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  • Vangelis – A Tribute

    Vangelis – A Tribute

    I first discovered Blade Runner via my dad. He’s a massive fan of the film and the incredible score that accompanied it. It’s fair enough really – the powerful combination of the imagery of the film and Vangelis’ synth driven score is still mind bending today let alone when the film was released in 1982. Add to that the mystery around the film and the soundtrack itself (which wasn’t released until 1994) make it something very special to music and film lovers and geeks like me.

    When I found out that Vangelis died it hit pretty hard but I’m not really sure why. I don’t really own much of his music to be honest. He was 79, a fair age. He did many other film score like Chariots of Fire (which I think I have a 7inch of somwehere) and 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and released many solo albums and albums with Jon and Vangelis and Aphrodite’s Child but really for me it all comes back to Blade Runner.

    The video below is my little tribute to Vangelis’s Blade Runner score; recorded quickly using Ableton live, the drums are 808 samples and all of the synths and bass are care of the amazing Arminator 2 plugin, arguably the best Yamaha CS80 emulator you’re likely the use. There’s a small nod to the pulsing noise from Chariots of Fire too if you listen closely. The lead synth was recorded using the midi pickup fitted to my SG which worked pretty nicely.

    You can download the audio below too.

    RIP Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou aka Vangelis. Thank you for everything you did.

  • Video Premiere: Tiger Mendoza & Ally Craig – Until Tomorrow

    Video Premiere: Tiger Mendoza & Ally Craig – Until Tomorrow

    As you may know I got back in to film photography a few years ago. I was looking back through some of my film photography scans from the past couple of years pre-pandemic and started pulling out pictures Going of various pre-lockdown travels, gigs and other adventures. For me, no matter when the picture was actually taken, film photography always has an air of nostalgia about it and for a few different reasons I haven’t really felt like using my film cameras for a while so coupled with that, looking through these pictures was a bit of a nostalgia overload but a fun trip down memory lane which I’m hoping we can get back to soon. All of the pictures were taken between 2018 and 2020 although exact dates are a bit fuzzy.

    Until Tomorrow is a track that I created about a year ago based on a bass line set to me by the frankly brilliant Ally Craig. It’s probably the closest I’ve gotten so far to Mogwai-esque post-rock track or at least a teen TV drama version of a post-rock track. The dialogue is borrowed from a BBC World Service broadcast I came across when putting the track together discussing the then relatively new pandemic and confusion within India around the advice the government was giving to it’s people. Listening back to the audio now and alongside the pictures from our last trip to Goa, where I still have a lot of friends and family, it’s an interesting glimpse in to what has lead to the current situation.

    You can still download the track from my Bandcamp page. Any profits will be donated to the amazing Oxford Food Hub who do great work educating people on food waste and redistributing food to charities and organisations that can use it. The track is still available to stream on all on Spotify and all of the usual services.

  • Off To Bolivia

    Off To Bolivia

    I was searching around YouTube the other day (as you do) and found this cool little travelogue video made by the guys from the Off To Somewhere blog. The music is my remix of Manu Delago’s “Hang Drum Solo” (aka Mono Desire) which you can still download from SoundCloud.

  • Italy via Oxford – Making music with found sound

    A little while back I was asked by the lovely people at citiesandmemory.com if I wanted to create a track with some of the field recordings that have been uploaded to the site. The result was this track which used samples recorded in Italy and on Cornmarket Street in Oxford to create all of the instruments used.

    [soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/tigermendoza/italy-via-oxford-wip[/soundcloud]

    I also made a couple of videos on how I made put the track together in (I know, the voice over is too quiet but it’s my first tutorial video. Go with it.)

    And if you want to have a go at creating your own version, you can download the Ableton Live set from here. Enjoy.

  • Video: Ableton 9 + XBOX 360 control pad demo

    Quick demo of how I control FX in Ableton Live using an XBOX 360 control pad. More details, GlovePIE scripts and sample pack can be downloaded from here.

  • Video: Half Decent – Filmstar (feat. Tiger Mendoza)


    Massive round of applause to Half Decent for getting over 2500 views for this video! And yeah, it’s better than the original 🙂