Another Placeholder For Another Thing
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Yet another collection of original compositions as a celebration of my first totally original album, which was released just 1 year ago (for April Fools 2024, yeah). This one is bigger and longer, tho. I don't know if it's better or worse, but definitively it is more varied. I included an even wider range of influences combined with my usual synth metal - or whatever label you would use to define what I do.
From folk to electronica influences, relaxing and agressive stuff... a bit of everything. If you like variety in metal and you don't mind a totally "MIDI sound", you might enjoy this thing. No suitable for trves, tho; you are warned!
Also don't expect a super professionally produced album. This is more like what you'd expect to find in a day of randow brosing on MySpace or Soundclick profiles, or an old static HTML artist site with MP3 download links in the 2000s. It's not like I deliberately aimed for that vibe, but it just happens. Which is not coincidence, since I grew up listening to and enjoying a lot of that underground music stuff back in my preteens.
Every note (including percussions), every automation control and everything was manually written in a DAW (LMMS specifically). No AI or anything remotely close was used (maybe not a good time to go hard into music making, right?). No one else collabing either. Just me and my ancient computer in the darkness of a small, rough bedroom.
All songs have a high dose of improvisation. Mostly just tinkering with the DAW and whatever bizarre ideas comes to my rotten mind without overthinking on cohession. As a consequence this collection of demos is a total, assorted chaos and most songs have not even a proper structure.
In an ideal future the plan is to polish many of the songs from all these "Placeholder" releases (the best or "less worse" ones, at least!) and feature a bunch of talented performers and friends to play with real instruments, just like I often do with my VGM arrangements. In the meanwhile, I'll keep focusing on just toying with more of these ideas and release whatever I have done each year.
Anyways, there's enough of this boring wall of text! Just listen and (hopefully) enjoy this bizarre piece of (pseudo)art! If you dare...
All tracks composed, recorded, mixed, etc by Unknown Pseudoartist at Ancient Computer Studios (Unknown Lands) between April 2024 - March 2025.
All made by a real human (or maybe a real bird?). No AI or anything remotely close was used.
Thanks to the people in ThaSauce for the inspiration and good vibes in their weekly compos (OHC and 2HTS specifically). It's barely a couple of years since I dared to try composing my own songs and that community is the ideal place to get motivated to try more often, and in an ambiance that is friendly and relaxed (despite the very short events, yeah).
Also thanks to my dear baby cat Kira, once again, for allowing me to use her photos as a model to protagonize my music albums' artworks and stuff.
You can download the full album for free in Bandcamp and Internet Archive.
