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Movie Short: Stinks Of Ghosts (Bleach Inspired Anime Theme​?​)

from Soundtrack Series: SCORES by Xorcist

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Oh boy - Sit back kiddies. This is a story alright...All about Stinks Of Ghosts... and the industry. This is an interactive story! Get ready to cut and paste those links below in a new window!

Once upon a time in 2002/2003, a film student in the video game / entertainment industry circuit asked me to score a short film he did for nothing as he said it would be good exposure, that those in the industry would see it. I said sure, why not. It wasn't a big deal really... or was it... Now I know, I know... I fell right into the "it will be good exposure" trap but this guy was cool - I didn't mind. He came highly recommended so I did it.

So for Stinks Of Ghosts, I created it's theme:

Stinks Of Ghosts Opening Theme: www.cyberden.com/sounds/01-Stinks_opening.mp3

Stinks Of Ghosts Closing Theme: www.cyberden.com/sounds/01-Stinks_closing.mp3

Jump ahead two years. In 2005, I VJ'ed an Anime convention in San Francisco (Anime Overdose) and while there, a new manga was being introduced to the USA called BLEACH. I immediately said to myself and others, "This is it - This will be the next big hit series in the USA, just you wait". At that time unknown to me or anyone else in the States, BLEACH had already begun broadcasting in Japan the year before but it wouldn't be until March 15th, 2006 when it would hit the USA airwaves. I finally saw it and watched quite a bit... but I kept hearing it... A re-occuring passage that kept being played at pivotal movments in the entire series:

BLEACH Re-occuring Theme: www.cyberden.com/sounds/02-Bleach_cut.mp3

You hear it too no doubt.

I immediately looked more into the television series and learned it was first broadcast in Japan in 2004 on October 5th.

I sat down. Did the math. Connected the dots. Stinks Of Ghosts would of been released into the 'industry' almost a year or so before Bleach went to broadcast in Japan. Then I did a simply pitch shift of my theme and laid it right on top of the Bleach theme.

Stinks Of Bleach: www.cyberden.com/sounds/03-Combined_pitchdownstinks.mp3

I still think Bleach is awesome but I have little doubt my short made it into someone's hands or someone's website where one late night, inspiration was needed, and pulled... and a little bit of my spirit was ripped from my body that night to help haunt others...

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from Soundtrack Series: SCORES, released February 25, 2018

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