My latest 'JDSY'

[Guest JDSY]

hey music headz,

 

I was using soundcloud to host a lot of the music I've been working on. It was cool to get the feedback but I sort of ran out of steam there. a lot of people are using it and it's a great service, but I percieve some flaws in the system. It rewards the user uploading often, with new material. While I did just that for a time, I realized it was a quick fix and a grander vision needed to be achieved.

 

I finally decided to make a change and put like minded songs together as albums on band-camp. I feel like it's a stronger statement, and it also brings closure to these songs which were sort of orphaned on my hard drive or on bandcamp.

 

For a long time I was sending my music off to a label guy and he would pick thru and make my albums for me, which was both helpful but also disappointing. Communication was really non-existent thru the process, aside from really simple things. Those albums are good because I trusted someone with my music and let them put their self in my shoes and see a vision that I forgot, or did not notice. That's helpful, because you can make something then not really know what you have there. And someone else can find the thread. But at the same time it was a hard thing to do so. I felt like I should have been approached sooner and closer to the time the songs were composed, and the communication sucked.

 

So, after really going off in 20 different directions creatively in the last years or so, and not really getting much support or feedback about what I was doing, except that he suggested I make a bandcamp once, I decided to do it.

 

http://jdsy.bandcamp.com/

 

there's 4 albums, all different from each other. The bulk of the songs are instrumental, but with the album 'blue newspaper' being designed by the label (moodgadget) has a lot of songs with vocals.

 

Deku Tree is a melodic album with really understated drumming except for the hip-hop infused Zelda Remix which follows the opener, a pretty popular ambient piece I did. That ambient song 'fourth' got 300 plays on soundcloud in 3 days. The rest of the album is mainly melodic, sort of 'chip tune' sounding, maybe a nintendo 64 style of chip tune reverence. I thought that I needed to add some samples, some sort of fancier elements to these songs, and a day might come when I do that, but I also think they stand on their own as bare 'synth' tunes. It's easy to listen to I think and there is some naturality to the music, because of it being played on keyboard appossed to computer composing.

 

The album 7 was the next one I put up. This one is a hybrid of sorts. I used hardware on some songs, and FL studio on others, sometimes both. It's more of an IDM album, but still with a lot of melodic elements but with more stated drum beats. I really underrated these songs for a while because I felt in some ways I was repeating myself and that they weren't that good. I was working with the basic same tenets of years of composing in FL... But truthfully, a lot of the work here was made totally on hardware ie tracks 5 - 12 and more time was spent composing melody with keyboard, as apposed to piano rolling step by step. Plus the limitations of the gear, and also not fully understanding how to use it to the fullest, as well as not having the energy to do so since it was more tedious makes this album sound different. there's also some minimalism; tracks with only one melodic component and drum samples, but melodic variation (the hopeless horse) (finite fantom).

 

'what is love' was the last one I compiled and put up. This is a more hip hop aimed affair. I made the bulk of these songs after I bought a mpc2000xl and started using it. the only song that was not made in the last year was 'nofiness' which I made a few years ago on the korg ESX-1. I know I'm preaching to the choir but using a tool other than a computer to make electronic music forces you to do things differently and in a new way. You should get a korg esx-1. they are really cheap on ebay. I got my korg in 2005 and it's a great tool, because of it's limitations. I have much work to finish that I started with that box. TEN MD is a song that was first created on the korg, and each pattern was recorded and then mixed, plus more sequences added in FL. I also used the MPC exclusively on a few of the tracks (sorabji, kings quest, s.walker, hibit). the mood is a little darker on this compilation too; It transitions from happy to brooding i guess.

 

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These albums are pretty short from what I can tell, but they are dense and I hope people find them interesting, and share them. I have worked pretty hard over the last years, to the best of my ability and i hope it shows. I finally realized that I had something to share, so as someone said "put a bow on it".

 

-J

[chassis]

Not being funny. But if you're going to come on to a forum as a stranger and expect people to listen to your music. You best not be fucking charging 9 dollars for it.

 

Fuck sake man.

[Guest JDSY]

Not being funny. But if you're going to come on to a forum as a stranger and expect people to listen to your music. You best not be fucking charging 9 dollars for it.

 

Fuck sake man.

 

it's free to listen and none of my albums cost 9 dollars. I hope the poster won't deter anyone from checking out the music, and I meant no offense here. Just doing my best to promote my music like anyone.

 

[Guest JDSY]

thank you for checking out the music... I made the releases free/download donate now.... http://jdsy.bandcamp.com/album/killa-zelda-deku-tree