selffulfilling void

Fading lives,
Fading memories,
Fading senses,
All fades...

On All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, let us remember those who have passed away and surround with love those who are slowly leaving us.

Simple improvisation turned into track with only 6 instruments:
Arturia Analog Lab V – Mini V3/Stage-73
Arturia Pigments
Arturia Augumented Brass
Heavyocity Foundations Emotive Choir (NI Kontakt Player) (free)
Spitfire Originals Intimate Strings

I hope You like it.

This piece was created by a human without the use of any generative A.I.

Cover photo from Freepik

As You Slowly Fade Away

Celestine

Finland

Produced & mastered by BotNikStudio2, Bottna, Sweden

HOW LIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH WATER

Creación hecha en base a unos riffs de sintetizadores con samples vocales modificados.
DAW: Cubase 14 Pro
Plugins: Retrologue, FM8, Halion, Groove Agent 5
Plugin de Masterización: Izotope Ozone 11 Standard.
I hope you like it.

manu002 C14

I’m surprised this track ended up being finished first, as I had another one that was already completed—at least, I thought so. That track only had 6 tracks, but every time I tried to sync it to the DAW, the vocal glitched out. I tried everything, but it just would not sync, so I decided I’d have to retrack the vocal in the DAW before I could call it finished. After giving up on that for now, I switched over to this current project, which had 11 tracks. I’d already been working on it for a week and a half, building up the lyrics while learning the groovebox. For some reason, everything with this one synced perfectly the first try—no glitches at all. I was able to add guitars without any lag. I didn’t intend to make a super complex mix; I just followed where the song led. The result was a track with tons of elements, different genre influences, and a natural flow. I wouldn’t usually think I could fit this many styles into one song, but it came together effortlessly and was a joy to create. 

As the week went on, different lyrical themes and melodies came to mind. It’s something I try to explain often. It’s not about how many material things we get. It’s about shared time and making good memories. We learn this the hard way in life. We think the people in our lives will always be there. Because of that, we waste our time with them or don’t get along as well as we should. Then we end up regretting not spending more time. The other things we chased lose their value and become meaningless. We’d give anything for more moments. 

Musically, I used synths like Fabric XL, Hype, and Solina. I won’t go into all the mixing elements and bus processing, but there’s some involved. I felt like using wah guitar on this one, and will again when a song calls for it. Vocally, this mix has a much different sound than most of my others. Every mix seems to have a new vocal sound—I don’t stick with the same thing. I promise you this: I will never write music with AI. Everything I do has my human touch, and I will play it live for you. 

Hallucinodream is an only one 
in the memories
Only one so real 
Gotta make time
Keep priorities in line

You want the memories to last
I’ve tried to explain it’s finite
Want to make the most of 
Make the most of our limited time

You wanna live inside the past

Because the meat and heart of life
About the time we spend together
Always cheat and try to fight 
Aways focused on material

Meat and heart of life
Cheat and try to fight 

Focused on material
Oh oh oh oh 

Hallucinodream is an only one 
in the memories
Only one so real 
Gotta make time
Keep priorities in line

Wherever you go 
Right here you always have a home

You want the memories to last
I’ve tried to explain it’s finite
Want to make the most of 
Make the most of our limited time

Because the meat and heart of life
About the time we spend together
Always cheat and try to fight 
Aways focused on material

Meat and heart of life
Cheat and try to fight  (focused on material)

Hallucinodream

🎵 “Still Running”

Reflection Mapping

Let me share a secret with you. This is my praise for this genre of music. Both making music, but also listing to great track is giving me sooo much back. 
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My source of energy
Are waves of melancholy

Detuned sawwave melody
Recharging my battery

Straight beats of low complexity
Set my mind and body free

Pads of ethereal harmony
Relax my brain just perfectly
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Recorded and produced in bitwig studio. All sounds made with native devices. Vocals by myself, but partially run through a vocoder.

SynthWave Religion

I originally wrote these lyrics to be part of a track that was going to be the follow up to World On Fire. 
Typically I got distracted and moved on to the next big thing without finishing what I started. 
I recently had some vocal burn out after several recording sessions and a live show in one week and had to take a week off singing on doctors orders. 
So it occurred to me to dig this track out and see if i could dress it up in some fine clothes and make it presentable. 
My friends Phuse and the MinorScale Music Collective have helped me in that regard.
This song is about corporate manipulation and the way they will try and dupe us with dopamine TV and social media in order to distract us from the real business of the world - keep em smiling, keep em happy and they won't get in the way of our plans.
So sit back and enjoy Control (Part 1) and keep those eyes wide open people... awareness is everything

Control (Part 1)

UK based composer, producer, and vocalist in multiple genres. For the love of music.

Control (Part 1)

swampy 101.