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The downloadable project session includes all the MIDI regions, programming, instrumentation, tempo changes, equalisation, automation etc. for the full film score.
Total Duration: 1 Hour 18 Minutes
Cinematic, dark and suspenseful orchestral instrumental music session project. Ominous and sinister thriller/horror film music full of tension and foreboding evil. In contrast, it also features some beautiful thematic music. Music composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro X.
Please note: It's likely that you'll have to replace some of the instruments/plugins for similar ones unless you have all of them yourself; so playback might be slightly different. However, impulse responses, Logic Pro X effects/plugins and audio files etc. are included.
Thank you for checking out my work and for downloading my templates and music. For additional information about me, please visit my website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk
Instrumental production music from films, TV, advertising, radio, quizzes, video games, game shows and corporate videos. Featuring dramatic film scores, quirky incidental, retro game music, inspiring, ethnic world, ambient, emotional and children's music. ALBUM NOTES AND TRACK LISTING:
1. Inspiring Achievement
Inspiring, upbeat and motivational corporate pop music track with a building energetic sense of achievement. Features guitars, piano, strings, bass, drums, brass, synths and driving percussive elements. The uplifting build towards the finale climax is enhanced by dramatic orchestral instruments with energy. (The tempo is the same throughout so it's easy to cut, copy or loop if required). Powerful and inspirational music suitable for corporate presentations, YouTube videos, slideshows, background music, business videos, tutorials and various other media.
2. Blue Skies
Blue Skies is carried with a chorus of vocal harmonies and beat boxing style percussion. This acapella pop song sounds like something an a cappella group like Pentatonix would produce, with a bright, hopeful, and inspirational style. This happy and cheerful song breathes positivity and makes you want to dance along to the infectious beat in the summer sun.
3. Magical Garden
Magical, inspirational and nostalgic orchestral instrumental music featuring the piano with a touch of heartfelt nostalgia. This beautiful magical and dramatic incidental background music is ideal for heartwarming storytelling, trailers and drama and even enhancing media requiring a festive christmas touch. It’s innocence has a slow relaxing pace and is full of enchanted film score influences.
4. American Jackpot - (Opening Theme / Closing Theme)
Game show style opening and closing theme tune. Upbeat, fun and energetic Americana music instrumental intended for game shows and quizzes. Instrumentation include brass, strings, bass guitar, synths, drums and timpani. American Jackpot Music is part of a musical series... other similar tracks are available with various durations. Happy, funky and positive quiz music for contests and competitive productions.
5. Isolated
Emotional solo piano evoking a heartfelt, emotive and nostalgic mood. Slow, calming, isolated and lonely music touching the heart with a modern classical style featuring a light string accompaniment. Influences include Erik Satie, Beethoven, Lludovico Einaudi, Michael Nyman, Angelo Badalamenti, Debussy and Thomas Newman. Ideal for advertisements, pensive film soundtracks and productions requiring melancholic background music. Sentimental mood music featuring feelings of sadness, beauty, tranquility, contemplation and melancholy.
6. Easy Peasy
Happy, bright, quirky and colourful music instrumental background music that will spread a smile across anyone’s face. This childlike piece is ideal for cartoons and animated scenes, complete with a fun beat and playful melody that will have you skipping down the street. Easy Peasy is full of fun, cheerfulness and joy.
7. Asylum
Mysterious, suspenseful and dark cinematic ambient electronica drone instrumental music with experimental and industrial influences. Spooky, creepy, eerie and partially gothic music with a textured haunting and atmospheric mood building to intense dramatic percussive hits. Ideal for a movie trailer, video games, film, Halloween or foreboding and mysterious scenes.
8. Come On Let's Go
An upbeat, joyful, cheerful and bright acoustic background music track with an adventurous, playful and fun melody for children videos, happy advertising, family videos, positive commercials, adventures and holidays! Perfect for any children's project, optimistic, kids TV show background music, YouTube pets videos, travel videos, sunny days videos, children video games, slideshows, etc. "Come On, Let's Go!” Instrumentation features: Piano, Strings, Guitars, Glockenspiel, Castanets, Horns, Saxophones, Drums, Timpani, Percussion, Xylophone, Bass and Organ. Kids Orchestral Pop Instrumental Music.
9. Break Free 1
Gritty, edgy and modern slamming percussive music with electronic and cinematic attitude. This experimental big beat and abstract music is complimented by orchestral elements along with synthesizers and notes resembling a sonar ping. Contemporary, urban street with a dynamic and hi-tech feel building to a full and grand climax. Ideal for advertising, trailers and productions requiring energy, momentum and a driving beat. Stylish hard hitting electronica music with swagger perfect for action scenes, dramatic sequences and adventure! (Alternative versions also available).
10. Malaysian Adventures
Malaysian instrumental music full of culture and progression, with interesting and unique musical elements transporting you to Asia, inspiring adventure and travel. This exotic south east asian music blended with western instruments best locates itself in Borneo, Malaysia and Java or Bali, Indonesia. Instrumentation includes gamelan, suruling (bamboo flute), piano, strings, brass, percussion, gongs and features the native Malaysian sape (traditional lute) from Sarawak, Borneo.
11. Tomorrow's World
Tomorrow's World is a futuristic, electronic music track that breathes mystery and expectation. Its slow build and contrast of horns and strings makes for a suspenseful soundtrack perfect for any sci-fi adventure scene. A steady beat and cinematic, orchestral vibe make for a dramatic and uplifting ride.
12. Happy People13. Momentum
Momentum keeps the pace moving quickly with its layers of slamming percussion and is accented with metallic sword like slashing sounds and carried with a choir esque vocal harmony. It creates a sense of urgency, positive determination and sheer power. This music is the perfect coming of age transition soundtrack, highlighting there is no challenge too large. Ideal for corporate videos, montages, promos, infomercials and advertising.
14. Krazy Kids
Krazy Kids is a cinematic, playful instrumental track full of surprises and cheer. With a bunch of fun horns and melodic piano throughout, this track is all about setting a happy, energetic, and joyful atmosphere. With a comedic style and fast pace, it’s perfect for everything from animated cartoons to hilarious comedy skits.
15. Dance of the Reed Flutes (The Nutcracker Suite)
This music from the Nutcracker ballet is a Christmas classic. Dance of the Reed Flutes by Tchaikovsky is an airy and light hearted track that makes for a very inviting music score, filling your mind with images of both the well known musical and cheerful holiday traditions with your family. The orchestral music will put you right back in the seat where you first saw the Nutcracker.
16. Intense Cinematic Trailer Music
Intense Cinematic Trailer Music is an epic trailer track building to a powerful climax. It's ideal for fast paced action sequences, dramatic, evil and dark horror footage or edge of the seat adrenaline. It contains big drums with a syncopated rhythm creating excitement, risers, a pulsating synth bass, spiccato strings, brass stabs with staccato and fast percussion blending discreet vocal support with a creepy, suspenseful and haunting piano melody at the end. The tempo steadily increases to help build anticipation. The music is hard hitting, aggressive and 'in your face'.
17. Hip Hop Fairytales18. Hip Hop Fairytales (Instrumental)19. Sphere
This abstract music is shrouded with eerie, mysterious tones reminiscent of an underwater dream world. With synthesisers and plenty of ambient reverb, it is hard not to be drawn into Sphere’s ephemeral glow as the melody sways and billows. Perfect for beautifully accenting any passing of time, slow motion scenes or to highlight an expanding mind transcending and transitioning into other realms. Atmospheric, experimental and ethereal.
20. Beatbox Bird21. The Mission
A suspenseful music track ideal for an action or thriller scene. With a slow build featuring a slow piano riff combined with percussion, the stress and determination that this music emotes is palpable. It’s a dark track that could work for everything from a courtroom to a science fiction movie or show.
22. Retro 8-Bit Video Game Music
Video Game Theme Tune. Electronic vintage arcade game music inspired by classic chiptune 2D 8-bit video game soundtracks. Bright, cheesy, quirky and jolly digital music.
23. Break Free 2
Gritty, edgy and modern slamming percussive music with electronic and cinematic attitude. This experimental big beat and abstract music is complimented by orchestral elements along with synthesizers and notes resembling a sonar ping. Contemporary, urban street with a dynamic and hi-tech feel building to a full and grand climax. Ideal for advertising, trailers and productions requiring energy, momentum and a driving beat. Stylish hard hitting electronica music with swagger perfect for action scenes, dramatic sequences and adventure! (Alternative versions also available).
24. Tribal Hunt
Tribal Hunt is a cinematic piece that uses percussion to strongly drive the song right from the beginning. This is a soundtrack that demands attention, bringing up emotions of power, strength, and determination. Its repetitive beat and variety of instrumentation is perfect for any tense moment of an action movie.
25. Game Show Tension Bed
Countdown music that can be synchronized perfectly to seconds of a clock. Intended use includes game shows, radio and TV quiz sequences. A loopable tension bed music track with a tempo of 60 beats per second to match ticking clocks. The music allows suspense to build whilst giving the contestant some thinking time. The music is easy to loop should you require a longer duration.
26. American Jackpot - Standby27. American Jackpot - Tension Bed 128. American Jackpot - Tension Bed 229. American Jackpot - Last Round30. Game Show Synth Pop Music Bed
Game show style music bed. Intended use includes background music for game shows, radio and TV quiz sequences. A loopable electro instrumental music beat also appropriate for transitions, corporate videos and changes of scenery. The music is easy to loop should you require a longer duration.
31. Game Show Electro Pop Music Bed
Game show style music bed. Intended use includes background music for game shows, radio and TV quiz sequences. A loopable electro instrumental music bed also appropriate for transitions, corporate videos and changes of scenery. The music is easy to loop should you require a longer duration.
32. Break Free 3
Gritty, edgy and modern slamming percussive music with electronic and cinematic attitude. This experimental big beat and abstract music is complimented by orchestral elements along with synthesizers and notes resembling a sonar ping. Contemporary, urban street with a dynamic and hi-tech feel building to a full and grand climax. Ideal for advertising, trailers and productions requiring energy, momentum and a driving beat. Stylish hard hitting electronica music with swagger perfect for action scenes, dramatic sequences and adventure! (Alternative versions also available).
33. American Jackpot - Theme Tune (Extended)
Extended Americana game show style theme tune. Upbeat, fun and energetic Americana music instrumental intended for game shows and quizzes. Instrumentation include brass, strings, bass guitar, synths, drums and timpani. American Jackpot Music is part of a musical series... other similar tracks are available with various durations. Happy, funky and positive quiz music for contests and competitive productions.
Also available for streaming and download on all other major platforms.
Cinematic, dark and suspenseful orchestral instrumental music soundtrack. Chilling, ominous and sinister thriller/horror film music full of tension and foreboding evil. However, in contrast, it does also feature some beautiful thematic music. Creepy, tense and haunting music with a sense of hideous insanity, urgency, desperation and exhausted melancholy.
Music composed and produced by Jon Brooks. A Japanese artist visits the Scottish Highlands to paint, but he becomes the target of a sadistic and psychopathic killer. Alone, suffering from exposure and hunted, he must find a way to survive.
- Percussion : Cymbals, Timpani, Celesta, Snare Drums, Japanese Taiko Drums, Bodhran, Metal Pipes, Crotales, Tubular Bells, Xylophone, Gong, Tam Tam, Sonic Boom, Congas, Kick Drum, Bells, Usurp, Anvil, Tambourine.
- Piano
- Prepared Piano
- Harp
- Synthesizers
- Drones
- OUD
- Male Chorus
- Female Chorus
- Bowed Acoustic Guitar
PRODUCTION TEAM :
Director : Mark Stirton
Music by : Jon Brooks
Writer : Mark Stirton
Production Company : Hats on Sticks Pictures
Producer : Michael Grant Clark
Executive Producer : Sylvia Hardie
Executive Producer : Forbes Hardie
Executive Producer : Junichi Kajioka
Executive Producer : Zani Mikyta
CAST :
Junichi Kajioka - The Artist
Steve Campbell - The Gamekeeper
Mike Mitchell - Ghillie
Brian Cox - Opening Narrator
Alec Westwood - Radio Voiceover
Barry Thackrey - Jogger
Michael Grant Clark - Rescue Worker 1
Alistair Ritchie - Male Hiker
Aria Morrison-Blyth - Female Student
Lucy Philip - Female Hiker
Fraser Napier - Male Student
Jane Nyokabi - Nurse
Mark Wyness - Driver
Faustas Talacka - Rescue Worker 2
CREW :
Cinematographer : Michael G. Clark
Film Editing : Mark Stirton
Production Design : Michael Grant Clark
Costume Design : Michael G. Clark
Key Makeup Artist : Michael Grant Clark
Prosthetics Sculptor : Andrew Glazebrook
Second Unit Director/ Assistant Director : Fraser Napier
Special Effects : Michael Grant Clark
Stunts : Mark Wyness
Additional Aerial Cinematography : Innes Gregory
Additional Aerial Cinematography Assistant : Kane Gregory
Camera Steadicam : Faustas Talacka
Aerial Cinematographer : Barry Thackrey
Costume and Wardrobe : Zani Mikyta
Transportation : Mark Maddock
Production Assistant : Zani Mikyta
Production Assistant : Mary Baird Sommerville
GENRE : Horror/Drama
COUNTRY : United Kingdom
Tags: Dramatic Orchestral Music, Orchestra, Film Composer, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Instrumental, Movie Music, Filmscore, John Williams, Soundtrack, Benjamin Wallfisch, John Carpenter, Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrmann, Psycho, Psychopath, Jerry Goldsmith. Movie Music, Film Scoring, Symphonic.
Also available for streaming and download on all other major platforms.
Cinematic, dark and suspenseful orchestral instrumental music soundtrack. Chilling, ominous and sinister thriller/horror film music full of tension and foreboding evil. However, in contrast, it does also feature some beautiful thematic music. Creepy, tense and haunting music with a sense of hideous insanity, urgency, desperation and exhausted melancholy.
Music composed and produced by Jon Brooks. A Japanese artist visits the Scottish Highlands to paint, but he becomes the target of a sadistic and psychopathic killer. Alone, suffering from exposure and hunted, he must find a way to survive.
INSTRUMENTATION :
- Strings : Violins, Violas, Cellos, Double Basses
- Woodwind : Flutes, Clarinets
- Brass : Trumpets, French Horns, Trombones, Tuba
- Percussion : Cymbals, Timpani, Celesta, Snare Drums, Japanese Taiko Drums, Bodhran, Metal Pipes, Crotales, Tubular Bells, Xylophone, Gong, Tam Tam, Sonic Boom, Congas, Kick Drum, Bells, Usurp, Anvil, Tambourine.
- Piano
- Prepared Piano
- Harp
- Synthesizers
- Drones
- OUD
- Male Chorus
- Female Chorus
- Bowed Acoustic Guitar
PRODUCTION TEAM :
Director : Mark Stirton
Music by : Jon Brooks
Writer : Mark Stirton
Production Company : Hats on Sticks Pictures
Producer : Michael Grant Clark
Executive Producer : Sylvia Hardie
Executive Producer : Forbes Hardie
Executive Producer : Junichi Kajioka
Executive Producer : Zani Mikyta
CAST :
Junichi Kajioka - The Artist
Steve Campbell - The Gamekeeper
Mike Mitchell - Ghillie
Brian Cox - Opening Narrator
Alec Westwood - Radio Voiceover
Barry Thackrey - Jogger
Michael Grant Clark - Rescue Worker 1
Alistair Ritchie - Male Hiker
Aria Morrison-Blyth - Female Student
Lucy Philip - Female Hiker
Fraser Napier - Male Student
Jane Nyokabi - Nurse
Mark Wyness - Driver
Faustas Talacka - Rescue Worker 2
CREW :
Cinematographer : Michael G. Clark
Film Editing : Mark Stirton
Production Design : Michael Grant Clark
Costume Design : Michael G. Clark
Key Makeup Artist : Michael Grant Clark
Prosthetics Sculptor : Andrew Glazebrook
Second Unit Director/ Assistant Director : Fraser Napier
Special Effects : Michael Grant Clark
Stunts : Mark Wyness
Additional Aerial Cinematography : Innes Gregory
Additional Aerial Cinematography Assistant : Kane Gregory
Camera Steadicam : Faustas Talacka
Aerial Cinematographer : Barry Thackrey
Costume and Wardrobe : Zani Mikyta
Transportation : Mark Maddock
Production Assistant : Zani Mikyta
Production Assistant : Mary Baird Sommerville
GENRE : Horror/Drama
COUNTRY : United Kingdom
Tags: Dramatic Orchestral Music, Orchestra, Film Composer, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Instrumental, Movie Music, Filmscore, John Williams, Soundtrack, Benjamin Wallfisch, John Carpenter, Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrmann, Psycho, Psychopath, Jerry Goldsmith. Movie Music, Film Scoring, Symphonic.
Spotify Music Playlist of horror movie soundtracks. Film composers include: Benjamin Wallfisch, John Williams, Alan Silvestri, John Carpenter, Anton Coppola, Jon Brooks, Charlie Clouser, James Newton Howard and Patrick Doyle.
Buy now Download the Logic Pro X Project Session Template for the complete 'Dark Highlands'Original Motion Picture Soundtrack arrangement and compositions on Sellfy. The downloadable LPP project includes the MIDI regions, programming, tempo changes, instrumentation, equalisation settings, automation etc. for the full filmscore.
* Additionally, included in the download package is the MP3 album with all the final mixes of the album's sound track, which means there is no requirement to download it on Amazon, iTunes or anywhere else. The album is usually priced at $9.99 alone. (See below for the album track list).
Cinematic, dark and suspenseful orchestral instrumental music session project. Sinister and ominous horror / thriller film score music exuding tension and foreboding evil. In contrast, it also features some beautiful thematic music. Music composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro X.
Please note: It's likely that you'll have to replace some of the instruments / plugins for similar ones unless you have all of them yourself; so playback might be slightly different. However, impulse responses, Logic Pro X effects/plugins and audio files etc. are all included.
Logic Pro X project session template (LPP) for the complete film score.
Complete MP3 music album for 'Dark Highlands'.
Thank you for checking out my work and for downloading my templates and music.
For additional information about me, please visit my website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk
Dark Highlands Soundtrack Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music by Jon Brooks
Soundtrack Titles
1. Dark Highlands Opening Titles - 2:19
2. There’s No Other Way - 6:34
3. Brain Damage - 1:04
4. Nowhere to Run - 1:44
5. The Chauffeur - 2:33
6. Highlands Arrival - 1:38
7. Preparation - 2:15
8. The First Night - 1:18
9. Sunrise - 1:10
10. The Artist Paints - 3:37
11. What’s Going On? - 2:25
12. Paranoid - 1:20
13. What’s Out There? - 2:03
14. Hunted - 1:26
15. Lurking In The Trees - 1:07
16. Don’t Close Your Eyes - 3:01
17. Never Far Away - 8:44
18. Make A Run For It - 3:07
19. Bloodthirsty Savage - 4:20
20. Psychopath’s Playground - 1:12
21. Locked Out - 2:13
22. The Escape - 1:18
23. Formulating The Plan - 2:52
24. Human Flesh - 2:10
25. Hiding Place - 2:17
26. Whatever It Takes To Survive - 2:06
27. Something Else Out There - 2:09
28. Captive - 1:55
29. Survival - 2:25
30. Rescue and Recovery - 3:25
31. Dark Highlands Closing Titles - 1:52
Dark Highlands (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Music composed and produced by Jon Brooks. A Japanese artist visits the Scottish Highlands to paint, but he becomes the target of a sadistic and psychopathic killer. Alone, suffering from exposure and hunted, he must find a way to survive.
Cinematographer : Michael G Clark Film Editing : Mark Stirton Production Design : Michael G Clark Production Assistant : Zani Mikyta Production Assistant : Mary Baird Sommerville Costume Design : Michael G Clark Key Makeup Artist : Michael G Clark Prosthetics Sculptor : Andrew Glazebrook Second Unit Director/ Assistant Director : Fraser Napier Special Effects : Michael G Clark Stunts : Mark Wyness Additional Aerial Cinematography : Innes A Gregory Additional Aerial Cinematography Assistant : Kane Gregory Camera Steadicam : Faust As Aerial Cinematographer : Barry Thackrey Costume and Wardrobe : Zani Mikyta Transportation : Mark Maddock
The downloadable project session includes all the MIDI regions, programming, instrumentation, tempo changes, equalisation, automation etc. for the full film score.
Total Duration: 1 Hour 18 Minutes
Cinematic, dark and suspenseful orchestral instrumental music session project. Ominous and sinister thriller/horror film music full of tension and foreboding evil. In contrast, it also features some beautiful thematic music. Music composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro X.
Please note: It's likely that you'll have to replace some of the instruments/plugins for similar ones unless you have all of them yourself; so playback might be slightly different. However, impulse responses, Logic Pro X effects/plugins and audio files etc. are included.
