Music Showcase 2020 - 2021 ♪
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Published 2021-06-25
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◈ Art made in Aseprite & Photoshop
◈ Music made in FL Studio & Ableton Live
This is a collection of 26 songs I've created over the past 18 months, some of which have previously featured in projects, while others would likely never have been posted. In terms of time spent on the songs themselves, this is by far the largest project I've ever created, and the total runtime is just under 30 minutes :)
Tracks:
01 Emerald Light
This song was inspired by the intro to 'Emerald Green' by False Noise, I really like the brass ensemble in the second half
02 64
This song was an experiment in a 6/4 time signature inspired by another of False Noise's songs called 'Scarlet Red'. I really like the kick snare pattern here - there's something notably off from the standard 4/4 but it still feels natural to listen to.
03 Piano Thing
This one was inspired by some of Echo Map's music, in my mind the second half almost 'breathes' when all of the drums come in, I love the way this one sounds
04 Snakebite
This one's just cool I don't have much to say haha
05 Metric
This was inspired by 'Parallel' by Metrik - was experimenting with the drums in the intro
06 Canopy
This was one of my first experiments with complex foley sounds. The mixing is kinda mid/bass heavy but it has a cool dreamy feel to it in the second half
07 Phantasm
Inspired by 'Phantasm' by Creo, but takes a very different approach drum wise and the drop was meant to be closer to 'Shine' but I lost the project file before I could finish it
08 Pursuit
This one feels very videogamey to me, makes me imagine a boss chase scene in Celeste
09 Rupture
One of my earlier attempts at creating dnb so the drums aren't great, wanted to create an imposing intro as well which kinda worked
10 Entropy
This one you might recognise from @EQD , the drums are really cool but I could never come up with a way of extending it
11 Tomorrow
Wanted to experiment with layering multiple sounds on top of each other with different panning values to create depth, I really like the drums in this one
12 Analog Dreams
This one was created in Ableton, before I knew how to use limiters properly, hence why it's so loud haha - inspired by some of Jon Hopkins' music
13 Wing
The main sound here was created using a single saw wave and just using a load of filtering, distortion, and delay to give it a rich sound. This was used in my project 'Stargarden' on @Iliad-
14 LQD
This one you might recognise from 'Voyagers', it was originally meant to be liquid drum and bass; I don't think it was successful but the layering of the chords between the bass and the melody is really cool regardless
15 VR Doot
This one was inspired by the melodic dubstep created by Virtual Riot, he was one of the first electronic artists I listened to so I've always been drawn to his older works
16 Supersawww
Another one inspired by Virtual Riot, I seem to recall throwing this together in about an hour so the melody is a little awkward
17 2077
Inspired by mid tempo music from cyperpunk, not a very difficult style to replicate at all but it was a lot of fun to make
18 Black Sand
Created in 24 hours for a challenge and then later touched up and polished, inspired by Boom Kitty's style of bass music
19 C418
This one was used in 'Sombre Skylines' and was created for a competition on another platform. I wanted to create something very similar to the Minecraft Alpha OST and I think it captured the vibe really nicely
20 Nimbus
Song created for another little competition using a single instrument, allowing for the main focus to be on the composition and arrangement rather than the production side. Was used in my project "Nimbus"
21 Midnight
This one started off with the idea to have a clock ticking sound as the basis for a song, everything else was just built upon that
22 Guitar Vibes
Created using a guitar synth I had found - was originally made for my design duel logo redesign, but was touched up for this project with some granular atmosphere stuff
23 Crystalline
Inspired by Alon Mor's 'Holly's Necklace' though falls a little short simply because of how little experience I had at the time of producing it. Was used in my project 'Crystalline'
24 Infiltration
This one still holds a special place in my heart for how well it conveys the atmosphere of the piece it was composed for (my project 'The Infiltrator'). Kinda makes me imagine a dystopian cityscape
25 Indigo
Inspired by 'Close to me' by Sabrepulse, which I heard from JSAB
26 Vice
This is the oldest song on here, from November 2019. Despite having a lot of problems I still kinda like this one for how much it reminds me of Creo's work
Thanks to @Vubobinali & @CeIIs for helping me test and just being really nice in general <3