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.