Hey guys, just wanted to give you a quick update on whats going on.
I am alive, and just graduated high school. Woop de fuckin doo, i know, but this means that now music can really take a top priority for a while. There's gonna be alot of content this summer, both music and otherwise., and it will all be really cool.
First off i'm working on a new EP thats gonna come out around the beginning of july and be all shoegaze. Then there is gonna be an album coming out around august. Or at least I think there will be. Idk. Rapping is hard.
I'm gonna try to put new videos on the youtube atleast every week, so thats something to look forward too as well.
Maybe I'll even try to get a gig. The last one went pretty okay.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Friday, December 14, 2012
Hello College Admissions Counselors!
Hello! If you are reading this, you decided to take a look at my Common App Arts supplement! And that's awesome, because I have some pretty cool stuff up here that I'd like to show you.
I believe the pages are pretty self explanatory, but if you really can't figure it out, here's the rundown: The Music page contains all my music. I have the player embedded on the page so you can just click play and relax, but if you want there are also links to the Bandcamp where the actual music is hosted.The Photos Page contains some photos/works of visual art that I did. Some are silly, others are more serious. The same is true for the Films. Those range from school projects to blog entries, but they are all fairly entertaining on some level. Next is the Writings page, which contains a few short stories I've written, plus some music reviews. And last but not least, there is the Games page, where you can download a copy of a game I'm working on called Varg! It's super cool and you should play it. It won't work on Macs though, unless you can run .exe files on those now. Sorry about that.
Anyway, I hope you have fun browsing the site! I'm sure that in the end, you will make the right decision.
Also if you want to you can comb through the blog entries. Nothing too exciting there, but occasionally I get on a good rant. I will heavily advise you to not take everything you read there seriously. Hyperbole is an excellent stress relief. If you allow yourself to be entertained, I am sure that you will be.
I believe the pages are pretty self explanatory, but if you really can't figure it out, here's the rundown: The Music page contains all my music. I have the player embedded on the page so you can just click play and relax, but if you want there are also links to the Bandcamp where the actual music is hosted.The Photos Page contains some photos/works of visual art that I did. Some are silly, others are more serious. The same is true for the Films. Those range from school projects to blog entries, but they are all fairly entertaining on some level. Next is the Writings page, which contains a few short stories I've written, plus some music reviews. And last but not least, there is the Games page, where you can download a copy of a game I'm working on called Varg! It's super cool and you should play it. It won't work on Macs though, unless you can run .exe files on those now. Sorry about that.
Anyway, I hope you have fun browsing the site! I'm sure that in the end, you will make the right decision.
Also if you want to you can comb through the blog entries. Nothing too exciting there, but occasionally I get on a good rant. I will heavily advise you to not take everything you read there seriously. Hyperbole is an excellent stress relief. If you allow yourself to be entertained, I am sure that you will be.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
1500 hits to the website
we are just chuggin along aren't we. It's not that much, tbh, but its a really nice and rounded out number.
I wonder when I will get 3145 views. Maybe you can help?
Monday, September 17, 2012
new song + whats up everybody
Made a new song. Go check it out in the singles section. It is very aphex twin inspured becuase thats all i was listening to this morning while I did my homework. then I finished my homework and I was like "I wanna make a song" so i made one and it sounds like Aphex twin. It isn't that surprising.
It's also mastered differently then most of my stuff is. Most of my just has a limiter on the master and that's that. But with this one, I subtracted 8.0 dB from all the channels and then set the limiter gain to 8.0 dB and the ceiling to 0.0 dB. This is essentially zero gain, but it still sounds louder than it would have if we had just set the limiter gain to zero (or at least that's what my ears are telling me). Now, not only do we preserve some of the dynamic range, but we also get the loudness. It also feels a bit more open and spacious, because all the signals aren't mushed together.
Mastering is surprisingly difficult. Most of the tracks on TYGFAC don't have limiters on them at all because I didn't really know what it was. All I noticed was that when I wanted to have a bunch of instruments the limiter made everything really quiet and when I had only one or two instruments it made those super loud (listen to Industrial Horror Funk, near the end, you'll see what I mean). I also didn't know that going beyond 0 dB was bad, and I couldn't hear any distortion through my headphones. On the other hand, when I listened to some of the tracks on my old speakers that my grampa gave me, everything sounded really shitty. There's wasn't straight up distortion, but it all sounded really muddy and murky. Essentially when I listen to it on anything other then my beats headphones it sounds really bad. On the other hand none of my friends seem to notice anything wrong with it, so who knows. Maybe these speakers are just shitty.
I'm thinking of remastering all the songs on TYGFAC and then putting out a cd. I mostly wanna do it because that album cover is too fucking good to not ever see a physical existence. I don't know when I'll do it but I will at some point, and it will be so cool.
Anyway, that's whats up with me. Go download the new song.
It's also mastered differently then most of my stuff is. Most of my just has a limiter on the master and that's that. But with this one, I subtracted 8.0 dB from all the channels and then set the limiter gain to 8.0 dB and the ceiling to 0.0 dB. This is essentially zero gain, but it still sounds louder than it would have if we had just set the limiter gain to zero (or at least that's what my ears are telling me). Now, not only do we preserve some of the dynamic range, but we also get the loudness. It also feels a bit more open and spacious, because all the signals aren't mushed together.
Mastering is surprisingly difficult. Most of the tracks on TYGFAC don't have limiters on them at all because I didn't really know what it was. All I noticed was that when I wanted to have a bunch of instruments the limiter made everything really quiet and when I had only one or two instruments it made those super loud (listen to Industrial Horror Funk, near the end, you'll see what I mean). I also didn't know that going beyond 0 dB was bad, and I couldn't hear any distortion through my headphones. On the other hand, when I listened to some of the tracks on my old speakers that my grampa gave me, everything sounded really shitty. There's wasn't straight up distortion, but it all sounded really muddy and murky. Essentially when I listen to it on anything other then my beats headphones it sounds really bad. On the other hand none of my friends seem to notice anything wrong with it, so who knows. Maybe these speakers are just shitty.
I'm thinking of remastering all the songs on TYGFAC and then putting out a cd. I mostly wanna do it because that album cover is too fucking good to not ever see a physical existence. I don't know when I'll do it but I will at some point, and it will be so cool.
Anyway, that's whats up with me. Go download the new song.
Friday, August 24, 2012
How to be a good electronic DJ
I went to a rave sober and it was kinda fun but what bothered me the most was that the music was really dumb. At one point they started playing Die Antwoord and it was so good but then I had to leave. Anyway, for those DJ thats are trying to set themselves apart, here are some simple steps to make an entertaining, intelligent, and danceable set that everyone whose on drugs will like.
1. Change the tempo from time to time. (HAH pun)
You don;t even have to change the actually BPM you can just change it to like half time or change the lenght of the measure to six beats rather then four or something. It's so boring when all the songs are the same tempo. I mean nobody on drugs will mind it but if you really wanna give them a good time you'll make things a little confusing and exciting.
2. Let the groove ride for more then two fucking minutes.
What bothers me the most is when DJs keep switching back into these buildups every five seconds. Once the drop hits, just let the groove ride for a bit. Don't go back to the buildup for a while because it makes the buildup really mundane and not special. Let the groove ride and then change it a little bit. Like add more parts to it. a four on the floor with some sample in triplet playing over it sounds really good and will make the druggies head spins they will be all "WHAT OH MY GOD THATS SO COOL IM SO HIGH" everyone will love it.
3. Don't put too many lights.
You're probably like "what is he talking about? cool lights are the only reason people go to raves at all! lets give the people what they want!" and while you wouldn;t be entirely wrong, its a problem when the place is so bright that all the lights lose their appeal. See, when everything is dark, the pupils dilate and become larger to take in more light. So if everything in the room is really dark except for one crazy light pattern that light pattern is gonna be super bright when everyone looks at it because their pupils will have to adjust between total darkness and super not darkness. The light will be like one million times brighter and all the people on drugs will have fun.
4. play music of different textures.
If there are any group of people that are accepting of new things its people on drugs, and as such it is your job to expand their musical horizons. As much as they think they wanna hear the same dubstep wobble over and over again, they really don't, and the night will be so much more memorable if their are parts where shit changes up (and for those who really do wanna hear the wobble bass over and over again if it goes away for a bit it will make the drops so much more epic). But feel free to really explore different music textures, from distortion to phaser, clicky clacky sounds to deep low bass, really try and change things up. But not too fast. Remember rule 2.
And with that you should be on your way to making the heads of x users everywhere spin faster then their parents can shake theirs in a disapproval. Because at the end of the day, your only trying to freak out high people. And the best way to do that is to make something that would freak out a sober person.
oh yeah and the 5th step is dont play shitty music. But you knew that already.
1. Change the tempo from time to time. (HAH pun)
You don;t even have to change the actually BPM you can just change it to like half time or change the lenght of the measure to six beats rather then four or something. It's so boring when all the songs are the same tempo. I mean nobody on drugs will mind it but if you really wanna give them a good time you'll make things a little confusing and exciting.
2. Let the groove ride for more then two fucking minutes.
What bothers me the most is when DJs keep switching back into these buildups every five seconds. Once the drop hits, just let the groove ride for a bit. Don't go back to the buildup for a while because it makes the buildup really mundane and not special. Let the groove ride and then change it a little bit. Like add more parts to it. a four on the floor with some sample in triplet playing over it sounds really good and will make the druggies head spins they will be all "WHAT OH MY GOD THATS SO COOL IM SO HIGH" everyone will love it.
3. Don't put too many lights.
You're probably like "what is he talking about? cool lights are the only reason people go to raves at all! lets give the people what they want!" and while you wouldn;t be entirely wrong, its a problem when the place is so bright that all the lights lose their appeal. See, when everything is dark, the pupils dilate and become larger to take in more light. So if everything in the room is really dark except for one crazy light pattern that light pattern is gonna be super bright when everyone looks at it because their pupils will have to adjust between total darkness and super not darkness. The light will be like one million times brighter and all the people on drugs will have fun.
4. play music of different textures.
If there are any group of people that are accepting of new things its people on drugs, and as such it is your job to expand their musical horizons. As much as they think they wanna hear the same dubstep wobble over and over again, they really don't, and the night will be so much more memorable if their are parts where shit changes up (and for those who really do wanna hear the wobble bass over and over again if it goes away for a bit it will make the drops so much more epic). But feel free to really explore different music textures, from distortion to phaser, clicky clacky sounds to deep low bass, really try and change things up. But not too fast. Remember rule 2.
And with that you should be on your way to making the heads of x users everywhere spin faster then their parents can shake theirs in a disapproval. Because at the end of the day, your only trying to freak out high people. And the best way to do that is to make something that would freak out a sober person.
oh yeah and the 5th step is dont play shitty music. But you knew that already.
Monday, August 6, 2012
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