So, I have four more songs to finish and I’m done with the “Seed” album. I like it, but I think I’ve more or less explored all there is for me to explore of that particular style of making songs.
In other words, I’m itching to start working on new projects.
I’m working on some debut stuff for “No More Cocaine”. Probably an EP or “single” with just few songs on it to establish what kind of sound I am going for. Basically my version of “Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble”. More or less. Less IDM, no vocals, more Dark Ambient and weird soundscapes. More upright bass.
Also, I’m considering as the next project to work under my own name to be a refined and better approach to “Project Mayhem” that I worked for King Fear. Actually, I don’t remember if it was under my own name or not. Probably under mine.
Anyway, it was the attempt – more or less serious – to make “Techno Metal”, or “Electronic Metal”. It’s hard to put it in words. Basically, take the structures of rock and metal, add the attitude, the “heaviness”, distortion, riffs, drumming, but don’t use any natural instruments. Just synths and drum machines.
It’s an interesting problem.
For starters, should you use always the same “guitar”, or whatever synth sound you have representing the guitar in the song? Furthermore, should it try to sound like a guitar or something completely different? Should every song approach the concept fresh, or keep cohesion?
How many instruments? Normal metal has two guitars and a bass? Does that mean three synths, or no limits? Where do you draw the line?
Just some of my musings.
