On Monday, I'm debuting my new Super Haters collaboration with Jared Catherine, creator of Incrediman Comix. It's called Mr. Magnifico Unchained. The most powerful hero in the Super Haters universe has gone nuts, and only Mind's Eye and Destruct-O-Tron can stop him!

Like my past two Super Haters story arcs, I made a trailer for Mr. Magnifico Unchained featuring music by my melodic alter ego, Nik Furious:

Here's an mp3 of the Mr. Magnifico Unchained trailer music:

Mr. Magnifico Unchained trailer music [ 0:39 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The songs used in my previous trailers had rich, involved histories with complicated evolutions. Sadly, that's not the case with this tune. The history of this trailer music is short and simple!

Since the trailer begins with a parody of the upcoming Superman Unchained series by Scott Snyder and Jim Lee, I thought it would be fitting to use a bit of the Theme From Superman by John Williams. I played the opening riff on my microKORG.

Then a I used a few noises from Freesound and spliced in the beginning of Destruct-O-Groove. I made Destruct-O-Groove last month to coincide with the debut of the free Super Haters eBooks. I split the song into four parts. You can download each section by visiting the webpage for the corresponding volume of Super Haters.

Mr. Magnifico Unchained a.k.a. Jared Catherine Guest Week begins on Monday, March 25, 2013 at SuperHaters.com. See ya there!

13 tracks. 22 minutes. Old school and original instrumental funk.

Sunday Best mixtape by Nik Furious [ 22:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

You can also download the Sunday Best mixtape as individual tracks:
• nik-furious-sunday-best.zip (36:09, 53 MB)

Tracklist:

1. Buh Rick
Remix of the intro from "Brick House" by The Commodores

2. Bustin
Remix of "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr.

3. I Was Made to Remix
Remix of "I Was Made to Love Her" by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Wonder

4. Infinity Well
Remix of the intro from "Keep It Comin' by The Jones Girls

5. Numb Brrr Won
Remix of "Your Love Is On The One" by Lakeside

6. Ooo Ahh
Remix of "Hold the Line" by Toto

7. Phoenix Bay
Demo version of "Remix the Phoenix" by Nik Furious

8. Remix Da Bass
Demo version of "Da Bounce" by Nik Furious

9. Station
Song by Nik Furious, inspired by Station's Creation

10. Sunday Best
Remix of "Chance With You" by Brother To Brother

11. The Wrecker
Remix of the outro from "Gumbo" by The Ventures

12. Ugly
Remix of the intro from "She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby

13. Wakanda
Remix of "Africa (Acoustic)" by D'Angelo

The beats on this mixtape were produced between 2004 and 2012. There are a lot of rich stories behind these songs, from their inspirations and influences to the lives they've lived since they were produced. You can learn about the creation of each track by clicking on its title. And you can listen to a continuous mix of Sunday Best on PodOmatic.

Oh, and here's where the name of the mixtape comes from.

Enter the instrumental. Brilliant Shower is a 13-track trip through the conscious and subconscious minds of Nik Furious. The music is dipped in electronic funk and lightly dusted with rock, surf, jazz, and experimental sounds.

This album was recorded in Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, and Paoli, PA over the course of 5 years from 2004-2009. I intended for most of the songs to become hip hop beats, but they ended up being too complicated or unorthodox to comfortably sit in the back.

You can download the full MP3 album for free as a ZIP file (right click to save):
nickmarino.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nik-furious-brilliant-shower.zip

You can also learn more about the creation of each song through my series of detailed blog posts about the writing, recording, and editing of Brilliant Shower:

01. After the Wink
02. Bacon
03. Essential
04. In Vert Head
05. Invisible
06. Purple Suite
07. RAW
08. Remix the Phoenix
09. Speechless
10. Street Drums
11. Summers
12. Uncanny
13. Wallcrawler

The album cover was patiently designed by Shawn Atkins. And this music was made better by the support of Justique Woolridge, Ed Marino, Josh Kobylarz, Neal Shyam, Scott Niekum, and everybody else who generously gave me feedback throughout the entire creation process.