I like most genres of music though my favourites are definately Jazz and Jungle/DnB from the 90's/2000's.
Not sure if it's weird to love both something acoustic like Debussy and also harsh electronic tracks from Druqks but I do
My computer is full of hundreds of songs i've made and I have so far published three times which is pretty cool
Synth Racks are crazy expensive so i made my own for free, just as good aswell
I don't have a lot of equipment as it is VERY expensive so i only get the stuff i can afford lol
On the top I have behringer clones of the famous "Roland TB-303" and "Roland TR-606" respectively
Below I have a Yamaha E463 which is a great little keyboard, useful for sampling and just general piano
I also have a Numark DJ deck which is fun to use
I mostly DJ by myself so i don't record any mixes, though i might in future
My first piece of music I published back in september 2022, the songs on this album i think are more fluid if that makes sense? I think they sound very repeatable and you could have them well... repeating, for hours (except mabye the last track which is more harsh with the drums).
The EP starts with "Crab Nebula" which is a fast(vivace mabye?) loop with (in my opinion) a very nice bass which is interupted at the end by a 'sawchoir' synth which crops up in the 4th track "Helix Nebula".
First things first Dinas Dwr is Welsh/Cymraeg and translates to "Water City". The idea for the name came from the Super Mario 64 level "wet dry world", more specifically the weird and yet relaxing skybox seen here
If you know about chord smymbols and that here is the chord sequence for Dinas Dwr (Chord 1 - Cmaj79#11) (chord 2 - Bm9/C#) (chord 3 - C#m9) (chord 4 - Cmaj7/G) and if you can understand those numbers than you can prob figure out the melody (its B, down to G#, down to F#, a fancy riff and down to B)
Probably my favourite track on this EP and also the longest by a considerable margin at seven and a half minutes long. This track plays at 120BPM and is probably the most ambient track on the EP with lots of pads playing by themselves until a simple drum loop sits in, I also put a 606 drum machine that pans around the stereo at somewhere in the halfway mark.
Five and a bit minutes in and the bass changes with the chords changing also, a new "xylophonic" synth plays also. After this the beep thing (don't really know what to call it) comes back the same but with the altered bass line has a different sound, one of the things I like about music really is that you can play the exact same thing but change the bassline and suddenly it has a wayyyy different feel. Cool!
I made this one when i was playing random things on the piano, accidentaly played a very nice chord: F (then up an octave) G A E. Played it in a few different keys and then wow look know we have the main part of the song!
I ussually make songs from the middle then create an intro and outro, I don't have a reason as to why I do this it just happens, so for the intro i played the same sequence through a few different instruments.
I'm not sure how noticable it is but there is white noise in the background of the song which comes back and forth at different parts, the way i've worded it makes it sound unintentionally :/ lol, this noise is produced by an NES VST which simulates the sound chip inside the Nintendo Entertainment System, this is what most people would call chiptune, anyways rather than using the normal triangle and square wave sounds i used the noise function that is built in, to be honest i could have used litterally any noise generator but this is the only thing i knew i had installed that had it so might as well use it.
Turns out this song sounds quite terrible on phones, the bass in this song is basically a pure sinewave which when mixed together with the DnB rhythm sounds great but as it is basically a pure sinewave you can't hear it at all on small speakers yet when it's on a subwoofer it is by far the loudest thing there. This is the oldest track on the EP, made this one back in December 2021. Not really much to say about this one other than the ending where there is a 'pluck' bass that sounds like its about to do something but doesn't, i prefer it to just end but mabye one day i'll do an extended mix
My second release with 12 songs this time making it an actual album rather than an EP, as such im just going to do an overview of the highlights rather than an in depth of every song.
Starting off with "Outer shell Mission" which uses samples from one of my favourite games: Bomberman HERO for the Nintendo 64 (in terms of the music, the gameplay isn't actually that good). After the first part i put a sort of acid bass though it's not really much of a bass.
Moving on to track 2: "LFO: SD" which is my personal favourite not only from this album but of all the songs i've published, the bass is repetitive but not in a boring way, if you listen closely it actually has 4 phases if that makes sense. The title comes from the use of a "Low Frequency Oscillator" that controls the high pitch synth in the background. This one has a nice finish also of the bass by itself.
Track 3 is well, acid sines and bells, no need to go in depth though I do like this one a lot.
Track 4 is very different to the other songs on the album, it is more similar to that of orchestral music though still having the drums and bass at the end keeping it from switching genres alltogether. One thing to note is that although i do not loop it in the release it does loop very well, when i was making it i had a cave level from a fictional game in my head so in a way it would work well for a VGM soundtrack
Now to the fifth track "Tropical Aqueous" which has a flanger at the end, im not very good at describing things so i'll just say it sounds nice.
Track 6 has a synth in the back which sounds kind of similar to 'Heliospan by Aphex Twin', not much else to put on this one.
Track 7 is very acidic and i love that, now although it sounds nothing like the song i'm about to mention it is how i happened to make this song, that song being 'Lala from 31 Minutos'. To be honest i forgot how me trying to recreate that song became this but never the less it did lol (can't even remember how i found the song as it is from a chilliean parody news show featuring puppets all in spanish). This song can be split into three parts, in the third part there is a piano arpeggio which is somewhat inspired from a drum and bass song i listened to once (good luck ever finding that, though i wish i could).
Track 8 is as the name suggests a drawbar organ playing, there you go.
Track 9 is one of my highlights in this akbum, i really like the vibraphone loop and the drum breaks (who doesn't love a 909). Made this one fully on my digital keyboard (one of the ones with hundreds of instruments loaded on), after I guess wrote it i just put all those notes into my DAW and that was that.
Track 10 is my second favourite on this album and also of the ones i've released, as the name suggests I used a 606 heavily in this one. The bells and acid part was heavily inspired by 'Lying in the reeds by Lone' this song by Lone is a sample of 'The Dream Is Always the Same by Tangerine Dream'. Tangerine Dream being one of the first Synth artists around making music on these large modular synths. In a way all electronic music is in someway similar to their stuff and there is a really good documentary on their work from 1976 which can be found on youtube in German with subtitles, it's worth a watch if you're interested, one of my favourite quotes from the documentary is "In the future there will be synthesizers that can play more than one note at the same time" really shows how we take polyphonic synthesizers for granted.
Now to Track 11 which this time i really don't know how to describe it, so much so i couldn't think of a name other than the length of the song: 2:20. So thats that
Finally we reach "Finale" which funnily enough is the last song, before i started work on mixing and putting this album together i already called this one 'Finale' as it just seemed fitting, the looping drum and bass part at the beginning and very end is heavily inspired by late 90's and early 2000's drum and bass jungle, truly the best time for that music with all its ambient synths and breakbeats.
Another one I made on piano and turned electronic, this one took me soooooo long to get sounding right as most of the song (middle part and onwards) is dissonance which sounds very nice when spaced an octave out. This song was originally called "Triple Tap" but i renamed it to "Hexagonal Wave after one of the synths i used had a thing saying hexagonal wave error or something like that. At the very end i included a piano playing the main part of the song as that is how i originally heard it, this track is much more loud than my others, sounds nice as a hardcore track.
Hexagonal Wave will likely be my last work for a while as i want to prepare a lot of stuff to go all at once, this will probably be done come August 2023, no promises :)
I plan on releasing BioZone as a series with a theme of somewhat background ambient or trance music, whatever you call it
The track I finished last kicks off this album, I dont like to over-analyze so I wont say much. The arpeggios are cool.
Probably my favourite song on here, I chose the shorter mix for this album because why not. The main synth uses a delay effect which is the main idea of the track which switches sequences after the intro bit. I tried to make this one more natural to fit with the BioZone theme, mostly using vocals and what not. Also that bit with the bell and the other *thing* is just perfect and i'm really proud of it.
This album definitely feels different to my other projects and it's mostly because I took a very long break from making music, for me anyways, 7 months to be exact. This was probably the best decision I made because I generated some really good ideas for future projects and also this album which I would say is my best work at 20 tracks totalling just over 84 mins.
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not sure if i'll ever actually use this one but i thought it was cool anyways, the reason it's titled "The Colour" is because when viewed in Black and White the text is not visible