Daemon

Half a year ago a nerd friend of mine ordered me to make an electronic album with “dirty basses” and funded the production generously. Originally the project was meant to be a space ambient album when we negotiated about it first time in the spring of 2019. (The last ambient song of the album “Multidimensions” was finished back then.) However, after the summer this nerd guy wanted some more strong stuff in order to play the sh*t out of his sub-woofers. Then I started to make this eclectic collection of electronic music with experimental progressive metal influences or something like that. Unfortunately I cannot tell, if the music fits into some sub-genre of electronic music because I don’t listen to different electronic music that much. (Mostly the electronic stuff I listen is some sort of minimalist ambient, video game music, or some Jarreish-stuff.) In the end the album was polished and mastered with the nerd friend’s custom bass setup.

Songs 1 “Noaidi” and 9 “StormCloud” probably mostly represent my prog metal influences. Song 5 “Hiitola” has some improvised jazz influences. The rest of the songs are my take on the DnB-ish/dubstep-ish/whatever-ish route. Bass frequencies go approximately as low as 17–30Hz which is why sub-woofer is recommended for  optimal listening experience (assuming you can call it “listening” anymore). BPM of the songs is mostly around 100–120 with the exception of songs Hiitola (160) and AI (175). Time signatures can be a bit mess at times. Thus the album is not aimed for dancing but I don’t prohibit it either. Besides drum samples (and one piano track), the whole album has an original sound design. In the future I would want to make my own drums, though. Only free open source Linux software is used and some additional (virtual)analogue synthesizer hardware (Korg R3, Arturia Microbrute, and Roland SE-02).

Unfinished version of the album was published in SoundCloud too, but the finished stuff was released on bandcamp. Later on somewhere next decade (!!) this will be my debut album on Spotify and other streaming services (until the distribution process within a week or so is finished). Here is my distributor’s (Distrokid) hyperfollow link for streaming services (it will notify or take to the page when the album is live): https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aeroll/daemon

UPDATE:
The album is now on Spotify, Deezer, Google Play/YuoTube, iTunes etc.

Loput “Kiina-biisit” | The rest of the “China songs”

Tässä loput Kiinareissun aikana ohjelmoimista kappaleistani. Ensimmäistä inspiroi Hong Kong, toista Shenzhen.

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Here are the rest of the songs that I programmed during my China trip. The first was inspired from Hong Kong and the second from Shenzhen.

Hyvää joulua! | Merry Christmas!

Tämänkertainen joulun toivotus tulee köykäisen kappalekokeilun muodossa. Yhdistin kauneimmat ysärijoululaulut dubsteppiin ja tuloksena on tämä tekele. Tämä on myös ensimmäinen dubstep kappaleeni, mitä olen tehnyt + se on tarkoituksellisesti mauton, joten kuuntele vain omalla vastuulla, jos et turhaan halua riskeerata joulutunnelmaasi. Tarvitset kuuntelua varten myös asiallisen subbarin, koska dubstep.

(Biisin työstämisvaiheessa oli myös ongelmia. Latenssissa häikkää, epätasaisten bassotaajuuksien takia volumetasojen masterointi oli vaikeaa, minkä takia volyymi on aika alhaalla jne.)

This time I wish merry Christmas with a form of a song experiment. I combined the most beautiful 90s Christmas ballads to dubstep and the result is this thing. This is also my first dubstep song I’ve done + it’s intentionally cheesy, so listen it only with your own risk unless you are ready to threat your Christmas feeling. You also need a proper sub-woofer for listening, because dubstep.

(There were also some difficulties when I worked with the song. Latencies had some issues, inconstant bass frequencies made it hard to master the volume levels which is the reason for low volumes etc.)