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Color Sky – Remaking an old track – Part 1

December 2, 2014 by Ben

The very first track of Color Sky, Dusty Road, is actually a remake of a much older piece I made back in 2005. Back then I was using only physical hardware to make sounds. Here’s what I had: My 700mhz PC A copy of Cubase SE A Korg microKorg A Korg ES-1 drum machine The original Dusty Road was pretty ambitious for me at the time. Up to that point, most of my music was very ambient and abstract. Part […]

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Color Sky – How I composed Metro Molecule

September 29, 2014 by Ben

As you may know by now, I’m working on a standalone electronic album called Color Sky, made to be thoughtful, dreamlike and groovy. In the last post I talked about the inspirations for the album. This week I’m going to go in depth into Metro Molecule, and reveal a bit about my composition process. Here’s the track so you can follow along. Emancipator First of all, Metro Molecule is a deliberate attempt to emulate the style of Emancipator, or at […]

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Color Sky album – The inspirations

September 22, 2014 by Ben

For the last year I’ve been working on standalone electronic album in my spare time. The basic concept is this: dreamy, thoughtful and groovy electronica made for those who like that kind of thing. Something you might listen to while you work or study. Some of it might be good road trip music. Here’s a preview track: There are more tracks like this, some minimalist synth tracks, some trance-like stuff, and stuff that sounds a little like my soundtracks. I’m […]

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Here’s what I’ve been up to – New music!

September 3, 2014 by Ben

It’s been about a year, so I figure it’s time I wrote another update on what I’ve been up to. Here are my projects! Star Crawlers Star Crawlers is a first-person, procedurally-generated RPG. Think Legend of Grimrock, Eye of the Beholder, or Lands of Lore, but on derelict space ships. It’s coming along nicely. Here’s a track from the game. FranknJohn It’s a goofy beat-em-up roguelike where you swing your head on a chain and smack enemies with it. It […]

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