So here we are with battle 20. As you can probably guess from the title, this edition will be all about James Bond themes and scores.
This edition won’t be innovative regarding theme and rules, but I hope it will be fun and result in a plethora of amazing beats. I always liked the mood, instrumentation and scales used in the Bond soundtracks and I think there is a nearly endless amount of great sample material.
The rules:
Every participant has to post a “song” that was features in any Bond movie
Every participant additionally has to post a drum break
Everyone has to use at least one bond sample, and one drum break from this thread in their beats. You can use as many samples posted here as you want
You may not use the samples you yourself provided
No rap acapellas or samples from songs that are not featured in this thread
You may add additional drum one shots, basslines/melodies (from synths, instruments etc. but played by youself)
You may add dialogue snippets from any Bond movie
If you want so take part, please provide your samples until April 10th.
Deadline for beat submissions will be April 28th
Please pm me a link to a downloadable wav or mp3 of your beat. Please include your name in the title of the message.
Hopefully this is permissible even though it doesn’t feature in the film. It was commissioned by Daniel Craig for the film and replaced with something nowhere near as good in the actual movie.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever watched a Bond movie all the way through. And honestly my main connection with the franchise is the Nintendo 64 game. So I looked up the theme from Golden Eye and apparently it was Tina Turner that did it.
And for the drums, the solo starts earlier, but I think the stuff everyone’s interested in starts about five minutes in.
I’m a sucker for all of this soundtrack (even Nina’s Christmas tree song!). I like the MBV version of We have all the time in the world, as well as the original. But for this BB, here is a track that has echoes of the main theme plus some other stuff:
More percussion, rather than a traditional drum break, but it has Irish Bones in it hope that’s ok:
Great theme @Unifono this looks exciting! I was just looking through some buried records for samples the other day and I came across this forgotten purchase!
@Doug Regarding the classic N64 Goldeneye someone on IG made a solid approximation of what may have went down in the Nintendo studio prior to the game’s release!
James Bond movies are my childhood, my grandfather made us watch them in secret, my little brother and me, our mother didn’t want to: we must have been between 6 and 10 years old! WE LOVED THAT! I keep an incredible memory of the intro songs which are extraordinary.
We watched these VHS tapes so much, I’m sure my grandfather kept them, he enjoyed them as much as we did. Yesterday, he celebrated his 88th birthday. I absolutely have to do something for this battle!
I will take a few days to choose a good piece of music for you!
Ok Guys, i just downloaded a best of of James Bond soundtracks, damn this is good !
I know all these songs, they’re printed in my memories, i can’t explain why i never sampled them! So it’s time to start !
This is my song (i have the flac so i share it so you an download it)
hope that’s ok:
I was just looking through some buried records for samples the other day and I came across this forgotten purchase!
