Skyline

Well folks, as it stands I have two completed pieces for "Skyline" now, including the title piece. I'll probably end up re-jigging every single song before the final release, so whatever teasers I'm releasing here now aren't going to be the best indication of how the whole thing will end up sounding. But, it shall give you a good idea. :)

So far I have completed the title piece, "Skyline" and another, more retro-darkwave sounding song called "A Dark Place". Both are still majorly unfinished, and are just rough examples of where I'm going.

I have uploaded "Skyline" to Newgrounds, but since I have a new account they're putting my first upload through some kind of approval process, which seems to be taking forever, they've had my submission for about 16 hours now, and I'm starting to wonder if they forgot about me. Anywho, I just want to see what the random people of the world will slate about it, in it's unfinished form.

People can be so mean :D

Anyway. Impatience. Never good. I signed up for a MediaFire account, where I have uploaded the rough mix of Skyline in which you may download at your own will. Hell, shove it on animations/videos. Do whatever. Just try and credit me, and don't distribute it as if you were the creator.

fAg0ts.

There I got the nasty, bad internet lingo out of the way. *Shivers*. I might need a shower after that.

Anway, here's Skyline's rough mix:

Track Name: Skyline

Contributors: Brad Smith

Mix: Rough

Collaboration Time: 3 hours

Comments: None.

Linky: Here.

Intro, Hello!

Hi guys, welcome to the Akuma blog, my name is Brad.

In case you are wondering what exactly Akuma is, here's a brief explanation. Akuma is an electronic music project. Basically, I spend my free time writing and creating electronic music whenever I can under the name Akuma (like the current "Skyline" collection). But, I want Akuma to become and achieve much more as a collective projects of different artists.

As time goes on, and when I am near the end of my Skyline collection, I have a few YouTube video artists that I want to approach about doing some audio-visual sychronisational type stuff.

The "Skyline" Collection

In 2009 I started and almost finished a collection called "Blackprint", unfortunately Linux and Windows don't like each other, causing my computer to give up. I didn't create a backup of my files (like an idiot) and lost around about 6 months of work.

Since the disasterous loss of Blackprint I have rebuilt my software collection from scratch and have left it lying there, collecting moss and dust for about 2 months. Finally getting off my fat ass, I started messing about with FL, after three hours of engrossment I have a start of a new collection. The first peice is itself called "Skyline".

The reason I have decided to create a whole collection around this song is because once I felt myself getting pulled into it as I created more and more of the song, I found myself being captured by the feel of the music I was creating. It has a really underground, creepy feel and I think reflects my current mood perfectly.

The Skyline song is nearly finished, and I'll probably post that as a teaser when it is finished. I'm going to release work-in-progress versions of the collection artwork as I go along, but at the moment I haven't even thought about what I want the artwork to look like.

My aim for this collection is to do 20 pieces, ten at 4 minutes or more and 10 at 3 minutes or less. The problem with previous collections and pieces were that myself and other artists I was working with (more specifically Lewis) weren't giving ourselves a specification on each piece. We'd just create and see what happened, well that worked well for 20% that came out right. But the other 80% was wasted time.

For example, the centre piece of Blackprint was supposed to be a piece called "False Sense of Security", which started out perfectly, but the longer and bigger the piece grew the messier it got, and eventually it crumbled and fell on its backside. So, to give myself limits to work around, and decide what I want to tackle in each piece before I start it seems a good idea.

Start as you mean to go on. Right, I'm off to find somewhere to host my music files so that you can stream "Skyline", when it's finished.

Over and out, Brad.