Kaburorne

The Moorlough Shore

Kabby — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:29:34 +0000

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 :)

It was interesting working with new material, quite different from my other stuff. It was tricky to do Nabil’s vocals justice!

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In other news, I’m painting lots more Warhammer, so I should have some more pictures up soon. It’s cool seeing my own models show up when someone searches Ogre Kingdoms in Google Images :D
Also, In a few weeks time I’m going to the Banksy exhibition in Bristol! And we’re allowed to use photography (thanks Banksy), so I’ll be taking quite a few pictures to show here.

Tetris Friends

Kabby — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:04:27 +0000

I’m a bit addicted to this website at the moment- Tetris Friends. It’s the official company who made the original Tetris, but they’ve updated it with tons of different game modes, and surprisingly good multiplayer. Very good fun, and a quality made game.
Go check it out!

Solar Beams

Kabby — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:18:01 +0000

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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Occultus

Kabby — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:41:06 +0000

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 :)

My profiles

Kabby — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:58:01 +0000

It seems as though you need so many profiles on the net to keep in touch with all your interests. I’m starting a list here so you can check out my existence elsewhere, and so I don’t forget what profiles I have.

deviantART
last.fm personal profile | artist profile
Newgrounds
YouTube

Updates, front and back.

Kabby — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:39:54 +0000

As you probably haven’t noticed, I’ve updated wordpress to the latest version, after putting it off for ages. I haven’t updated it since I got wordpress back in July ‘08 (a whole year, in fact). The update makes it easier for me to upgrade plugins- it’s automatic now. And the whole admin side of the site is a lot nicer too. Not only does it look nice, but it handles well and is easier to navigate. So, if you’re reading this and you have an out-of-date wordpress blog, go backup your stuff then update!

A more obvious change is the switch back to the default wordpress theme- only difference being I’ve changed the header from blue to red. I never realised it, but my old them didn’t allow for replying to comments (which kills any discussion on my posts), nor stacking comments into pages. This became pretty crazy on my Nyan Nyan Remix page, where I’ve got most of my comments. So I’ve changed back to the default theme, if only for the functionality. I’ll tweak it some, see if I can get custom graphics and whatnot to make it look nice. I’ll also get rid of the categories thing, cause I only use tags now.

Edit- actually, scrap the default theme, I’m on the hunt for a better one.

Also, I’m finally working with my recording equipment some more. I’m in the process of recording some songs I made with my band- the disappearance of our awesome practice space has left us without a way to get together and make songs. So I thought I’d start recording them by myself, partly so I don’t forget them, and party so I can show the band what the song in my head sounds like. So expect some blog posts with music tagged to them, but also the rock tag!

SOUR ‘日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)’

Kabby — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:15:47 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Not really my sort of music, but I love the quirky syncronisation of all those people’s webcams!

Ogre Kingdoms Giant

Kabby — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:50:51 +0000

This is a model I got as a birthday present years ago, but I never built it because I had way too many models on the go already. Now I’m getting back into painting Warhammer, this looked like a fun model to paint. You can use the giant in a few different armies, there’s a ton of extra bits to add on and customise the model. That was really fun choosing whether he should be holding a cow and a terrified villager in his hands, or throwing a tree trunk etc, as well as adding a squashed goblin just under his foot (I forgot to add that!). It looks like they had fun designing the model- I had fun making and painting it.

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Alton Towers!

Kabby — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:30:22 +0000

My good friends Alex and Mario came round last week to go to Alton Towers with mum (cause she’s the only one who can drive… yet). It was super fun, and we had a great time going on all the rides. As we went in July, it wasn’t as busy as the peak time in the summmer holidays. But, as we had all finished our GCSE exams before everyone else, we could beat the crowds, and we definitely beat the queues.I think we must have done at least 30 rides over the 3 days, possibly more- which is considerably more than the time Alex went to Thorpe Park in the height of the summer season and got on 4 rides in the whole day!

Mum doesn’t enjoy thrill rides at all, so we felt a bit guilty going to Alton Towers, which is a theme park, after all. But, there is beautiful scenery and Mum certainly enjoyed the peaceful green walks round the grounds, and relaxing by the large lake in the middle of the park. The great environment around the rides lent itself to some rather good photos (or at least the potential for them- I’m no photographer :P). It was an awesome trip, and here are some photos we took (click on them to zoom in):

Year One

Kabby — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:44:53 +0000

Just a quick note to say I saw Year One yesterday. It was good- I’d give it a 6/10. It loses points cause I thought the plot was a bit strange (they keep changing from being a slave, then they’re guards, then they’re slaves again… etc), but most of the jokes were funny (with exceptions for crude toilet humour…) and the actors played it well.
It was a funny mess of biblical stories, such as Cain and Abel, but with a casual, modern twist. It was rather funny seeing all these people from the bible talking with a modern vocabulary.
I’d recommend it, it’s quite a dumb film, mashing random parts of history together- but that’s why it’s good.

Ogre Kingdoms Rhinox

Kabby — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:59:16 +0000

My two younger cousins have started getting interested in Warhammer, at about the same age I did. I lost interest a few years ago- I accumulated too many models and didn’t finish the ones I already had.

But Jo let me paint a few of his models when he brought them to show family at a BBQ, and I suddenly got hooked again! Luckily most of my paints were still usable, only 3 of 30odd paints were dry- and they were the ones in the old screw top lids. The new flip-top lids were all fine.

So, here’s my first ‘revival’ model- a Ogre Kingdoms Rhinox (click to zoom in):

Expect more soon! I’m undercoating a Giant at the moment.

Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine!

Kabby — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:19:19 +0000

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

Click here to view the embedded video.

New thing

Kabby — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:21:52 +0000

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:

Edit: Removed
I’ve finished the track now, so check it out here.

GAH UPDATE

Kabby — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:02:21 +0000

Sorry about not posting recently, if anyone still reads this. If you do, please comment- it’s nice to know if at least one person reads my blawg.

My previous post (quite a while ago now) about that song called Duality- I’ve handed vocals over to Hania, who unfortunately seems to be dragging her feet a little. I’ve bugger a while about it, but it’s been nearly two months now. In the new year, I shall rant on her again D:

I got Rock Band! XD Tis pretty awesome. So I don’t think I’ll be making any more music any time soon :P

So yeah, check this space after the new year begins. Wish me luck…

Another WIP

Kabby — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:15:31 +0000

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.

I originally thought of the melody back when I was doing my song Diagram (back in February), but the song strayed away from the style that could use the melody, so it just got stuck in the project file, and forgotten.

I recently thought of some lyrics that fit exactly with the melody, so I picked it up real quick while I still had inspiration and got to work on this!

I’m quite excited, cause it’s my first song with my own vocals and lyrics. Even though the style is quite generic, I hope that I can spice it up a bit with some creativity.

Also, my friend Firewave is working on a remix, alongside me still creating the original track! Which is quite fun. His remix sounded so crazy and original. We think it sounds like some weird action movie soundtrack.

So, here’s my song, codenamed ‘Duality’. Keep in mind it’s a work in progress :)

Lyrics:

One look;

To fixate forever
To relinquish never
To freeze me in time

But still, the world keeps on turning
My hear keeps on yearning
For embrace sublime

(Chorus)
I’m stuck in a paradox
Set me free / Entangle me once again
True love / Evil arch enemy
Get the best / Get the worst of me

Well, those are the lyrics so far. Obviously, I’ll have more verses (maybe 2/3, I need to replace how they repeat the same one so far), maybe an altered chorus too.

I’ll try to record better vocals too, I’m not entirely happy with these so far- they were kind of rushed, and I wanted to get on with the song anyway.