{"id":81,"date":"2013-12-05T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/thoughts-and-insights-on-our-lates\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:43:51","slug":"thoughts-and-insights-on-our-lates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/thoughts-and-insights-on-our-lates\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts and insights on our latest collection: “Dark Cues Vol. 7: bZombie”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have just released a new album of horror \/ mystery underscore music to our catalogue: “Dark Cues Vol. 7: bZombie<\/a>“. This is a collection of 12 eerie and creepy film score \/ underscore tracks for use with death and horror. Each track is available to license separately, as well as together as a collection at $99.95 for the full collection with Standard License.<\/p>\n

\nWe caught up with composer \/ producer Pawel Blaszczak<\/b> and had him share with us some background and insight on the creation of this music:<\/p>\n

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\n“Writing the bZombie album was my idea after I
\nfinished Dead Island Soundtrack (Ed.note: Pawel is a composer of music for triple-A video games). I like horror movies and I like watching
\npictures or movies from abandoned places. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nI had couple tracks ready in 2012 and I would
\nlike to release them on Bandcamp as short four tracks album. Then I asked my
\nfriend Grzegorz Jonkajtys if he could draw a cover artwork image for me. He designed a great
\nbZombie cover artwork picture which was very inspiring for me. I then decided to make a full
\n12-track album.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
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I like audio editing and synth experimenting.
\nAlso I love piano sounds. So, I decided that bZombie will be more like synths
\nand piano meet experimenting sounds. My last previous “Days and Dreams” wasn’t
\nexploring dark side of synthesizers. At the beginning of 2013 I bought some great
\ninstruments from Elektron Octatrack<\/a> and Analog Four<\/a>. The two of them are the main instruments I used for
\ncreating the album. I always dreamed of deep editing of piano sound.
\nOctatrack gave me the opportunity to really make a something new with piano sounds.
\nSomething more than just typical playing piano. A couple of tracks on bZombie has a piano style
\nplaying which isn’t possible with normal piano playing.<\/div>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\nI used Octatrack not only for piano mangling. I also used it to create a lot of dark, experimental loops. I used drums made
\nfrom synthesizers sounds as part of loops also. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAlso, I used Elektron Analog Four. I like very
\nmuch this instrument. It is analog. But what is unusual. It is sounding very
\nmodern and, what it is important for me, very dark. Almost every sound from
\nAnalog Four has something dark inside. It is the perfect synth for making
\nmysterious music.<\/div>\n
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Composer Pawel Blaszczak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

That was not an end of my searching for
\ninteresting, modern, dark and hauting new sound. I prepared couple tracks with
\nSubtle Noise Cacophonator Noir. It is very rare machine for sound creation. It
\nis also hard to create something which is melodically. But I tried and on track
\nElectricity Broken Cacophonator Noir is playing almost full track with piano
\nsound. <\/p><\/div>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\nAlso I used Moog Sub Phatty<\/a>. Like all Moogs, it
\nhas a great bass sound. Also I used a Nord Wave <\/a>with breathing samples. Piano is using
\nfrom Nord Stage 2. It is great sounding piano.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nWhat was important for me is that I didn’t want to
\ncreate too experimental music. I like melody and I like experimenting with
\nsynths. I would like to merge those two things. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
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I also would like to really give listeners a feeling that they are in abandoned, empty places. Just
\nclose your eyes and feel that you are in some dark zone, with no people, with
\nonly ghosts from the past.<\/p><\/div>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\nA listener who bought this album from me mentioned
\nthat it is perfect music for background music of RPG horror games. Myself, I like hear
\nthis album in my car when I’m driving home through forest and empty spaces.”<\/p>\n

Listen to the album here<\/a>.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have just released a new album of horror \/ mystery underscore music to our catalogue: “Dark Cues Vol. 7: bZombie“. This is a collection of 12 eerie and creepy film score \/ underscore tracks for use with death and horror. Each track is available to license separately, as well as together as a collection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,41,17,88],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shockwave-sound","tag-artist-feature","tag-composing-music","tag-new-releases","tag-pawel-blaszczak"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}