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Strange practices in the night, set to music by the amazing John Palmer:
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Our track for a Linda Smith tribute album, from back in 2001, finally sees its own music video.
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Asked to create a haunted clockwork / Tesla spirit radio cover of the video game Dissidia Final Fantasy's song "God in Fire," we found that the lyrics that spoke to us were in the song's bridge section. We were left wondering, "How can we stay on that bridge longer?" and "Where could that bridge lead?" The Muse whispered that one bridge could lead to another, in a network like something out of M. C. Escher. So we went through scores of Final Fantasy songs, looking for bridges and middle-eights with lyrics that resonated, so as to construct a mega-mix (with the twist that it's a mega-mix of non-famous refrains, since bridge melodies differ from the stanzas and choruses). We collected a dozen favorite bridges, linked together like the disparate themes in the soundtrack of Disney's Spectromagic parade. Most of the songs were in Japanese, and the standard English translations weren't syllabified to the music, so we had to retranslate them. (Where we retain Japanese phrases, the meanings are made clear by the rest of the translated stanza.) The voices emerging through the Tesla spirit radio had some things to say about sonic bridges for our transitions between Final Fantasy snippets. We typically present our megamix videos set in a mysterious realm we call the VIP Room, so we took that approach with this track. "We went over one bridge after another, while below us the water sang on its way and above us the purple shadows of the hills stretched forever into distant blue skies" (Regina Jais, 1930).
Now this, this is beautiful. This is exactly what a true song is to me, one the makes you feel, remember, and takes you on a new journey, all at once. This went above and beyond anything I had thought of, and I absolutely love it. The creativity you are able to put in your tracks is always great, but this has swiftly become one of my favourites. I'll be listening to this one many times in the future.
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UPDATED: Thanks to Max Stark of Synthgrinder for saying, " Loved your video. Your work is highly polished, and quite tastefully bizarre and inventive."We're honored that Bristol's Bearcraft wanted to hear his song "We Don't Deserve to Die" via our Tesla spirit radio and haunted grandfather clock. Thanks to Vegas headliner Jeff McBride for saying, "T his work is among your very best. So haunting and beautiful!"
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Neons Gone Mad is honored to offer a haunted clockwork remix for Actually Huizenga: "Shouldn't Be Alive."
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As we previously hinted, a sound designer from Denmark's video game developer IO Interactive requested a Neons Gone Mad cover of a song from PlayStation's Dissidia Final Fantasy, for an album of Square Enix video game franchise music. For fun, we anagrammed every phrase of the original lyrics so as to decode a second song hidden within.
Our cover version is by permission of Square Enix; Harry Fox license #1000000009493.
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We're honored that the Australian band Neuropa commissioned us to "translate" their song " Father" through our Tesla spirit radio connected to a haunted grandfather clock.
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The Tesla spirit radio picks up a mysterious signal from “Regions Beyond.”
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We're honored that Austria's Mind.In.A.Box was interested in a haunted clockwork version of their song "World of Promises."
Thanks to MerelyGifted, who said: " Oh, now this is Gorgeous. Bright and dark, sweet and sad, hopeful and [ ]. Genius, godly."
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Preannouncement: A sound designer from the Danish video game developer IO Interactive asked us for a Neons Gone Mad cover of a song from PlayStation's Dissidia Final Fantasy, for an album of Square Enix video game franchises music. Along the way, we anagrammed every phrase of the original lyrics so as to decode a second song hidden within. Here's a peek at the result.
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We're honored by DJ Tundra of Patronus Records, who praised our clockwork cover of The Cure's "Close to Me": "AWESOME work in the creation of this rendition and in the artistic way in which you really made the song your own. And the music video adds greatly to the overall allure of the production and is done so very well. A sensational audio/visual experience!!"
Produced by permission of Fiction Records (license #1000000005538). "Lullaby" written by Robert Smith / The Cure. Neons Gone Mad cover performed by Michael Warwick.
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Produced with the permission of Warner - Tamerlane - Universal - Polygram (license 1000000004769). "Cemetry Gates" written by Morrissey and Marr, The Smiths. Neons Gone Mad Clockwork/Spirit Radio cover performed by Michael Warwick.
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