May as well update this blog with a condolence.
Those of you unfamiliar with the guy, he was a former Genesis touring member who also assisted in Peter Gabriel's solo career, and in his later years he was responsible for several vintage synth libraries under the name Hollow Sun, a company whose future I have no idea over. I even emailed him once, albeit about work, so it's a bit personal for me as well. As a means of tribute, here is my track Welcome to the Club, which involves use of his samples of the Yamaha CP70 piano.
Well, finally have some more major updates for my music. While only a two track album (only one of which being written by me), it is a collaboration with a more
established artist, who also runs a pretty established label in the synthwave scene. Also important to note is that there is a limited CD edition. Only five physical copies will be sold! Well, was in a Teamspeak chatroom with a few other synthwave producers, and it got me thinking about how much stuff I had on my Bandcamp. That being said, I finally got around to pulling most of my earlier material from the site, as few seemed interested in it, likely partially because much of it was so badly produced, in retrospect.
This also got me thinking about other ways to optimize my image for the average viewer. Expect me to be spending the next few weeks finding ways to better approach the design of this site as well as Bandcamp, even if just by way of throwing in more blog entries. Made a YouTube video covering the Terminator theme. This is to celebrate my affiliation with the movies: it was 30 years ago today that the first T800 arrives to kill Sarah Connor. Well, sadly, one reason for my hiatus in music was yet more personal issues, which, while they are not worth delving into, did convince me to change some apsects of my lifestyle.
The good news, however, is that this also spawned some ideas for a new album, which I began work on this morning. Its working title is "A Dark Future", meant to express a dystopia that, in some ways, could arguably come true in the future, essentially shelving this particular project along the likes of Perturbator and Carpenter Brut. Additional good news, this time, relating to one of my game projects: NeonXSZ has been greenlit for Steam! Here is its website, those of you who are not up to speed with it. Intravenous Software, sadly, still does not anticipate an official release for a few more months, but we will both keep everyone updated on a specific date. I also hope to stream my testing the Mac build of the game, for anyone interested in Livestreams. Will post the link in a separate blog post, later, but expect the stream to be online on Saturday, April 26th, at noon EST. This time around, I decided to dedicate an entire video to the reviewed synth. Enjoy! Well, two things worth mentioning right now:
1. Currently talking with the label manager of Future 80s. There will be a limited run of cassete tapes of "An Alien World" for any of the more nostalgic customers, likely to be available on the same page as the Bandcamp downloads. No official date of availability has been estimated, yet, so stay tuned. 2. For the sake of updates, I'll reveal a leak I got regarding "Radio Pure Gently": one of my recent free-download tracks will be played on the station tomorrow! For the sake of surprises, I will not reveal which, though. Also been busy testing out a recently-acquired Oberheim DPX-1, my most vintage synthesizer yet, but I'll save an in-depth review of it for later.
Well, been going through lots of personal issues, which are not worth delving into, up until recently; hence, the relative lack of music making. Good news is that I've resumed, one example being a new original track that I'm going as far as to give away for free.
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