Aug/097
The Moorlough Shore
I stumbled upon the acapella for this song on looperman, and found the vocals really interesting- I’m part Irish myself and love the Irish culture, especially the music. Well, originally it is a Scottish folk song, but the Irish adapted the melody for another song, and Nabil Khazzaka sung this with an Irish accent so it’s ok :)
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It was interesting working with new material, quite different from my other stuff. It was tricky to do Nabil’s vocals justice!
Jul/090
Solar Beams
Another song? Indeed, I surprised myself when I zipped straight back into making this new song straight after Occultus. I was feeling pretty energised and the creative juices were flowing, so why not capitalise on it?
I’m really proud of this one, especially the melody. Even if the song did come out a little bit more techno/trance than I imagined.
Maybe I’ll have all the tracks for my 2nd album quicker than I anticipated!
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Jul/0910
Occultus
Finally! I actually finished a song for once. I’ve been working on many little ideas, but haven’t followed them through to an end product.
This song is a bit shorter than my others- I’ve been looking back and realised I tend to make songs too long. The song name comes from the Latin for hidden, because there’s hidden potential in all those little FL Studio files- occasionally they turn into a full song like this. Shame I don’t have the attention span to do this more often :P
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Also, this will be my 11th official song! So it will be starting a new album – I plan to compile every 10 songs into an album. I used the very best of my creative juices to come with the new album’s name…. Kaburorne II. At least it makes sense. I’m excited to hear what I come up with for the rest of this album- as of today I only have the skeleton for the 2nd song.
Enjoy Occultus :)
Jun/090
Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine!
Seriously, she doesn’t. Great song though. Which is why I used it for the first of my drum videos with new recording eqipment! It’s my first recording set-up, so it’s really exciting recording things into FLStudio. Expect acoustic + live elements to bleed into my electronic stuff :D
Jun/090
New thing
Sorry I haven’t been posting recently, but I have a big summer holiday ahead of me, and I’ve just finished my GCSE exams! So I’ve got nothing to do but make music, and have fun.
I think I’ll post more if I make it less of a chore and more a quick note.
Here’s something I’ve been working on:
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I’ve finished the track now, so check it out here.
Aug/081
Another WIP
The Aphex Twin inspired song has kind of dried up for me- I’m not sure where to take it from there. I’ve done absolutely nothing to it since I posted it on here. Rather annoying, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I’m just going to leave it alone, and pick it up again in a few weeks maybe. Fresh start :)
But, in the meantime, I’ve picked up another project! And this one is going a lot better, and a lot faster too.
Aug/080
Finally working on some new music – Aphex Twin style
I’ve been listening to a lot of Aphex Twin recently, and suddenly got inspiration for this guitar thing, which would go great with some glitchy drums and samples. I’m gonna cut up the guitar and make that glitchy too, but later on in the tune. Might try out some voice synthesizers, see if I can somehow include those in the mix.
I’m not happy with the volume of the hi-hats at the beginning, or the drum fill to introduce the drums. But ah well, it’s a WIP with a whole lot of progress to go.
Here’s the intro:
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Jul/080
Appropriate Feelings
Track 10, the final one, on Kaburorne
So, the last track on this album. I had this idea floating round, and put it up in the Other Stuff section, cause I didn’t know what to do with it. While I was working on it, Hania messaged me about doing some more collaboration, which I was really excited about. So I worked a bit faster on this track, so I could get it out the way before Hania’s project, and also to get back into the swing of composing on FL. The name comes from two things. While I was doing this tune, lots of stuff was happning in my life, so causing different emotions. And also, the song can be taken in different perspectives, and therefore cause different emotions.
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Jul/081
Apathie
Track 9 on Kaburorne
I wanted to do some more techno, as I had that catchy main melody going round in my head. It’s kind of ‘Traverse revisited’, so I can brush up on my trance skills.
It’s called Apathie cause this track was a bit… uninspired. I just made it cause I could, rather than I was really inspired by something awesome and original. I guess I was feeling a bit of apathy for my musical skills and inspiration.
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Jul/082
Ebb and Flow
Track 8 on Kaburorne
The idea just kind of popped into my head, and I made it in FL Studio. I think this track is as simple as that. While I was working on this track I showed it to my on-line friend, Kaeishii. She said she should really get into this and dance do it, which kind of gave me incentive to finish it, cause someone was actually enjoying this tune. Kaeishii belly-dances, and she said she’d try and do a performance to this song near the end of the year at her belly-dancing club, which is rather awesome :D Hopefully I’ll be able to post a video of the performance sometime on here.
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