A personal blog about whatever comes to mind
I like music.
I just remembered this banger of a song the other day. I was never really a fan of nu metal or whatever, but some songs like this one and KoRn’s Freak On A Leash are deeply imprinted into my brain. This one was so good. I think the first time I heard it was playing…
I don’t know why, but the timbre of Asian stringed instruments always matches so well with a rock or metal background for some reason, at least to my ears. It’s not something that I specifically search for, but I’m always happy when it crosses my timeline somewhere, like this YouTube short I saw a few…
My first contact with Maximum The Hormone was 10 years ago, give or take, with this song, which seems like a happy-fun thing until it changes. That kind of style change midsong — even if a bit truncated, as in this case — was new to me, and it was pretty cool. After that, I…
Maybe a bit late, thematically speaking, but this is one of my favorite songs ever. God Is An Astronaut was the first instrumental band I listened to and thought “huh, maybe we don’t need guitars with distortion all the time to make things interesting” (I was really into Joe Satriani at the time) and, for…
Forgot to post this in December, something I usually do on socials, so here it is. I’m a Counting Crows enjoyer. There’s something kinda different in the way they make music compared to similar bands from that time. I have a penchant to enjoy art depicting melancholy, and all of their songs sound kinda melancholic…
As some people say, this is such a weird song from R.E.M. I’m not their biggest fan, but I’ve been known to enjoy their music from time to time. This one, though, really is catchy and unlike the rest because it really is so happy, and every time it plays (it’s always on the playlist…
The title seems overly specific but, as people say, “it’s weird that it happened twice” (that I know of). I literally mean what I said, though: there are two rock bands that are among my favorites overall, and they had female singers, but released only one album and then disbanded. And to this day I…
Quick tip on how to create lo-fi sounds from hi-fi samples and instruments Some years ago I was looking into some of Arturia’s less talked synth emulations and found a great video about the Farlight CMI V. The video is quite long, but the stuff about sampling and resynthesis caught my eye since I never…
Why does changing streaming services, or even music player software, have to be an experience so hostile? The first time I moved from one “music service” to another was when I moved from Winamp to iTunes. Heresy, I know, but my music collection was growing fast and I wanted an easy way to manage all…
Well, I finally released my chiptune/fakebit album, made in Renoise and with sounds synthesized on Plogue Chipsynth C64. If the sounds don’t seem too much videogame-y, it’s because I was driving the filter with resonance while trying to create more “realistic” sounds. I was trying to push the chip emulation to its limits rather than bending the tracker…