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https://soundcloud.com/controlcentral/crave-crashers-gameplaymockup2

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https://soundcloud.com/controlcentral/zyrtec-medley-dodge-the-allergens-game-1-2

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https://soundcloud.com/controlcentral/kfc-superbowl-colonel-vs-colonel-game-mix-full-sfx-edit

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There never was a silent film. We’d finish a picture, show it in our projection room and come out shattered. It was awful. Then we’d show it in a theatre, with a girl down in the pit pounding away at a piano, and it would make all the difference in the world. Without music there wouldn’t have been a film industry at all”

Irving Thalberg, MGM Producer, 1920s

( Borrowed from http://www.brianmorrell.co.uk/filmbooks.html)

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https://soundcloud.com/controlcentral/chipotle-taste-invaders-intro

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https://soundcloud.com/controlcentral/zearnorg-impoppable

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https://soundcloud.com/controlcentral/coca-cola-tongue-hero-jungle-river-level

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A far-sighted amateur cultural historian has shared some loot from his spelunk into the heart of corporate musical darkness. I do love that many of these songs were played by actual musicians, not some solitary bloke using laptops and samplers like I. Was there ever such a time?

OK, I have to admit this this is a strange collection. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash during this period and this video shows you my extensive, odd collection. 

Get a taste here:

https://archive.org/details/KmartJuly1990

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I had the Sega Dreamcast version of this game. Virtually impossible to complete without a walkthrough. Tim Follin’s music is some of my favorite ever in a video game- just fits perfectly with swimming around in the ocean.

God remember this one?

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J 2-2 remix & interview

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Saw Jacob 2-2 at Drifts in Brooklyn in the Pleistocene era - great show.

Recent work-- like if an Amiga 500 was hacked into your brain chip.

Dodgeballer (Picked Last)

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Perhaps because I'm a Yankee I was unaware that Jesus sponsors NASCAR. Live and learn...

Boogity boogity boogity, amen.

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A picture from LIFE Science Library : Drugs.

hat tip to Sissydude

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So General Electric has a SoundCloud page. Who knew? There are some nice industrial sounds available for free download. Gettin' hip with the Now Generation!

Every machine has its own acoustic signature - a precise frequency that indicates whether that machine is operating at peak performance. GE engineers monitor and record these sounds to perform real-time diagnostics on airplane engines, locomotives, power turbines, and medical equipment. Musician Matthew Dear and GE Acoustics Engineer Andrew Gorton teamed up to collect and compose thousands of audio emissions from the world’s most powerful machines. The result is an original track of music titled “Drop Science.” Download the full track on our SoundCloud.

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Luke and I were looking at Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights and discovered, much to our amusement, music written upon the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens of the rightmost panel of the painting which is intended to represent Hell. I decided to transcribe it into modern notation, assuming the second line of the staff is C, as is common for chants of this era.

so yes this is LITERALLY the 600-years-old butt song from hell

EDIT: I still can’t believe this took off like it did this is crazy??? Just wanted to let people know that there are indeed errors in the transcription and this is indeed not a very good recording (I threw this together in like 30 minutes at 1 in the morning,) but I’m working with the music department at my college to get the transcription more accurate!

in the meantime enjoy this fantastic choral arrangement by wellmanicuredman i’m in love

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I know what you are thinking. "I  wish someone would post a video of Spock singing about Hobbits". Well, today is your lucky day. I present the inimitable Leonard Nimoy singing "The Legend of Bilbo Baggins".

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