Happy solstice!
This song blends a bit of electro, electronica, funk, and reggae, with a jazzy, almost playful synth dancing about as the lead. This was the first track done on hardware in 5 years. It is quite a different experience than sitting at the screen with the whole song in front of you.

Sol Continuum

All busted up, and everyone's history," August mutters to himself, scanning the terrain for survivors in a corporate battle on the face of Titan. Saturn's moons are the new frontier, where laws rarely apply. This attracts a certain crowd, resulting in a fall back to a primitive mentality of aggression fueled by the modern advances of technology and warfare. A dangerous mix – perfect for the job.

This started decades ago, with an international committee managing the moons, and a requirement to file requests for mining claims. With no means to enforce the laws of Earth in these regions, disputes often got out of hand. As the industry consolidated into a few corporations, disputes escalated into well-funded space battles. Back on Earth, people started watching, treating it as a sport, betting on teams, and making some of these guys celebrities.

Wearing a mech suit with full loadouts, August and his squad had setup just four hours earlier, preparing to take on the arriving corporation. With such distances involved, their arrival was well expected. What wasn't expected, was their new weaponry, and the effortless slaughter to come.

With no squad members on his HUD, and no movement across the terrain, August backs down into a ravine. "Operations is probably toast, but worth a shot," he speculated. Removed from the battlefield, he attempts to contact Operations, shorting out his system in the process. As protocol dictates, the suit kicks into diagnostic mode on the secondary system...

Status critical
Primary system failed
Secondary system now online
Power at 20%
Weapons depleted
Communications offline
Status critical
Status critical
...

"Huh," he grunts, kicking his suit into manual mode, retaining power for bio systems, and reducing his power signature to avoid detection. The damaged suit is difficult to control, each step bleeding more hydraulic fluid into space, causing erratic movements. Staggering from the ravine, August now has a visual on Operations, surrounded by Titan's new owners. "They'll either hire me, or kill me," he concludes.

Status Critical

A song created for my wife for her 40th birthday. This track was inspired and created from an instructional video on YouTube which featured Bootsy Collins as well as other funk artists. Along with the bass samples, I added drum samples, recorded a few guitar parts, as well as a bassline and synth part. Enjoy the funk! 

A big thank you to Bootsy Collins, who not only inspired this track, but is featured in it. Please support Bootsy and funk in general, http://www.bootsycollins.com

For more music by Sonic Wallpaper - go to: http://www.artistserver.com/SonicWallpaper