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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 - August 28th, 2017


So I did a bit of work earlier with Mr Loman, and he made a pretty cool sounding rock track. So I soiled it with my voice, which actually apart from vocal warm up at the beginning, it turned out really well! take a listen if you dare! http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762893?updated=1503975017

A bit like Limal or Europe, just a bit more basic...


Posted by maxxpump - August 28th, 2017


....Not much because he has probably has the wrong shoe size to me. But anyway me and Dan has made "inspired" tracks as a bit laugh, as we know we couldn't even touch his works. Maybe one day, but my mixings not quite there as of yet. So I made a completly original track called "Run for his money" http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762830 Which is a pretty interesting track, Dan on the other hand did a inspired track, of Shape of the sun, which I thought turned out really well. You can find this golden turd here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762850 There will be more to come as I still want to do a inspired track of Dimension, while making it sound completly orginal! I'll see you later! 


Posted by maxxpump - August 28th, 2017


Our new song which we made over three days, is called "The Grid", it was first scored on a Korg Oasys, then it had all parts recorded and controlled through Cubase 9. We used pretty much every VSTi I had available, including Vanguard, Hypnotic Dance, Kontakt 5, Eighty Eight 2, Hydra, Peraxis, Predator 2. A majority of the strings were from the Oasys, and we also used the Korg Triton for deep bass sounds. The Guitar was Strawberry by Evolution, and I used all custom sounds for synth bass on Vanguard. As Fireball01e said in his post this song is inspired by Daft Punk's Tron, especially the song called "The Grid". This was recorded mainly over three days as technically we could have done it over a day and a day for mixing, but we have so many other projects going it was a question of time. I really like the resulting song we made and I think it sounds pretty epically amazing, as the orchestral sections fit amazingly perfectly. Even though it uses the same chord structure throughout there's still enough variation to keep you going throughout the track. We had to chop quite a lot out of the track as it was going to be over ten minutes long, but we got it down to around six minutes in total. I like to thank our good friend J lynch, who helped me score this piece, and had the mind to state that we should change genre throughout the song, as its got a very cinematic feel to it with a bit of rock and some EDM styles in there for good measure. http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762743

My next song that I'm currently producing is called "The Pied Piano Project", I've gone back to making instrumentals as obviously my singing's so hit and miss, some of it listening to it back now is quite frankly embarrising. So I will just put out stuff like that which I've sat on for a week and had a real chance to perfect it through practice. "The Pied Piano" is a song I made about two years ago, just on piano, so I will need a chance to relearn it. At the moment it kind of reminds me of the sound track to "Worms", but it really isn't. 

I'm also working on a piece called "Alone" which is based on a Travelling Wilbury's song called "Your not alone anymore" which stars the vocals by Roy Orbinson, which has an absolutely fantastic vocal. I'm not sure how I'm going to go about doing the track yet, ass the Wilbury's songs are very technical and a bit over my head, mainly as I don't own a guitar, so can't get the rythem i'm really after, but I'll work something out. 


Posted by maxxpump - August 25th, 2017


So I've been releasing alot of draft works today, including what I did with the band this morning, a hike up the hill to Fireball01e's personal studio as he had a day off work, and also a personally made tune made here and there. There was only one favourite song from today's collection which there will be a studio recording of it made tomorrow, hopefully my vocals are up for it. My favourite, is a track called "And now your gone!" http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762130 My other close favourite was a track called "Do you believe in me" which Fireball wrote and sequenced which he wrote with Jeff lynne in mind, and I think he pulled off a really happy sounding song, much like the technicallity which was shown in the Wilbury's tracks. 

Another track for me that came close was a track called "By the Way": http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762105, which has pretty techical composition and its a git to play on the piano, but I completly remade it live on keyboards @ about six o'clock this morning, where at that stage I was recording accordion work to put on the track. The vocals still need a little bit of work, but with practice which for the track recorded this morning was recorded on the fly! But it will apprectiate a proper studio recording at some in time in the near future!

I have recorded "Do You Love Me (Take Me Back), which I've released tonight as a EDM styled track, and has still has a lot of live playing on it and its sounding fairly good. 

For all those well wishers which have sent me messages regarding "Chamberlain Vocal Remake", thankyou very much and I will get onto a more polished version as soon as possible, but it was quite a hard track to record, so will take a lot of preparation! But I will get it to sound like the likes of bands like Beirut which my accordion work aspires too. But I've still got quite a lot of studying to do before I can release such a track, thanks for your patience. 

The next track I am in the process of re-writing is a track called "Alexi" which was made more of a soundtrack but I'm going to remake it as a pop/rock song with added vocals. 


Posted by maxxpump - August 25th, 2017


So me and the band met up had a few coffee's and started recording random jams, we were not trying to sound like anything, and my vocals a bit suspect in places, but I think the session work has poteiential to turn into something really good. I released two pieces from this session, one being a song called "Round the bend" which is me and Dan singing, roughly and apart from a few errors here and there, its not bad. http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762116

The second song is called "And now your gone" which is my favourite song of the day, which came out with orhestration sounding similar, to 1970's light rock bands, namely the Traveling Wilbury's and the guitar in places really reminds me of White Fang. http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762130

and my studio piece of this morning is a track called "by the way" http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/762105 which is a song last year for someone to do vocals on, they never got around to it, so I did it myself instead, I like the resulting song, its like the original track (which was never released on NG) but with added accordion and extra solo's. 


Posted by maxxpump - August 22nd, 2017


So I've been sending files back and too, from Dan and Davis. (Some of my better pieces I will post here). I ordered myself a SE electronics X1T (valve Condensor microphone) so should get that in about a week or so. The first piece I want to share is called "We're on Fire" which is a song I made last year and it flopped as it had vocal problems with the vocoder on the track, this new one still uses a better microphone (Rode NT1-A) to give a cleaner signal for the vocoder and subsquently sounds much better! http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761629

The second is a piano track I made called "Trebor" which was really popular as a instrumental, now has been rerecorded with a vocal. http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761513 

This next track is called "Life on Newgrounds" which is predomintly a accordion track http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761496


Posted by maxxpump - August 21st, 2017


So since I released "Space Fantasy" originally, it got seven hundred plays on Youtube and about five hundred on this website, which wasn't bad going...

So after seeing its initial success I adapted the score to play it live and we had it on general rotation, swapping out this track with another popular track, and it always went down fairly well. Since I was bored this morning and didn't have to much of clue or composition in mind, I looked thought the catalogue (which is about a thousand songs!), and decided it was about time I did a remake of this track. I'm performing tonight and have susquently updated the backing tracks for this new version. Tonight I'm playing at a venue which has capacity for just over a thousand people, which is interesting in itself. I'm doing all new versions of my original works from the last few years. Which includes "My Downfall", "Freedom", "Space Fantasy", "When it doesn't work", "Chamberlain" and the new version of "The Vortex remix '17", which I released yesterday. I may or may play "Like a Dream" as well, but its just an hour slot, and its for support of quite a well known Brighton Electronic music act. If it goes down well theres a chance been able to get a support slot in a few weeks time to support another well known guy called "Norman Cook" which is AKA Fatboy slim, if this goes down well it would be a high light for me and would boost my self worth!  

I give you the new version, which is exclusive at the moment to NewGrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761465

Update 1: I've been over Fireball01e's studio pretty much all morning and we've rerecorded a few of my pieces, including the popular accordion song "Chamberlain" and "When Life Doesn't Work". I sing on all recordings and to be honest I'm really starting like my vocals, as low key defiently suits my style of work (or some of it anyway!). I will be doing a few more accordion songs in the coming days, so if you like my accordion playing there's something to look forward to! They are going to be eastern european, and baroquet songs, which I really love composing this kind of music! This is the "Chamberlain": http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761480

Update 2: Just finalised my last accordion song before I have to compose again from scratch, this song is a Eastern European Jig about my problems with posting on NG as a whole, I hope you like as I had great fun making it! http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761496

I recorded another song with Fireball01e that is called "Why Don't you Remember me anymore" again its a original accordion piece, which has a full decent vocal track on it! https://soundcloud.com/exedistmusic/dont-you-remember-me-anymore-accordion-and-vocal


Posted by maxxpump - August 20th, 2017


First thing I did this morning was go over F'balls channel and I checked out his "Vortex 2017 mix", which were not bad, but I thought I could make something much better, more alive! I'm big fan of "Vortex (ping pong board) mix which Fireball01e did I think originally back in 2006, but only release on NG back in 2009. I've been studying keyboards and playing techniques, of man from Sweden called Sebastian "Kebu" Teir, and by watching his youtube video's and by ear I have learned many of the songs which he plays, including his version of Chase by Giogio Moroder, his version of Miami Vice by Jan Hammer and his original track series Perplexagon. From doing this i'm playing much more in time and can do complex arpeggios quickly and effiently. I used this learned techinque on Vortex 2017 Remix which I released this morning on NG and as far as my playing is concerned I think I have really raise the bar comparing to a lot of my other work. I'm in love with it, which in itself is highely unusual for me as I genuinely believe that a majority of my works are very hit and miss. There is vocal on the track, which I would replace if a female singer would contact me on one of the many platforms I use, obviously depends if they like the track that is...http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761300

I'm also at the moment working on dance version of "Dystopian Peace" which is starting to turn out really well! This maybe released tonight, I'll see what transpires! 

My other track "Shining in the Moonlight" is another Accordion song and has me attempting a very low vocal which is in operatic style, but I'm still playing around with microphone usage techniques, so the vocals have distorted slightly as my voice while recording just is too powerful! "Shining in the Moonlight" was very much inspired by the band Beirut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut_(band), and even though it might not be everyones cup of tea, I've really tried to get this piece to sound amazing as Stuartly possible! http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761309


Posted by maxxpump - August 19th, 2017


Yesterday I took a trip up to London and picked myself up a Roland FR-7 Digital Accordion and I've made a pretty catchy tune called This is a Garden Party, I'll release it on here later for now I've got it on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/ZtHFA2lyMEU Enjoy! 

Update: Dan just released it after a remix on it here, enjoy! http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761137

Update 2: So I see that some zero bombed again, I'm not posting again because this absolutly pointless, F**kin git you know who you are.


Posted by maxxpump - August 18th, 2017


http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/760963 This is Meet SID, a new Dubstep tune I made this morning I hope you like it, its a pretty powerful track!