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How to Start and Run a Netlabel
Netlabels are everywhere. There are so many, it's getting tough to stand out in the crowd. And yet, there is some amazing music to be had for free from these organizations that give out free music. This is what prompted me to start an online record label for electronic music by Philippine produc
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QED Records Releases our Clone Album 6 Years Later
I just released an intrumental downtempo album from my electronic duo CLONE, which was recorded in 2004 and lost in the archives till now. The album is entitled CLONE - Live at Brazil Brazil [qd-4261] and is 1.25 hours of impromptu downtempo music created on the fly, and which mixes bossanova rh
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Music Video for Midnight Monologue
So here finally, is my first music video. This is a track named "Midnight Monologue" which wound up becoming the title track from my 2007 E.P. entitled Logue (download it for free from QED RECORDS). Way back in November 17, 2006, I performed at a gig and listened to a bunch of goth bands wh
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Freeware I Love: Crescendo Music Notation Editor
As a composer and a musical arranger over the years, I've had to use software to create musical pieces. Software is neat, it's archive-able (unlike my yellowed, dilapidated music notebooks), it outputs to PDF, and it's easily editable. The problem is music notation software tends to be huge, blo
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3 Lessons That Orbital Taught Me
Listening to Orbital's music taught me three important things that influenced my electronic music production. The British dance music duo of Phil and Paul Hartnoll, who came to be known as Orbital, were critically and commercially successful in the dance music movement of the 1990s -- and famed fo
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Musical Dissonance or Purposeful Chaos?
On May 25, 2010 I posted this on my social media channels: "If the bass doesn't match the key of your melody, what you have is DISCORDANT, DISSONANT, CHAOTIC. And frankly, amateurish. Sorry art rockers." I had been listening to some amateurish Middle Eastern electronic music borrowed
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New Track: Everything Will Be OK
"Everything Will Be OK" is a gloomy little tune that spouts optimistic lyrics -- but has nothing bright or sparkly supporting any of the vocals. Even the melody is in a minor key. The vocal melody line is taken straight from a dream I had back in 2007. I woke up with the tune in my head and
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New Track: Tributary
Tributary is basically a house music track done with some jazzy percussion, latin keyboard and bass parts and mixed in with some floating pads and ethnic male chants. Composed using Reason software. I imagine a raindance in the middle of a busy urban area. But that's just me. This track has been
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Influences: Suzanne Ciani
I've decided to take a look at some of the tracks and music that helped shape my musical taste and style. This category of posts will be called Influences. First up, the melodic new age instrumentals of Suzanne Ciani, which can be summed up in this one track: "Mosaic." Mosaic is one of th
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New Track: Filipino Folk Song Turned Downtempo
"Bahay Kubo" (Nipa Hut) is one of those Filipino folk songs that every elementary child in the Philippines used to learn early on since it was a lesson in naming your vegetables set to a catchy tune. I'm no longer sure if this is still the case. Nevertheless, I used the folk song as inspiration
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Experimentum Crucis: An Album in a Month (and 2 years)
Last February 2010, I joined and completed one of the craziest community challenges the internet has ever conceived: the Record Producing Month also known as the RPM challenge. I've known about it for three years now, and even signed up for it last year, but I never actually pushed myself to complet
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Remix: Porta – Loser (Acid42Remix)
[audio: qd-4223-porta-loser_acid42remix.mp3] Back in January 2005, QED Records released a short, alternative rock/industrial EP called "Porta" by the band called Porta -- one half of the band was guitarist-vocalist Rann Golamco and the other was electronic producer Emorej. I decided to try creati
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Track: Magenta Breeze
Here's an '80s-inspired synthpop tune made entirely in Propellerheads Reason which mixes a typical pop beat with some ethnic instrumentation and a lot of soaring synth pads. The result is a bouncy, positive, feel-good theme for a Friday morning. I dug this one out of a backup DVR I created fo
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Remix: Aguilera’s Aint No Other Man
Back in 2006 (I think), I put together a remix of Christina Aguilera's "Aint No Other Man (Acid42Mix)" The acapella track was well done, inspiring me to sequence some bouncy beats and semi-aggressive synth lines. I put the mp3 up on Imeem a while back but since Imeem's been bought by MySpace, the p
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Remix: Jemex – Palma (Acid42 BreaksMix)
Here's a remix I made for Jemex's track "Palma." Combining some of the piano melody with a big, booming breakbeat, this remix tried to create a gritty, urban atmosphere to the ambient, melodic parts in the original track. I did this for a remix contest, wanting to flex my muscles on Acid Pro 7, b
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New Remix: Slow by Kylie Minogue
Here's a big beat remix for Kylie Minogue's smash hit of 2005(?) "Slow." Created it using Acid Pro 5, and a whole buncha loops and VSTi's. Always had an affection for her music. Possibly it's the beats in her tracks, but also it's the perky personality of the singer. Gotta love someone with the pana
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