I’m the first one to admit that I’m often guilty of stuffing my songs full of stuff. ”Gotta have the 3rd and 4th part, not too much repeats and perhaps another accompanying melody. And Rhodes piano. And a solo part…” And so on.

I genuinely think that less isn’t more, more is more. No matter what kind of music are we dealing with. In this context more doesn’t necessary mean a tune proceeding rapidly from part to part, tons of instruments or overall complexity and lenght. It just means more great sounds, more exciting events and more fun.

Anyway, in YUSNYO I tried to be as minimalistic as possible. You know, make those exciting events to appear in a bigger picture. Since it is a drum ’n bass kind of a tune, there’s mostly, you got it, drums and basses. And some additional percussion. And synthesizers. And Rhodes piano.

Dang it.

ELEFLY was originally titled ”The funeral of the elephant and the fly”. Don’t ask. I dropped the funeralistic part from the title, because the final cut was lacking all kinds of negative feelings usually linked with funerals.

The vocal parts was kindly provided by my sister. So thanks a bunch, T!

Dang it, it’s cold in here. No, colder than that. It’s cold!

This kind of temperature always makes me wonder, why on earth my ancestors thought it would be a good idea to move up north. They probably didn’t even have thermal underwear and portable saunas. Weirdos.

Anyway, I’m lucky enough to be able to dwell indoors by a radiator, have a nice hot cup of tea and set my desktop background picture as a fireplace. And before too long it’ll be summer, and it’s time to complain about the heat.

About the footwear: ODE TO WOOL SOCKS.

So, todays song is titled MEDITERRANEAN MIXED MESS. Now what do I have to say about this tune, that’s not already in the songs description?

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Merry christmas – or whatever you prefer to call it – everyone!

First there was stuff! Whether it was rock, funk, soul or whatever is irrelevant. We’ll just call it by the name of pop. Pop was placed inside records, transmitted by radio waves, it reached listeners and it was good.

Then there was reproduction by machines that were capable of producing sound. The sound – which was definately not as organic as the pop it was trying to imitate – was ideal for newly invented things called computers. So the sound was placed inside computer programs to accompany games, and dang it, was it good.

Now we’ve reached the point when we’ve started to imitate the imitation. There’s a musical genre called ”chiptune”, which essence is to emulate the early electronic music. Early meaning 1980s, when computers and video game systems became household items.

If you don’t want to be too mainstream and dare look way back to the history, I suggest the likes of Léon Theremin and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Now that’s some early electronic madness!

Enough with this blabbering. Some chiptune for ye: ACTIONFACE.

Concerning this sites genre ”mood”. The songs on this category deal with:

– Emotions (happy, sad, confused, etc)
– Effects (comical, scary, mystical, etc)
– Actions (running, thinking vigorously, yawning, etc)

And…

– Combinations of those three mentioned above. Songs that contain shameless genre hopping within a tune, will be placed here. (Or somewhere else.)

I don’t know what kind of an overall impression CUTE AND HEROIC BALLAD AND ROCK is supposed to create. Perhaps something like: ”no pain, no gain” or ”after all everything turned out just fine”.

You be the judge. And jury. But please not the executioner.

To celebrate 1st of December, I present thee my tune for the upcoming holiday. This time, right on time.

There are many kinds of christmases: Consumeristic urban one, just like any other holiday one, partying with friends while wearing a silly hat one, performing feats of strenght around the aluminum pole one.

In WINTER SOLSTICE PEACE I tried to capture the mood of the christmas in the most traditional ways. You know, icy lake, red socks, the smell of christmas tree, presents, candles, tons of food and so on. The memories from the childhood mixed up with images from books & movies.

Enjoy.

1970s movie soundtracks are great. At the time funk was hip and jazz elements hasn’t completely been eliminated from (American) mainstream film scores. Jazz & funk, brass & Rhodes piano, fancy chords & wah-wah, all of ’em matches made in heaven.

These elements are mostly evident in countless awesome blaxploitation movies. Coffy, Foxy Brown and Shaft, just to name a few.

70S THRILLS got its inspiration from car chases, mean fistfights, flamboyant pimps, ruthless pushers and overall badassery of those movies.

The poppiest kind of pop music is almost always predominantly vocal oriented. Therefore making a RnB instrumental can be challenging because well, you can’t get a synthesizer to sound like Beyoncé. But still you gotta have a melody.

My solution in DARK PINK was to take the vocal melody playing in my head, and turn it to a simplified and synthesized form. Like there was any alternatives…

’Nuff said. Some RnB for you!

I’ve tried to resist the urge to remake some of my own top hits, the songs that I’ve made way before this site. Yes, I’ve tried and a few times failed miserably. BRIDE OF THE PSYGNOSIS is a result of such a failure.

I originally made the song in the mid 90s on dads Macintosh, which was at the time the leading force on computer music. I tell you, it was a heck of a nostalgia trip to put this together.

Whether the tune is any good as a remake, well, I guess I’m the only human capable of being the judge. Unless someone has infiltrated my apartment, found the dusty old floppy discs from my drawer and managed to find an antique mac and all the additional hardware to run it with.