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Rave / Trance themes

Balance Check

August 5, 2013 By Andy Trigg Leave a Comment

Balance-Check This is the longest I’ve ever worked on a piece of music, on and off for about 10 years. It was one of the first tunes I ever started and it was inspired by playing about with several stock sounds and drum loops from Reason and Rebirth. It was always a progressive track moving on all the time but it never quite worked and never got finished.

Over the years I kept having another go, moving it on a bit but then giving up because it got too messy and too complicated. There’s was so much going off it was a nightmare to mix and it probably still needs someone with greater experience than me to mix it as well as it could be. It’s taken until now before I had enough experience and knowledge to (hopefully) do a decent job, getting a finished product which still moves on and has a few surprises but has some coherence and repeating themes.

I’ve created 50 tracks in all and play lots of synths and bass sounds by hand and deliberately not quantised them, keeping many moving around the beat and behind the beat to hopefully create a better groove. The emphasis swaps at times between being on the beat and then in the off beat and hopefully is not too predictable but not too messy.

Filed Under: Synth Music Tagged With: Instrumental with Vocal samples, Rave / Trance themes, Synth based

Hard Butter “Single” Mix

May 19, 2013 By Andy Trigg 1 Comment

Snowdune - Hard Butter "Single" Mix Hard Butter is another one of my solo dance tunes. It’s taken from my 8 minute dance instrumental Hard Butter which I’ve decided to cut up and make at least two different tracks from. This is the first. It’s essentially the first 3 minutes of the original extended version but completely reworked, and with completely new percussion, and lots of other new and changed bits. It’s also a remix of one of my own tracks.

The only samples I’ve used are a couple of percussion samples, and the sound effect in the opening bars, all other percussion, and all music I’ve created or played myself.

Filed Under: Remixes, Synth Music Tagged With: Instrumental, Rave / Trance themes, Snowdune Remix, Synth based

Hard Butter (Extended Version)

March 25, 2013 By Andy Trigg 1 Comment

Currently available free to download

Here is an extended mix and reworking of my track hard Butter (Single mix) which is within my synth instrumental style. This version is substantially different to my original. Play it loud and let yourself go. It has a few elements of trance though definitely not standard trance. The music develops nicely throughout the track so stick with it.

This is the first time ever a Snowdune track has been available for download so get it whilst it’s hot.

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Filed Under: Synth Music Tagged With: Instrumental, Rave / Trance themes, Synth based, Uplifting

7 Skies Expanded Snowdune Remix

December 7, 2012 By Andy Trigg Leave a Comment

This is my remix of 7 Skies Expanded for the FXpansion/7 Skies remix competition. I created the remix without hearing the original.

The remit was to create a track using at least 3 of the 7 supplied wavs, and optionally use any of the 7 midi tracks. I decided to use all 14 of the sounds but added around 35 tracks of my own including all the percussion. I also cut up parts of the original tracks, rearranged them and added various effects.

I wrote some lyrics for the middle of the track, which is sung by my cousin Mick Brears. I even managed to put some tubular bells in there. With some help and advice from both Mick & Bri I hope I’ve created a good solid pop dance track.

When I finally listened to the original several months after I was surprised how very different mine is. The original artist (and judges) are trance people so they may genuinely not like my “pop” version which would be understandable.

Filed Under: Remixes Tagged With: Anthemic parts, Rave / Trance themes, Snowdune Remix, Synth based, Uplifting

I Don’t Know What’s Real Any More

October 30, 2012 By Andy Trigg Leave a Comment

This was a demo which I ended up completely changing. It was reborn as Crazy People. The first half is still similar, but I’ve removed most of the vocal samples which I was never happy with and those I kept in I completely changed the sound of with effects. Most importantly I completely changed the second half by writing a chorus and doing a tongue-in-cheek rap.

Guitars by Bri Littlehales.

I’ve left this up as an alternative version, which I originally liked because it went a bit hypnotic with a heavy repetitive guitar but when I worked on it to improve it I ended up completely changing it.

Hear the new version here – Crazy People

Filed Under: Synth Music Tagged With: Instrumental with Vocal samples, Rave / Trance themes

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