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maxxpump
I am a musician from the south of the UK, I like making music and playing with my synths. I've made game music and electronic music professionally in the past. I aim to keep on designing delightful and complex music for many years to come.

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Posted by maxxpump - May 4th, 2017


I've done it, its only taken me a week to learn all the sequences, set the soundsets and re-record Concept 1. I then mixed and ended up redoing it about six times to get the build up right, while inputing all the extras people asked me for after the release of Concept 1. The mix sounds much better on this version, as well as incorporating twice as many tracks, outboard synths, other outboard used to process the overall sound, I'm not sure I'm at a live version of this yet and will write a new version for live usage after I get feedback from this release of Concept 2.0. This new version takes alot from my older orchestral pieces, as well as using sampling from the original and fed through the MPC Studio Black, which I did all the drums in, I hope it goes down well, as this version has had quite a lot of thought go into it and remixing/composition time. 

 


Posted by maxxpump - May 3rd, 2017


So at the weekend I had my first gig of the year which went off with a boon! We and another fairly well known numan tribute act had us on as support, and we played to a audience of (as we've been told) over eight hundred people, which aint bad, it was my biggest indoor venue I ever played and we played Insania, Like a Dream (the new version), Inner Sanctum and project 53 (which I may release in its newly recorded state when we get around to re-recording it). I had someone lend me something called a Korg Oasys which is a mamouth synthesiser workstation, I had my Pro One and Juno-106 on stage with me in my organ pit, with my trusty old A-110 from Hammond organ. I did an accordion piece as well as a part in Insania, which went down really well.

I would like to thank everyone who had the chance to drop by Brighton to support me on Saturday, and also thanks to those who purchased albums from my legacy collection. 

This week I've been trawling through my old collection, old YouTube pieces and have recreated a few pieces (the majority of what I put up today includes three of those tunes). I'm mainly reprocessing my most catchest tunes, mainly for live use, but will post them when I finish recording them. 

 So expect maybe another five or six studio live pieces and then I'll get back to sequencing. 


Posted by maxxpump - May 1st, 2017


So there we go im done for today (if your pining for anymore material, Fireball and Davis was meant to be releasing some work sometime later on today, which includes my keyboard playing). 

Today I released some unfinished work from last year, including Mercy and Errica, both are rock songs and star me on my new-ish microphone, better than I have been but still not amazing. You know if I want to do a vocal, my choice still being burned at the stake for it mind, but I've really stopped caring. If you think you like a song and want to redo a vocal, you know where I am, don't worry I don't bite. 

I've been listening to a lot of Giogio moroder again as well as Pendulum, Chase and status, JMJ and the PSB, will release some maybe (beta) material which is inspired by one of the mentioned acts. Doing a lot of playing around with tunes like Toms Diner and Machines from metropolis, both by Moroder. A couple of nights ago I released a new remix on my Akai MPC of Racer by Giorgio and that sounded amazing. Didn't release it on here for obvious reasons.

Will in the next week be releasing some unfinished art pieces, I will only remake the best of the best and see what I can come out with. I've got a drive with about nine hundred pieces I've composed, will wade through the marsh and see what I can pull out of the old track pile. There are some proper fire tracks in there.

I'm also remaking tunes for my summer tour with Exedist (my band), need extra stage material, and we are learning a completly new set, with design, details if you want to see me llive to come out at some point in the near future.

I won't be releasing anymore accordion works as they haven't gone down so well on here, which is a crying shame as its my main instrument and I've been playing more than fifteen years, and I play all my recordings live with two other accordionists, james and terrance. We did a cover of Bubamara which is a pretty cool tune and are currently working on a cover of Popcorn by Hot Butter, with inspiration taken from newgrounds own EON (which is a pretty sick version if you ask me). 

I'll carry on my live production work and see were to go from there. 

 


Posted by maxxpump - April 28th, 2017


This last fortnight I've been attending Rossmans Studio, in Portsmouth (a fair trek for me living in Brighton), I've been doing a few studio remakes for supermarket radios (some supermarkets due to licensing don't want to cough up the cash for something called PRS, so we get tasked with recreating popular tracks, you would have thought it was easier and cheaper to pay for PRS, but I'm not complaining as it keeps me afloat). 

We basically finished about three weeks worth of recordings in about four days, and has been given to our mix artist, so we have a bit of spare time, as we alloted three weeks to do the job. So we thought what to do and I showed, this engineer my music (this guy worked for EMI for about two decades, so I thought he wouldn't like any of my compositions), and he agreed to work on three, maybe four tracks. So the other day we recorded "Freedom" my Newwave piece, accodions, a bit of bass and guitar. Were in the process of doing Dystopian Peace, I launched a Beta track today, not 100% happy with it, so I will have to rewrite it. Other pieces are "Concept", "Dark Luminescence" and "My Downfall". 

I will have to probably  mix the work myself as there isn't enough time, Davis is visiting the States, so I'm kind of on my own with this project. 

Expect to see some more Beta pieces to come out in the next few days. After we have sucessfully arranged the recordings me and Exedist are going to learn the new pieces and go on tour this summer, so no pressure. 


Posted by maxxpump - April 23rd, 2017


I'm currently in the process of re-writing "Like a Dream" which I made last year, hopefully I can make it into a much heavier tune, and get it in more of a hard trance category. I'm also redoing a bunch of other 2015 songs, so look out for those coming out in the next few days. I just release the Acoustic version of Do you love me, I've made it slightly slower, then re-recorded it using a Yamaha CP80 Electric-grand piano. Also starring a guest star on Rhodes EP piano. A load more Acoustic songs to also come out in the next week... 


Posted by maxxpump - April 22nd, 2017


Here's a new Anime inspired song...http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/740716


Posted by maxxpump - April 19th, 2017


https://youtu.be/Z-arhIalAPs this is the link to follow for todays snippet of whats going on in the world of Stuart and Dans studios work. 

P.S: Quit with the personal attack messages, if you've got a problem attach it to one of my message boards, otherwise you obviously don't have big Corenies at all and you shouldn't be stealing internet time from your parents...(I would imagine your like a toddler or something...)


Posted by maxxpump - April 19th, 2017


I'm currently working on a vocal cover of Bronski beat which I will hopefully release sometime at the end of the week.

Also at the weekend I'm working directly with Fireball to recreate the song "Power of Love", I'm doing all the keyboard and piano works. 

I know my singing hasn't gone down well, but my bronskie beats not bad. 


Posted by maxxpump - April 18th, 2017


So people on here liked the likes of Concept and Save the Race (which I remade this weekend, to keep my mind off what was going on in the media and the other side of the world...). I've started a list of most popular content and revised them to make a new best of album which will contain remakes using brand new and state of the art VST's and what access to classical synths I have. I would remake dystopian peace but I know that would probably would bore everyone to tears so I won't (unless someone says otherwise...). The list so far is as follows; This includes some of the best songs from Youtube as well as I'm not going through my whole catalogue on newgrounds since they are not sorted that way, and will unfortunately take too long; 

The story of Evil Ed (using my Yamaha CS-40m, this time around),
Tripping Without Love,
We are Unchained,
Synclavier V Test (including real samples), 
Do You Love me Take me Back, 
Accordion Song MK1,
The CS-80 sound test called "Where do we Hide" Inspired by the sound track to Duke Nukem 3D,
Waterfalls (the best parts from the Mega mix!),
Optic State (its been a long coming as I have new mics and pine to redo this track), 
GTA Joyride, (Remix, using Fireball01e's original track as a bases (!)), 
Anya Ceylan (originally for accordion (!)),
Right Angles,
Like a Dream (which will be the long anticipated 12" mix using a completely new mix and vocals),
The Windows Remix (Newgrounds version to have no Microsoft/old windows samples (!)),
Spectra Crawl (my nod to Cyriak the animator),
Chamberlain,
Choose! Freedom, (the Live stage version, work in progress),
and finally A track called "Dark luminescence" (again for live usage, a very long work in progress).

The tracks on the list with the (!) are remixes of others work and maybe Youtube only releases as I ain't getting into trouble on my account on Newgrounds. 

A lot of these songs have already been on tour my band a few times and we have made a lot of changes to make them playable live, We will be doing studio re-recordings, live when we can, rather than recordings from the main desks (live mixing consoles) as these I have done before and haven't gone down to well on any of my channels, due to excess crowd interaction with the vocal mics picking up all sorts. As well as bad sounding mixes which don't play back to well on mobile devices. 

If you guys don't see me for a few days, I'm either working on this new remake album, Bliss, or DNA (Which at this point maybe entirely shelved as I'm not getting as good result out of my social media channels and when I posted this new project the other day on my book-face account I got much feedback, so this may end up being my thing rather than DNA which is disappointing as I thought people would have liked a free-be album, but I guess that's not going down to well with my target audience, which is a bummer, but I work on what ever goes to making the most people happy rather than anything else!

Anyway I'm off to make a new hard hitting dance track which is inspired by Avicii, but using completely live instrumentation! I will say my bass on the next few tracks has been slightly inspired by a track called Animals by a person I never heard of before called M Garrix (Yeah I know you probably like...What, you had you head under a rock or something, but no indeed I've heard his name but never his music before, not even on the radio. Animals sounds sick and I will be doing a training project on his work i.e: I will completely remake animals and see what I get or learn from it. I know you would be like you doubt I can do that, but I've made Wacko Jacko tracks from scratch before and got them to sound close (the mixing took me weeks, but with some patience I believe like me, anyone can do it, even though sometimes its an absolute pain the ass, takes along time and maybe over some people's patience levels, that's fine but I operate like this and love a good challenge, even though you will never hear me make any of these remixes on Newgrounds as it's against the rules, Mr fulps general wisdom and if you like that kind of thing just go to my YouTube channel and search for remixes, as there is quite a bunch up there...


Posted by maxxpump - April 15th, 2017


As I have now talked to the rest of my work group, I am now going to create a smaller free album consisting of twelth songs and a paid live version of it. The paid version will be semi-live, using real synths, keyboards and drum machines. 

I am now working on Bliss with Fireball, Dan and Davis L which will be a live album with very light sequencing.

I will be launching some BETA's in the coming weeks, but my majors will be going towards secret sausage grade works (thats like super secret works). I'm doing this as I had two very rude messages this morning which boiled down to people that think I don't spend enough time on my projects. The longest project I ever conducted was called "Like a Dream" and that took a week. (I got under a hundred views and a very poor score even though the track got a following of sevral people for play lists on youtube and reposts on soundcloud, which I did a remaster and got nearly twnety and a half thousand views on youtube, as people reckoned it was a great party tune. so I'n the future you may only get one BETA project from me per week and one or two major projects (or projects which I think is good), a month! This will give me enough time to perfect the tunes in my spare time and put my resources towards things which don't end up with me getting a bunch of nasty messages. To be honest I really thought that "Callous" was a good dance tune when I made it earlier and the vote tallied what I thought, I guess I didn't please everyone.

Anyway this will give me the chance to create more creative music, so I can focus on both DNA, RNA and Bliss. 

Thankyou all for your kind words either way, this kind of creative comments pave the way for me in music and the nasty ones even though I expect some stick from people, the messages this morning were hideously rude and from one person in my own fan base as well. I tell you I didn't see it coming, but I guess I should probably take more care and really roll out as many bugs as possible before launching something public domian.