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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 - September 15th, 2016


This track will now be out saturday, there will be a remix following it which is as a collaboration project. I really hope people enjoy this new track... 


Posted by maxxpump - September 14th, 2016


We have now re-mixed the track on works studio computer, and ran the stems through to the DAT recorder and added some mastering effects. On Nuendo, we ran the drums through the Joe Meek valve compressor and then EQ'ed them. The tracks been remixed as we reconstructed it. The final master is now in wave lab getting a remaster and will have the nearly finalized version ready to be sent of to bring it to CD quality. 

Thanks for all the comments we have added and subtracted bits from the mix and it sounds really cool. 

The master, will be run back possibly to reel to reel, to give it a better effect and sound like it was recorded to tape in the first place. Depends how it sounds when it comes back from wavelab. 

 


Posted by maxxpump - September 14th, 2016


Hello all, Just a late update on my work. I've finished compsing Dystopain Dreams and I've got a good arrenagement. I've now been asked by two people to let them insert some bits and remix it, so this may turn into a collaboration project. This is now classed as a 80's leaning Electronica, industrial and New wave song, with aspects taken from Dubstep, Trip hop and mild Discotech styles from the 70's and 80's. This sounds much more different to Dystopain peace, is it better...Im not sure, but I've had a bunch of nice comments from people who have viewed it on early access, so hopefully it goes down well when it released next week! It has a slightly darkish edge and has a quite punchy drum line. I've jsut updtaed Both Newgrounds and YT with the new 1.7 version. There will be a Radio mix produced and a remix by a quest DJ or mix artist of some description. If you want to get involved give us a shout and we'll sort something out! This is now a ten minute song and is a eclectic selection of five compsoitions mixed into one.

It will use some of the same sounds from Dystopian Peace and is now ready to be mastered.

I've had a few comments today berating me for releasing Systopain suite as it sounds like Dystopian peace, which is the whole point really as it is the extended version of the song of the same name! This new song however doesn't really share the same style or beat as Dysopian Peace and is a completely diffrent genre and feel of song. There will be remixes of this work to come out and hopefully a drum and bass remake can be arranged! 

Also out today is "Over my head" which is a rock song which was recorded at the same time as "Mind (The strings of rock", which unfortunetly has the same guitar tone but itis one of my favourite reditions of classic rock styles. 

I also released the Yamaha CS-40m sound test which was recorded a few months ago and has done really well on YT and a few other platforms. 

There maybe another song released tonight called "Blues Jam" which is me on Hammond organ and is a very good song to be jammed over. Its kind of a classic rock styled backign track, I left it dry of any solos and its also been popular with people wanting to use it for their organ and guitar works! Which is really cool, it was inspired by a osng from a candaian band called "Arcade Fire" which are pretty well known, but I will say it doesn't sound anything like their music, which really is a good thing as I don't like the genre they created that much.   

 

 


Posted by maxxpump - September 14th, 2016


I am now working on the sucessor to dystopian peace which has clocked over a thousand views on some platforms. Dystopian peaces format has this flowing and very dancable beat and synthesis layout, Its got nearly trip hop drums, and as I have seen all the comments Ive had from people, I've decided to make dystopian peace no.4: Dystopian dreams (or should I say nightmare...). This will have the same flow as the original but will be much more heavier and build up into something which I going to sound amazing!  

I have the Dystopain Suite to release later which is a mix of Dystopian peace, Dystopain Rock and The end as we know it. The song is based on all out nuclear war and what happens afterwards. It has aspects taken from Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis and I scored it after watching blade runner and reading 1984 by Wells. 

This may go anyway as the origianl is electronica, with a touch of rock, this may turn out to go a bit drum and bass like. But this is very much a work in progress and will be out sometime...maye the weekend or next week. 

This is the original: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/651032

Ive now got the structure down and its now available to beta test, if you want to test the track get back to me...

The full release will be next Wednesday at 12:00 GMT.

Edit 1: Ive just finished finalizing the piece, it now needs mastering (hence I won't release it now), I've just processed it with my waves mastering suite and its starting to sound really good, but I'm not a 100% sure on the compsitions arrangment and theres still a lot more work to do before it can be released.

The new piece is going to be New Wave, Electro-Industrial, Electronic/electronica which was inspired by Jean Michel-Jarres newer work, Its made for subwoofer and has a very good sonic mix. Im still fianlizing the mix for the drums and this will take the longest as I want this tune to contain multipul different types of beat patterns, that will change the Eb and flow of the overall piece. I could have just slapped soem drum and bass samples in there, but whats the fun in that.   

Edit 2: I've now onto V1.5 and its been extended to six minutes, still looking for beta testers...this is going to be a big tune, and it sounds absloutely banging on my Hi-Fi and Subwoofer system, Im yet to test it in my car. There is lots of variation in there and it flows like any industial new wave should go. I can not wait to release it and show what I've been upto and to kind of show off my lead solo playing (which has been now mapped down on keytar). The arpeggios on this track kind of sound like the work that Kebu has done on his youtube channel (and he a sicker keyboard player than I am!), I've added some notation which is reminiscent of Gerorgio moroder (Nowhere to his level, but its sounding excellent). 

I hope this track to have at leats 110% the impact then Dystopian Peace, btu this new song has a different feel to it and I haven't exactly taken many of the arps or synth soudn choices, apart from Dystopains infamous drone which I produced by a real sampled CS-80 and been heavily processed, but enough that it has mashed up the amazing tone of the CS-80. I just need to do a remaster and run the track through my valve equipment and it should be ready. This is set to be released on all my platforms at the same time. 

I also just added polysynth sounds from my Yamaha EX-800, I've also added some reinforcement in there from Nexus (to help beef up the bass sound and give the song more flow). I've got Waves Ir-1 and Compression on every channel now and the drums are soudnign really fat and punchy (mainly as I've shoved them through Izotopes Ozone 4). 

 

 


Posted by maxxpump - September 13th, 2016


Thats it 400 song videos now on my youtube account! smashing. Thanks to everyone who has given me support over the the last two years and thanks to my followers! 


Posted by maxxpump - September 12th, 2016


I put up a new song today Supah nintendough! it scored currently at 59 views but a score of 1.96! why don't people leave a comment to say whats wrong, rather than stating there ears have died (through the star system)? its not a bad track and I beleive ive been trolled. 


Posted by maxxpump - September 12th, 2016


Now remaking old material and remixing work from 2008-2010, so look out for those coming out in the next few days and weeks. I've just remade "Fireball's Vortex (ping board mix)" and about to remix GTA remix (it will be a remix...remix)

Fireballs page: http://fireball01e.newgrounds.com/

I've also got a live rap piece to go up tonight featuring a girl I went to college with, which is a really good track! (its called intervibe and the link is down below!)  

Edit, Ive now done three remixes of fireballs originals, including the Vortex, space exploration and GTA Remix.

They should be all up tomorrow! in the meantime check out my new track "Intervibe Ft Ellie" which is live played dance and rap song http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/703283


Posted by maxxpump - September 12th, 2016


But I still don't know how to get in to it as im locked out my email. If you want to my 2009 creations go to http://fireball01e.newgrounds.com/


Posted by maxxpump - September 11th, 2016


After a slogging session in my mates and coworkers studio, I finished a few clean mixes and had them posted into a local indie radio station, they got back to me in half an hour! and stated they wanted my music for a late night slot, provided I post masters next week! Im so chuffed and overwelmed as I've never had airtime before. Its a sole EDM station which also does D&B, jungle and dubstep and hopefully ths will be a step in the right direction for my music!

Thanks to everyone who had a look at my new tracks today thats really boosted my condidence a lot and will keep me driving forward (even after my two rap songs left a black hole in my heart! Some people humpf!)

I am now working on EDM/Drum and bass the first piece will be up wednedsday! But in the mean time there is "Supah nintendough" to release which is another track form 2009, which I did under my last persona: Fireball grafix, which last time I checked newgrounds the account is gone (I don't have the details for it anymore and locked out of my aries email account (FF7 reference!). (I was very ill a couple of years ago and didn't use any technology for about three years apart from my keyboards and susquently got locked out of everything...as I just couldn't rememeber my passwords and spellings of things, which is sad as my last stuff clocked quite a few views and it would have been brilliant to carry on my work there, but such as life!) To be honest im not sure if it was ever posted so I will post it here anyway! Its a really catchy game style tune and is in keepignwith oler system game songs. I think its quite good anyway! 

I've got three more EDM tracks called "Noizer", "Madness!" and "The Riser" to release which are all new material. 

I am aso buildign a new synth in synth edit to make digital drones as I loved the drone form "Dystopian peace" so much I love to have synth to base my newer songs on! 

anyway thanks again for looking! 

P.S the digital remaster of the new edition of Dance with beat is comin galong and will expidite it now so it maybe released mid week as an update or new remastered version, im not sure yet., what does people think...


Posted by maxxpump - September 11th, 2016


Just released my new track which is a remake of a piece I made in 2009, I will say Ive made serval versions since I released it this morning. just to clarify (mainly for my own use so I don't forget...) V1.0 is the clean version which is on all my other channels V.1.1 is the one which is up now on newgrounds, this version has more bass, but to me sounds off (I'll work out whats up when it gets remastered), V.1.3 is the new verison with extra mixing and a new pad sound (more low end rumble through out the track), V1.4 this version I've added a vocoder track, but I still need to play with the mix levels as its slightly to loud in sections (this unlike other songs I've released on newgrounds, is a multi tonal vocoder which has been tracked on multipule channels, as Orange doesn't have a live MIDI mode to play in as the song goes along, which is unfortunate :(  ). V1.5 Is the cleanest mix I've now done and will be the version whcih is remastered at bradbury mastering Limited on thursday, so I should be able to release the next version next saturday (this is the same mastering house which I did "Do you love me (Take me back)", whch came out very clean and is a much better master than the original. 

I still want to add more sound effects to the mix and will do this before thursday, and will give me a better chance to have another play with the mix before fianl mastering!

I haven't unforunately played it back on a Hi-Fi yet as I've doen the mix so far in V1.1 on the monitors, I know it may sound different (as it always does) if anyone can give feedback on what it sounds like on your system and what system you've got, this would be excellent. I don't usually release stuff that has't been fully tested but I really wanted to get this out and it past the test on my phone (which I figure would be the most likely device for play back these days, apart from tablets.)

I do have some other Drum and bass tunes in the works which are alot faster than my previous attempts, which hopefully will be more dancable. Ive also now nearly fully aclimatized myself to Cubase 8.5, but am still reading the manual to seek out new features.

Edit! I've just released two new tracks one is Bassilicious which is Dubstep, D&B and verging on jungle, might be a good sub track (not sure as I ain't got one! and my other track Bottleneck which is another heavy EDM track using my new favourite synth Serum!

So it now means I have a whole package on songs to get properly mastered, I'll have to see what I can afford as it ain't cheap...

Edit 2: I currently remixing Basslicious as there was a complaint it was too quiet, which I've now rectified, but im not sure what happens to all the posts on the video if I reupload the file so may wait for the next upload cycle and upload a different version and see what happens! Sorry guys my big bad! 

Edit 3: new version of the Drum and bass track is now up but it still sounds not loud enough, my recommendation is to download it as the file is much louder! The versions on my other plaforms are louder than on newgrounds for some reason and much bassy (I aint got a clue what happened!)  

I hope everyone is good and are having a nice weekend! :)