The Selection

It’s been a while since I made a Synthwave album so I thought I’d make one and this one is a nine-track album with a couple of remixes at the end of the album. I enjoy making Synthwave and have a good collection of synthesizer plugins which I use quite a lot. There’s a lot from the Arturia Collection and a couple from Korg which I heavily use a lot in all my synthesizer stuff and also some of my rave tracks. I got the drum kits from Zenhieser the 80’s Retro Drummer, 80s Drums which is a well-put-together drum kit of one-shots which make it sound so authentic and make it sound like it was from the ’80s, with the patterns I make from the one-shots which again I enjoy doing. If you make Synthwave it’s one for your collection and I use it on all my Synthwave stuff as I love the drums and is what I look for kind of old 80s Hip Hop drums and 80s Pop drum kits so I was happy with my purchase and have made some great tracks with them. I’m happy with how the album turned out and like all the tracks I kind of did them back to back bit over two days as I was keen to finish off the album as that’s the thing there are not a lot of tracks, singles, EPS or albums I haven’t finished there’s a few but most of them I have finished and are out on all major platforms or they are unreleased and are on Soundcloud which is where all my unreleased stuff goes like remixes of other people’s tracks and the stuff I won’t put out for whatever reason.  I called it Brain Freeze as my mind is kind of hazy and I can barely remember what happened last decade and all the good stuff I’ve done which as I said before seems like a distant dream but was all real and a good point in my life but sadly all came crashing down when the world stopped for a moment and also my mental health was getting worse and I couldn’t keep up with the demands of the jobs I was doing. Everything just seems like a blur and a distant memory and some of the things I’ve done sound like I’m running up for clout and are all lies but I know I did all those things it’s hard to believe. As I said a few times now it was a different time and there were fewer laws and more importantly restrictions and the world was a good place to be with things like the invention of House music and all that came after that, which opened many doors for people and new ones it was also a good chance to socialize and do something adventurous and local business was always in on the game. The point is now with all these new laws and the way we are nannied it’s harder to think back on the good times that were had and makes it harder for people especially younger people to understand how the earth should be run and how it was which is a million light years away now and something that will never happen again but we can hope for a comeback of some sort I’ll be there in a flash. Also, Brain Freeze means some people have brain freeze and are dead inside I don’t know what’s gotten into people but for some reason, it’s cool or acceptable to bring down someone cos they are so icy well “You so icy you so icy why don’t you pay me on time” hmmm. It is ridiculous though and I’m tired of it just cos you woke up in a bad mood you spew your mess around and make everyone unhappy or so you think as BITCH you won’t kill my vibe. It’s sad really and something I don’t talk a lot about but one thing for sure I won’t let it bring me down and make me into something I try hard not to be a See you next Tuesday as much as I have vented back at them lol.  The first track Olive In The Glass is a middle BPM Boogie track which I enjoyed playing. It’s quite an upbeat track and reminds me more of older Boogie styles which were in the 1950s with Rockabilly and Rock ‘n’ Roll also emerging around that time. The next track Days & Nights is one of my favourites on the album as I like the drums and the synthy sounds I played over the beat. I also like the bass which is a simple bass just a one-note pattern but it works with the track and gives off that Electro Funk feel to it with the drum kit which as I said before I love that drum kit so handy. I love claps on some of my Synthwave tracks I used to use them a lot in my House tracks but I notice not a lot of people use claps in House no more so I made up for it by putting them on some of my Synthwave tracks like the second track Days & Nights which I think makes the song and makes it sound again more Electro Funk or 80s Hip Hop. The next track Just A Sec is another favourite on the album and again I like the drums, synths and also the bass. I messed around with the filters on the snare to make this cool-sounding 80s pattern which is like something out of Michael Jackson’s Bad album. I played all the melodies using my MIDI keyboard and I like this one quite a lot it’s something you can have on in the background at a nice volume and relax to it or so for me.  The next track Kingdom is a slow-paced track that is nice gentle and soothing. I love the bass on this one and think it goes well with the synth stuff I put on top of that it’s kind of like express music and something I enjoy listening to in my spare time when I have the chance and feel like Synthwave. Again it’s one of my favourites on the album and I like the darkish tone to it but the drum kit especially and I like these drums a lot as there are a lot of variations in drums and sounds in the sample pack. The next track Chambers is another slow-paced track and yet another favourite on the album I think it’s safe to say I like all of them and think they are all good but I like the synths, bass and drums as always and think again makes the track. I love the dark synth bit as the main feature of the track and is part of what I call the chorus which I think makes the track also my overall favourite on the album as I love that synth sound and the melodics. The next track Sound Of The Sirens was inspired by the sound of sirens always going off in the background as I live near an ambulance station not to mention the other services that fly by.  I was making it and came across a synth sound which I thought when I played it sounded like a siren so I thought I made a whole track with it. The next track is Kingdom (80s House Remix) which I like as I like the bass and again something to have in the background while you do your stuff. I like the synths I used the M1 from Korg and some samples I got from Loopmasters a long time ago which was the bongo drum pattern that goes throughout the track. The next track Days & Nights (80s House Remix) is a fast-paced rave track that again I got the drum pattern from an old sample pack and used most of the synths I used in the original track swapping only some of the instruments as I like to make variations of tracks as I mentioned before. It has this Electro Funk feel to it which I like and reminds me of doing the robot on a film or something. The last track Chambers (80s House Remix is another fast-paced song and the last couple are the fastest as they are House songs and around 120 -125 BPM. Since it was my overall favourite I thought I remix it and see what it would sound like as a House track, I like it but not better than the original track but it’s okay I suppose I do like it just not better than the original.