In an attempt to make the most awesome game in the world even awesomer, I’ve been making new tracks for Beat Saber. This is the first one.

You can download the files from here: SaberDuel.zip

Yes. You can create your own levels with this music.
Yes. You can distribute the levels and music wherever you like.
Music licensed: CC0 (Public Domain-ish)

Today’s Featured Piece is “Fireworks” by Alexander Nakarada.

https://freepd.com/electronic.php (bottom of the page)

It has all the production of an iconic 80s-era electronic soundtrack!
Grab your Rubik’s Cube, put your quarters in the queue for Pac Man, and celebrate the US and Canada Free Trade Agreement in style!

CC0 License. It doesn’t get better than this.

Many years ago I did a lot of music for an Xbox title. I really liked the work, and so did everyone else! The title of that game? No one knows. It didn’t get published. Years later, I got a request to do music for a new casual game, so I grabbed the loops from the Xbox game and repurposed them for this: Warlock Taco!

I’ve played Warlock Taco. I enjoy playing it. It is well done. I still don’t get it. That may be the point. Free to Play.

This music sounds best coming live from an orchestra pit, but I offer this recording as the next best thing: A bright and shiny, light, up-tempo TV studio orchestral with lush strings, harp, lively piccolos, celeste and muted trumpets. Think 1950’s Oscar’s ceremonies, or the soundtrack to a mental hygiene film strip of the same era. Make a perfect meatloaf every time with this beautiful new G.E. oven and range with convenient side oven! (Now available in flamingo pink and seafoam green!) Great for entertaining at home with cocktails.

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Classic 60’s bachelor pad music. Pairs well with a martini in London. Smooth swingin’ big band orchestration complete with harpsichord and vibes. Also featuring harmonized full saxophone section soli, upright bass, trombone, piccolo, sort of Henry Mancini, Austin Powers powers on a more reflective day, Mr. Incredible coming back from retirement, or James Bond mixing business with pleasure, shaken not stirred.

It’s a mixture of acoustic and sampled instruments. The guitar part is me playing on a Heritage H-575 hollow body acoustic guitar. It’s a mixture of the signal from the pickups and a ribbon mic out in front of it. The drums are almost all real instruments except a few cymbal crashes and the hi-hats, which were serving as a click track. Ride cymbals and snare drums (brushes and subtle stuff) were worth the extra effort of playing acoustically rather than using samples. In my opinion it makes the who mix feel less stiff.

The horns are samples (no kidding, right?) If any horn section is interested in donating their time to record it, go for it. I can send you a version with no horns and you can add them in. Saxophones are particular tough to recreate, so I find the best bet is to focus heavily on the parts working well from a writing standpoint before getting to hung up on the sounds. Good harmonization and voice leading and well defined articulation can do a lot to mask less than stellar sounds. (but you can’t beat a real section)

To hear some “real” tenor sax playing, check out Steve Johnson featured in my track “Flowers of Rio Branco”. It’s somewhat in this vein, but leans into the BossaNova Chet Baker angle of the bachelor genre.

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