Hi fedi I'm looking for music featuring samples of train sounds, for example announcements or door closing beeps.
I refer to it as drum and & bahn. Please share your favourite #drumandbahn
@nyastrid the first thing I can things of is Monolake - Global Transport (various remixed and chopped announcements) but I think the track noise is synthetic https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=jeKJ4WTJLdk
@nyastrid Steve Reich "Different Trains"
@nyastrid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHTGV2D7nQ
powered by @pheeef who showed me this at mrmcd
@nyastrid Paul kalbrennner had at least one track with the Berlin sbahn door sound
@nyastrid Guus Meeuwis & Vagant - Per Spoor (Kedeng kedeng) https://youtu.be/lSxh-UK7Ays
@nyastrid Couldn't have fit this description better if I tried.
Oh wait, I did try.
@nyastrid I'll take that as a poke, because I am working on a thing but have yet to start beyond recording the basic ambient audio.
That said, if you are ever in London, on the Northern Line running from Hampstead to Golders Green, close your eyes and listen. It's like a short atonal symphony all by itself. Not sure it even needs anything added particularly.
@nyastrid not samples, but the modular creating a soundscape, from #jamuary 2025. I also have a pair or train sound synthesizers (sold way back when people were really into model trains). https://m.soundcloud.com/francois_dion/playing-pong-on-a-train-jamuary-15?in=francois_dion%2Fsets%2Fjamuary-2025
@nyastrid I'm also pretty sure I did some tape experimentations with train and subway sounds (the motor of the subway in Montreal would play notes as the pulse width kicked in to make it accelerate from a start), but I've only digitized a few tapes from that era so far, like this one with movie projector and planes sounds https://bandwagon.fm/69b6bbbe333f7b28f0cec918
Stretching the question a bit, Skybreak's album HALF BLOOD starts and ends with (fictional) train announcements by Bernie Wagenblast, who does the (real) automated announcements for the New York City Subway! See the beginning of https://skybreakedm.bandcamp.com/track/star-cannon and the end of https://skybreakedm.bandcamp.com/track/worlds-end-remember .
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Chris Watson's album, El Tren Fantasma, is a lot of this, but the song in particular I heard in a Headphone Commute podcast, the Wintery Mix, was El Divisadero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQZTXz2-7o
lemon jelly
slow train
@nyastrid Here's 'Jelly' by Kyle Gabler from the World of Goo soundtrack, with the sounds – pretty sure sampled – of subway train wheels speeding along the tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0eXcX6_QGE
@nyastrid "This is Noyes" https://youtu.be/R8swpKpfX5Q
@nyastrid only learned recently that the sample at the beginning of one of my favourite songs is a train announcement (warning about doors closing) https://lapfox.bandcamp.com/track/he-databusters
@nyastrid well, have one of my own, it has "drum&bahn" all over it: https://cairobraga.bandcamp.com/track/the-right-stations
@nyastrid The 3 note sample at the start and throughout this sound is famously the railway announcement chime in France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7hXEQhsQ
@nyastrid Various train noises at about 17m30s into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLhYOdTSQHA
@nyastrid If you don't mind an airport announcement instead Crowded House you covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha0AikMBOAs
@nyastrid i think Kadoc's mid-90s club classic "The Night Train" has a sample of a train's horn all the way through, but can't find any evidence that's what was actually sampled, sorry!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZmpN1wTwk
@nyastrid @joybooster Banco de Gaia “Last Train to Lhasa” (the entire album of the same name is great). https://youtu.be/5E20iADAe6g?is=vwP8X9KBt5NuEXmI
@nyastrid this is my very favorite one (although i saw someone suggested Last Train to Lhasa, which is also great):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elPLLFc2eeM
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I'd start here:
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/