Aggressive Future Bounce Tutorial (FLP)

For an antagonist, Von Bolt's theme may take a minute to get rolling but when it does? It is pure glory. With that said this is a straight forward take on it. Its a bit aggressive, but that is kind of the point. Its pushed a bit too hard, but that is kind of the point. Long live the leader of the Black Hole.

The Bolt Cometh

Never played Gaiares, but this was a fun little one to do a simple little remix of.

Mellinox

This remix is a long time coming to put it mildly. This is part of a much larger project. OCRemix's Final Fantasy VIII: SeeD's of Pandora https://ff8.ocremix.org/

I have always liked the airship themes in FFVII and FFVIII. Not too long ago I got the chance to take a stab at remixing it. And that is where this track came into existence. It is probably the single biggest remix I have ever attempted and is on one hand a reasonably straight forward take on the theme, but on the other hand it is something else entirely. 

Remix & Mixing: APZX
Trumpet: TSori
Guitar: Jabo
Live Drums: Ron Wikso
Mastering: Mark Trewella

Theme Of The White Hole Prevention Agency

The main riff in this is actually awesome. Understated, happy, and yet melancholic. I did have to write some chords underneath the original lead line that I felt fit well enough. Quite fun.

Kingdafreud

This is a remix of OutRun's Passing Breeze. This is a track that I have always enjoyed and I really do not need any particular reason to fire up the DAW and have a play with it. However, this particular genesis of this track comes because it is the last track that I will submit to a friendly video game music remix competition I used to compete in. 

I tried to do something that was a bit 80s inspired because you know OutRun...it just fits the...vibe. But I didn't want it to go so far into the 80s as to be synthwave territory. As a result this remix has some 80s/synthwave influence, but ultimately is really more about a chilled laid back listening experience. Reminiscing of days gone by, going with the flow, and even thinking back a bit on times there weren't quite as remembered. 

At first glance it may seem like this is a pretty samey cover of the track, what with replacing the piano with a polysynth instead and just using a simple synth lead. In fairness that isn't entirely untrue and it is a fairly 1:1 remix. But a closer listen will reveal that there were a lot of subtle changes throughout. I tried to keep it more upbeat and energetic in the beginning, in the middle I went more ambient & pretty, but towards the end I really tried to shift it away from those rose tinted glasses to something more melancholic yet with just a twinge of those tinted glasses because it is too hard to bring myself to not let the vibrancy of the track come out. I do end it on a very pretty chord though, at least I think it is pretty.

Remixed & Mixed by Austin "APZX"
Mastered by Mark Trewella at Full Circle Mastering

Annals Of Neon - APZX

Jung Kook(정국) x TAEYEON(태연) - To. X (A.I. cover)

My first Audio Vitamin track of 2024! It is a hybrid between dnb and hardcore, but more skewed to the dnb side than my previous tracks of this type. The track ended up with a weird BPM of 169.706 because I did not want to have time stretching artifacts in the vocals. I used nanobii's pitch to tempo calculator and ended up with a project BPM of 169.706 to have the vocals naturally pitch up by 6 semitones from their original 120 BPM. This is slightly annoying for DJs, but I think it is worth it for how much cleaner the vocals sound without time stretching artifacts. I am very happy with the overall production, I think it sounds very clean and the track is a very nice vibe to it.

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Forever

Get it here

Another single from REIA and I's upcoming album! Things are finally starting to move rapidly and the album is getting closer and closer to completion. This track features another fantastic vocal performance from REIA and combines a small amount of elements from chiptune, and synthwave with hardcore in an happy package. The artwork was done by the awesome HyeNRG, be sure to check out his music if you have not already.

Ultimate and Mega Patrons on my Patreon had early access to this release. If you want to get my music early or just like what I do and want to help support me, consider joining. If you do join, in addition to getting music early, you will also get all kinds of exclusive stuff and other goodies, such as stems, project files and more.

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Stars in the Sky

Nakura & REIA - Stars In The Sky

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Packed with a club-ready vibe that radiates vibrant energy, Shay’s success was fast-tracked when Factory 93 signed her track, ‘Rapture’ to their MODULE compilation early 2023. This debut soon led to a follow-up single, ‘Memento’, proved to be one of her biggest-selling tracks and was added to the ‘Best of Factory 2023’ compilation alongside artists like Space 92, Nicole Moudaber, Jay Lumen, POPOF, and many other techno giants. 

On the back of an ever-expanding accomplishment list, Shay has been managing a busy tour schedule. She made her first appearance at the legendary Sisyphos Berlin, closed out the night next to Space 92 at Superior Ingredients NYC, and joined Eli Brown on 4 sold-out tour dates throughout the west coast. 2024 will kick off with her headlining various dates in the US and Europe, including an appearance at Beyond Wonderland.

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Rose-Tinted

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Shay De Castro - Rose-Tinted

Rising Clouds

I'm Paggos, and i live in an ice box.  This project started about 15 years ago as a 15 year old kid who liked the sounds that robots made. Also inspired by weird noises, IDM and some early EDM stuff i liked.

Sometimes i make music that may make you think twice, but will spark an adventurous journey into the mind, or just have fun. 

Check out my stuff, it may spark some sort of movement, Either way, welcome.

Contact: Paggosblitz@gmail.com