I had to take some time as I didn't really like the sound of some instruments. But now there's a finished version of "Ad Sideris"!

Ad Sideris

This is an early preview of the second track (besides "Roads of Poland") I am currently working on. It doesn't have a title or a structure yet and I mainly uploaded it for some friends, but of course everyone will be welcome to check it out :P

All you can hear in this preview version is a basic idea of the instruments used and the melody I came up with. Effects, EQ's, even structure are completely missing. Lots of work has to be done before this one is finished... but if you follow me or regularly check out my Soundcloud, you will see a new preview (or even a final version?) in the next 2-3 weeks, depending on how much I work on this one and how much I work on Roads of Poland.

Untitled Track (early preview)

I had lots of trouble with the plugins (especially the EQ's) here... some changes to the structure had to be made to keep the track together, that's why it took so long to finish it. Instead of a finished version, there are the beginnings of a few new tracks on my HD now :P

This is a mixed version of RoP that's missing a few filter effects on the transitions (I'm currently figuring out where they sound good and how strong they should be) and some mastering, but it is quite close to the finished thing. So if by any chance someone out there is actually using my sound for something and you already want this track, take it - I even made it downloadable :P If I can keep up my current speed of working the finished version will be released this week anyway.

Roads Of Poland (nearly finished version)

First of all, when I came to SoundCloud today and saw I already had reactions and even a repost for the version of RoP I posted yesterday evening, I was very very pleasantly surprised :)) Thank you so much for letting me know you listened to my track!

As you can see, it didn't take me long to come up with a version I can call "finished". I added a few filter effects to make some transitions sound smoother and to add some interesting sounds to the track and I put a little bit of compression and an EQ on the master channel, but as I don't have the place or the know-how to master anything properly, I tried not to change too much on the master channel.

I won't make this version downloadable yet because I will release it together with a few other tracks (including a newly mixed version of Ground Control) as a small playlist which I'll give out as a CD to some people too. However, you can still download the track I posted yesterday!

(PS: I am terrible when it comes to genres of electronical music... if anyone who is a bit better than me could tell me what genre you'd consider this, please let me know by commenting or with a PM so I could add it as a SC tag!)

Roads Of Poland - finished version

You all probably know my producer work, but I am also DJ'ing (and I think I am a better DJ than producer), so I decided to share a mix I made yesterday evening with you guys. The tracks I used are:

- P.L.A.N. (at least that's his soundcloud name) - Enter The House
- Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child (Joris Voorn Edit)
- Guti  - All The Girls
- Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Joris Voorn Edit)
- Alligatoah - Willst Du (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)
- Deadmau5 - October
- Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be

Enjoy and, if you want to, download it and give me some feedback!

Dinosaur Music Mix (16.10.14)

I did a new mix/master of Personal Revolution because there have been some issues with clipping in the old one. This one seems to be a lot better, but I haven't tested it on many devices yet so maybe the problem still occurs.

PS: I have made a "preview" of my planned release - it features this track, Roads Of Poland and a preview of another track I made together with a friend and will end up here soon. If you want one on CD, send me a PM (or leave a comment if soundcloud doesn't have a PM function)

Personal Revolution (new mix)

After listening a lot to Deep House lately, I tried to produce some by myself - not sure if it IS actually deep house, but who cares about genres, right? :P This is more or less a ready-to-mix version (usually I make minor changes to arrangement/structure during the mixdown though) so the melody and chords will stay the same. 

The weird title comes from not being able to decide between the two, both came to my mind during producing the track and I like both. It's saved on my HD as "La Victoria Siempre" inspired by Che Guevara (obviously) but I shortened it to La Victoria, only to come up with the alternative title a few minutes later...

La Victoria/De La Gloire (pre-mixdown)

After a week without any music work (I was listening to the radio all week...) I finally finished Victoria - and decided against naming it De La Gloire :P

As usual, no actual mastering has been done (except a limiter and a multiband compressor thing with a mastering preset on the master channel) as I don't have possibilities to actually master anything.

Victoria

I did something close to mastering to the last track I uploaded and here's what I made out of it :P There will be a new version uploaded soon as I gave it to the first affordable mastering service I could find for a proper mastering! And, last but everything else than least, thank you to the already three people who liked Desire and to Hartmann who even decided to follow me!

I'm not sure if you can actually hear it if you don't know, but I got rid of some old habits and did stuff differently than usually. The biggest change for me was definitely the -6dB headroom I used instead of my usual -2 or 3 dB. I also stopped using Reverb for many instruments and went with delay instead, mainly cause I lately got NI's Replika and kinda love it :P Then, my "mastering" was a bit more complicated this time than just slapping a Maximus preset on the track. Oh, and I discovered TDR Kotelnikov. Made my drums sound much more as a unity in my ears, so if you want a free compressor that I think does a good job in keeping stuff together, try it out (and thanks to delamar.de who pointed it out to me!) :)

Desire (self-"mastered")

So you probably noticed I took down the older versions of "Desire", because today I recieved this. First time I gave a track away to master externally, and compared to what I did (which was already better than what I did to the songs before), this is just again better, so I'd say it payed off! 

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