Lots of thanks to Firage for helping identify some of the samples,
sorry i didn't get around to using some of that information in the end.
Check out his bandcamp page, there's lots of cool tunes: 
firage.bandcamp.com

Also thanks to Glutko at spriters-resource.com
 for the excellent wand of gamelan cutscene rips 
(which i promptly butchered the hell out of)