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I have had a soft spot in my head for this film since a good friend dragged me to see it during its original theatrical run (before the late night crazies took over). The only changes I made to this file were goosing the mix a bit and changing the voicing on the melody lines. I just had to get rid of those annoying ‘Vocal Oohs’ (which, on the Soundscape at least, are really ‘Doohs’). I also deleted the Narrator’s lines - they weren’t actually sung to begin with and you can fill them in yourself if you really miss them that much. “It's just a jump to the left...”

A very accurate reproduction of an old favorite. I made no changes to the original file - mainly because I couldn’t. My sequencer program keeps telling me that track 0 of this file is too big for it to handle. If you have something like Voyetra’s Orchestrator program, you can change the lead vocal line to the French Horn patch after the file starts playing. It sounds much better than the Sax patch that’s there now.

The title cut from my second favorite album by one of the most overlooked bands of the eighties. The person who originally sequenced this piece had the good sense to forgo trying to replicate the nuances of Danny Elfman’s vocal line, so you can sing along if you like. The only major change I made to the original file was to bring the horns down in the mix a bit and clean up a few glitches here and there. “Don’t run away - it’s only me...”

While we’re on the subject, here’s one of the pre-fab four’s biggest sellers presented in a Karaoke version. This file is different than the other versions you’ll find on the web in two ways: 1) I put the Electric Piano line at a reasonable level in the mix and 2) I looped the end and added a fade out to make it sound more like the original recording. And, no I’m not going to apologize for being a Monkees fan.

And now for something completely different - the title cut from the first album by Robert Fripp’s updated version of King Crimson. Strangely enough, his original plan was to name the group Discipline but as the sessions progressed he decided to go with the old tried and true band name. My only contributions to this file were to fix the drum mix (certain elements were too pronounced) and to use two different voices for the bass line instead of just one (which I feel more accurately reproduces rhe sound Tony Levin gets out of The Stick).

More Crimson! All I had to do to this one was fix the drum mix and add some controller resets so that it wouldn’t leave the sound card screwed up for the next file that got played. Reproducing vocal lines is one of the hardest things to do in a MIDI, but whoever sequenced this one certainly pulled it off well.

Easily my number one choice for the “Most Accurate Reproduction of the Original Song” award. While I optimized the mix and reassigned the voices used for the vocal tracks, the person who sequenced this file obviously spent a lot of time and effort putting it together - and it pays off in spades! If anyone out there knows who is responsible for this bit of MIDIart, please contact me and let me know where I can find more of their files. This one really KICKS!

Don’t know why really, but I have always loved this song. The original file was pretty rough, but after many hours of tweaking and remixing, I think the final results are pretty damn good.

The old standard. I always had a soft spot for this song (particularly the Bette Midler version in “The Rose”), but most of the MIDI versions I found were pretty lame. This one may be as well, but at least it's a step in the right direction...

Not my favorite song from the “Masters of Cool”, but easily the best MIDI rendition of any of their tunes that I have been able to find. The mix was all over the place and the vocal line used those bloody ‘doohs’, but all in all I think it cleaned up well.

The song that launched MTV presented here in a sparkling MIDI adaptation. I have optimized the mix for wavetable cards, cleaned up the errant controller messages and recreated some of the stereo spectrum from the original recording, which makes this version a cut above the one you’ll find scattered around the web.

You can’t believe how happy I was to find that someone had taken the time to create a MIDI of the “overture” from this obscure double album released in 1978. Producer Jeff Wayne assembled a who’s who of session musicians as well as attracting the likes of Phil Lynott, Justin Hayward, David Essex, and Jo Partridge to take vocal roles in this musical adaptation of the classic sci-fi tale. He even got Richard Burton to serve as the narrator! The only changes I made to the original MIDI were minor mix corrections. Now, if I could just find a way to recreate the blood-curdling Martian war cry of “OO-LA!” to tack onto the end of this piece, it would be perfect...

If you have any files that you feel should be featured on this page, I’d be more than happy to check them out. I’m always looking for new stuff! Just e-mail them to me as an attachment or send me the URL for their location. They don’t have to be old songs (it's really an accident that most of the above are). I was the executive producer of an alternative rock radio program that specialized in independently produced releases, so I’m not necessarily “stuck in the seventies”. I’ll consider any style or type of music as long as it’s well done. Surprise me!