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 :)
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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Jul/080
Saplings
Track 7 on Kaburorne
The theme for this one was supposed to be clean, ornate and serene versus gritty, thick and distorted. It came about a bit lighter than my original concept. I was listening to a lot of minimal music when making this tune, hence the long intro and repeating chord patterns. It got terrible ratings on Newgrounds cause idiots can’t be bothered to listen to a track for more than one minute and get past the intro. Ah well.
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Jul/080
Diagram
Track 6 on Kaburorne
Diagram’s just a repetitive house track. The tracks called so because everything’s very layed out and mechanical.
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Jul/080
Repairing Remnants
Track 5 on Kaburorne
This track was another collaboration, but with a fellow electronic musician- Project Smammi. I showed him a loop (the first bass and synth stab part) that I was getting no-where with, then he sent it back with some drums. It kind of just passed between us like that until the end. The title ‘Repairing Remnants’ comes from the guitar part, which was recorded by me, then sliced into chunks and re-arranged. So the guitar has been shattered in some kind of robotic, chemical war, and a rebel organisation is trying to piece it back together to restore their race. Or something like that. It made for a trippy conversation on msn with Gnome, anyway.
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Jul/083
Silver Memory
Track 4 on Kaburorne
This is arguably the track I’m most proud of. It started out that I heard the original by Hania, and noticed in the description she wanted to collab with someone on it. It was great fun collaborating with her, she’s a very friendly and supportive person.
As you can hear I really wanted to make a U-turn on the style. I still wanted it to be powerful and melodic, but in a different way.
The Newgrounds community loved it, and it got on the top scoring list. My only song with lyrics, yet.
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