Ok, I'm terrible at building a hype. A couple of news posts back, I unveiled my grand-master plan to create a digital album, except that the song titles were secret ;D
Now, I'm thinking that no one really cares if I tell them my song titles or not, so I'll just come out and blab about them all.
I've got 12 songs planned with a target total run-time of 60 minutes. I feel that I'll end up scrapping a few tracks and starting those over, but for the most part, the songs have a lot of promise, I think, but once I've got a demo of them done, I feel that I'll really need to strip them down and start over going for a tidy, high quality, as-professional-as-I-can-get sound.
So here's the lineup so far:
1. Fantasie Mystique (8:04)
It's done. :D
2. Carbon Baby (3:34)
An extended, more developed version of Carbon Baby (part 2)
3. Anbaric Realm (2:16)
A brand new piece with a retro feel. I'm aiming for a bit of a Daft Punk "Aerodynamic" feel, with my own original touch, of course.
4. The Chamber Chronicles (2:31)
A slow electronica track. Hard to explain. A little Pendulum-ish DnB but not really...
5. Wormrunner (1:47)
Another weird electronic piece. Kind of fast paced video-game-ish.
6. Factory (5:01)
The industrial track that was my 100th submission and first weekly top 5. It's in the portal.
7. The Wild (5:02)
Was going to be my MAC8 July entry, but it's currently lacking a defining melody. It's a very slow misc/classical piece. Very slow.
8. Genesis (2:21)
A blend of slow piano with melodic synths and some drum breaks.
9. Miskatonic Dreams (1:38)
All I know about how this will end up is that it'll be in 6/8 time. I'm not sure if I'll keep what I've got so far...
10. The Timekeeper (2:58)
An attempt to revive an old WIP. It has promise, but it needs fleshing out. We'll see how it turns out.
11. Arkham Fugue (1:33)
So far, it's a classical piece, strings. I've been thinking about making it a full orchestra but I don't know where it'll end up.
12. Millenium Highway (1:13)
Ending on a light note, this song reminds me a lot about one of my other songs "Eternal Train". It's a happy techno type thing.
Total runtime: 37:50
I'm hoping to get a lot of progress done over the next few days, I might even try and get a demo up on newgrounds soon (we'll see).
Thanks, I'll (hopefully) keep this up to date and keep you all in the loop with what's going on.
Edit: I was going to upload each song at 160kbps but since track 1 is at 8 minutes, it's past the Newgrounds 8MB limit so I'll lower the kbps and maybe upload at a higher quality somewhere else.
Suspended-3rd-Chord
hey WB,
good stuff, good luck on that album. I wish I could produce tracks consistently. I can start a track, but never finish it. I thought I got over this hump in May when I made 10 COMPLETE tracks in a row, but I'm back with the same problems I've had forever once again XD
im too lazy too leave reviews anymore, but I still regularily check out your work and you've released some good music man...(i really liked that DnB-classical song you had that was split into two tracks, and good job on getting front paged!) and you also have improved a ton man...its good that you can make some decent synths now, and your mixing skills have improved, when I remember you used presets and your clarity was lackluster...which really didnt even seem that long ago...
WritersBlock
Yeah, I remember those times too. I haven't got a great track record for finishing things I've started, but I've usually found that if it's kinda decent to start with, it'll be seen through to the end. I'm still real tentative about mixing, and I'm not entirely sure the processes I should be following through with, but as with everything, I feel that experimenting is the key to finding the right balance to my music. I also think that if I can revisit these songs and really have a good analysis of my own work, and build on it from there, I'll hopefully have something worth listening to.
Thanks, S3C. It's great to know you're still listening to my music.
It's sad to hear you're constantly getting bogged down but the music will come when it's ready (wow that sounds so cheesy).