thanks for that comment on vox populi. im really digging this demo man. awsome stuff. 

Shouts out to Britney Spears! You are immortal! You will live forever! The new album, Array Curse is available now at http://bubblegumcrisis.bandcamp.com

Also, this has a music video! Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klr-ty1kgTY

Bubblegum Crisis-Loud Moves

the latest offering from the Sydney electro funk outfit 

Rollerskates

Not Meant To Be

Falling Down

This was my attempt at making an Outrun/Synthwave track with vocals. 

Feel free to download if you enjoy it!

No Stranger

Oolong - INTERFERENCE

I started this on Saturday the 7th and finished it on the 11th.  Which includes compulsory breaks so I can evaluate the comped vocals impartially and working on other stuff.  Like, I worked *fast* on this one.  Started with the half-time tom-and-backbeat cadence and went on from there.

It's... um... completely different from the Instrumentals or most other stuff I've posted.  But I suspect you can hear my characteristic synth treatments all the same.  It's just that I kinda figured I'd go to town on making it sound harsh and brutal instead of lighter and pretty.

Because... ehrm, it's a creepy not-very-happy song.  I can't explain really what happened.  It just appeared in my head, piece by piece by piece until it was done.  I didn't write anything down, just played everything live.  It's not a true story.  It's probably not about what you'd necessarily think it's about.  But it's based on my not-entirely-pleasant worldview and deep dark secrets I carry about things that really did happen.... and my most recent lyric-writing technique has been to work on the lyrics until they upset me and stick in my head and then hope that some semblance of the emotion will be heard in the song.  And I actually did take some specific words and phrases and make them more ambiguous.

It's a vi-IV-I-V chord progression (the "Sensitive Female Chord Progression") in C for the verses, a I-iii for the chorus, a I-iv for the bridge, and then a bit of a ii-V-I turnaround towards the end.

The vocals were triple-tracked as per a recent post in /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers that was conveniently posted after the compulsory overnight delay between when I record my own vocals and when I try to comp them.  And I decided that since my voice is not nearly harsh enough, I ran them through a distortion filter to give them the EBM Industrial vibe.  Like, I tried, knowing that running your vocals through a guitar distortion pedal (or in my case, a simulated distortion pedal VST) was totally cliche... but I think the sound I was hearing in my head involved distortion.

TAL NoiseMaker for the bass line and one of the lead synths, PISScutter by NOVAkILL for another of the lead synths, and my guitar which was done up in an approximation of Van Halen's Brown Sound, except using VST effects instead of real hardware.  Everything played live-ish, no loops, no autotune.  I used both an SM57 and an MXL V67 for the vocals.

I think I like it.

The taken (demo 1)

New Single "Fantasy" from Tesla Boy's upcoming EP.
Available  for retail on May 22nd, 2012

Fantasy

GODNOW (single)

I play guitar, bass guitar, and keyboards.  I can even manage to play drums (although I'm far better at faking it on my keyboard's drum pads than I am sitting at a real kit)

I've gone through industrial, industrial metal, metal, new wave, electropop, progressive, techo, grunge, and fuck-it-all-I'm-doing-nothing-with-music kicks over the years.

I was a bedroom computer-centric musician since before most of the world had thought such a thing possible.  When Apple IIgs computers with Ensoniq chipsets and Pentium 200 computers with AWE64 Gold soundcards weren't charmingly retro.

The taken (demo 1)

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