This track was what came out one time when I was extremely bored, weird about that because apparently it was good enough to earn it's place on 'Lightyears Away'. I guess you could call this track progressive dubstep because the whole track is pretty much building up to the final drop in stages. Enjoy this up-beat dubstep track.

Aurora

The guitar turned out a lot better than I expected when I first started recording it, I was pressuring myself in to getting it right and ended up telling myself it was fine when it actually sounded terrible. Then pulled it out again after a couple of hours of working on the song and got it right first try. I guess that's because I had already written most of the song and knew that it sounded it awesome so it gave me a bit of a boost. Yep. Music is awesome.

Far From Home

My favourite thing about this track is the arrangement and structure of the drop. It's a remake of a track that I wrote on my birthday, so maybe that's why It turned out so awesome... Birthday luck? I wanted to connect the two complextro tracks (Antimatter and Virus) together to give the listener a reason to listen to both and to make an awesome chunk of high-energy in 'Lightyears Away'. This is also the oldest track on the album.

Lightyears Away (Release: 25th December 2013)
Free Download on Bandcamp: pixelator.bandcamp.com/album/lightyears-away
Soundcloud Playlist: soundcloud.com/pixelator/sets/lightyears-away

Virus

I had big aspirations for this track when I started writing it. I wrote the last drop first and I thought of the melody while on a chairlift in a ski resort. I spent quite a while just perfecting that last drop. Just thinking of how the rest of the track should sound. But I eventually started writing the bulk of it and most of it sounded completely different to what I had in mind. This track took far longer than it needed to, but at the same time, it probably wouldn’t have come out as good if I didn’t spend so much time on it, even if most of that time was changing stuff I had already written. But ultimately, I am extremely proud of this track, and I had felt that it was going to be great from the very beginning.

Synergy

Dusk and I sat down for a couple of sessions of writing. The first came out pretty successful, but then we lost the whole project. So then we wrote the whole thing again, and decided that we didn’t like the track anymore. After scrapping that track we decided that we would need to really hurry up and get inspired. So we looked through our abundance of sample packs to find all the tribal and orchestral samples, saved them to my desktop (which was cluttered for a couple of months), and then started writing something… Not much, but it was something. It was on the next session that the track really took off; we wrote everything up until the second drop. Many “That’s sick”s and “Woah”s were said that day.

Welcome To The Underworld (w/ Dusk)

The part that I wrote first of this track was the arp that's completely drowned in delay. I wrote it in a dark plane where most people were asleep. That was about half way through writing Synergy so I only worked on it occasionally after that. The original version (which was completely different) was alright and had a little bit of guitar and bass in it, but overall it sounded pretty terrible. A while later I decided to strip the whole thing down and just keep the arp, then I spent about an hour working on vocal chops and felt pretty inspired. So then I started recording rain and from then on writing this track was a lot of fun considering that the chill-out atmosphere was a nice contrast from most of the other stuff I write.

Hibernate

After deciding that Synergy would be the main track on the EP I thought that doing a VIP mix would be pretty cool. I wrote this after finishing the other three tracks so it was a long break between writing this and the original. I knew that I was going to use guitar on this track for a long time but I didn’t think it would turn out so rock-orientated. I only had a limited amount of time before I had to give the soundcard that I used for recording guitar back to a friend and I was running out of time so I just quickly recorded about 40 different clips of me just playing random stuff, and then narrowed it down to what I ended up using. This track shows something that I think is quite unique and that I will hopefully keep doing in the future.

Synergy (VIP Mix)

This track is effectively the official non-official sequel to 'Synergy', I think it fits in the same universe as 'Synergy' quite well. Probably because of the painfully similar chord progression and the up-beat electro vibe. As soon as I started this track, the ideas just came pouring out quicker than usual, but I did get a lot more in to designing sounds on this track than any other. I think that because this track was so fun to write, it meant that it only took about a week!

Tempest

I wanted to explore using several different themes and emotions in one song without it getting too over the top. It turned out to be something that I absolutely love and I feel like this song resembles something that I would actually want to listen to. I will definitely do something like this again!

This is the last song I am releasing as 'Pixelator'. Thank you, it's been fun.