Hardcore Scm - 2013 — Free Ringtone

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Tracks by Hardcore Scm in 2013. Tried a slightly different way of working to 2012. Kept the one track a week starting point but instead of a strict 1 week time limit allowed myself to keep working on the tracks as long as I wanted. Was good to allow some tracks more chance to breathe and change with time as they found themsleves, but also lead to me feeling overwhelmed sometimes when i had too many to work on at once. Experimented more with new styles and more improvising to find melodies. Track Genre and Details Ambient: DreamDance 27: A gentle ambient track. Long held chords on a wibbly pad with touches of light melody over the top against echoing percussion and a drum. No set tempo. DreamDance 28: Swirly tunes and pads and percussion. DreamDance 29: A swirling track on two synths, light melodies and soundscapes. Fluttering: A relaxing, chilled piece. A piano and a cymbal/bell like synth play against each other. Gossamer: A gentle melody over a sweeping pad. Drifting lightly. Kamadhatu: A repeating melody on various synths against some percussion. Meditative, hypnotic and relaxing. Incognito: An ambient techno track, distorted rhythms and repeating noises making textures and moods. Classical: Acre: Piece for Clarinet and Piano in E Flat Major. Starts with the piano and the clarinet joins and they take it in turns playing melodies or accompanying. Ammaliato: A piece for Harp and Orchestra. The harp plays a theme against orchestral accompaniment. The piece starts with the harp then builds as the orchestra joins in and the melody is passed around different instruments. A gentle, relaxing piece, a touch playful. Dancing in the Light of the Sun: A light gentle waltz for piano and orchestra. Intro on the piano then the orchestra comes in and they play around with some melodies lead by the strings then moving around the different sections. Drifting: A piano piece, builds melodies over repeating chord patterns. Droplets: A relaxing sedate piece for piano, melow and chilled. Duet for Two Cellos: A gentle sedate piece for two cellos. Played with a loose tempo around 70 bpm. The cellos play together, sometimes in close harmony, exploring different textures and themes and rhythms. Enchanting: A piece for orchestra, has a few themes and moves them around the sections, gentle and relaxing. Flight of the Penguins: A gentle relaxing piece for strings in 3/4. Trying afew different melodies and textures. Highlands: A gentle piece for piano and strings. Starts with a slow melancholy melody on piano then builds in the strings and picks up a more upbeat melody on strings and piano in the middle. Kirkjufell: A percussive track. An orchestral bass drum underneath woodblocks, cymbals, plates and congas. Builds and explores different rhythms and textures. Losing the Tail: A creeping and suspensful orchestral track, staccato melodies and moody textures. Spellbound: A Piece For Classical Guitar and Strings in F Major. The guitar starts and the strings gradually join in and build layers of harmonies and melodies. The guitar leads and accompanies, sharing melodies with the violin. Tempest: A building, dramatic orchestral piece. Starts with rumbling strings, then percussion and the piano and brass and finally winds and choir come in. Builds steadily to the mid point then eases off again. The Shores Of Tranquility: A gentle, relaxing piano piece in F minor. The harmonies and melodies build over a repeating phrase. Drum and Bass: Drums in the Deep: Making different noises and patterns and rhythms by processing one drum loop - dark and industrial. Metis: A paddy synthy drum and bass track, echoey pads and different trancey melodies play over throbbing bass and stepping drums. Varying the rhythm of the bass drives the track at seemingly different speeds and varying the style of the melodies adds texture. Thebe: a slowly building trancey ambient drum and bass track. An echoey main synth plays over stabby pads and synths over deep basses and steppers drums. Subdued and moody. Dubstep: Parhelion: Soaring pads and floating, echoey melodies over drums and bass. UK Hardcore / Happy Hardcore: Ebullience: An uplifting happy hardcore / uk hardcore type track, has a classical intro with strings and piano then goes all thumpy and bouncy. Synapse: A stomping hi-nrg instrumental uk hardcore track. Technology Beef: A freeform uk hardcore track - a melody switches between hardcore, gabber and dnb styles. Freak Show: An older style hardcore track, distorted kicks and breakbeat and synths. Ropes of Maui: Starts light with melodies and bass and pads and things and then goes abit moodier in the middle. Vitality: A bouncey oldschool hardcore track. Energetic with a pulsing offstep bass and catchy lead synths against kick and percurssion and breaks. Hardcore Techno / Gabber: Maelstrom: An energetic hardcore track, driving melodies and pads over hard kicks. Nothing To Fear: A dark moody hardcore techno track. Stand Up: A thumping hardcore track. Sink Hole: A melodic hardcore techno track, synths and melodies over a changing kick. Bombardment: A pounding kick and building percussion and melodies. Thunder: A few melodies playing around over a big buzzy kick. Industrial/Metal: Corrugated: An industrial metal track. Lively guitars and rapid driving drums playing against subdued synths. Galvanised: A bit of a metal track, guitars and drums and bass with some synths plinking around as well. Synth Rock: Dune Field: Switches between more guitar lead and synth led phrases before mixing them together at the end. Solar Winds: Synths and guitars and drums playing around with some melodies. Trance: Mnemosyne: A big melodic trance track, sweeping melodies over kick and bass. Moonbow: A slower trance track, builds up pads and rhythmic synths in the intro then adds in the drums and percussion and some light melody, brings in the main melody at the mid point then plays around with different combinations for the rest of the track. Photons: A melodic uplifting trance track, builds a melody then tries it on afew different synths. Psytrance: Quiver: A flowing trance track - pads and percussion and synths, chilled and floaty. Trancecore: Rishima: A nice melody over offstep bass and pads and percussion. Builds layers of synths and melodies as the drums drive the track. Trip Hop / Electronica: Cerulean: An instrumental trip hop track. Led by piano with two addiional melodies on synths over drums and a buzzy bass, builds the melodies individually then gels them all together in the second half of the track Eddies: A darker, trancey trip hop track. Escavar: A 5/4 trip hop track - synths and melodic bass over drums. Icicle: A trip hop track – synths, pads, bass and melodies over drums. Has a pulsing, flowing main melody inspired by water dripping off icicles. Made a normal sounding drum pattern but then fed it through distortion and effects to get a nice feel to them and used different effects for variety. Kbiwx: A pulsing track. Bobbling along Lighthouse: An organ-like lead over grungy rhythmic synths. Oceanus: A funky bass and break with some percussion and synths Riparian: A gentle and echoing lead synth flies over synths and drums and bass. Spuds: A trip-hop track with chip tune-ish melodies over bass and drums. The main synth starts simply and gradually builds and changes its sound over the track. Susquehanna: Various melodies and synths over drums and bass. Undulating: A gentle but funky trip-hop piece. A sweeping bass plays against a nice drum pattern and synths come in and out over the top. https://www.facebook.com/HardcoreScmMusic

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Why this works as a ringtone

Great ringtones share a few specific qualities: they have a strong opening hook, they land their identity within the first three or four seconds, and they hold up to being heard in cafés, on busy streets, and through the muffled lining of a coat pocket. Hardcore Scm - 2013 earns its place in the archive on those terms — it's recognizable from its first phrase, sits comfortably in the mid-range where small phone speakers reproduce sound best, and has the right kind of melodic profile to cut through ambient noise without being shrill or grating.

It also benefits from belonging to the wider Western & Classic tradition — listeners associate this kind of sound with anticipation and recognition, two qualities you actually want from the noise that signals an incoming call. A ringtone is, after all, a tiny piece of personal branding; pulling from the screen-music canon gives it a built-in cultural shorthand that a generic synth jingle can never match.

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