Let’s play: the Unicorn Theme by Tangerine Dream from the Legend score (1985) 🦄 #synth

Making musical soundtracks for parts of my books help helped me add ways of expressing things I couldn’t quite express in words! This is the main theme for The Thirteenth Hour. #pianopractice joshuablum.bandcamp.com

The Ice Giant! This is a track to accompany a section of a podcast playthrough @pixelgrotto.bsky.social & I did of the game he helped create, Mappa Mundi where the main character encounters a supernatural being. Tried to evoke the feel of wonder thru the sound effects & synths.

We all want our first time to be special. The story of the first cassette tape I ever bought. Mid 90s? Finding stuff in general was a lot harder - you am just of hoped for the best and had to be okay with disappointment. But sometimes … sometimes, the gods shone on you and it all worked out.

Bev rocking out! Made in the action figure animating app Nauk Nauk. I’m not someone who is super against or for AI, but things like this are one of the few uses of AI I can get behind. 🎸 @leathompson.bsky.social #howardtheduck www.nauknauk.io/post/POSTc39...

Aurora's Theme - I imagined that each time she appeared in The Thirteenth Hour, you could hear her theme playing. A similar thing was done on the Legend soundtrack by Tangerine Dream, where they wrote a distinctive unicorn theme that plays pretty much most times that the unicorns appear. #synthfam

Sometimes I get asked why I wrote musical soundtracks to my books, and the truth is, there are just some things words can’t convey - thankfully, music can fill in the the gaps. 🎶 #authorlife

Throwback Thursday! One of the reasons I went with a translucent purple cassette shell for my latest album was because the first was in translucent blue 💙 joshuablum.bandcamp.com/album/long-a... #synthfam #retro80s

Today (7/29) would’ve been Dave Stevens’ birthday. Dave was the creator of the #Rocketeer, an indie comic that later became a Disney film. Dave passed away in 2008 from leukemia, but his spirit lives on with every remaining Gee Bee and stick of Beeman’s chewed. My attempt at the James Horner score:

When I set out to make a soundtrack for my fantasy novel, The Thirteenth Hour, I wanted to pay homage to the source: 80s & early 90s sci-fi/fantasy films + new wave music. It took a while, but that’s what I did - 2 LPs of cinematic synth & new wave ballads! joshuablum.bandcamp.com/merch/once-u...

Just received the demo tape for the Once Upon a Dream cassettes. Coming soon to joshuablum.bandcamp.com! Playing this on a vintage Sharp WQ-572 tape player my mom salvaged from the garbage when I was a kid :)
#vintagevibes #vintagetapeplayer #vintagecassettedeck #synthwave #cinematicsynth

Once Upon a Dream CDs just arrived! joshuablum.bandcamp.com/album/once-u... For the full experience, try finding an old school CD player to listen on. Bonus points if you try to jog with one of these things! 😂
#vintagevibes #synthwave #cinematicsynth #synthfam

Thirteenth Hour theme lullaby style - this was the first Thirteenth Hour piece I wrote years ago and its riffs are found in various places in Long Ago Not So Far Away and Once Upon a Dream. The latter is now live! You can listen at joshuablum.bandcamp.com 🎶 #retro80s #midnightpiano #synthfam

Thirteenth Hour Medley lullaby - playing some quiet midnight riffs from Long Ago Not So Far Away and Once Upon a Dream strung together. The latter is now live! 🎶 joshuablum.bandcamp.com/album/once-u... #retro80s #midnightpiano #synthfam

Rainy day window vibes. Once Upon a Dream is a standalone cinematic / melodic / new wave synth album written to accompany the 80s film inspired novel, The Thirteenth Hour. Out now, streaming on joshuablum.bandcamp.com/album/once-u... #synthpop #synthfam #pixelartist

Release day! Once Upon a Dream is out now! 7 years, 19 tracks (20 on Bandcamp), not sure how many hours on production … but would do it again in a heartbeat. It’s been a fun ride! #melodicsynth #synthfam joshuablum.bandcamp.com/album/once-u...