screenshots, but no damage or guns.
Check out the 20k replay movie.
For this mix, I had 8 tracks, but 4 of them were almost the same. They even sounded a bit like the menu music. But I liked all of them. When I first hear all tracks from the DVD-R I assumed it was all 1 mix. When I looked on my computer on the DVD-R, there were 10 tracks with different titles. In the end, I used 9 in the mix instead of 10 tracks, cause 1 of the menu music sounded just 1 of other tracks and the mix sounded a bit too boring.
I also cut a bit off the last track the menu music for a better fade out, hope you don't mind.
When my mix was ready to be published on YouTube ( I was not sure I got issues with copyrights on mixcloud), I had the idea to create just a simple video with a visualizer, then my son (plays sometimes TrackMania United on Steam) told me it was less boring to watch if there were footage of the TrackMania 2 Canyon game. I agreed and start looking for footage with no watermarks or texts during the races. I found a long video of someone playing a couple of races of the Beta version and forgot to record the sound.
So I cut and cut and pasted in the video I made with the visualizer, still, these footage .seemed not very interesting to watch. Then I tried to use the footage of all official trailers of Ubisoft of TrackMania 2 Canyon. But it felt wrong, the trailer had already good sounds, why re-use them for my simple Speedmix? I added an intro and an outtro to the vid with footage of the Beta version and decided to publish it on the net, first on Mixcloud, then YouTube.
I am sure if you search for TrackMania you get enough vids to watch for the rest of the week, so no more links about the game, well just one...
I forgot to tell I used the visualizer of WinAmp called Milkdrop from Nullsoft Inc & walter Gruess. It has very different styles of visuals and very nice color schema's. In the video I just used random visuals which turned out very well. Here is the download link.
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