action jackson

welcome back. i’ve gotta be honest with you song-of-week-team. i’ve had a hard time mustering the energy for my self-imposed song of the week lately. and, while i’ve had the occassional inspirational “ooh! i need to make something like this” moment, it’s been hard to sit down and do it. probably for a handful of reasons. but this one came out in a fit of restless, busy-bodied, energy with no direction, a feeling i call being “rammy.”

“action jackson” is really intended for picture…action sequence, or comercial, etc. something relatively short. i’ve posted a longer version of it than i probably should have, but added miscellaneous german voice over (or “voice under”) to add interest, in that background music sort of way. anyone wanna translate?

what i MAY do if i get time, is use this music under another action sequence sound design! that sounds fun, and probably more appropriate. i’ll just plug in machine gun fire and car crashes and myself yelling for my sexy co-star to get down, etc.

while it’s a bit repetative (like this blog), i’m pretty happy with the main elements and the sounds, including roughly 3 1/2 drum tracks.

what do ya’ll think? does it make you wanna jump over a table full of flea market goods and tear through the square to your sports car, with which you then weave your way through the city alleys dodging bullets?

and then, does it all of a sudden make you wanna take a tour of berlin?

and then, does it make you go over the whole conversation with that old german guy in your head over and over again, slowly putting together the plot, finally realizing that you need to get somewhere very quickly and heroically again cause you’ve figured it all out!?

or what? dance?

thanks for listening as always.

j

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