The Sad Punk


A while ago, there was a project going on with a section of the Something Awful forums. It was called “Project Endlife” and it was supposed to be a mockumentary (not the funny kind) about what supposedly happened during the years between Half Life and Half Life 2. Also, it was all going to be done using Garry’s Mod. I had offered to do music, and got this one done as kind of a demo for the project leader.

Then, one day, I went to the website, and it wouldn’t let me in. It wouldn’t let anyone in. The topic on the forums disappeared… everything was gone. I eventually found the leader and questioned him about the whole thing, and he just said that he realized he was going to be WAY too busy for this sort of thing, and didn’t believe most of us could’ve ended up pulling all of this off, or something. Bleh.

Anyway, here’s Transpire (demo). Although it doesn’t sound ANYTHING like it, it was inspired by Track 2 of the Half Life 2 soundtrack. For anyone who doesn’t have the soundtrack, but has played HL2, the track in question starts around the time where you jump through the first batch of trains, the first time you start being shot at by the Combine.

You know the one.

The Sad Punk


I’ve been hit with two deadlines that are very close to one another. And both are projects I can’t really talk about yet! One of them is for a contest, a contest for money! The other one is the big one I was mentioning previously.

I have to get my creative ass in gear. I’ve been so stagnant lately, and this, hopefully, will be just the thing to break the ice that contains any musical ideas within. But I have a firm grasp of what I want to do, I’m just scared stiff that what I’m thinking won’t quite make it to fruition intact.

I have to give my full, 100%-for-what-it’s-worth endorsement for GForce Software’s Retro Synth pack. It includes the M-Tron (Mellotron sampler), the MiniMonsta, the Oddity (based on the ARP Odyssey synth) and my all time favourite, the ImpOSCar (softsynth emulation of the OSCar hardware synth).

I love them so, and am thinking of doing some sort of Vintage-only project sometime after all of the projects coming up are out of the way.

I’m trying really REALLY hard to have faith in my abilities. I don’t want to let anyone down.