[Doylo]

I'm working on a few small films for the net at the moment and am struggling for inspiration with regard to the music i'm going to use.  Anyone got any suggestions? I'm open minded, it doesn't matter what it is if it sounds good.  Ideally if i can listen to it on youtube and get it off Itunes that'll be ideal. Thanks in advance 

[slackline]

Route, bouldering, sport?

Names of routes/problems?

I particualrly like it when the music has some sort of link/reference to the climb, e.g. in Stick It! when Mark Katx is on Mr Fantastic the tune is Doyen D "The Money Shot" which has the line "Hanging from the wall is a fantastic feat" which fits perfectly for the problem being climbed.

If thats not giving too much away that is.

[Doylo]

Its all sport climbing in North Wales.  One is a Big Bang short and the other is a film about the new routes/projects. I like it when the music has relevance too but this normally always ends up with a silly song in my vids and i want a more serious vibe

[Doylo]

I like having a diverse mixture of music normally. Slow stuff, techno, rap shit, whatever!

[tomtom]

Something not too obtrusive I would have thought.. you want the film to be about climbing not a music vid with some climbing etc.. I tihnk its really hard to choose.. and theres no genre that fits all...


Apart from Steps of course.


Do it Doylo, DO IT!

[Doylo]

That'd be a Tradgedy 

[tomtom]

That'd be a Tradgedy 

Boom boom! deserves a wad

[lagerstarfish]

I Am The One And Only by Cheesy Hawkes

[Doylo]

I can see the way this thread is going 

[tomtom]

'Jump Jump' House of pain etc.. for problems featuring the more vertically challenged climbers?

(you've lost control now Doylo.. its thread anarchy!)

[SA Chris]

That'd be a Tradgedy 

It will be if you lose control and you got no soul.

Someone asked the same question a while back. Was it the Outcrop Films bloke? There were some good suggestions then, which I doubt you will get in this thread.

[lagerstarfish]

Back on topic...

Ode To Joy from Ludwig Van's 9th

actually, a lot of the soundtrack from Clockwork Orange could work

Ivor Cutler's works would be unlikely to work well

[lagerstarfish]

What about the music from some of the old cowboy/westerns?

The intro to Big Country for instance

[Doylo]

Cheers, i'll seek out that thread. Cheers lagers will have a look

[lagerstarfish]

Have a random trawl through Jamendo and maybe find something from someone who actually wants you to use their stuff for films and that?

That way, when S4C want to broadcast your stuff, there wil be fewer problems...

[lagerstarfish]

How about some DJ Lambchop for a bit of Welsh Language Rap?

edit
Go Ogle has just told me that his real name is Steffan Cravos

[Doylo]

Will check it, ha its only for Vimeo mate

[lagerstarfish]

The UKB audience is the finest collection of knowledgable critics of anything anywhere fucking ever. It's not "only" Vimeo FFS

[hobblingfool]

Always thought if I made a climbing film I would want to include this it’s an instrumental called Phenomenon by Hacride, not a lot happens but it is broodingly epic. (If you like a bit of rock music)

[moose]

In terms of general mood I prefer fairly ambient, instrumental soundtracks, although there are exceptions e.g. Mr Fantstic in Stick It. 

One of my all time favourites in terms of mood matching landscape is the sound track duing a Buttermilks sequence on West Coast Gimps - a dreamlike, chiming tune whilst Jedi Mindtricks is climbed.

Along a similar line, I think a bit of Morricone might match a concerted graceful climbing sequence - building slowly over the wordless, intense culmination of a redpoint to enhance the "in the zone" focus.

Maybe the eerie Harmonica theme from Once Upon a Time in the West:



or the music box riff from the final duel of For a Few Dollars More:

[tomtom]

The UKB audience is the finest collection of knowledgable critics of anything anywhere fucking ever. It's not "only" Vimeo FFS

Whats Vimeo? do I use it to clean the sink?

[chris20]

I think this would work pretty well in a climbing film..... http://kidkanevil.bandcamp.com/track/intro-advanced-math

or dueling banjos......

[Grubes]

Go old school get some billy piper

more seriously bit over done but some DJ shadow would probs work quite well.

[SA Chris]

bit over done

Understatement of the year. Default BBC dramatic documentary bed music.

[Paul B]

did you see the Concrete Circus vids? They might give some inspiration... Moby (I know) has a lot of stuff on Moby Gratis for use by film makers etc.

I always thought the intro for West Coast Gimps was cracking though. '...PSYCH!'