Pokket's Music

[pokket 0]

Why, hello there. So I'm new to this forum and I already posted a topic about some script help and I realized "what a jerk move to do, I should give something in return" so here I am. I wasn't sure if I should put this in resources or here as this is gears towards anyone who would like me to do some composition work, but resources seemed to be more of an image-based thing so I figured this would be best.

 

Anyway, I'm somewhat of a musician. My focal point is instrumental hip hop and trip hop. This means I do a lot of sampling and do some synth work and composition to make the best stuff I can make. I also do remixes. Right now I'm interested in doing music for games, so I actually have a question for you guys before I showcase some of my work. To those who compose for games, what programs do you recommend? I want it to sound game-like of course, so I was thinking of using a midi program but wasn't sure where to begin.

 

I've been using FL Studio for six years and I have a legal copy as I like image-line's work. I've played live shows before, but that's recently settled down as I've been actually focused on a netlabel I put together a few months back as well as studying philosophy and business in college, as well as creative writing. I guess you could say I'm a jack of all trades, my weak points in the game industry being programming (which I'm hoping to change as I get a better grasp on the ruby language) and art work. I suck at art haha.

 

So now, let me show you some of my work. My most recent completed stuff can be found on my bandcamp.I'm most fond of my Snoop Dogg remix I did for a contest. I earned seventh place for it though, but hey, that's pretty good for the probably 100 something people that entered. I didn't win anything though :( On the bandcamp you can also find my latest full length album "Two Clicks From Hades" which is instrumental and experimental hip hop. The mixing isn't very good though in my opinion, but I've received compliments on it. It's name your own price but if you want it for free just enter 0 for the amount. I won't be mad, I promise. The money helps though as always for me to continue my ventures. And lastly there's a remix of my friend's band which is a little more pop like. So I hope you dig it.

 

Next I have some demos for my next ep "The Lie". Remember, these are demos and are not finalized by any means. There's some problems with them, and I'm working on mixing them better as well as expanding. You can find the demos on my soundcloud.

 

And lastly, the netlabel I mentioned. It's entitled "The Oleum Fold" and is mainly donation based right now. We take submissions so if anyone's interested let me know. You can visit the site to get more info on that as I don't want to pass myself off as rp rep. I plan to do more with it once I finish up this business degree, but right now all my money just goes to supporting the site, bandwith, etc. Which is what the donations are for and buying any of my music. You can visit it here.

 

Oh, and I do write but I don't have anything of value to show you as of now. I'm attempting to get published, though most of it is poetry and short stories. But with publishing I can't really just post whatever up on the internet as some publishers like the material exclusive. I also do essays from time to time, mainly boring philosophy and political stuff. :D

 

That's about it. If anyone is interested in having me do work for them feel free to contact me. Just be warned that for composing game music I'm still new and haven't got my foot in the door for this genre yet, but hopefully you think I'm talented enough. And hell, you don't have to pay me at all unless it's a lot of work. Or we could do a trade off for artistic or programming abilities. And feel free to contact me whenever. I'm always happy to have a nice sit down and chit chat. Your best way to reach me is my email oleumfold@gmail.com. I'll consider it business and oleum fold work more than likely if it's music related.

 

Sorry for the essay, but I hope you dig my work.

Edited June 2, 2011 by pokket

[Kiriashi 117]

Man this post confuses me.. I hope its just because I'm tired. At first glance it kinda' seems like advertising.. but you're diction is too proper to be spamming.. xD

 

And your music is pretty good. I just think you should link to direct mp3s and use the mp3 BBC. :3

[kellessdee 48]

The music is pretty good, not a big fan of hip-hop, but the experimental/ambient is nice! I think you should be able to make game music just fine with whatever you are using now...and I've always thought a game with electronic music would be cool.

 

I'd say you should introduce yourself in the introductions forum but I guess you kinda did that here :D

 

and kiriashi is right, it would be cool if you put some mp3s in BBcode so people can listen directly from here

ex.

[mp3player=PLAYER-NUMBER]URL[/mp3player]

[pokket 0]

The music is pretty good, not a big fan of hip-hop, but the experimental/ambient is nice! I think you should be able to make game music just fine with whatever you are using now...and I've always thought a game with electronic music would be cool.

 

I'd say you should introduce yourself in the introductions forum but I guess you kinda did that here :D

 

and kiriashi is right, it would be cool if you put some mp3s in BBcode so people can listen directly from here

ex.

[mp3player=PLAYER-NUMBER]URL[/mp3player]

 

Oh, excuse me. I honestly didn't know there was an mp3 function. Like I said, new to the forum here. In all honesty I didn't mean for the entire post to come off as advertising for any means. Well, that's a lie. The bit about the netlabel is advertisement, but that's solely for traffic purposes. So yes, I am a whore :D. But I'm happy to remove it from the OP if you want me to. The rest of it I didn't mean to make sound like an advertisement.

 

And nice Bukowski quote. I have a lot of his works. Big fan and a bit of an inspiration for me.

 

Being that I now know of this mp3player code I shall use it from now on.

 

And yeah, I guess I should have used the introduction forum. But being that this was music related I wasn't sure. Feel free to move it, though. I'm happy to comply. I'm a guest here first and foremost always. :D

[kellessdee 48]

Oh, excuse me. I honestly didn't know there was an mp3 function. Like I said, new to the forum here. In all honesty I didn't mean for the entire post to come off as advertising for any means. Well, that's a lie. The bit about the netlabel is advertisement, but that's solely for traffic purposes. So yes, I am a whore :D. But I'm happy to remove it from the OP if you want me to. The rest of it I didn't mean to make sound like an advertisement.

 

And nice Bukowski quote. I have a lot of his works. Big fan and a bit of an inspiration for me.

 

Being that I now know of this mp3player code I shall use it from now on.

 

And yeah, I guess I should have used the introduction forum. But being that this was music related I wasn't sure. Feel free to move it, though. I'm happy to comply. I'm a guest here first and foremost always. :D

 

No worries, we were just lettin ya know :D if you look in the "other styles" (beside fonts) at the top of the full post editor you will find a lot of quick BBcode shortcuts so you don't have to memorize. No need to remove anything; after kiriashi read your full post I think he then realized it wasn't just for advertising (and nothing wrong with a little bit of advertising, though if you want to do an actual advertising post we have a forum for that, but i think you need 5+ posts or something to post there, but just a heads up)

 

and plus i think you have proved yourself :)

 

and I like that you like bukowski, I am not super familiar with his works but I read a bit about him, he is indeed inspiring.

 

so, I guess this is the official welcome :alright:

[pokket 0]

No worries, we were just lettin ya know :D if you look in the "other styles" (beside fonts) at the top of the full post editor you will find a lot of quick BBcode shortcuts so you don't have to memorize. No need to remove anything; after kiriashi read your full post I think he then realized it wasn't just for advertising (and nothing wrong with a little bit of advertising, though if you want to do an actual advertising post we have a forum for that, but i think you need 5+ posts or something to post there, but just a heads up)

 

and plus i think you have proved yourself :)

 

and I like that you like bukowski, I am not super familiar with his works but I read a bit about him, he is indeed inspiring.

 

so, I guess this is the official welcome :alright:

 

Haha, thanks. I appreciate it. Hopefully you'll be seeing more of me around. Out of the RMXP related forums this is indeed possibly my favorite one.

 

And Bukowski is the man. I read a lot of his poetry. May I suggest to you Allen Ginsberg?

 

Man this post confuses me.. I hope its just because I'm tired. At first glance it kinda' seems like advertising.. but you're diction is too proper to be spamming.. xD

 

And your music is pretty good. I just think you should link to direct mp3s and use the mp3 BBC. :3

 

And to you, my comrade. I guess I kind of have to have good diction. I have a bachelor's in philosophy and working on a bachelor's in business. Then I'm going back to get a master's in philosophy and hopefully a doctorate. No particular reason why and I don't plan to do anything with it I just think it's fun. I guess I'm a bit of a nerd, ain't I? :)