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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.

Age 32, Male

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Brighton, UK

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I'm still alive but something died inside of me...

Posted by maxxpump - September 8th, 2017


So I sat on my head for about a week to gather my thoughts and get myself some new direction with my music. I met a few people through the company which has accepted my musical contract, through Parlo and Diamond records, and everyone which I've spoken too and listened to my music kind of agree's that I need a more firm direction, rather than the hodge podge of music which I create on a daily basis. I'm also in agreement than instead of just releasing new ideas (kind of like the two pieces I released today) too actually practice the work before recording it so I can get time get the vocals and other things where I want it to be. The things I put up on this portal are fresh ideas, and I'm going now change that, so if you don't see me post anything for a while you know whats happened (I've had a few PM's from peeps to see if I'm alright, which I am, just as, well Fireball put it...in a funny mood!) I've just as I said really above posted and received my answer for my future at said record company which is excellent news, but have actually been told while my composition is nearly flawless (and no the work I sent to Parlo, isn't on Newgrounds and I doubt it will ever be), I need to work on my overall mixing techniques and overall sound selection. 

Yeah I know that I've been in the past trolled on here, big whoop! I took a rain check and decided that I should percervier, or get to f***k, which I ain't at the moment as It aint worth my trouble. So I will continue to post but as I said before it will futher between posts as I really want to start to get things right on my side of the portal. So my corner will be a little bit more special than it is before. I released one piece today which is called "When it rains it pours" which was inspired by November Rain, by Gun and Roses. its what I call Neo-classical, and its got a lot of elements of EDM, Rock, Metal, tiny bit of jazz and mainly orchestral orchestration, I took me about a week to compose and took me about a day and half to score down into Cubase. 

This can be found here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/764604

I'm really not too proud of the accordion experimentation project I did earlier today, I did say in the descriptions that they shouldn't taken seriously, but there will be more serious accordion work which I've been composing for the last month which maybe released in the next couple of weeks. The song which will come out in the next few weeks is kind of like "Chamberlain", no vocals (at the moment), but with more technicallity and is going to be one of the most technical accordion pieces which I've ever done. I'm taking some inspiration from Big Johnous band and Weird Al Yankvich, as well as Peter Rosser and Ned Serrani (sorry if I've butched any of their names). I know by law I shouldn't mention inspiration points, but its really hard in this day and age not to, and especially while letting my fan base know what to expect of my upcoming work. 

I've also been working on a piece which inspired by "Kaizo Trap" which at the moment is slowly turning out to be a thing, but theres a lot of work still to be done as mainly im still working out how effectively use the VST of choice which is Xfer Serum, and how to use it. I've got a basic understanding of routing and sampling/sound manipulation but the VST is extremerly indepth, and I want to really be able to make exactly the sounds I want instead of going through the presets which I've got. So learning may or may not lead to some Dubstep style tracks, but my end goal is I want to use Serum for a lot more than just that. On my list to buy is Massive, which "ZerryX" used on "Gameover" extensively, this is another track I would love to pick apart for education, but at the moment don't have really too much of a clue how to go about the spefic sounds which were used.

I'm currently working on a remake/remix of the Logical song by Supertramp, which the dance group Scooter redid during the 90's, its sounding really good, but for obvious reasons I can't release the final project on here. I've also did a remake of David Osbournes version of Hotel California, which I've learning on piano. David Osbourne is a classically trained Steinway piano specialist, which is poopoo hot at what he does, and easily plays Hotel Cali, better than the Eagles ever could. 

I'm also studying a band called "The Travelling Wilbury's" which are a super group made up of Roy Orbinson, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan. Their music's pretty hard to retranscribe as the rythems very hard to sequence, things like strumming of guitars, mainly acoustic, is nearly impossible to do in Cubase unless you've got a spefic VST or program to do it. But I've made a few inspired tracks, which I may release when I feel comftable, hell I believe I already released a inspired track by them when I was working one of the weekends with Fireball.

Anyway back to the slog and just remember if I ain't released anything for a few days, I'm not dead, just working on new creative solutions for everyone to enjoy! Peace everybody...

 


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