EPTMusic
I've been posting a lot of my electronic music creations (house, progressive house) here for probably the past two years, so I thought I'd give a bit of an update to everyone that supported and encouraged me in the past. Several things have happened in the last 3 months.
The story behind my first release is pretty weird and unusual, and it essentially started as a sort of weird trolling attempt on a swedish gaming forum, fragbite. This was back in december and I was just casually browsing when some guy had randomly recorded a little clip of himself humming a melody and then uploaded it on youtube. He was searching for a tune he had heard on a party, but no one could figure out what it was so eventually I made a little melody with his vocals ripped from youtube on top. Some people actually thought it sounded decent, so they kept bugging me to make a full track out of it which I eventually did.
Because he was humming something along the lines of 'omg this is so good', I naturally had to name it "this is so good" whether I wanted to or not.After that, someone posted it mislabeled as an avicii track on youtube, which attracted a stupid amount of views, and before I knew it I was getting several messages on soundcloud from various internet labels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDb4XnXEH2Y
I really didn't want to release it at first, mostly because I wasn't terrible happy with the song, but two days prior to christmas I got a message from the official Spencer & Hill soundcloud and I couldn't resist releasing it on their label (bazooka, sublabel of zooland records). It started surfacing on a bunch of random house blogs and actually did quite well after it hit beatport last month.
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61:th on the beatport progressive house chart. Milestone.
A couple of weeks back I got a chance to try my hands on dj:ing (while meeting with an agency). Incredibly fun and I have already purchased my own decks and mixer. I've received bookings from all over the place so I hope to be able to dj a little this summer if I am prepared. Currently school is really eating away at my free time which kind of sucks, feels a bit like I can't properly focus on anything right now (first year comp sci student).
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Somehow managed to look pissed and tired on every picture despite having incredibly fun.
The actual dance floor on the right, I'd have been pretty nervous if it wasn't for the fact that people kept putting drinks in my hand the whole evening.
The actual dance floor on the right, I'd have been pretty nervous if it wasn't for the fact that people kept putting drinks in my hand the whole evening.
My facebook, in case anyone is interested.
Starcraft
I haven't had time to play starcraft 2 recently, and additionally my computer doesn't handle it incredibly well. I'm honestly a little bit scared to play again. I'd be facing master opponents after about 8 months of inactivity. T_T
I did however start playing a little bit of brood war campaign a couple of days ago. First time in several years. I actually started playing starcraft around the time of the initial release of vanilla sc. I was about 11, and I distinctly remember watching my first game of starcraft after some crafty kid had somehow managed to bypass our school's admin system and installed starcraft on virtually every computer in the entire building.
It was an FFA between some older students and one of my friends, and I was completely fascinated by all the cool units. Especially burrowing hydras and protoss structures. I got my copy of the game as soon as I possibly could and instantly fell in love with it, more than any game I had ever experienced. I was really into science fiction etc as a kid. and the floating terran buildings and battle cruisers really amazed me.
One night I had been watching Aliens along with my parents, and I sat down immediately afterwards to play some terran campaign. I would assign names and entire backgrounds for every individual marine and scv and I'd even have pretend conversation exchanges between the commander (myself) and specific units. There was something magical about the way I'd play games as a kid. I'd see the units and really get a blast just out of watching them and by interacting with them. Now all I see is a weapon damage, a health value and the special ability assuming I haven't already deemed it worthless. Wish I could experience that again, in many ways growing up really blows. I kept thinking about this over the last couple of days for some reason.
P.S. the subscribed thread thingy is amazing.
P.P.S ordering a tl shirt just so that I can dj in it. ^^
P.P.P.S congrats to Starparty for having his song featured in a Oakenfold set. Instant baller status.
