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Cheers Alex! First Xmas prezzie..!

I had to download the audio from a broadband PC, and the PDF from mine. But we got there in the end. :rolleyes:

Cheers guys, hope you like it.

Since my stuff is instrumental, I try and let (or hope!) the titles do the talking. But just in case, here is what I had in mind with each song...

The Lights of Home
For those moments when you look out over a vast sea of tiny glittering lights and try and spot your house...

Ringroad
Music for night-driving. Inspired by the Boulevard Périphérique around Paris.

Midnight Air
Music for those exciting evenings when everything just feels so right.

When the City Sleeps
Was originally supposed to be While the City Sleeps after the name of the Fritz Lang movie, but for some reason I got it wrong and failed to correct it. The title has since embedded itself to the song, so it's too late to change it! However the original theme was inspired by scenes from Lang's classic Metropolis, which also inspired the album's title.

Waking
A short piece taken from fragmented images in my mind of a dream I once had, of watching the sun rise over the hills around the perimeter of a vast, walled city.

Empty Streets
There's a scene in Vanilla Sky where Tom Cruise's character is the only person on this enormous sweeping city street. I was thinking about wondering around the city streets in the light of the morning, before the place comes to life.

Towering Glass
A simple song about architecture. Again inspired by some of the modern architecture I've seen in Paris and other places.

City of Industry
Inspired by those classic underground factory scenes in Metropolis. I had called an earlier version of the song "Forgotten factories" and was thinking about derelict industrial estates and the 'ghosts' of workers and machinery of the past. I wanted to make something dark, heavy and haunting.

Curfew
Inspired by the "curfew" scenes in Metropolis and many other classic dystopian science-fiction films. There's always a curfew!

Concrete Monsters
A song about the claustrophobia of big cities; being surrounded by concrete, like towering monsters and in many cases, extremely ugly ones! This piece, along with the next I had originally started working on last year.

Eyes of the World
A song about the hundreds of electronic eyes that monitor our movements each day...

I know exactly what scene you are invoking Alex, with Empty Streets. That was filmed in midtown, Times Square to be exact and it is a very powerful scene in Vanilla Sky, even more so to those of us who know firsthand what that area is like normally. Just so you know Alex, Times Square never ever looks desolate.....even at 4 am.

Yeah, I figured that they must have taken extreme measures to keep those streets empty!!

Great scene from a great film

Downloaded last night and played on the way to work this morning. Impressive work Alex!

Thanks :-)

I have to admit, I haven't heard it on a proper stereo system yet so I've no idea how bad the levels really are!!

I'm downloading now , will look forward to listening to this.

Try hooking up the PC to an hifi so you can mix and play back live, before saving the mix. Thats what i do on the odd times i record a track. Sometimes i even plug some headphones to the hifi too, so i can get an avarage mix that works for both.

Good work Fella! 'Empty Streets' is my fave at the moment