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S6 E242 Pirate Beats and Precision Editing: JT Music’s Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Rap (Sept 2026)

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This week, Tracy and Damien explore JT Music’s Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Rap—a bass-heavy fusion of pirate sea shanty, nerdcore rap and meticulously edited game cinematics.

Damien explains how the video combines cinematic sequences with specially captured gameplay footage, transforming Black Flag’s naval battles, parkour and pirate action into a tightly choreographed musical performance. Tracy examines JT Music’s distinctive place between machinima, fan filmmaking and video-game music, comparing their approach with creators such as Dan Bull, The Stupendium, Rockit Music and Harry101UK.

The discussion highlights the extraordinary precision of the audiovisual editing: cannon fire becomes percussion, character gestures embody the lyrics, and combat, camera movement and typography are all synchronized to the rhythm. We also consider how this new version revisits JT Music’s original Black Flag rap, reflecting both the improved visual quality of the game and the development of the duo’s creative craft.

Finally, we reflect on JT Music’s enduring success. Having begun as JT Machinima in 2008, the group has retained its machinima roots while continually reinventing its signature form of character-driven game rap.

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Show Notes & Links

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Rap by JT Music released 18 July 2026

The original rap here –

And to check out the previous episodes we’ve covered JT Music’s raps, well what more can we say…

Our Episodes JT Music’s Raps
Season 1, Episode 16 – Films, August 2021 Little Nightmares 2 Rap, featuring Andrea Storm Kaden
Season 1, Episode 25 – Films, November 2021 Alien Isolation Rap by Rockit Gaming featuring JT Music
Season 4, Episode 126 – Music Videos: Portal / Helldivers 2, April 2024 Helldivers 2 Rap: To Liberty and Beyond
Season 4, Episode 133 – Machinima News Omnibus, June 2024 Fallout Song: All in With the Fallout, featuring Andrea Storm Kaden
Season 5, Episode 164 – Machinima News Omnibus, January 2025 JT Music’s Halo tribute
Website “Projects Update 1,” April 2023—not a numbered podcast episode Little Nightmares Rap Song: Hungry for Another One, made with Harry101UK in SFM

Projects Update 1 (Apr 2023)

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This week, we highlight more creative talent than we can ever hope to include in our weekly film review discussions.

Interloper Ep 4 LIVE

You may recall we reviewed the Interloper series a couple of months ago, convincing Phil that this was ‘for real’! Well, maybe it is, as in this episode, which was streamed live on 22 March in a very interesting approach to storytelling on a ‘grand scale’, Anomidae continues the saga. We certainly concur with comments on the video that suggest this transcends into the paranormal. I’m sure it will enthrall just as much as the first episodes did –

Hired Steel Ep 3

The Hired Steel team are producing some outstanding work, and this is another episode from the TMC team that we first reviewed back in July last year, released on 10 Feb. These guys are going from strength to strength and what’s really great viewing is the way that character empathy is built through the storytelling. Nice work, do check it out –

Little Nightmares Rap Song

JT Music (formerly JT Machinima) released a video to ‘Hungry for Another One’ in SFM, working with Harry101UK, released on 21 Jan. This is a real treat both aurally and visually. These guys are top of the pops for machinima music vids. Enjoy –

Death Train [S2FM]

A great short by Vladislav Zharkov released on 27 May last year, this is actually a scaled back version of a project for which the creator originally had a much bigger vision. Its a great concept and one we would definitely encourage the creator to continue to develop. In the meantime, he’s focussing on the music –

SL The Tragedy

Finally this week, we present a wild west story not from the world of Red Dead Redemption but from Second Life. In this film/music video set to Lady Gaga’s 911, Godiva SL has created a fun and fast-paced story, released on 24 Jan (its also the feature image for this blog post). Its well edited, the horse and hounds even gallop to the beat of the music, and takes you on a real journey –

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 16 Films (August 2021)

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In this episode, Ricky, Tracy and Damien discuss a selection of films with the AI known as Phil, whilst the real Phil is off on holiday in sunny New York with his real family.  The selection this month covers the full scale of quality with some raw and experimental machinima work and some incredibly polished machinima, with much in between.  Games the machinima works draw on includes RDR2, GTA5, Little Nightmares 2, Xcom, Mech Warrior, Skyrim, Max Payne and Roblox with a bit of Blender thrown in for good measure.  Enjoy! 

Completely Machinima S1 Ep 7 Films (May 2021)

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And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our 4th podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month. 

Episode 4 was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky GrovePhil Riceand Tracy Harwood.

Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk

Summary: The hosts share their monthly machinima film favorites. Tracy recommends The Mandalorian Rap by JT Music, Ricky chose citizen logs 0001 by geeks actively making entertainment, and Tracy shared her pick which was a Star Wars video called shadow of the Republic by cinematic captures.  There is considerable discussion of the films and their merits (or flaws).

Time Stamps:

00:28 Tracy’s Pick: Mandalorian Rap

05:41 Ricky on Still Seeing Breen machinima

06:59 Ricky’s Pick Citizen Log 0001

 11:03 Damien on Star Citizen history

 14:06 Phil’s comments on facial expressions in film

20:44 Damien’s Pick: Star Wars video called shadow of the Republic by cinematic captures

 27:50 Tracy on the sound in the film

 29:33 Phil on Star Wars music and Chewbacca’s lack of variety in speech sounds

35:41 Phil on why he didn’t choose a movie this month

Links: 

  • THE MANDALORIAN RAP

  • CITIZEN LOG 0001: SEARCH AND RESCUE

  • SHADOW OF THE REPUBLIC

  • STAR CITIZEN PC Game

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

  • STAR WARS: CLONE WARS

https://www.starwars.com/series/star-wars-the-clone-wars