Astral Acrobat

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Since it's been out for a few months, I figured I'd throw you guys a bone and toss a track from the album onto Soundcloud! :)

This one is called Unipsycle.  It's rad as hell.  And most importantly - it (and the rest of the album) were mastered by my main man @tonileys

Enjoy - and go buy it if you want.  Or just listen - either way. :D

Unipsycle

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Second track from my album.  Merry eve, friends!

This one's simple but has some cool stuff happening.  I'd describe better but I'm blasting rockets of snot all over the world.

IT was 80 yesterday, during the Winter, and somehow I got a cold.  What the fuck.

<3 swerd

Sword Thundermurd

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! The third song from my album, and the one that seems to be the fan favorite. This and Unipsycle seem to get the most positive praise - so enjoy it free of charge.

Then go buy my album after you do that. :D

-Dan / swerd loves you all bunches.

Mastered by my brother in sound @tonileys

Bubbles

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One of my personal favorites from the album - really neat, slow epic thing.  Special little 7/4 breakdown deal at the end that I rather enjoy.

Slowly but surely drip-feeding the album out for all you lovely miscreants. <3

mastered by my main man @tonileys

To Cut the Sky

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Aaaaand number 5!  We're almost halfway there, people.

This is one a very high-paced boss themey thing that I very much enjoy.  I got the idea from one of the Final Fantasy XIII fight songs back when I was playing Record Keeper.  On a related note - if you have a job and want to keep it, do not go near Record Keeper. <3

-swerd

Chaos Battery

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Hiya kiddos!

We're at the halfway point of album uploads now!  This one was actually almost an OHC - every note I wrote worked the first time and it damn-near wrote itself.  88 minute composition time and still manages to be one of my favorites on the album.

GO LISTEN NOW IDIOTS. <3

Mastered by my brother in sound @tonileys

Controllercoaster

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7th track from Astral Acrobat.

Fun one in 7/4.  A bit stylistically different that most of my stuff, and one that I think brings a neat change of pace to the second half of the album.

Mastered by my bromigo, @tonileys 

Tuesday

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Track 8!

Only 4 more to go after this little guy.  <3  Mastered by Argentinian Jesus - or as he's known by people, @tonileys 

-swerd

Phoenix

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Track 9!!!  3 to go.

This one was hell on earth to get done and I'm not 100% sure why.  I think I completely rewrote it, more or less from scratch, 4 times.  I ended up having to double the song speed so I would have enough space in the tracker to do the dynamics I wanted.

It came out pretty well though!  It's my most Castlevania-ey track on the album, and I do love me some Castlevania soundtracks. <3

Mastered by sound in human form, @tonileys

-swerd

Denizens Of Darkest Night

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This might be my favorite song on the album.

Wrote this one in a day.  A pretty full day mind you, but a day nonetheless.  I had written a swing-style part for our Sonic Boom relay ( https://soundcloud.com/relaybros/sonic-boom ) and I figured I'd attempt something stylistically similar as one of my last album tracks.

It came out goodlywell. :)

Mastered by the Japanese Ethiopian, @tonileys <3 

-swerd

They Have Casinos In Space

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While this may not be the most highly rated track on this album, it's important for a lot of reasons.

It was written alongside Sword Thundermurd, making it (tied for) the first song on the album. This is also the song where I taught my self how to make runtime-vibrato properly without breaking spec - something frustrating due to my emulated NES chip.  In order to make sure I'm cheating as little as possible, I don't use any instrument envelopes and do everything at runtime - including hi-hats / noise channel stuff and more sound-effectsy stuff.

I learned a ton from this song, and it's the reason the next 10/11 tracks were written in the first place. :)

Mastered by the tiny porcupine of musical terrordomes, @tonileys

-swerd

The Climb

Last track on the album!  Yaaay!

And yes - I uploaded them all separately, with a few days apart, to get as much recycled traffic as I possibly could per track.  So sue me. :D

This one was originally gonna be a remix of as many of the other album songs as possible.... Ended wiht only 4 or 5 song's elements worked in.  The original 9-song verison was kinda cluttered and bad; this one worked better.

This album was a blast to work on, start to finish.  I'll throw these all into a playlist in a few days :)

This, as well as every other song on the album, was mastered by my good friend @tonileys

Astral Acrobat

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