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I have loved reggae music since I was a kid listening to Bob Marley songs. My favorite song is Jamming on the album Exodus - I love that CD.

Did you know Bob Marley had 12 kids with 8 different women?! What is not to like about rasta culture.

This week I decided to do a dancehall style mix with hip hop beats that gives a very modern sound to this track. I call the tune “Book of the Monkey”.

Free MP3 Download: BookoftheMonkey.MP3 - CC Licensed - More

As usual you can use this royalty free for YouTube as a background instrumental or anything else. Just check the license for using the recording.

Peace,

Dan-O

Hi, this week I have been working on a new original video game music soundtrack. You could use it in a flash game, or just have a listen for fun - its kind of crazy. It has allot of cool pinball and carnival sounds. Parts of the track have that old classic arcade style theme - I call it “Ten Ton Matrix”.

Free MP3 Download: TenTonMatrix.MP3 - CC Licensed - More

Also this week, I have been playing this remake of the original Asteroids game and working on this t-shirt design based on my song “The Art of Gardens” which is one of my instrumentals people seem to like the most.

Have a great week.

Peace,

Dan

I’ve been inspired this week to do a little instrumental mix of some beats with orchestral strings from some royalty free concert clips. I’m not exactly a composer here - just a remixer, arranger (sort of) and audio producer. There should be some new definition for this job. These are done with dozens of actual 5 to 10 second wav file loop samples of live orchestras which is definitely a new thing in the history of classical music. Its a lot different and way better sounding than MIDI.

The great thing is that the musicians get paid for their initial performance of these scores - but then when you use the loops in your own composition as an artist then the terms of “buy out” music is that it is royalty free. These loops come from Data Becker the other very excellent loop album provider is Sony ACID. I just thought I would provide all this information because I get a lot of question from people about making music this way, especially from kids and young people on Yahoo Answers.

I was recently listening to a book on CD about classical music’s effects on the brain and so I decided to take a new approach with this recording to see it would make me more intelligent. I’m feeling it already. This is a little different than listening to the symphony - it sounds more like a pop / rock or electric hip hop orchestra. Definitely classical music for people who do not like classical music!

As usual you can use this song on YouTube, your MP3 player, webcast, blog or in your podcast playlist. It will eventually go into my zip music library collection. It is also up on the Mininova Torrent network if you download from there. Just a reminder that my work is not in the public domain and I own the copyright to the recording and composition. However, just follow the terms in the license and you can use it free and clear online, in commercials, movies or whatever without any additional permission from me.

So here is “Become the Heavens” for your listening appreciation (hopefully)

Free MP3 Download: BecometheHeavens.MP3 - CC Licensed - More

Peace, Dan-O