{"id":2189,"date":"2011-01-15T22:23:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2011-01-15T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:23:26","slug":"mp3-kinect-adventures-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Kinect Adventures! (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0 1812 Recordings \/ Released:\u00a0 December 14, 2010<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length:\u00a0 8 Tracks \/ (32:07).<\/span><\/p>\n

Special Notes: Downloadable album.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Daniel Pemberton<\/p>\n

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Daniel Pemberton\u2019s music for the Xbox 360 game is based around a singular theme reinterpreted in some of the craziest fusions of differing styles from very distinct musical periods.<\/p>\n

In the title track \u201cAdventure is Go!\u201d (a titular salute to the Andersons\u2019 Thunderbirds<\/strong> TV series, with its countdown fetish), the central three-note theme announces itself, reasserts itself, and ends with a flaring finale designed to get listeners ready for a rolling, somewhat cheeky adventure.<\/p>\n

Most of the theme variations are anchored onto a particular idiom \u2013 bossa nova, ska, or a kind of Latin cantina style funneled and sifted through a Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez Rodriguez filter \u2013 but they\u2019re orchestrated to accommodate specific levels of amusement.<\/p>\n

Unlike the intro cue, \u201cCreaky Bossa\u201d is rooted in British sixties pop ditties with a reggae beat, and nice instrumental subtleties that drift into eighties UK pop, either through the pinched fuzzy synth notes buzzing over the brass band, or the lightness of Pemberton\u2019s harmonies.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour on Four\u201d is equally rooted in eighties pop (largely due to a thick bass beat and synth hand claps), but driven into the arrangement are synth theme variations derived from nineties Europop, and layers of funky percussion textures and wah-wah guitar reminiscent of a heist movie score, with retro bongos and echoplexed brass statements.<\/p>\n

The bass groove from \u201cFour on Four\u201d is held over for \u201cRide the Rapid Beat,\u201d over which a gliding electric guitar motif has been appropriated from a generic, attitude-laden Tarantino film, as well as a trumpet figure extracted from Neal Hefti\u2019s Batman<\/strong> theme. Spacey synth blobs introduce \u201cThis is What You Do,\u201d with hollow percussion hits accentuating another sixties-styled theme variation with electric guitar and brass.<\/p>\n

\u201cRapid Dub\u201d offers a combination of spacey tones with a more minimalist bass figure, whereas \u201cAfrotar\u201d strips down the instrumentation to guitar, mostly trumpets, and drums pounding out a ska-like rhythm. Pemberton\u2019s slight additions aren\u2019t layered over each other, so guitar, sixties organ, and Jamaican kettle drums are allowed short & sweet spotlights.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdventures Victory March\u201d closes the album with piercing keyboards replaying the main theme in its original configuration, and Pemberton has a few moments of improvisation before he reintegrates the full brass elements to brings the album to a close.<\/p>\n

The album does have a repetitive feel \u2013 most of the cues restate the theme in whole at some point \u2013 but Pemberton\u2019s fusion of styles is quite infectious, reaffirming the composer\u2019s position as one of Britain\u2019s wittiest composers..<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2011 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Related links:<\/em><\/p>\n

Interview:\u00a0 Composer Daniel Pemberton<\/a><\/p>\n

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Related external links (MAIN SITE):<\/em><\/p>\n

DVD \/ Film:\u00a0 LittleBIGMusic <\/a><\/strong>(2008) —<\/strong>\u00a0Monster Movies <\/a><\/strong>(2005-2008)<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album <\/a>— Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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