This week’s selection is some 40s-esque big band swing with an impish clarinet solo in the Benny Goodman / Artie Shaw tradition. (I wish I remembered who performed it. Public service announcement: annotate your soloists!)

In the accompanying film scene, a group of feisty seniors goes on a shopping spree at Guitar Center – which hopefully explains the cue’s seemingly anachronistic guitar solos.

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	Shopping Spree

Video game victory music tends to be brief, so forgive the short music selection this week. Empire Earth 2 had several historical campaigns, including one from the perspective of Prussia. This music capped off the experience of winning one of these episodes.

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	Victory in Prussia

Let it never be said that I don’t write music for undead housepets.

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	Cat

Since my previous cue was a romanticized, melodic interpretation of a desert environment, I thought I’d offer a contrasting take on the same subject. This week’s selection is visceral and raw, evoking a desert’s harsh conditions and oppressive heat. Nothing to hum along to here!

Part of my approach was to include musical timbres that were organic but unfamiliar, to add a creepy and alienating flavor to the score.

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	Bite of the Desert