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Thanks to Lee Lucas https://soundcloud.com/lee-lucas for his feedback on v1 of this track.

I'm much happier with this version.

To all my Soundcloud friends, and lovers of music everywhere!

Warm greetings from Melbourne!!!

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Christmas Belles at Crown, Melbourne.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72562013@N06/11366677816/

I have no association with Crown Casino nor The Christmas Belles.

I couldn't finish my set of musical tributes to HBO's marvellous Westworld series 1 without a track dedicated to the character Ford played with subtlety and menace by Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins.

In the track I try to portray a certain hesitancy and poignancy in relation to the 'hosts' before the bells and the choir kick in to give a sense of finality.

All Logic Pro X instruments played by me.

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As with all my tracks, this is free to download and enjoy. It is a work of fandom, and not for profit.

This is one of my Apple Loop compositions, created in Logic Pro X.

I dedicate it to musicians and dreamers everywhere.

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Artwork: Wow it's Rock and Roll | by lucyfrench123, Flickr.

I love old synth sounds, and I love stories involving space, and the ability of humans to survive in extraordinary circumstances.

So, in this track, I did my best to represent all three, all the time thinking that my mobile phone (cell phone) has more computing power than the whole Apollo program.

Ed Harris plays the enigmatic "Man In Black" in HBO's fantastic Westworld series. This is my edgy and (ok, very) dark homage to the actor, the character he plays, and everyone involved in the series. Bravo!

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All instruments played manually in Logic Pro X.

I felt like evoking a John Wyndham sci-fi apocalypse type feel, this one being inspired by "The Kraken Wakes" more than any of his other works. I've done similar work two years ago...here's a couple of links:

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sci-fi-apocalypse-john-wyndham

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/the-kraken-wakes

I nicked the title from James Rickards, who wrote a book about this recently (2014). Get ready, people.

The photo is not him, maybe it's Warren Buffoon...not sure...don't care...doom prepping baby...

I love so many of the characters in HBO's Westworld series, and Bernard played by Jeffrey Wright is no exception. Brilliant, simply brilliant.

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This is purely fan-based music.

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For another of my tracks inspired by Westworld try

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/maeves-dream

I have been a massive fan of Blue Öyster Cult https://soundcloud.com/blue-oyster-cult since the 70s, when a friend of a friend went all punk and was selling his Blue Öyster Cult albums. Talk about luck.

I enjoy all kinds of rock and metal, including punk, but when hair metal kicked in during the 80s I hated that shit and so in the 80s I kept listening to Blue Öyster Cult and "my" music...Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Genesis, ELO, ELP, Yes, Steve Hackett, King Crimson, Camel, Caravan, Moody Blues, Supertramp, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, The Stranglers, Blondie, Ramones, The Cure, Santana, Rush, AC/DC, The Cult, ZZ Top, Gary Moore, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Big Country, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, JMJ, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Tangerine Dream, got into Metallica, and branched out into synth pop like Depeche Mode, OMD, Ultravox, Eurythmics, Human League, Yazoo. And there was plenty of standard rock in there too - Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCartney & Wings etc. Anything but hair metal, and disco, at the time.

And yet I liked glam rock - Bowie, Queen, Roxy Music, The Sweet, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Go figure...glam rock ok, hair metal...not ok?

Blue Öyster Cult is part of who I am. They shaped my rock and metal tastes within my broader musical tastes.

I love their hard rock dark fantasy shit, and when I die someone please play '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' from 'Extraterrestrial Live' at my funeral, followed by Godzilla, Black Blade, and Veteran Of The Psychic Wars. And just keep playing Blue Öyster Cult and more rock and metal...

This track is a tribute to Blue Öyster Cult. I'm not a good enough musician to do justice to a decent cover. Hence the title is not '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' (though you might have heard the famous riff in my tribute).