Flight Of The Alpha Centauri (21/01/2012)
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It's the new year and I present you my latest track "Flight Of The Alpha Centauri". Possibly my biggest endeavour yet, this song features over 50 individual audio tracks and more than 50 different instruments. It took about a full week to complete, just in time for the Icons 2012 Demoparty, which was held in a cinema in Finland on 21st january. The song placed 5th in the music competition, yay!
There's plenty more to come this year, so stick around and support me! :)
SunSpire
It's fun to stray away from the usual music styles for once and do something totally different and unexpected, like adding hardcore beats to a cheesy christmas tune! Thus I contributed a little track for BassHut's Happy Hardcore XMAS 2011 EP album, which was released today. It's free, and there are some excellent tracks on there, so if you wished for 'not so silent' nights this christmas week, give this album a listen and watch the gingerbread men dance to the beat while heating up inside the oven!
Merry Christmas to you all! :)
And don't forget monday's live radio show from The Ultimate Meeting!
SunSpire
That's right, Topy44 and I are back to end the year with a BANG - offering you a SceneSat live broadcast with the very best from the last demoparty of the year - The Ultimate Meeting, in Karlsruhe. Some 200 sceners are expected, and there will be plenty of new releases in all of the competitions held. And we might have a few interviews in stock for you with coders, musicians and party organizers.
So finish off that christmas dinner and get ready to tune in on 27th December at 21:00 GMT, we'll be looking forward to have you aboard our 3-day show!! :)
SunSpire
Howdy all! I'm back from my trips to Denmark and Norway, and it's been tremendous fun. I met up with Punqtured of Fnuque, together with Okkie we did a tour through Copenhagen and the canals before heading to TRSAC in Arhus. The party atmosphere was brilliant, first I felt a bit left out due to all the danish chatter around me, but by saturday that feeling was gone and everyone's been really cool .. and really drunk :P A handful of us partie'd on until 7am in the morning. I met lug00ber, Puryx, Hazel for the first time, and of course catching up with truck, Ziphoid and many others I met before. My track "Sunset Nebula" scored 4th place in the music compo, yeeaahh!! :D
(It wasn't easy to record the final mix at the party place with the PA in the background blasting our ears)
Sunset Nebula (22/10/2011)
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2 weeks later and I found myself in Norway, my friend Sentcool actually dragged me here. We took a flight to Oslo followed by a train to Haga, which is basically nowhere! :P And we brought a tent as well for some chilly november camping!! First at the party place on friday, greeted saturday by Leija and Gargaj and together we built up the place that would become known as the 19th Kindergarden Demoparty - but our first in person. I had met Ralph of Fnuque at TRSAC before, over the last 5 years he's been developing a rather nice VST synth named "Quiver" which allows the creation of files suitable for 32k executable music (a runnable .exe program that is only 32kb in size, including the entire synth and music). I had recently attempted my first track in Quiver, so Punqtured suggested I should submit it in the 32k executable music compo. It needed some heavy re-work on my part but thanks to Punqtured the bass-drum turned out really phat! :D
The track scored 1st place!! Thanks guys!!!!! :D
Once Upon A Quiver (05/11/2011)
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This is my 24th song release on this site. If you enjoy my work please rate and comment! :)
I've not won a compo before so this really made my day. And I've learned a few new tricks in music production along the way, thank you everyone for your support! Thank you Topy44 for helping me fix some annoying bugs at the party place! And thank you Leija and Gargaj for a fantastic party weekend, and Nerve for the 3G internet!!
Special thanks and greetings must go to Punqtured and his wife Bettina, as well as Arcane and his girlfriend Plusone, who are the nicest people to be around with and the most excellent hosts during our stay in Denmark and Norway. A demoparty where you make new friends like these are the best demoparties indeed!
SunSpire
What you see above is the party report from last year's TRSAC - which has to be one of the craziest Demoparties around, so naturally I've been wanting to attend this year's party for quite some time now, and I will be! First tho we're going to have a nice tour through Copenhagen, about 300km east of the party place. Then on saturday it's the big fat compo night and if you haven't figured it out already - I'll be submitting a kickass tune of course! You better believe it :)
Also expect some more new music and surprises over the next few months, the year isn't over just yet!
SunSpire
Free Fall Through Time (10/09/2011)
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So here it is! Released at Sunrise 2011 Demoparty where it scored 8th place (or 7th if you consider the two 3rd ranks in the music compo) I wrote the complete song in about 20 hours just before the compo deadline, whew! It's labelled the "party" version because I could not stuff all of my ideas into 4 minutes of music and I might be doing a longer version of this if there is enough interest. I'm quite pleased with the result however and I hope you will be too! :)
Sundown 2010 was the party that started it all for me last year, and while there won't be a Sundown this year, the UK sceners - with the help of a few well known german demoparty organizers - managed to put together a replacement party that is fittingly named "Sunrise Demoparty" in Luton, England.
Once again it's time for meeting great people, making great demos and music and participate in glorious competitions!! All of it which you can follow online this weekend by tuning into SceneSat Radio.
Of course I'll be sending in a brand new track again as well, don't miss it .. ;)
SunSpire
Digital SpaceRock (27/08/2011)
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At Revision, I ate their delicious cheese .. now I sent a remote track to say "Thank You!" or something along those lines. Seriously tho, this was my compo entry for "Buenzli 20" in Switzerland - or "Demodays" as it is now known. Despite having seen the prizegiving ceremony online, I don't actually know which place this tune scored. It didn't win, I know that much .. but it's not all about winning anyway, I appreciate the feedback from you guys more than anything! That said, I hope you like it! :)
Oh and if you wonder what happened to my track for Evoke, it's basically this one but released at Buenzli!
"SunSpire"
If you happen to be a devoted Audigy soundcard user (like myself!) but are frustrated with the catastrophic driver support from Creative (or lack thereof) you're going to jump for joy when I tell you now that TODAY there has been a new release by Robert McClelland's PAX Audigy Drivers for all Audigy cards for XP x86/x64, Vista x86/x64 and Windows 7 x86/x64 systems!!
It's great to see this audio card still being supported, and it runs marvellously in my XP x64 system with all the fancy EAX sound effect sliders that you can't find on newer Creative cards! (no EAX sliders in Win7 yet, tho!)
(one of the strongest features of all Live!/Audigy cards are the countless realtime effects directly produced by the hardware, later cards and drivers got rid of it in favor of cheap EAX presets)
First install the PAX drivers, then install your original Audigy software that came on your card's Install CD, you can find a bunch of them here. Then run the installer and check the boxes of the stuff you want to install but uncheck the "audio drivers"
"SunSpire"
Lost Mayan Temple Within The Asteroid Belt (17/07/2011)
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Drive down 55 miles of open road, walk through whispers of the wild and find spacecraft, take off into space and fly through fields of stardust, discover the lost mayan temple within the asteroid belt, go inside, kill monsters, take treasure, enjoy life!!!
I wrote this for the music competition at Solskogen2011 in Norway, but unfortunately they had not received my email and therefore it was never played. Instead you can now download it from my site. Enjoy! :)
"SunSpire"
