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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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Just got a bundle of new equipment, Fun fun fun...

Posted by maxxpump - June 15th, 2017


New equipment just aquired.

So after years of searching for a used an fully working tape Echo, I bought myself a used Roland RE-201, with newly brand new tape, this I got for around £500 which is an absolute bargain for a fully working unit, as they usually go for £1K+, I've had a WEM Copycat for about five years but had constant tape problems with the unit, I heard the RE-201's were pretty stable units so went out and purchased one on Ebay on auction. I also at the same time got a new two new synthesisers, one Moog mini moog, and a Alesis A6, which I got both in a private auction for about a grand for both units. I also got myself a Small Stone Phaser pedal, which I've wanted to pair up with the Logan string synth ever since I witnessed Kebu playing, on a rendition of Chase by Giogio Moroder, which was fantstic performance and the string pad he used was on Logan/Hohner, Sting harmony, So I purchased a broken Logan with transformer issues a couple of months ago, and with small stone I'm able to get really cool pad sounds out of it. You guys will probably have to wait until after I get back france to see Jean Michel Jarre, as I'm going away for a month, so will not be able to release any music in that time, I could take the laptop, but I want a general break from music for a bit, as with studio work and the new contract, I've been making music nearly solidly for the past month or so, and its starting to draw on a bit,

I realeased a new song today called "Be Free without me" it when done will be one of my releases, I've done some vocal work on it, I really need to find a vocalist to do a prober job on it so you're kind of lumped with my vocal on this first draft, its not bad, but will defiently need a seasoned vocalist to complete a final releasable piece of music, I spent about as long and used the same techniques as Concept to make it. I designed all the sound from scratch, and it was inspired by many people, if you like Rock/ New wave take a listen to my first draft tell me what you think, it may get a bit repedative by=ut I really liek the song and it definetly a dancable Synth wave/ New wave track. Its in a completly different style to my couple of New wave tracks and it touches on a very thick 80's style new wave sound. 

Anyway until next time happy browsing! 


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Pretty Cool if you ask me Maxx, but as of your last couple of equipment posts you've done, even though it is relevant to your music and the direction your going, no one cares! When I posted a few months ago about spending any money, I believe its when I got my new mixing console, all I got was hostility, that I spent money and comments, like why I have that money, basically people people not realising what benefits a JOB might bring, especially when you work in the industry like us. I think you are Fuckin well lucky to get a RE-201 for that price as as you said they can go for up to three times that price, I'm in awe, and when I came over the night I thought it looked immaculate! Well lucky mate! anyway, I gave you new track a listen and left a comment, please tell me what you think...

Keep on making music for the community even though it looks like those bastards are grinding you down, Don't throw in the towel and but you may want to be looking at different platforms as I just don't think Newgrounds is doing you well at all, and to release a Beta song which you are going to eventually release under Diamond/Parlophone, too ask the Newgrounds community for any type of comment or support is quite brave to say the least. As what i've seen on NG in the last decade is more and more kids preaching anonymity, sticking behind their blinds, bullying and laughing at people when its not warrented and its jsut not funny, to be hponest some people on here are just twisted and they think they can just hide in the shadows without any consequence to themselves, or other around them.

At least we are blood, hand shaking friends. This is the internet, Stuart but if you can bring some of that negativety and turn it into something positive, music, art, you know anything, without getting yourself down, you will end up flying and if you can sit down and spend more time on your music, you might do something like one of the legends on here, but until you can take a step back, stop looking at how many views or comments you are getting per song, and stop giving two tosses about anything, you may make something of your time on this portal, and do I say make better time and use of your time on this planet, as you know your precious time is in a way finite, and just don't throw it away to stress which will ultimately kill you earlier, and don't throw you time away to just garbage, because I know you are better than this, but if you enjoy it why not, but seeing you the other day tells me otherwise.

Sorry for any negativity Maxx but this had to be said and I hate to see you in a mood, because I know it's because of this, Throw in the towel, to this portal as Fuckin trolls which thrive from people's misery which happen to pulsate from this website, and it seems to be troll central around here. What can I say, maybe its age which has led me to say this. But sort it out, take your holiday in peace, and I hope stupid children don't ultimately, ruin your view within your music career!

Thanks will say I'm slightly annoyed and maybe even embarrassed by your comment, but I imagine the troll thing being quite true. To tell you if anything I Fucking pissed off about the last release, all I wanted was a constructive comment all I get as usual is complete hate, I know everyone on here is anonymous, but even for anno. people, this is sometimes pretty low.

I found out today that Cough someone called with the initial of zX or a user with a very similar name was kicked off of another platform when they found out they were using A.) those type of gaining extra views websites and they had also used mass evasive advertising techniques to gain extra viewership. Apart from these kinds of things A.) been expensive to carry out, its not the way to gain extra fans. I then looked on NG the other day and saw their release of an extremely popular song had been removed by the Mod teams which I then cross referenced with the forum and found not only had they used these techniques to get extra views, which is against policy, they actually lifted the whole song from poor Austrian bloke which had his computer stolen, and his song was then released on the internet, including this site. I will maybe PM you about the name and details, but I looked up to the certain user for quite a while. Its Fucked...All I'll say about it was a very popular dubstep song which even youtube had gone as far as to have it removed. I feel sorry for everyone involved but it kind of shows you that stealing on here is rife even in the physical sense. But someone on my last post said I should run advertising but after doing the necessary research I found this could get me banned from the portal. What do I actually do?

I'll add there is also a very well known user on here which makes electronic dance pieces with saxophone, only reason I'll call him out was because you know that song we did with jordan...yes? I got a very nasty PM from him personally. But I dawned on me the other day that I swear one of his songs contained A.) a bunch of copyrighted Sax riff's but not just not that but from a very popular pack which I own a copy....I searched through my computer and the sexy sax solo/riff was found. His song has about 100K views on youtube and on here! If I did that I would be kicked of the portal guaranteed! But up to you do you think...I've put this PUBLICLY so other can chime in where necessary, I don't feel comfortable being a grass, but this really is taking this class A piss! and I know the email for the copyright holder, but if you don't think I should I won't but, with all this shit going on I might, because this is being a right liberty, not to mention the particular artist is taking it like a so and so!

I know I'll be flamed in some way for this comment, but I have really stopped caring!

Yours, maxx.