Expedition 2

Retrowave

Tenth Era

S Y N T H W A V E // FALL 2021

Winter 2021

The Upload

I was really fortunate to be able to work together on a song with the very talented @johndunder earlier this year. We were casually chatting about music goals for the year when the idea of working on a collaborative song came up.

Initially, I was a little nervous - having never worked with another artist in the past but having spent some time chatting with John over the previous month's it seemed like it could go well and that we would work well together.

The whole process went so much better than I could have imagined - the demo I sent John was extremely rough and nasty - something I had put together on the OB-6 synth very fast one evening, but John mentioned that he had some guitar ideas that may suit it and wanted to work on it....so I sent him on the files.

No joke, a day later he sent back a near-masterpiece, completely transformed and fresh with ideas and layouts. We spent a little more time doing some small tweaks but what John did to this sad little demo was astounding.

I think the collaborative process went so smoothly it spilled over into John and I working on the artwork for the song together too 😁.

The track title - "Altostratus" is in reference to a type of cloud, totally inspired by the use of "Cloud" based storage that we utilised to share files back and forth to ease the song to completion. 

I hope you enjoy it half as much as I enjoyed the experience working on it. 
Thanks 
John Dunder & NiElsir

Altostratus

Spotify

John Dunder and NiElsir - Altostratus

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Vokon — Soaring

Electric Osmosis: https://youtu.be/2sxexahd3FQ

bandcamp

E - Motion

Orbit

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Glimmer

Axium Waves - Supermassive

Long Lived

I decided that I wanted to release something. So here you go.

City Lights

Here's "TeleVisions" from my upcoming album of the same title releasing November 26th on Puget Sound Collective! I hope you enjoy this one! :)

"TeleVisions" is all the combination of my favorite things in life, Television and Music. Listen as the music characterizes different periods and trends in television history, from analog signals and equipment, to types of content on tv, to mainstream television concepts and aesthetics. The sound evolves through different styles of music from electronic feeling synthpop, to downtempo and trancy vaporwave, to the sound of chill downtempo chillsynth. Be sure to experience TeleVisions on November 26th!!

TeleVisions

Bandcamp

Convergence Of Memories

Video by good guy Electric Osmosis!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57f4Rdqknjg

Sequenza & HeartBeatHero - Electronic Blue Sky

Alias (feat. Scott Hayes)

Soothe

Sync Node is Online

SYNC NODE IS ONLINE

Support my music on Bandcamp.
https://danieldeluxe.bandcamp.com/

New music and tour news in link below:
🔗 linktr.ee/danieldeluxe

Full compilation here.
https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/magnatron

Star Eater

https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/blood-club

NRW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOaNPrwTgA

DRIVE radio review... http://driveradio.be/2016/03/16/alex-blood-club/

Occult

Outer Ring -wip-

Clean lofi synthwave sounds.

Featured on
Electronic Gems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQMd3b1BF50
Odysseus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLTw8F8yN8&t=932s
Asthenic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijsz6uPdTnw&t=2150s
Soul Search and Destroy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cyR1qshVl0&t=1373s

Without

Buy https://krosia.bandcamp.com/
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/album/6fpvZ5Peg7sZRdDcgXq8y7

Image cover : http://palmandlaser.tumblr.com/post/162649344080/palmandlaser-shigeo-okamoto
Mastering by @alis_on
Featured on Electronic Gems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9O1HO4FLE
Featured on LuigiDonatello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcsoTgjyGAo


This track was made with Serum, U-He Diva, repro 1 & 5.

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Azur

Thanks for your support guys here's a little surprise

Last Horizon

Euphoria

" As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of nature, he realizes that the simple produce the supernatural. "
Honore de Balzac


Produced and mixed by Adam Ford & GRAEDA
Mastered by Adam Ford
Art by Plazmic


SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/graedamusic

Bandcamp:

https://graeda.bandcamp.com/

FB:

https://www.facebook.com/graedamusic

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/graeda.wav/

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bwqwISuLkDV1i8HJL41V7

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/graedawave

Absolute

Theta is another chillwave inspired song that owes it's birth again to the Moog Matriarch and Novation Peak. 

I have learned a lot from working on this track, about letting go of ideas - moving in different directions mid-project and a general lesson on getting from the start to the finish through tonnes of uncertainty, doubt, and frustration. How this song started out is hard to believe, the initial parts are all now gone, they were recorded from the Moog Matriarch, a big 32 bar sequence with a lot of effects on the chain which created this huge synth soundscape that I thought would be the basis of the whole song, but after some time working on it I felt that the accompanying bass guitar lines and counter melodies that I wrote against the original sequence held their own - so I reluctantly considered lowering the main part to the back of the track (and a day later - it was deleted completely) - something which I traditionally would have struggled to do, a guess that is a form of "sunk cost" - but in the music creation sense. In the following days, I tried to finish the track off fast and move on but somehow it just wasn't flowing out of me as easy as normal - it became something different, requiring a lot of ideas and again - further changes of direction. 

Finally, when I felt that I had it to a point of completion and I was fortunate enough to submit the work in progress to a private Chillsynth discord feedback group which was extremely helpful. When the song was playing on the "feedback radio" and the handful of listeners were now listening at the same time I was I started to hear things differently, it was almost like having a fresh set of ears to listen to the song for the first time once again. I quickly make a few notes from my own "fresh" ears, meanwhile, people were giving positive feedback and some suggestions that the song would really do well with an additional change up - a new bridge section or some different chords. I knew they were right, and again reluctantly decided that the "finished" work was actually not finished. The next morning I sat down and spent hours trying to key changes, new chords, a new bridge and finally very late that night I felt I had gotten something - I woke up the next morning expecting to experience that first listen with a feeling of "what was I thinking last night?? Did I actually think this was good yesterday??" - something all too common, but fortunately I was still feeling that it was nice and the song had once again evolved itself into something new. It was a great experience writing this track, it was opened my mind and thought me more than I could have imagined. 

Thank you to all those who gave feedback and suggestions. I hope you enjoy. Once again - the view is from the living room windows in my flat - another overcast evening with a rainbow.

Theta

Download: https://echosoft.bandcamp.com/track/blue-eye-horizon

@echosoftmusic
www.facebook.com/echosoftmusic
www.instagram.com/echosoft_
open.spotify.com/artist/7lXBsvvcK…bbQ0uH7iLTFBnm0A

Thanks for listening! ✨

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Blue Eye Horizon

Had to reupload, mastered it too loud and there was some clipping. Hope you enjoy this version!

Alias (feat. Scott Hayes)

RUBYIBIS