The first version of “Occupy” didn’t turn out quite as well as I had hoped it would. Something about its mix was bothering me. Later on I finally nailed down the main problem areas and decided to rework the song to get it closer to how I originally envisioned it. This is the result of my work ^_^
There honestly isn’t too much that’s different aside from a few swapped out background parts and some additional sounds added for ornamentation. The biggest change is in the mixdown, which was completely redone from scratch using a different technique than before. Things now sound more balanced and the rhythm section feels more driving, at least to my ears.
Anyways, enjoy! Please reblog this to share it! The lyrics are still available in my previous post.
Well crap
So right now I have six songs that are basically finished as far as composition goes. They are:
Wired Jungle
Midnight Highway
Tweak
Occupy
Intro #1
Emotions
Not that listing off their titles will do you any good, but bear with me here :) There are also 2-3 other incomplete songs that may or may not develop into full compositions.
Anyway, as far as the album goes, I have a few problems developing that I’m trying to fix. The first is that Emotions doesn’t fit with the other music. Like, at all. It just sounds like this weird crappy emo tune that doesn’t develop. So do I remove it from the album, or do I continue to hack away at it? Or should I go radical on it, fork what I have now, and completely rework things?
The second problem is that the mixes for Tweak and Occupy still don’t sound like I want them. It’s something I tried fixing the other night but, much to my dismay, I actually made them worse. So I’m not sure how to handle them right now.
The third problem is that I can’t seem to come up with anything really good lately. Every time I try writing something it comes out sounding cheesy, super depressing/emo, or both.
Perhaps I just need to take a break from music for a few weeks :)
This is “Occupy”, a song I wrote in support of the Occupy movement, and a song off of the upcoming album, 63. It’s more of an EBM-influenced song than some of the other stuff I’ve been writing, and as such it will appear on disc two of 63.
The song started life as an experiment to create a more “traditional” EBM bass sound and just sort of took off from there, with me just adding one harsh part to it after another. Although I had been wanting to write a song about the Occupy movement, I didn’t originally intend to do that with this song. But since Occupy seems to be so upset with the way the system is (at least that’s my view of it so far), this song just felt like it fit.
The lyrics are intentionally distorted almost to the point of being unrecognizable. I’ve posted them below.
Enjoy!
Occupy By Alexa Jones-Gonzales
Can’t get hired No health care Food or rent Lose a home
Send it all To the top None for you None for me
Laws that harm Wars that kill Markets that Suck you dry
Uncle Sam In on it Welcome to the Police state
They’ll kick you out Seize your stuff Don’t give up Go back in
Show them who Owns this place Demand change Occupy!
I didn’t expect this to happen quite this soon, but the new Partition 36 album is now about 25% finished. This is the same one titled 63 that I mentioned in my last post. With two CDs, intro tracks, and an accompanying art/writings book (yikes…), this album will likely be my most ambitious project yet. And if the tracks I recently finished mixing down are any indicator, also my best sounding one.
The idea of the two CDs came about because of the thematic and stylistic differences between the tracks I have both written and planned. Although Inside The Beat turned out really well, I was never all that happy with how it wasn’t that cohesive. The title track was a banging industrial-inspired song, while the song right after it was influenced more by jazz, synthpop, and J-pop. But by splitting the new album into two CDs, and throwing on a few extra tracks, things should sound like they belong together, and the overall theme will be much more apparent.
As far as releasing it goes, this one will definitely be available for purchase, but I’m debating if I should have both digital and physical releases. If I do end up doing just a digital release, the art book would just be a downloadable PDF. But I also like having that physical copy in my hands because then it feels that much more real. I guess we’ll see how things go.
I’m feeling generous today. How about a sample from my upcoming album?
This is a downtempo track off the upcoming album, now tentatively called “63”. It was heavily inspired by Boards of Canada, Jean-Michel Jarre, Metroid Prime, and some of the Serial Experiments Lain soundtrack.
