Jumping back into the production pool after a long hiatus.

During the down time I've had, I've experimented with FL Studio. It seemed complicated at first but once I figured out which functions did which task, I was able to mold my productions as I saw fit.

Lately, many artists have incorporated synthesizers & similar sounds that were used in music from the 1980s in their recent songs. This lead me to wonder: what would Progressive House sound like if it existed during the 1980s? ProgWave strives to provide a possible answer.

Randy Derricott Mini Album

Progwave (Streaming Sample)

Although originally included in METROID PRIME, released for the Gamecube in 2002, I first heard this eerie track on SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL, six years after the former game came out.  

Ever since, I've looked for a suitable remix to no avail.  For those reasons, this was one of the first songs I wanted to remix after I got a grasp on FL Studio.

FREE DOWNLOAD.  Enjoy.

Metroid Prime OST

Kenji Yamamoto & Kouichi Kyuma - Metroid Prime Menu Theme (Randy Derricott ProgWave Bootleg Remix)

Got the urge to remix this dance music classic.  

Of course, since there are already a lot of Trance & Progressive remixes of this single off BT's 1997 sophomore album, ESCM, I decided to do something a bit different.

The use of sounds inspired by music from the 1980s have been quite common place in music today, resulting in genres like synthwave & vaporwave.  

During my adventures in FL Studio, I started experimenting with what I like to call ProgWave (portmanteau of Progressive House & Synthwave).  Basically, what progressive house would sound like if it extended in the 1980s.  I wondered, what would Flaming June sound like if it came out in the 80s instead of the 90s?  This remix, which you can download FOR FREE, aims to explore this.

Enjoy.

ESCM

BT - Flaming June (Randy Derricott ProgWave Bootleg Mix)

This is an epic multi-layered, multi-part musing on the topic of walking on pins and needles. BSG stands for "Bat Shit Girl" But who is "Bat Shit Girl?" You? Me? Someone I used to work with? D.) All of the above? Remember Nadine from Twin Peaks"? The one with the eye patch? Ed never had any idea what he was walking into with her. Same thing here!

This song has many hooks. Guitars chug in all of its corners. You stand accused by choruses everywhere. Chimes hit you over the head and the sitar greases the rails like how the cotton balls ease Nadine's noisy curtain rods! You'll be exhausted afterwards, I hope!

Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar is no unknown track to many electronic music fans.  

Originally released in 1993 & Inspired by the popular cafe of the same name in Ibiza, Spain, this Trance classic is notable for the numerous remixes it has gotten over the years, some of which coming from artists like Marco V, John 00 Fleming & Deadmau5 to name a few.  If I were to guess, I'd say there have to be no less than 50 different OFFICIAL remixes in existence (and this is before unofficial/bootleg mixes are considered)!

Since there are already numerous Trance & Progressive mixes of this classic, I decided to do something different.  Somewhat with a Miami Vice retro vibe.

What if Cafe Del Mar was influenced by South Beach & made in the '80s?  This strives to give an idea.  

This is how we do it in Miami!

FREE DOWNLOAD!

Cafe Del Mar Single

Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Randy Derricott's South Beach ProgWave Bootleg)

Stream / Download : https://www.submithub.com/link/spes-invicta-rococowave-sessions

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“Night Riders Of The Rock And Roll Apocalypse” is the first single off EUROPAWEITE AUSSICHTEN's upcoming new album 'The Electric Halloween Haunt Experience', which will be released on Bandcamp on October 18, 2024!

WATCH the “Night Riders Of The Rock And Roll Apocalypse” Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=musutP-Alhg

About  'The Electric Halloween Haunt Experience':
A dream 10 years in the making — Ever since I started making music as Europaweite Aussichten, it has always been a dream of mine to produce a real Halloween album. Even though we don't traditionally celebrate Halloween over here in Germany, I've been completely sucked into that pop-cultural vortex emanating from the US. Mainly due to a number of TV specials and horror film marathons that were broadcast on television over here in October. Halloween and the whole fall season is my favorite time of the year. So a Halloween album was inevitable. It just had to be the right time.

The challenge is that you can only release a Halloween album in October. But inspiration often doesn't kick in until September. So I missed the right time frame for years and years. There have been a few Halloween-related releases from me, like the 'Halloween Jams' EP, which compiled the individual Halloween tracks I've produced over the years. But what I wanted was much bigger. The plan was to create a big, crazy concept album that unites all aspects and everything that is great about this very special day. One you can play throughout the entire October. And I think with 'The Electric Halloween Haunt Experience' I've achieved that.

Look forward to a whole bunch of eerie synthesizer music with groovy surf rock guitars, lots of sound experiments and plenty of atmosphere!
I can't wait to share the album with you.

October 18th can't come fast enough!

Music by Europaweite Aussichten

Artwork by Europaweite Aussichten

The Electric Halloween Haunt Experience

Night Riders Of The Rock And Roll Apocalypse

Obnubilate

The Blessing Is The Curse

St. Elmo's Fire

I was debating on whether or not to remix the Classic that got me into EDM, System F - Out of The Blue.  

Obviously, this is a major anthem.  But DJ Hey gave me the motivation.

There are already a number of Trance & Progressive remixes of this classic out there, some of them coming from Giuseppe Ottaviani, Mauro Picotto and, more recently, ilan Bluestone and Matt Fax to name a few, so I decided to do something a bit different.

In addition to Trance & House, I've also been experimenting with a style I call "ProgWave" (a combination of Progressive House & Retro Synthwave).

Out of the Blue came out in the 90s but what if it was made....in the 80s?  I strive to give a rough idea here.  FREE DOWNLOAD.  Enjoy.

System F - Out Of The Blue (Randy Derricott Progwave Bootleg)

21 minutes of de-construction, eclectic, avant-jazz? who knows, but there is a whole lot happening here and it's beautiful.

Douglas Wilkerson composition, drum set and other percussion, vocal reprise / Michael Grimes, composition, synths, piano / Paul Richards, composition, guitars /Michael Billings, vocal reprise / Kyle Fraser modular analog synth magic / Colt Kraft, vocal reprise

Mixed and Produced by Doug Wilkerson and Michael Grimes (Dh8R's)

Flipping the Script

The Sickness

The first single from Bodhi Dotson's EP, due out 5/6 on Sunset Media Wave's new issue: Work in Progress!

Bodhi Dotson - Changing Colours

Recorded Live in the studio by B Baby J and M% Electronic Chamber Orchestra aka Chrome Ineptitude featuring Buzz Baby Traveler Ultra Light Acoustic Guitar with Boss SY-1 Synthesizer, Meris Enzo, TC Alter Ego, Strymon Iridium, DigiTech Jam Man Express, Korg Electribe ER-1, Behringer Spice/Edge, Roland JU6A, Strymon Night Sky



#63 Petal Pushers 花売り

The opening track from EXPLORE ME, Game Start represents the start of life.  

I was born in 1989, so this track uses a lot of sounds that were prevalent in songs of the '80s, as well as 8-bit video game sounds, since this was also the decade that the Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Famicom in Japan) was released.

The picture shown for the cover art was taken a few hours after my birth.

Get The Full Song Here

Game Start (Streaming Sample)

Reset  (demo)

Paul Sudthisa, Synthesizers

Douglas Wilkerson, drum performance and additional synth samples

Piano riffs originally played by Paul Mathew Moore were repurposed and arranged by Douglas Wilkerson

Recorded, mixed and produced by D. Wilkerson

Rats R Skanks

'Palpitations'  from the album, 'Anatomy' by guinæpig on TONN Recordings.

Mastering by Wellencocktail at Tonstudio Hanover
Cover design by Nieuw NDG
Image by Eugene Schlumberger ©

Anatomy

Bandcamp

Palpitations

Nice to meet you. My name is Randy Derricott, an Autistic EDM DJ/producer & Pharmacy Tech based in Coral Springs, Florida (a suburb of Fort Lauderdale) by way of Richmond, Virginia.

Active since 2004, I mainly make & play Trance & Progressive House.  I also sometimes let my nerdy side show by playing what I call "Comicontronica" or EDM remixes/covers of songs from video games, anime & the like.

My adventures have had me perform at a number of venues throughout South Florida as well as some of the biggest conventions in the US, among which include Anime Iwai, Otakufest, MegaCon, Kirbiicon, Colossalcon Ohio & Ichibancon in North Carolina.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, I put making music on the backburner to focus on my DJing adventures, both on Twitch and, once things eased, live shows.  I've recently decided to jump back into the music making pool again.  While I do have a Soundcloud with music I made under a past alias, I've decided to make a brand new Soundcloud, since I'll be using my real name going forward. 

Please feel free to check out my work and, if you like, follow my socials at linktr.ee/RandyDerricott

When you fill a glass full enough, the contents will inevitably spill out somewhere. This is how the Budapest based Spiritual Neurosis came to be, the synth-prog-tribal-metalwave, experimental lofi techno melancholic duo with dubstep elements and a bunch of vocals. For easier understanding, lets just call them progwave. Szabi and Laci collectively has 30 plus years of music and stage experience, which they would hide with the finesse of an expert spy. They both started their carriers as metal musicians, however in the last ten years they have been heavily influenced by the new wave of music just like Igorrr and Carpenter Brut with an addition of a colorful bouquet of different electronic songs. Their lyrics are mostly about the hardships of being a thirty-something year old and the way one could heal themselves from all the additional trauma that comes from being a human. I would suggest a taste, it is quite delicious.

We're up to our necks in avant-jazz, punk rock, and everything in between, Dogs h8 Rats are genre defying, and full of surprises. The music is born of improvisational performances so with a little luck you'll catch the "mistakes and imperfections" now and then, or as Miles Davis once said "Don't fear mistakes, there are none" and that ethos is in clear evidence within the music of Dh8R's. The core of Dh8R's is made up of Douglas Wilkerson and Michael Grimes who collaborate with friends old and new."

❤️ Thank you for buying music from independent artists! We need to pay our rent and electricity bills, feed our cats, buy food, car insurance, and all that other stuff too...You can buy our music on Bandcamp.

Singer/songwriter Britta Pejic (who now releases music under the name RiFFiNDoTs) has a songwriting career that has spanned over two decades and two continents! She finds inspiration in the mundane and spins wildly epic tales (giant onions, America folding in half, etc.) that are set to colorful psychedelic and textural rock and pop. It’s been labeled as ear candy, with codas sung in French, chants sung in Latin, and measures counted in Basque. Be sure to visit Riffindots.com for more fanfare and antics!

A genderless, voiceless creature of unknown origin.

Weekly mix-tapes can be found here:  https://soundcloud.com/duct-ape/sets

Producer of electronic music, influenced by the sound of the 70s and 80s.

A powerful mix of electronic and classical music. Music from an alternate reality where the Baroque era never ended. 

Follow me  : https://linktr.ee/spesinvicta

Contact me : spesinvicta@protonmail.com

#Rococopunk #Cyberpunk #Gothicpunk #Synthwave #Midtempo  #Nudisco #DarkDisco

New tracks tagged #progwave