I’ve been away for most of the summer, but as of today the Cue of the Week feature is happily back online.
Please enjoy this week’s music selection, meant to evoke the pitter-pattering of little armored divisions. The style is a blend between a traditional go-for-gusto orchestral sound with french horns a-blaring, and a more contemporary use of sampled drums and folk instrumentation.
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Continuing last week’s belated-fourth-of-July theme, here’s another militaristic anthem for your enjoyment. True, the music in question is supposed to celebrate German military victory in the late 19th century… but we at MikeMusicRadio are equal-opportunity revelers.
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Seeing as how we’re at the junction of Independence Day, Bastille Day, and Canada Day, something patriotic and vaguely militaristic seems to be in order. Enjoy a bit of brass and percussion fanfare, performance courtesy of the Budapest Film Orchestra.
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Here’s the end title theme for Hal Cantor’s comedy web series Hold Please, which follows the exploits of an actress struggling with her office day job. In my mind no instrument says comedy quite like vibraphone… except the guiro.
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