Quantum Axe l: Cool Synth KORG

Some dudes were supposed to come with me to Pori Jazz festival, but they bailed and went to Pärnu, Estonia instead. This song describes my disappointment and frustration. It's the only drum'n'bass song I've done (so far).  There are hints of "Sunshine of Your Love" to be heard. (2016)

Pärnu Jazz

This one is a blur, but I remember coming up with the main riff and liking it a lot. The middle section solo was my attempt to make a jazz fusion thing with Allan Holdsworth in mind of course. Before that is a theme similar to Castlevania 2, an old Game Boy game. You can hear it just before you fight Dracula.

Hmm. Now that I think about it, some of the drum parts eventually made their way to "London". (2015)

Loose Cannon

I decided to go all in with the synth sounds for the first time not even thinking of using the horrible distorted guitar sounds. I initially recorded most of the sections live on a piece of shit Casio keyboard some years ago onto a MiniDisc and forgot about it ...That's right kids, an actual MiniDisc. I still use that technology. Well, I found the disc before Christmas '17 and thought hey, this is kinda interesting. Maybe I should work on it so that's what I did. (2018)

Quantum Dots

This is a completely new track in the sense that it's not based on any of my older material. I listened to many synthesizer tracks on SoundCloud and got inspired by some of them. I experimented with some new rhythm ideas as well (triplets, sextuplets and such). Those are kind of hard to do on the KORGM01D and in fact impossible to get to sound awesome.

It's time for me to face the fact that I'm working with limited equipment... Limited sounds with near zero tweaking possibility and no convenient way to get odd-time rhythms to work well. I also have only eight tracks to work on (per song) and that's all the instrumentation I'm allowed. I'm still ok with how this one sounds and will continue to get the maximum out of the piece of equipment I've got for now. 

I almost didn't release this tune, because I thought it sounded embarrassing. I'm glad I did though, because this has since become my most popular track. (2018)

Cityscapes

An old guitar riff of mine from 2005 became the verse and the intro is at least somewhat inspired by Jan Hammer. The rest of the track is basically parts of an old track I did in 2014 called "Drive"... I prefer walking.

How'd I end up wearing those shorts on a dark, Croatian street? Haha. I can't remember. I'm a Shotokan disciple and that pose is my almost perfect 'gedan barai'. (2018)

On the Street's Where It's at

Simple chords and 80s soft (lame) rock inspired this track. I wanted to include some classical elements as well and those are near the end (1:52 onwards). I also tried to keep repetition at a minimum. That means following each section with a different one. Well, as much different as possible, but still keeping the flow interesting. Another goal was to keep this track under three minutes.

I think music is all about melody and this is what came out of that thought this time. I noticed a couple of ”wrong notes” here and there, but that’s part of what makes music real. (2018)

Do What You Wanna Do

I found another old MiniDisc with over three hours of my guitar riffs from around 2005. It seems that I don't really have to think of new stuff for a long time, because I noticed that I like most of them and can always "give them the KORG treatment". So, this track is mainly based on a couple of those old riffs, but about half of it is new stuff. I like the end result very much. The melody at the very end is basically Jan Hammer's "Payback" (2:44). I've always loved that track and the MV episode of the same name. (2018)

Quantum Axe l: Cool Synth KORG

position the positron