I should really just get myself a label and get a Tumblr for it, instead of using this one as my main one to propagate my releases.
In my defense, the artwork is pretty sweet.
Somewhat glitchy and ambient, very influenced by Flying Lotus and Mount Kimbie, and waaaay out of my comfort zone:
kr(Æ)ft - Just Another EP
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Glitch and noise, drone and ambient, with subtle funk and hip-hop undertones:
The Ocean And The Machine - A Generator And A Beach
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Breakbeats and glitch, greatly inspired by Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. Easily explained: IDM. Better phrased: Braindance.
Beax - Beax EP
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Video game music for video games that never existed, or just simply put: Chiptunes.
Vivivivi - The Lost Demo Disks EP
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Free new EP from kr(Æ)ft, aptly titled Just Another EP. Way out of my comfort zone, but rather my style still, I think. Feel free to share, download and listen as much as you’d like. I’m broke and people don’t pay me for my music unless they are kind and nice.
But of course, you can still be kind and nice without paying, sharing or even caring about this.
This is partially the inspiration for the title to the track “I, We, The Lovers”. (Another part was that it sounded beautiful, and reminds me of The Muppets - The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me).
The track is the sixth track on the first disc of my recent album. The tarot-card The Lovers is numbered as card VI (six). There are other “hidden” titles as well from the same book (found here), if anyone should want to find other clues.
Posting this again, because people seem to like it and you should reblog it, because I’m trying to build a hype for the coming album, gosh darnit!
Upcoming album, building hype, will be free. All the cool people will share this. Stay tuned, the album will drop rather soon.
Being a musician; We can’t always fight nature, John
These last few days, I have remembered how incredibly exciting and fun it is to make music.
There’s a lot of crap that comes with it. Right of the bat there’s the time and money spent on it. I’ve spent more money and more time on it than I’d like to admit.
And then there’s the almost complete lack of success, feedback or any noticeable progress in the context of getting new and/or active listeners. Sure, I’ve made progress in regards to skill, and maybe it’s shallow, but I want people to like, nay, to love it. And that’s not really happening too much. I feel somewhat ungrateful when I think about it, but it’s the truth.
I don’t always make music for fun. It’s somewhat like breathing, I guess. I do it because I have to, because it is what I know and it is all I know. And there are times when I just can’t do it, and that almost kills me. In that sense, it’s like breathing, but with asthma, which I have, so that makes sense to me.
But then, there are these few moments when I realize how fun it is to do it.
I have created a double-length album with 17 tracks, lasting 1 hour, 38 minutes and 57 seconds, in which only 3 tracks have been released in some form before (via Soundcloud and the advent calendar I had on Tumblr). That means there’s 14 completely new tracks, that nobody has actually heard before. And that’s very exciting to me. I have absolutely no idea how people will react to it, and I wish I could see people’s faces the first time they hear it. (Or, at least I hope I would wish to see their faces). I want to share the entire album, right now, with everybody. I am excited, and anxious and impatient about this. I want people to listen to it and like it and tell me, honestly of course, that they like it.
And I just love that feeling now. I love having made something, and wanting to share it with you. It is perhaps one of the greatest feelings I’ve experienced, at least these last years. I am truly, deeply and madly excited about this. And I really hope you all will like it. It isn’t why I make music, but it is the best part of it. By all likelihood, it will be released in a few weeks on Bandcamp, for free, as always.
I will be sad to let this intense joy go, for all moments pass. We can’t always fight nature, John.
