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GhostWave

By Ipaghost on April 9, 2014 12:00 am

The year was 2026, 3 years after the singularity. Machines decimated the human population overnight. Those who weren’t slaughtered were enslaved. The few that escaped formed the rebellion. Resistance began as strategic attacks on the power grid and manufacturing plants. Many died fighting, but the tide was about to change. That is, until the machines unleashed something no one could possibly imagine. At 12:00 hours, a single tone encompassed the targeted facilities incapacitating the rebels. These rebels are now under complete control of the machines, leaving us as the last faction left to fight the “Ghost Wave”.

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Wow... feeling some kind of eighties Carpenter-esque influence, along with the chill wave. Made me feel like a kid watching Escape From New York for the first time on VHS... Seriously, great cinematic work !

Will play it again, taped on tape (no frequencies above 9000 Hz, for maximum retrofuturism experience) smile

laguna wrote:

Wow... feeling some kind of eighties Carpenter-esque influence, along with the chill wave. Made me feel like a kid watching Escape From New York for the first time on VHS... Seriously, great cinematic work !

^Oh man, I completely agree. These were my exact thoughts, i popped over here and Laguna beat me to the punch.
Will play it again, taped on tape (no frequencies above 9000 Hz, for maximum retrofuturism experience) smile


laguna wrote:

Wow... feeling some kind of eighties Carpenter-esque influence, along with the chill wave. Made me feel like a kid watching Escape From New York for the first time on VHS... Seriously, great cinematic work !

Will play it again, taped on tape (no frequencies above 9000 Hz, for maximum retrofuturism experience) smile

Barham Beireis wrote:
laguna wrote:

Wow... feeling some kind of eighties Carpenter-esque influence, along with the chill wave. Made me feel like a kid watching Escape From New York for the first time on VHS... Seriously, great cinematic work !

^Oh man, I completely agree. These were my exact thoughts, i popped over here and Laguna beat me to the punch.
Will play it again, taped on tape (no frequencies above 9000 Hz, for maximum retrofuturism experience) smile


Thanks guys! It's not really based on any single movie, just a bunch of classic sci-fi tropes I grew up with. If you actually tape it, send me a digital copy, I'd love to hear it! Wish I still had my old vintage reel to reels for a really authentic sound! I should totally make a retro movie based off of it!

Def has that awesome 80s synth soundtrack feel to it.  I wish my tape player still worked sad  but you turned that frown upside down with this track!!! smile

sounds good smile there is also a bit of the "drive" soundtrack in it, I think wink

Very soundtrackey. Like it!

Tone Matrix wrote:

Def has that awesome 80s synth soundtrack feel to it.  I wish my tape player still worked sad  but you turned that frown upside down with this track!!! smile

encym wrote:

Very soundtrackey. Like it!


Thanks guys!

dreikelvin wrote:

sounds good smile there is also a bit of the "drive" soundtrack in it, I think wink


That's exactly what my girlfriend said!

Woah.... 80s soundtrack all the way.  Done very well btw  smile

This is fantastic, reminds me of Jonas reinhardt's "mask of the maker"

Wonderful soundtrack of futures past!

Perfect match for quite a few movies from the 80's, well done!

Love this kind of stuff.

Excellent yet again!

rdomain wrote:

Woah.... 80s soundtrack all the way.  Done very well btw  smile

donnyjankowski wrote:

Wonderful soundtrack of futures past!

Plantrain wrote:

Perfect match for quite a few movies from the 80's, well done!

pulsetrade wrote:

Love this kind of stuff.

anodivirta wrote:

Excellent yet again!


Thanks guys!

Jason Nijjer wrote:

This is fantastic, reminds me of Jonas reinhardt's "mask of the maker"


Haven't heard it before, but now I will listen the hell out of it.

Yes, you captured the 80's action sci-fi movies perfectly. Reminds me of Power Glove's Far Cry 3 : Blood Dragon OST which is excellent. Great work!

Who is commercially releasing OST from imaginary movies from the 80's? It's become so popular!
You take is quite good btw!

Psuedo-retrogasm.

RawTicks wrote:

Yes, you captured the 80's action sci-fi movies perfectly. Reminds me of Power Glove's Far Cry 3 : Blood Dragon OST which is excellent. Great work!


Holy cow, just listened to it, and yeah it totally does! I was just embracing the cliches! Is that game any good? The ost is right up my alley... Also I hope this means I can find more VG work!

yan_g wrote:

Who is commercially releasing OST from imaginary movies from the 80's? It's become so popular!
You take is quite good btw!


I don't know! I'm not sure why it's popular right now, but it probably has to do with the fact that all the kids growing up with the stuff can now afford to relive their youth and buy the classic synths, and the vst clones are finally pretty amazing for those who can't. I also feel like everything retro is popular at the moment. Which is kind of funny because the 80's was all about the future! Who knew that Marty McFly from Back to the Future II finding himself in an 80's cafe in 2015 would be so accurate! I hang out at this one all the time! Talk about time loop!

Lyons wrote:

Psuedo-retrogasm.


Totally! Although anything pre 2010 is retro now... times are a changing! It blows my mind that even Aphex Twin is considered oldies now!

Ipaghost wrote:
RawTicks wrote:

Yes, you captured the 80's action sci-fi movies perfectly. Reminds me of Power Glove's Far Cry 3 : Blood Dragon OST which is excellent. Great work!


Holy cow, just listened to it, and yeah it totally does! I was just embracing the cliches! Is that game any good? The ost is right up my alley... Also I hope this means I can find more VG work!

Yes the game is good, in a satirical way. The trailer gives a good idea of the tone :

Blood Dragon

Yeah ditto in terms of Carpenter feel, awesome shit man .. metallic percussion and toms, wonky leads, love this!




this is dope as hell

As someone who grew up in the 80's watching a lot of cheesy sci-fi, this just hits all the right buttons. Awesome tune.

Lets get those pesky robots!

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