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#21
@ ZoDiaC: Thanks, man! I'm glad the vocals came out ok; I was going for a 'turntablism' sort of thing with them.

@ Eddy: Cheers, mate!

@ Knowlesy: I thought the prospect of my shredding mate doing some licks over this would get you excited, hahaha! Glad you enjoyed it, man! Glad all of you really liked the bass, 'cus I thought I could've done a bit better with it at first.
#22
@ ZoDiaC: It does sound a touch like ending credits music for a game, actually. Hahaha, that was unintentional, but avoidable I guess, me being me. Glad you liked it though!

@ Eddy: I think everything in this was synthesizer or drum machine based- an entirely synthetic track. But being that this track was put together using the riff in the intro and the chords in the verses, which I think were first made in about... early 2010, maybe even mid 2009, they could be anything. I say go for it, I'd love to see what you can do with this kind of style!

@ Knowlesy: Cheers, man! Glad it struck a chord with you enough to deviate from your usual comment style, hahaha.
#23
First off- I'm not ignoring you guys that have commented on my tracks; I just dunno what to say in response beyond "Thanks!" and I'd like to be able to think of more to say. I aprititate every single comment I get on my works- and I do read them, even if I take a while to get back to you!

Second, this is another track heavily inspired by the webcomic Memoria- specifically the most recent two pages, in which one of the main characters has an especially trippy and emotional dream sequence. Though not an exact replica of the style, this piece is heavily inspired by the works of Pogo, and is a fairly slow, laid back Trip Hop/Downtempo track with light beats and (mostly) lo-fi synths.

Enjoy!
#24
Last song I'll upload for a while, so I can answer replies/check out new stuff by you guys.

It's a little different, this song, in the way it progresses and plays out. It's not a COMPLETELY out-there structure, but it's not the usual "intro-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-breakdown-chorus-outro" progressiong either. It's a track I'm doing for a concept album I wanna create named '[Emulate: Me]'. It focuses on a boy robot, specifically designed with a typical 'cute' exterior with the intent of making people happy, that's created with an advanced emotion drive at a time in the future when everyone- even the robots- have become dissillusioned with live, and are utterly miserable and hopeless; enough so that whilst crime rates have dropped significantly, the world has fallen into a state of disrepair, and a number of rogue machines are planning to take this opertunity to go skynet on everyones ass. The story revolves around the lead Boy Robot learning and understanding emotions whilst being dragged on an adventure to change the world for the better by his creator, and one of the creator's earlier attempts at creating a robot to 'remind everyone of what it's like to feel alive', who's so suicidally depressed and bitterly cynical he'd give Marvin a run for his money.

The track, at the moment, is instrumental, but I plan to eventually have vocals laid down on it, as well as spolen parts to help drive the story along, both in the track itself, and put seperately on the album. I just need voice actors for that, hahaha.

I'm actually really proud of the track overall, even if it is a touch different. The bouncing bassline was the main draw of this tune from the start, with the chords, and the organ and string acompliments in the chorus/bridge/breakdown mean't to carry bassline along, like the beat. It's the same sort of deal with the blippy arps in the verses; everything around them bar the bassline is mean't to carry them along, rather then it be the other way around. Which isn't to say I didn't put time into making anything else sound good- It took longer to get the lo-fi drums in the verses to sound right then you'd image- ESPECIALLY the oldschool snare!

Enjoy!
#25
A short closing track done with a shuffled drum machine beat using a simple repeating chord riff and aome arps. I intend to have a good mate of mine- a guitarist in a local Melodic Death Metal band- do a quick solo over the section before the end at some point in the near future. Names for one of my favorite musicians of all time, Nobuyoshi Sano.
Enjoy!
#26
A mellow remix of my track 'The Hardman and his Mighty Boombox' done using some of the same samples, at a slower pace, with a different beat, done for my 'Beatology' mixtape.
Enjoy!
#27
The title kinda gives it away, really; it was just a bit of experimentation done with some riffs I had lying around that I've been meaning to use for ages. It's something I've done for my mixtape side project, 'Beatology', and is probably the least contemporary of the songs on the whole thing. It's probably the black sheep track of the entire project. It defies catagorisation, but it's pretty close to electro. I think.
I can't really explain this one; it's one of those things that really requires a listen.
#28
It was inevitable I'd post a demo eventually. I didn't think it'd be this soon after my comeback.
It's a piece I started this evening, and my second attempt at Dubstep... and it actually sounds like Dubstep this time. 8D;; And this is when I was intentionally going for the 'Hypnostep' sound 'Unnatural' had.
Still, I'm pleased with the result so far, but it still needs work- The bass need's fiddling with, and I need to figure out why the arps have distorted and fuzzed up slightly.

Enjoy the preview all the same!
#29
The most sample-heavy work I've done, albiet sounds rather then melodies on the sample table, this is something that crawled up out of my nightmares and made itself known via Music 2000 the other evening. I figured I'd share it all with you. Because I care.
This is what Yume Nikki does to me, hahahahaha.

Enjoy!
#30
Alrighty then, DarkBliss, if you're willing to give it a go. The best stuff I reckon you could have a go at is the stuff I've done for 'The Toriningen's Picnic Boombox Mixtape'. Shit's nice and trippy, hahaha.

http://www.mediafire.com/?48tqvue3t6zlruv
http://www.mediafire.com/?asbr1ss3bbgiggw
http://www.mediafire.com/?h47zbo2pzcqsefw
#31
@ Da5t3r; Cheers, man! Glad you liked it!

@ Knowlesy; I've seen the Matrix films a good few times, so I'm familier with the guys work. Though I'm noticing that there's no link in your post...? Or is that just something going done fuck up my end? Nevermind, it's showing up now.
#32
Downtempo / Re: Unnatural [HYPNOSTEP]
May 16, 2011, 09:55:09 PM
Hahaha, thanks, you two! Glad you both like it!
#33
I would offer one of my recent ventures up, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to master a M2K track recorded in Wavepad. I'm assuming 'damn near impossible'.
#34
Because I just can't keep away from sampling Yume Nikki background music. This is about an hour and 20 minutes worth of work, including the balancing- what little there was to do on this one- and setting up the sample loops, done mostly for a bit of fun, and as a means of building a song around samples properly, which so far I haven't really done- I have included outside samples in a few of my tracks before, but mostly they've been included or mixed in with the song already rather then having had the song been built around them. The only other example is the other track I've done that sampled a Yume Nikki track a while back- the Downtempo one. As for what the samples in this actually are- there's an unidentified drumloop mixed in with custom drums, and as mentioned above there's two pieces of BGM from Yume Nikki sampled. Which are;

1) The Block World BGM:

2) Mars-san's "Theme":

I was going for a track that sounds like it COULD have someone singing or rapping over it, but it isn't specifically intended to have vocals, if you get me.

Enjoy!
#35
Downtempo / Unnatural [HYPNOSTEP]
May 10, 2011, 05:28:19 PM
This one's something of a black sheep even in regards to the range of genre's I work with. It's something I did for a project of mine that's stylistically weird and a bit out-there, so I guess the result I wound up with is actually pretty apropriete. It's heavily dubstep inspired- but it isn't really true "dubstep". There's no true bass drop, and whilst the beat changes samples throughout, the structure between each loop is... not exactly the same, but it never deviates from the same basic rhythm. The whole thing comes off more as a chilled downtempo track with some crushing basslines, that, thankfully, if not true dubstep material, still shake the ribcage when the subwoofer is turned on. And a guitar loop for good measure.
Just popping this up along with the music dump in the Albums section as a little 'I'm not dead guys really' notice.
#36
Albums / Absolutely Bloody EVERYTHING.
May 03, 2011, 09:24:13 AM
Completed Tracks. Current Demo's. Works done under other alias'/use of my real name. Tracks I did a couple of weeks ago, and tracks from way back in 2007, for everything I've ever worked on, from ongoing projects to ones that sputtered out a long time ago. AND ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING IS PROPERLY TAGGED. Delete any other copies of my work you have and replace them with the ones here. Due to filesize, I had to split what otherwise would've been single files into seperate parts.

I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT NONE OF THE RELEASES IN THE COMPLETE FOLDER ARE FINISHED ALBUMS, AND TRACKS THAT ARE INTENDED TO HAVE VOCALS OR EXTRA INSTRUMENTAL BITS DO NOT YET HAVE THEM, BUT WHEN THEY DO THEY WILL EVENTUALLY BE PUT UP INDIVIDUALLY.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ojvrbqo83yq91

Consider this my way of apologising for being inactive for ages. And my exscuse to slap everything together and stick it somewhere. Because I'm starting to tire of Last.fm
Enjoy!
#37
Thank you! Glad the feel I was trying to get across was... Well, getting across, haha!
#38
Rock/Metal/Pop / Heroes of Olympia [Synthpop, Soundtrack]
February 13, 2011, 09:44:31 PM
A little something for something I'm working on. A Character Select screen track. I was trying to go for the type of sound found in Arika-made fighting games (e.g. Fighting Layer, the Street Fighter EX series, etc.)

Not a whole lot else to say, really, other then this is another one of those tracks I pushed out in barely 3 or 4 hours of contious work. I've been on a roll this weekend, apparently, haha.

Enjoy!
#39
Tired and, whilst not exactly "hungover", still recovering from a night of throwing back beers atm, so I honestly cannot be arsed with long messages. All you're getting is this is a trademark J-MACHine track; breakbeats, synths, and strings, peppered with some flutes and band hits for extra flourish, at about 135bpm, so it's not exactly breakcore, but it's not hip hop either. It's also the third track I've done based on the webcomic Memoria, which is seriously well-worth a read, and can be found here: http://memoria.valice.net/?page_id=169

Enjoy.
#40
There's only a couple of things I can say about this track. The first is that I tried to create something suspenseful, slightly creepy, that sets you on edge and sounds otherwordly and bizzare without being too "out there".

The second is that I produced this whilst sick a couple of weeks ago and on a massive Clock Tower high (in fact, the song title itself references the title of a sojng from the first Clock Tower, called 'Don't Cry, Jenifer', which you can listen too here: ). If you don't remember/have never heard of Clock Tower before, it's an obscure Survival Horror "series" (only two of the titles actually connet to one another, the other two 'sequals' only really use the same basic premise) where, usually (except, again, for the two latter sequals), the emphesis is purely on SURVIVING; There's only one or two baddies, a variaty of traps, and no weapons; when you run into a bad guy, there's only one option; run and hide, or stumble upon a "cut-scene" triggered trap sequence that takes your persuer out for a short amount of time. Even then, hiding isn't always going to save you. Because I'm hopefully going to be working on something similar when I get the free time, I wanted to have a track that gave off the same feel.

Hope you enjoy!