LOL, the last time I ever posted a link to one of my tunes was when I was an active member at Artistlaunch and before that at mp3.com

Not done much since them days to be honest, mainly due to those creative juices drying up. In an effort to get things going again I've upgraded to X1, then X2 and bought a load of new plug-ins. Some times that helps to get things going again. Some times...

Anyway, about the tune. My solo stuff is purely electronic, although I do play guitar, and sometimes I do add a bit of guitar into my works. It's not a dance tune, or in the slightest bit "pop," I don't think. I just class it as "electronic." It is a heavy eleven minutes long and is as boring as hell, but it is what I love doing.

I've just signed up at SoundCloud so I thought I'd post that link. Never used it before and I couldn't see any advice on preferred bit rate, so I went for 320kbps. No doubt this will put some peeps off, but for most, nowadays, 320kbps is a walk in the park. 128kbps is so old fashioned don't you think?

Okay, link time:-

https://soundcloud.com/synkrotron/cont-011-working-title

Not too worried about comments and stuff, although any criticism is always welcomed. I just wanted to share really.

thanks

andy

Hey Synkrotron. I really liked this track. It is very well done and I really don't have any criticisms at all. But upon reading that your creative juices had dried up, I thought that I really should ask if you've heard the soundtrack to the game Uplink: Hacker elite. It's quite an old game, but the soundtrack is great, and it is all very reminiscent of your track. You should check it out to see if it gets your juices flowing again. Anyway, really liked the track, well done. Ali

Whoa, dude. Not sure how you did it but that completely filled up my room with crisp, clear, almost "surround" sound through my crummy laptop speakers. Seriously I didn't think it was possible for these things to pump that kind of clarity out and I've had them for YEARS.

Anyway the track itself is slick. Kind of all over the place stylistically (in a good way). The first theme brought me back to listening to Skinny Puppy in the old goth bars at 2am then some kind of Floydish thing, then freaky prog into far out almost new agey ambient type stuff.

Nutty, bro. Definitely cool. Glad you posted it.

Cheers.

I dig it.

Well, I am glad you did. Its a cool piece of old school electronica al la Jean Michele Jarre.

Wow! I honestly didn't expect that. Not when there is so much excellent traditionally played and recorded music here. From real musicians too with so much more talent than I'll ever have. So, I'm humbled.

@Ali - Thanks for listening. Looking at your extensive SoundCloud collection, and on playing the first track there, it appears you create electronic stuff yourself, although I should listen to more just to make sure of that. I notice you've done an FSOL cover. FSOL are a band close to what I would like to do, but struggle. They've done some great stuff in the past, most notably for me Lifeforms. I'll check out that game thing... you're not the first one to mention computer games when it comes to my "music."

@Beep - LOL dood, I'm so glad you dropped by. I've been digging your stuff for a couple of months now so I know what you do, and I was wondering what on earth you would think of my MIDI stuff. Sounds like you found it okay ;). You're right, it does jump around that track, and I could have made it last even longer, but I decided to keep it "short" hahaha. Thanks loads for listening.

@CLEAN - Thanks for spending some time listening to my tune and I'm glad you dig it :)

@foxwolfen - Thanks to you too, and to the reference to JMJ. That's so kind.


And thanks to anyone else who may of given it a chance. It's nice to know that stuff you do is getting a little bit of attention every now and then *big grin*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QliQ0livbeQ There you go, it's the entire Uplink soundtrack in one Youtube video (not uploaded by me, I just found it.) When I heard your music I thought of this straight away. In fact it was by the far the best thing about the game. Anyway I'm not saying that your music is only computer game music, as I would listen to it just anyway. It just so happens that the Uplink music is from a game. Oh and also, I agree with Beepster, how in the world have you made everything sound so beautifully clear!

 Hey Andy, I loved the way you wove the textures in there. Great mix man! FWIW soundcloud will allow wav. files as well. I usually upload in 24 bit wav.

great textures and mix

Thanks again Ali. I've got the youtube thing playing. It's a compilation of different artists lasting forty odd minutes I see. I obviously need to listen through it and then look up those artists. I've found Skaven on SoundCloud already. Some of the stuff sounds very Tangerine Dream, from their mid nineties era.

As for your question on how I've made it so clear... got me there young man, and I ain't got a clue. So I can't take credit and it was just an accident. Let's hope I can do the same again lol.

@Starise - Thanks for taking time to listen, I appreciate it. And you upload 24bit WAV's? Blimey, that must take up so much time and space. But I notice that SoundCloud limit you by song time and not file size, so that's fine I guess.

@twisted6s - Thanks to you too. We cross posted so I'm editing this to add my thanks here instead of a new post. 


I've got to say that I've had a much greater response here than I thought.

Thanks again peeps :)