July 21, 2009 - Thoughts On The Recent EP

It suddenly occurred to me that even though I released my first EP, Opcode-1, earlier this month, I still hadn’t given my thoughts on it! Well, overall I would say that I’m mostly pleased with it. My goal with the EPs is to release music more often by compiling the “b-sides”, stuff that may not end up on normal albums, and remastered or rearranged tracks from long ago.

Opcode-1 accomplished this quite well. The First and last tracks are by far my favorites, while the remasters are probably my least. I think this is just because I’ve heard the remastered tracks so many times (I originally wrote those in high school or right after it). As far as the sound quality goes, I’m actually very happy with it, but for some very specific reasons. At first I was worried that I had left off too much bass on the songs, but the more I listened to them the more I realized that I had gotten them quite balanced for what they are. What’s more is that, although you won’t hear it on the released tracks, working with these actually taught me quite a bit more about dynamic compression. The new stuff I’ve learned will make its appearance on the next Partition 36 release.

My only real gripe with Opcode-1 is on a higher level. The style of songs on it aren’t what I originally imagined Partition 36 releasing. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad release, not by any means. It’s just not what I had planned to write. So it’s more of a personal letdown than anything :^)

Partition 36 is more than just my “one-man band”. It’s my electronic music project. The whole goal of it was to release music that was a little bit darker. I was tired of trying to write generic epic trance or video game music, and wanted to work with music that was influenced by the EBM and Futurepop scenes. Making this switch is requiring me to learn a lot of new things, and even relearn some old techniques.