So, long story short: lawyers are now cracking down on all of GameTrailers’ unlicensed music, which means I’ve gotta re-edit all of the previous HAWP episodes and get rid of the music I don’t have the rights to (which is to say, uh, all of it).
This isn’t a huge problem, as most of the problematic music is used during the end credits. Basically, if you or anyone else you know is really awesome at composing music, we’re on the lookout for a cool end credits theme for Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’.
If you’re at all interested in composing a theme for us, just respond below with a link to the song in question. Anything goes — if you wanna do chiptunes, do chiptunes. If you wanna go orchestral, go orchestral. Totally up to you. I can’t promise any money if we end up choosing your song, but we’ll give you a credit, and you’ll at least have the satisfaction of knowing that your song will conclude nearly every episode of HAWP from here until doomsday. Or until we decide to switch themes.
I make video game hip hop. Check out “My Parents Favorite Music”. I’d be glad to make a song or two for you guys if you like, let me know.
Here’s a decent site full of royalty free music for you to use:
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html
I highly recommend soliciting over at the http://8bitcollective.com/
I recommend using Jonathan Coulton. Seriously. That shit will give you totally +10 Legit nerd cred, like Scrolling LED signs, legit.
Pretty much if you ask nicely, and follow theses points (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) then you can use them freely. I don’t know what song you could do, but pretty much anyone would bring infinite +1 times more awesome to your already infinitely awesome series.
Does that mean the song that plays during the Martha/Papa Burch will be cut out? =/
Or that song that plays briefly during Anthony’s gay thought?
I mean, I can think of some moments in the HAWP series where the music made the jokes even funnier.
Iji has a chipmusik cover of Hero by Captain Goodnight that might work for you. I’m not sure, though. Can’t tell what sound you’re really looking for.
does this mean the HAWP DVD will get edited too? Is there still time to get an unedited copy? :O
Well, why not? I submit a made-in-15-minutes piece of music, which intentionally features a series of notes made to sound like someone saying “HEY-ASH-WHAT-CHA-PLAYING?”
http://soundcloud.com/whatsoccuring/hey-ash-whatcha-playin
How’s that going to work for Arkham Asylum (Seal) and Lips?
Maybe you should dispute it with using the following,
“Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”
This is how alot of people get around copyright issues regarding audio on youtube. Might be worth a shot.
http://soundcloud.com/longtimelistener/sets/i-obey
3 uptempo things w/ shortened versions.
Here’s something in a retro-gamer style with a couple of different moods.
You could chop it up as required, if not for the closing credits then you might find use for elements of it elsewhere. It goes from creepy to crude to pretty and back.
http://soundcloud.com/adam-cullen/hawpiness-in-a-dungeon-and-a-forest
Here’s two songs that you should feel free to use.
http://soundcloud.com/peaceful-plain
The song on this page entitled H.A.W.P.
It may be a bit long, but it was written for you guys.
http://www.purevolume.com/ShuntTrip96756
Holy shit, dude. I dunno if that’d necessarily fit as credits music, but that’s definitely going on the season 2 DVD in some context.
Glad that you enjoyed it!
We really just did it as a love letter to you guys. The credits thing was just a coincidence.
It’s certainly a little long for episode credits music, in the sense that you have to hear the whole thing to really get the full awesomeness of it. It’d work really well for a series credits roll though I reckon, or just for well.. anything really. It’s pretty much brilliant.
Um, I’ve got into the spirit of things a bit, so I’ll be uploading a few more pieces here as time goes by: http://soundcloud.com/whatsoccuring/sets/hawptastic
My favorite till now is the song of Danny G. It’s kickin ass! But if you just need it for the end credits, the song without vocals would be awesome! And cut out the Zelda-part, cos of the ass-ramin lawyers (such NICE people they are…)
You should email the band Anamanaguchi, they seem to be willing to let people use their music for Videos, Podcasts and other online stuff. Also try http://ocremix.org/ I beleive that you can use their remixes for free.
I thought video game music and gameplay were usable? The thousand of Lets Play videos around the internet make me think so….
Hey, i got a mail from one of my fans who suggested i should try out for this with my game music, i make video-game inspired music and have done music for Screwattak.com and others, this is and example of what i have done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_kGJBv6Wr4
also check out my sites
http://www.myspace.com/FantomenK
and
http://8bitcollective.com/members/FantomenK/
i might be what you looking for…
Sincerely FantomenK
Obviously, good luck to the many talented people displaying their talent here, but have you considered an excerpt from the discovery channel spoof you did?
“I like to play games, they’re better than real life – boom deeyada, you get the picture”
Omg its FantomenK.
Anthotony, you gotta give this guy a listen, hes amazing.
neogeoneogeo~
Blood sucking lawyers. :^/ Anyway, I’m glad I picked up the DVD for season one. I hope none of the edits will alter the previous episodes too much.
I don’t have anything to contribute, but I’m really eager to hear the song decided on.
I agree with Danny G. on this one. The song would fit you guys very well! The middle guitar riffs would be awesome for the ending!
I’m no professional or anything, but I’ve been making music for a while. I did One Fatty One Choice a few weeks ago in honour of HAWP, so I figured I’d submit a shortened version (as well as a new song). Posted these on the forums as well:
One Fatty, One Choice (Short):
http://www.mediafire.com/?nqwzjhwmw1z
One Fatty, One Choice (Original):
http://www.mediafire.com/?lmttzoyjzxi
This Is the Song At the End of the Show:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dnzimyry2eu
Someone do us a solid an reupload all the dvd versions to dailymotion. iirc they don’t bother with riaa/mpaa threats.
Danny G. is a god, and he and his immortal brethren have graced our planet, taking mortal forms to rock the fuck out.
I’m glad you like our stuff, brother.
Made a third one:
Like DDR But With More Baby Punching
http://www.mediafire.com/?znq23yumnm0
So you mentioned that especially episodes that rely entirely on a song might be taken down, namely the second L4D-one with the Boomer. Would it be legal if, for example, I would sing the song myself in a version that is different from its original but still recognizable (think jazz-version?)
If so, that might solve one or two problems a little, right? ’cause hell, I wouldn’t want these episodes to be taken down – it’s already bad enough that almost every episode is getting sliced up now.
Here is my track. Enjoy! Or not. :O
http://soundcloud.com/hushlorentz/hush-lorentz-hawp
hey i make all sorts of music mostly electronica and hip hop come check me out id love to do music for your show. its all free and fuully liscenced too id love to make some original work for you.
also check out my new experimental group the future at http://www.myspace.com/timeforthefuture
I guess this means the “first run” of the DVD will become a collector’s item now.
Weird Edsel- http://www.myspace.com/weirdedselband
I produce electronica of all sorts. You can check out some of my stuff at http://www.djsbx.com/blog (there are a few torrents),
I’m going to try to write something tomorrow so stay tuned
will the original songs and videos still be on the DVDs?
If you want to, the Swedish band Val Venosta can make your song!
You can download all of our music at myspace.
We love you!
http://www.myspace.com/valvenosta
//Erik
Forgot to say, that you can take one of our songs on myspace or email us and we will make you a new one!
Love from Sweden!
//Erik & Pär
Hey guys, my friend just showed me your blog so I’m not a long term fan or anything, but I just fell in love! I’m gonna try to set some time aside so I can write you something, I write music for flash games for a living, this will be fun!
I think you may enjoy Ghost Mountain.
they’re very 8bit. I think.
http://www.myspace.com/ghostmountainmusic
I made this for you today
http://soundcloud.com/super-mega-hyper/for-hawp
Hi again!
Me (Erik and Pär made this song to you! Its a bit harder than our older songs, and the attitude screams “im the fuecking champion”!
Send us a email if you like it, we can put some samples our something if you want to?
http://memeprod.se/HAWP_Val_Venosta.mp3
http://memeprod.se/HAWP_Val_Venosta.wav
//Erik & Pär (Val Venosta)
Email: valvenosta@live.se
http://www.tindeck.com/listen/kuvg
Well… not much, but I just got around to listening to the hawpcast and found out the need for musics… so I whipped something up for you guys.. I got another in the works.. I’ll put that up when it gets done… feel free to chop or what have you if you likes.
http://soundcloud.com/chyld-of-apathy/tracks
Thanky
THE WIZARDPIRATE EVERBLAZE COOKED UP SOME FUNKNASTY BEATS FOR YOU.
BEWARE YOUR EARS, MISTER BURCH! MUAHAHAHA.
Note: I can tweak these to your liking.
http://soundcloud.com/badikal/badikal-laserwiz0rdz-shireweed-remix-hawp-theme-entry
http://soundcloud.com/badikal/badikal-laserwiz0rdz-hawp-theme-entry
I just gave it a try, came up with this in about an hour. It’s just a 20sec mp3 and I haven’t taken the time to keep everything in tempo but it’s enough for now and it’s pretty catchy so I hope you enjoy it^^
Any changes needed I can make…
http://soundcloud.com/nealmcnam/hawp-theme
And great videos btw, always cheers me up
P.S. Whiplash=good game
I was afraid that something wrong happened with this link so here’s a working one: http://soundcloud.com/zami-loke/hawp-theme
Ian Dorsch of Willow Tree Audioworks
He has done some work for “The Escapist” “Gamers With Jobs” podcasts, as well as for some game, most recent the newly released game “LOVE” (For the Trailer, and a main theme he produced of wwhich I don´t know if the Game creater took it into the game because I haven´t palyed it yet).
His Website with Demos ( Full Tracks, really awesome!! )
http://www.willowtreeaudio.com/intro.html
Bye
PS: If you want dirty disturbing sounds, check my website- lots of audio crap for … well something.?! I like it !
Feel free to use all chiptunes by “crome” for your videos as you see fit. I could package them all up for you, but there’s a bunch over at chiptune.com and you’ll find all of them in the SAC artpacks (check http://ftp.superiorart.org)
Most recent one, because he just linked it to me: http://crome.untergrund.net/innocense_lost.xm
However, if you have a real idea of what you might want to have and it’s somewhere in either the chiptune or the heavy metal world, I can probably persuade him into creating a real track just for HAWP.
(He’s my younger brother, so whatever is his, is actually mine, because I’m bigger.)
Why don’t you tell Game Trailers to get an ASCAP license, then all your episodes should be okay.
Hey Burch sibs,
Just saw this post, wanted to offer up some stuff from my old band Kaslo. Everything’s up for free online. “Poopface” would probably be the most appropriate for your guys’ stuff (it’s on the OHIO EP), here are the links:
Watching the Carousel Collapse
Ohio EP
I also have a good friend who does chip tune stuff who might be willing:
run_coward
Take care folks.
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnygjqdm2cz
im not entirely sure what type of sound your looking for and if theres a deadline, but if i have time this week im gonna make 1 or2 more. im also interested in doing a 8bit boom boom.
I don’t know if you are still looking for themes, but here is something I just put together.
http://soundcloud.com/apallocarry/hawp-theme-1
I can work to make more or more better ones if you enjoy anything about the sound.