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Warped Reality

Warped Reality

STYE908 · Dark Tension Underscore · Evan Hodges
Mysterious, tension based underscores with a sci-fi, crime drama feel. Deep drones, analogue synths and sound design elements create this very unique soundtrack.
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ReleasedNov 2022

Tracks

11 main mixes
Surveillance
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
1:55·70 bpm·Gm
Underscore, SoundtrackAnticipation, Crime Drama, Dark

A slow 70bpm G minor watch-and-wait bed built from deep drones and analogue synth texture, with no melodic lead to compete with dialogue. It holds a single investigative tension level across under two minutes rather than building to a payoff.

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1:55
Abandoned City
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
1:47·88 bpm·Cm
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Haunting

Mid-slow 88bpm C minor drone piece whose synth textures lean submerged and cavernous, suiting empty-street and ruin footage as much as underwater or deep-space imagery. Stays atmospheric and unresolved, functioning as a location bed rather than a scene arc.

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1:47
Warped Reality
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
1:53·88 bpm·A flatm
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Haunting

The album's title cue: 88bpm in A flat minor, with distortion added to the drone and synth palette so the texture degrades and smears as it moves. The most overtly horror-leaning of the set, built for perception breaking down on screen.

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1:53
Distorted Viewpoint
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
1:47·88 bpm·Gm
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Haunting

At 88bpm in G minor this is the most melodically furnished of the slower cues, pairing drones with a synth arpeggio, sparse piano and strings for a colder, more emotional read on the same investigative mood. Suits a scene where the evidence starts to reframe what a character believed.

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1:47
Breathless
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
2:12·125 bpm·D flatm
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Haunting

A 125bpm D flat minor chase-adjacent cue where a driving synth arpeggio over drone and piano supplies momentum without full percussion. Its 2:11 length gives room for a pursuit or countdown to escalate.

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2:12
Unknown Threat
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
2:19·70 bpm·Am
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Haunting

Slow 70bpm A minor bed in which sustained strings sit over deep drone and synth, giving a more orchestral and dread-heavy shade than the purely synthetic cues here. Over 2:19 it looms rather than resolves, ideal for approaching danger that hasn't been seen yet.

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2:19
Truth Revealed
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
2:45·125 bpm·Bm
Underscore, SoundtrackAnticipation, Crime Drama, Dark

The longest of the fast cues at 2:45, this 125bpm B minor track runs a synth arpeggio over drone with a strong sense of anticipation and forward pull. Its length and title point at a climactic disclosure or the final act of an investigation.

UnderscoreSoundtrackFilm ScoreAnticipationCrime DramaDarkHauntingInvestigativeSlowTensionMysteriousMysterySuspenseSci Fi
2:45
Billowing Ash
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
3:18·62 bpm·Em
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Haunting

At 62bpm in E minor and 3:17, this is the album's longest and most spacious drone piece, almost static and built purely from synth atmosphere. Suited to aftermath and desolation footage where a long unbroken bed is needed under narration.

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3:18
Clouded in Doubt
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
2:08·126 bpm·E flatm
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Futuristic

A 126bpm E flat minor cue with a futuristic edge, pushing a synth arpeggio over drone with more sheen and machine-precision than its neighbours. Fits technology, data and doubt sequences where pace matters more than melody.

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2:08
The Horrors Revealed
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
1:59·88 bpm·Bm
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Haunting, Horror

The only cue here with drums, this 88bpm B minor track combines a percussive pulse with synth arpeggio and drone for an overtly horror-tilted march. Its rhythmic backbone makes it the most cuttable piece on the album for a reveal or attack sequence.

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1:59
Mysterious Landscape
STYE908 · Warped Reality · Evan Hodges
1:37·58 bpm·B flatm
Underscore, SoundtrackCrime Drama, Dark, Haunting

At 58bpm in B flat minor and only 1:37, this is the slowest and shortest cue on the album — a moody synth-and-drone atmosphere with an oceanic, wide-open feel and no dark-tension edge in the mood set. Works as a short establishing wash for alien terrain or remote coastline.

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1:37

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