Hello, it’s time for another giveaway!
“Jihad” is a dark and heavy trancer at 140 BPM, featuring authentic arabian instruments. Especially the flute is a star of the show.
I decided to give it away as no label has shown interest in it over last 2 years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Apparently labels these days are not into dark tunes in general.
Merry Christmas everyone! There’s a present for all of you year – whether you’ve been nice or not, it’s gonna hit you.
Download from Soundcloud ^
Or, there’s an animated version on Youtube. It’s important to be on Youtube nowdays.
It’s one of my leftover unsigned tracks, that none the less has some charm to it. Prominent synths, many catchy motiffs and lots of bang.
The project started somewhere in autumn 2018. I wanted to have banging tech with dubstep break, acid and uplifting lead… as it turns out, that was too much to fit in a single track. A study of failure.
Having quite some money but no life whatsoever, I made some upgrades to my studio setup over last few months.
Neutron 3 Advanced from my favourite company iZotope has been a tough choice, but everything that speeds up workflow at least by a little margin is always welcome. This one features multiband Transient Shaper with nice display to replace proven, but simple NI Transient Master with something more streamlined. The same is true with multiband Gate plugin. A completely new tool in my arsenal would be Sculptor, which seems to be multiband dynamics + EQ hybrid requested myself in one of user polls some years ago. Simple controls, but does wonders.
Finally purchased a D16 plugin (with money – got all others free). This is Godfazer, multi-purpose phaser tool with a plenty of algorithms and controls for every scenario. Subtle or extreme, classic or avant-garde, periodic or dynamic – you name it. In particular, stepped phaser is something I always needed for uplifting trance basslines. So far only Hybrid 3 got it.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a milestone in the history of music. Hubris was my first track made with a help of AI – the program called Orb Composer.
Back with “The making of” series. Let’s start with Ancient Dreams by James Lass, since this one was actually made back in November 2017.
The story begins just a few hours after Introscope EP got released. Delaforce Recordings made a public request for remixers on their Facebook page, and I answered quickly – at that moment with proven track record 😛 I got like 25 days for a remix, but it actually got signed 2 month later and finally released more than a year from then – this February.
Unfortunatelly Delaforce Recordings seems to be barely alive nowdays, so the only place you can hear full version are streaming serives, such as Spotify. Go check it now:
Well, this one will be short.
The track is a rework of my early production from 2013, which had awesome harmonies but totally sucked at technicals. Thanks to my friend, who requested “remix pack” for this tune, it survived the system crash and I was able to reproduce it.
I reccently found out my releases are available to listen at Spotify and Deezer, so you can check these while reading how Dreams of Grandeur was made:
“My Little Room” was originally made some years ago as a counterpart to Bliss. It’s the odd one, though, and I can’t even think of many labels that could be potentially interested in it. So I give it away for free. Luckily it already gathered great opinions from listeners, now you can enjoy it too! 🙂
Since it’s out now for everyone to hear (and to buy, apparently), I can say a few words how this track came to life. It took incredible amount of time and effort, but was worth it.
https://www.beatport.com/track/introscope-original-mix/9963922
It actually started as far as two years ago, with the rough idea to create some true hard-hitting and dark trancer with evolving structure. The title “introscope” means “device to look into yourself” – it was meant to be a journey through different emotions and states of mind.
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