Solitarius

Well. There is alot to tell about this one and i fear i could write a book, but i spare you. Haha! I've discovered the Japan Synth Pioneer Jun Fukamachi quite some time ago and while doing so, i digged every possible Album on Youtube and leeched this craft. Also had the chance to buy me a few CD's, as there are not so much out there.... rare jewels ... :)

I simply love him. His diversity and ingenousness is something i really really set as a high mark for myself. As long as i can "recall", there was music in my life and even as a child and later on as young and old teenager i loved to go fully emotional with music (like listening to Seal - Kiss from a Rose when a girl broke up with me back then, or discovering ACDC's Back in Black feeling like a little Rocker.... Nirvana and the tragedy when i heard that "Kurtl", as we would could his first name in German, just put a (wtf) shotgun in his head and pulled the trigger... )

Later on i was a pure Metalbanger and even while being one, i was listening to all of the Subgenres, and liked them, no pure black, death, trash, power, or whatsoever,...... This is something i think was always there due to being libra zodiac sign... balance... I became older and suddenly metal was not enough... so i digged everything and no matter if its eletronic, oldschool rock, experimental, classic, ambient, jazz, blues, .... and so on.... i love the variety and this brings me to all of YOU.

I had tons of cds, the napster era , the youtube extreme "following the youtube algorythm into crazy places" thing, i was in wacken as young metalbanger, listening to classic concerts, going to musicals and even watching an opera.... diversityyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..... and now... soundcloud!!! I cannot get enough and if there would be a risk of getting a burnout from listening to all of you, id be the first, for real.

Now the song. I finished it before i even took the andrew huang online course and i am fking happy to exactly release it with the skills i had back then and i dont want to brag ... but i really cant tell you people what struck me back then... maybe this immense jun fukamachi listening and discovering alot of people on here, on the cloud, which already influences me ALOT.

I would not be at the place where i am right now, without YOU and so i dedicate Gate 138 to all of YOU. This piece is LOVE and FUN, and CRAZY and im putting a few words in CAPSLOCK, just because i CAN. HHAAHAHA.

The story behind this cover is a complete different one to tell and please dont be too hard on me because this text is already huuuuuuuuge and long! So finished the piece and i had this picture in my head. There was simply nothing i could get on the web to build it with my graphic skills, neither (not yet lol) am i able to draw it myself, so i checkt out Fiverr and looked for a special and unique artist with his very own style.... and i found him!!

John Bucknall. A young very talented artist from UK. He has as a very unique mindset and it took way longer than i wanted to... he was not very fast, but no complains here. The whole process from zero to the finished cover was just nothing i ever experienced before, and i am really happy that i did choose him and that he exactly managed to draw this stuff in his own style, but presenting that track in the way i wanted it to be with visuals. (btw we are both on the picture to discover..... heheh). You can find him here -> https://www.instagram.com/johnbucknallart

The story behind this is quite simple. You could transform the situation to any other stressed and crazy thing going on in your life. There is this little android guy and he is freaking out because he is about to miss his shuttle... he worked hard and is always flying around on business trips and hell yeah... life really treats him not so nice... haha. I feel really with him and wished he would catch the shuttle but yeah... whatever. 

Commander Fullyard out.
:)

Gate 138

"As the years draw near"

Contains a sample of the children's hymn 'Remember Your Creator While You Are Young'  by Philip Paul Bliss 1838-1876

Remember Your Creator

Paploviante: Open Collab Backing track
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/funky-space-paploviante-open-collab
Lillithe: Arrangement, Mix and Production

Funky Space - Paploviante & Lillithe

Written, performed, mixed & mastered by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2020

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Instruments:
- Lennar Digital "Sylenth 1"
- TAL U-NO-LX
- FL Studio FLEX
- AAS Strum GS-2
- FL Studio Sytrus

Electric City Child

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Escape Control Delete (Gong) ft. Pablo Valotta Bass and Keys

Joerxworx&Ratzzz

Lunatics  29/ Schaumbad/Joerxworx&Ratzzz

Well. Finally!

I am really proud to be able to present this little nasty piece to you. This has several reasons... i have to face some kind of... lets call it "depression", right now (corona fuckedupness...). Low battery status and find it hard to work on any music these days.... and that makes me sad, because there is so much in the pipe, and as mentioned in my profile -> 2021 will be the big Collab-Year! Yes!  So down to it and i will be doing nasty stuff with some of you amazing talented Artists out there... this makes me thrilled about what to come!

While i worked on the last little mix-adaptions and overall master of my album "1981", we managed, during a short period around X-Mas, to visit my parents in law place and "celebrated" the christmas days. It really felt not so good and right, due to the rona crisis and the general lockdown with loosened restrictions just for the public holidays sake....

I took my newly self-gifted arturia microfreak with me and was highly motivated and inspired by the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1PRTg1DRbQ 4 producers 1 synth Andrew Huang video series... with a FAT Lineup of Artists : Rachel K Collier, Red Means Recording, Cuckoo and yeah , Andrew Huang...

After i saw that video i asked my girlfriend and fiance, which i had promised not to buy me another gear this year, if i was allowed to x-mas present myself with this thing and she , ALWAYS so supportive, agreed that i NEED it, sure! LOL.... So i took my travel-setup with me and was sitting in my beloved corner in our little flat at my parents in laws place.... and 80% of the piece was pretty much done when we drove back to our place. 

Still inspired by the magic composing energy i experience there, everytime, i finished the track within the next two days, but really felt not like uploading it. I had to wrap up the Album and decided, that i will drop it by the end of january, early february... and yeah. here it is.

I also want to take the opportunity and thank not only ALL you wonderful artists out there which i have discovered so far... i also want to shout out , that this piece, along with the 4 producers 1 synth video, is heavily influenced by listening to my alltime favorites:

https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea
https://soundcloud.com/grevusanjl
https://soundcloud.com/naturesautonomus
https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim
https://soundcloud.com/user-766619428
https://soundcloud.com/chefboyextreme

and surely many many more, but BIG CRED, to what you do with your magic sounds and sonic landscapes and genre bending and defining music out there.

Thank you so much! 
Yours,
Commander Fullyard


btw... if you got the time and are up into dreamy, dope, glitched, synthwave, arcade and so many more styles blending electronic music... please check out this man... https://soundcloud.com/jonrando

Glitched

the complete story to read here: https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa/ethereal-reach-wodwo-svayam-joerxworkx
......... with heartfelt thanks to Wodwo and Svayam - please check out their music !!!
WODWO https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040 : guitar, mix
SVAYAM https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa : Sitar, mix, master
JOERXWORX : Tenor Saxophone

Ethereal Reach // Wodwo / Svayam / joerxworx

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The 3rd Area

Coming to Spotify/streaming, welcome to pre-save Apricity (19 March). This is a portion/preview of the work.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sharonchen/apricity

Watch the Movie: https://youtu.be/NMV4yRF9Jv4
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Apricity, literally 'the warmth of the winter sun', is an orchestral-ambient work and a collab with https://soundcloud.com/echosonica. I had an idea to make a classical orchestral dronescape. I heard Elena's ambient tracks and believed we could make something different. Given airy, diverging atmospheric pad layers, I then wrote the orchestral lines on top. I used evolving, dynamic string articulations and non-traditional wind and brass articulations to give an evolving, evocative soundscape with themes of light and dark and how despair converges into hope.. 

The whole work is on BandCamp and Spotify later. I used mostly Spitfire Audio software including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Felted Piano, Orchestral Swarms, and Eric Whitacre Choir. This is my first true ambient work.


https://linktr.ee/sharonchenmusic
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#BandCampFriday is the first Friday of the month. New additions include a newly mixed and mastered 'Spring Serenade' and 'Apricity'. Also in the Spring theme is 'Spring's Hope' and 'Reflections on a Spring Lake Sunset'. (Piano and orchestra). Follow me on BandCamp for the latest.

https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/apricity
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/spring-serenade
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13 March: My ‘Nocturne in C Minor is now out on YouTube.  After experimenting with various materials including felt and interfacing to make a felted sound, this is the result.  Inspired by my Pleyel, Chopin, nature, and C Minor.
Welcome to pre-save for 9 April release:
https://occ.lnk.to/NocturneinCMinor

Performance: https://youtu.be/4FpHHFu5YhY
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