Currently dealing with some shitty health stuff and it prevents me to show up to solidarity rallies for the Wet’suwet’en. But once I get it fixed, I'll make up my schedule and show up to future rallies. Or even actual direct actions.
Also, I thought about releasing the album, but nah, I'll release the tracks on here.
... I still wanna make synthwave. While I haven't made anything in a while ever since the album release, I'd like to work on chill music this time. I mean, ambient industrial is fun, but it's bit exhausting to produce. I'll also upload the remaining track on the album. Basically, my Bandcamp is now served as a tip jar and not a thing for selling music. I don't want to sell my music nor art. They should be free forever.
For those of you who recently discovered my music, I didn't talk much about what or how my production went about, and just expressed it through the music. You probably were shocked if you listened to my earlier work, as far as 2016, how different they were. I hope this post could explain part of the reason why I changed my style so drastically, at least on the philosophical point of view.
The emotion in these recently works I was looking for, that something depressed, angry, despair yet epic and massive at the same time. I wanted the sounds to represent this dying world. Throughout times on NG, and in the music industry, I've been seeking for a better way to not just communicate, but to relate to my listeners, and vice versa. This now, this the right path. I've done it. But I need a way to connect my listeners to the real world, to educate them, to warn them, about the coming societal collapse. And then, Collapse was born, and it laid out the path for this future. My music have always been purposed as the gateway of education, directly and indirectly.
While Anarchy was my earliest attempt of this style, Collapse and Desertion marked the true changing point in my works.
At first, I thought about making synthwave and stuff, because I do like happy euphoric music. But that's not the reality I'm facing. The reality is that not all my followers nor me will have the chance to survive in this future. I need a tool of education effectively for them. Something to help them think about things coming. Even subconsciously is better than none. I need better way to connect people. This is my grand project.
The video that made me start doing things about this collapse project was Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell:
I believe that education about these things through the medium of expression is the best way to relate to my audience, and their other audience. We're all interconnected and while we might have different, we're still on the same boat, same planet, and we share similar responsibility to keeping this world and its ecology safe.
It's just a very humble take on it. Comparing to the things I do IRL, the radical stuff I do on NG is mild. But still, it's a nice way to have discussion with strangers, through music or art.
DESERTION is an ultra epic yet depressing and emotional album on the collapse of humanity and ecology. This album contains the best works I have created for decade with crafty sound design and thoughtful production. Enjoy!
I've produced 5 additional tracks since Collapse, that built on similar concepts, arrangement and composition to it. However, each track will feature its own unique and out-of-this-world sound design, as to showcase the creativity I have been enjoying to work with. When I will finish the 10th track, this album will be released sometime next month.
Collapse is just the beginning of this ultra-epic, dystopian, post-industrial and spine-chilling ride.
I'll also release the album for free, including free of use for anything, commercial and non commercial.