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Ten years ago, on August 7th 2011, my album "Zeta Force" was released.
I'm uploading this as part of a celebration. 🙂
Everything sequenced and performed on the Elektron Digitone synthesizer.
Buy the track here:
https://zabutom.bandcamp.com/.../zeta-force-digitone-version
Original album:
https://zabutom.bandcamp.com/album/zeta-force

Zeta Force (Digitone Version)

Aruzenchin Patacón

Slicer

Get the album: http://chiptuneswin.bandcamp.com/album/chiptunes-win-volume-3

The Chiptunes = Win crew gathered more than a hundred tracks from the brilliant chiptune producers of the comunity and made a 51 track selection.
This is my entry which made it into the compilation! A track inspired by the Ace Combat series but blended with 8bit and FM sounds to make a crazy thing!

Target Acquired

Get the album!

Dagdröm (.xm)

Shamanic music is ritualistic music used in religious and spiritual ceremonies associated with the practice of shamanism. Shamanic music makes use of various means of producing music, with an emphasis on voice and rhythm. It can vary based on cultural, geographic, and religious influences. Let's make it techno🚀🚀🚀

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-shaman-single/1833498122
https://link.deezer.com/s/30QAXEezr83CP34ACaJwT
https://youtu.be/87as30gpokc?si=pPl-b_6A-MQbuOeJ
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/1eAaKVsOkWJlisdcThWtad?

The Shaman

hit the streets with the sounds of the airwaves in your ears

Bang Holiday - RadioPhobicSherkPop

nes (fast instrumental)

Skyharbor - Trayus (YM2612 Cover)

Batman: The Caped Crusader (C64) - Main Theme

https://power46.bandcamp.com/album/new-pripyat

Made in roughly 26 hours, but over the course of more than half a year. The person who started this track isn't the person who finished it. Thus far, this is without exaggeration, the most ambitious, most impressive piece of music I've ever created.

This is a track from an upcoming album which I've teased before. Realising that the album is a long way off, I decided to show off a single for it to ease the wait. Maybe I'll show off more singles as time progresses! We'll have to wait and see.

The album revolves around two concepts:
1. Different environments from around the world. In the case of New Pripyat, this refers to towns, cities and rural areas abandoned after nuclear disasters.
2. Variable mixing. Quickly becoming a staple of interactive media, variable mixing involves loops of music being mixed according to interaction from the audience. When arranged linearly, say, for an album, typically variably mixed music will be structured according to how one loop of music fades into another. This is kind of the opposite: This entire track was written as a linear piece of music, sorted into loops like an imitation of how variable mixing would work.

The original arpeggiator motifs occurred to me after listening to a bunch of Fort Romeau's music, and I knew I had to write it down right away. This section starts at 2:33, and combined with the distant-sounding guitar section which precedes it, contrasts the solemn, desolate loneliness of the area, and the mysterious, electronic side. 

3:48 is the first sign of hostility the irradiated landscape shows, and it's aggressive, powerful, and ever-so-slightly sad. It's a mourning of the destruction caused by this power, as much as it is a display of reverence.

5:32 is what I consider the beginning of Part 2. It's not a very long part, but it's important. It's a moment of majesty and of revelation. I consider this the theme of the reactor core, the epicentre of the disaster, which had the sheer power to provide plentifully for the people it eventually drove away. It is the point where this force originated, and it is the point at which the journey must end.

6:30 marks the beginning of Part 3. This is the piece's climax and its ending. The theme of this part begins with just a string ensemble, to give it that scale, depth and emotional edge, but to leave it timbrally somewhat empty too. The rest of the instrumentation doesn't come in and take the spotlight until the drums kick in, and from there, the piece ascends to its climax.

8:12 was always how this track was going to end. No matter what direction the piece traveled in, I somehow knew that this was going to be its ending. It's supposed to be a point where New Pripyat seems to have reached its peak, only to be pushed just a bit further by that last chord.

9:03 is an obvious homage to Kraftwerk's 1975 version of their track, Radioactivity. I liked the idea of this being quietly played off to one side by an old, worn down record player while something climactic happens off in another room, or perhaps it's just a feeling of winding down after resolving a high-stakes crisis.

Zeta Force (Digitone Version)

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