This is the kind of music I love to listen while painting and just generally brooding at home. Even if you didn’t brood until you pushed play, you would afterwards when listening to this.
Nov 112011
Nov 102011
God damn french, I hate your xenophobia, but god damn I love your experimental metal bands. Wonderful bastards. That said, this is a bit like “lite” version of Whourkr which is actually truly great, whereas this might be great in future.
Nov 052011
Greetings,
I’ve been busy. I made a new song today. It’s still a little unfinished when it comes to mix, but otherwise it’s done. I’ll post it tomorrow… or well, today, technically. Saturday!
Yeah, I’ve also started coding a little on my free time. But music seems to be keeping me up these days. I’ve been constantly tweaking music from small sketches and song clips (which is very unlike me, I tend to do only do full songs) to actually finishing some pieces.
I blame it on Maschine. It makes it really easy for me to just doodle something random out while I am actually doing something elese on computer.
But, just dropping a note here. Tomorrow, a new song called “Wailing”, at least until I release it officially. We’ll see.
Oct 252011
So, after a long silence I have something finished. I must admit, though, that I finished the song in a bit of a hurry because I wanted to move to greener pastures and incorporate some new ideas that the song inspired in me.
I’ve done a ridiculous amount of sketches, ideas and loops but little to no finished stuff. So, here you go. Something to listen to.
As all stuff on my website, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
You can download the OGG from here, if you like. No official MP3 exists, because the format sucks.
Oct 022011
So! I’m back.
I’ve been busy playing around with Maschine. I got it on Friday, against all odds, and I’ve been toying with it since. With some breaks for movies, restaurant and general R&R with my significant other. But other than that I’ve been mostly tweaking with it constantly day in and day out.
My first break from it has been today. I’ve done numerous little experiments with it, trying to learn the interface. I haven’t made a full song, but I did extensively research the best way to incorporate it in to my current workflow. It’s a little cumbersome, actually.
But I think it’ll be worth it in the long run. As for making songs just on it, the arranger is too inflexible for me to consider that a possibility. The scene based system might work for live performances, but for proper arrangement… not really my thing.
Regardless, here’s a bunch of stuff I did with Maschine, ranging from 15 second loop to about 2minute loops. They’re (almost) all loops that aren’t really finished, and some could be songs if I could bothered. They usually don’t have synths, but might some simple have bass on them.
Also, obviously, the mixing is nonexistent.
All were done purely in Maschine, few of them had Kore as a synth, but then I moved to the 64bit Maschine client and lost that possiblity. Hey, Native Instruments, I could really use a 64bit version of Kore 2! Ok, that’s it for today.
I’ll try to make a real song one of these days. That “Old School Horses” (first clip) has some promise.
Jul 072011
Solar Fields: “The Road To Nothingness” from 2009′s “Movements”
Easily the best song on the album, by a large margin. Even taking that in account, it’s still a pretty good ambient/chillout album. It’s also featured in the indie platform game “Capsized”, available on steam.
Jul 012011
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: “Beat The Devil’s Tattoo”, from 2010 “Beat The Devil’s Tattoo” album.
Jun 232011
So, I didn’t do anything I said I would so far. I looked at Modo, that’s the extent of my 3D. I thought about painting, and I collected some reference material for a project that I’ll chat a bit later on about. I did, however, adjust the mix of some of our previous songs in preparation for our new album. I just got slightly inspired by our previous song and decided that it’s the way forwards. So at least I did something productive. Soon I’ll paint, for real this time.
Jun 162011
…called “Inverted Inertia” for the “Project Mayhem” for King Fear & The Court of Wolves. I used this drum mix in the “boom!” sketch I did yesterday in an hour. Well, mostly, this is the rough version of the mix. The song is available for download, for those who like it. If you’re wondering about the odd synths sounding like guitars, you might want to check out what that Project Mayhem is about.
