Tag Archives: edm

Onitod – On A Quest [ Album: Looking for the Sunshine ]

August 6, 2015Looking for the Sunshine, Musicambient, analog, depression, edm, electronic, emu, jd800, Journey, juno106, jupiter8, k11, kawai, korg, love, mks10, mks50, mks80, Peace, ponder, positive thoughts, roland, synth, tr707, tr909, vintagewp_onitod

On A Quest, is filled with the vintage vibe, Roland TR-707, TR-909, MKS-50, Juno-106, EMU Proteus, and Morpheus, Roland Juno-6, Juno-2, Siel, JD-990, JD-800, JV-880. This song morphs between two themes. The wanderer on a journey, looking and checking down the paths, exploring the surrounds, finding that they change as they move on. The end of the song wraps around to the beginning to complete the course, but it ends in a diffusion of sound.

Many time we are on a quest, one that turns out differently than expected. Many times the coping methods that we use to survive, are not what bring us the happiness and joy, we had once searched for. Sometimes the choices we make, take us away from where we want to go. Hope is always possible, and it is always around the corner. That corner may look cloudy, or seem distant, but trust in the Lord, and hold the course, for resolution.

Looking for the sunshine, is all about a journey, all about realizing your role in this life, and that you make choices, and you can grow in which ever direction you feed your choices. This video illustrates, how I climbed a tree, and then climbed down, because I saw something more precious at the base. Acheivement, can lead to disillusioned success, and a life less fully lived. Stay tuned for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV3WWooQuHo

Onitod – Terms of Realization [ Album: Eulogy ]

August 6, 2015Eulogy, Musicambient, analog, chill, edm, electronic, emu, eulogy, guitar, indsutrial, juno106, jupiter8, k11, kawai, korg, mks10, mks50, mks80, synth, vintagewp_onitod

Terms of Realization is a pop/edm piece, which features a bass grove, with strings. An arpeggio carries the melody through. While a industrial guitar adds some percussive elements and drive.

This song, is instrumental, but reflects on the idea of becoming self-aware about your life, and what kind of legacy, or impact you want to leave, or how you might like to leave the world. Its about coming to terms with death, and the multiple ways of dealing with it, and deciding to make the best of what you have now, and what you have left, living with an end in mind.

Terms of realization might best be through of as the journey to becoming more aware of yourself now, so that you have a chance to change who you become. It is about freedom to choose now, coming to those choices now, sooner than later. It is about coming to those terms of where you are in life now, and choosing to deal with them, most hopefully for a better outcome, one that you can even influence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVtFkBcWuk8

Onitod – Joyful [ Album: Spiritual Fruit ]

August 5, 2015Music, Spiritual Fruitambient, analog, chill, drums, edm, electronic, emu, juno106, jupiter8, k11, kawai, korg, mks10, mks20, mks70, mks80, positive thoughts, roland, synth, techno, tr909, up-tempo, vintagewp_onitod

Joyful, is featured on the Album Spiritual Fruit. It is an electronic up-tempo song, that is sure to get you going. It is composed using traditional analog synths.

Featuring a tr-909, juno-106, jd-800, jv-880, mks10, mks50, mks70, mks80, and other beloved analog synths, it uses the original hardware in the recordings. This album was recored through a Soundcraft LX7, and then in DA-88s. It was mastered, and mixed on Logic Pro 8.

The name Joyful, comes from the qualities of the Hoy Spirit, one of which is joyfulness. The titles of all the tracks are fruits of the Spirit, hence the name of the album.

This album features music that was recorded between 1997-2008. It is electronic music, with alterations, and variations. Mostly along the lines of ambient, or new age, with a hint of jazz progressions, or odd sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkG251AH72k

Onitod – Mellow Frequency [ Album: The Future of Music ]

August 5, 2015Music, The Future of Musicambient, analog, bass, chill, drums, edm, electronic, guitar, synth, vintagewp_onitod

Mellow Frequency, is one of the top tracks off the album The Future of Music, It is an electronic album, with edm themes and components. It features guitar, drums, bass, and synths. It features analog synths, as well as soft-synths and samplers.

This was made with Logic Pro 8, and recorded in 2007. It was designed for commercial, and pop use.

Featuring an easy to listen and hypnotic tone, that draws you into the composition, and encourages you to chill, and stay a while.

This album was the first album I recorded and arranged/composed on Logic. Before that, I had been working on protools, and a hardware sequencer, a Roland MC50-MK2. This album combined drums, bass, guitar, and synths together, using guitar amp models from within Logic 8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3xr1Z386I

Onitod – Trustworthy [ Album: Eulogy ]

August 5, 2015Eulogy, Musicanalog, change, edm, electronic, eulogy, intention, juno106, ponder, remembrance, tr909, vintagewp_onitod

Trustworthy, is an electronic analog composition, which was composed using many of the loved and popular vintage synths. It features tr-909, juno-106, juno-60, juno-6, mks10, mks30, mks50, mks70, mks80, emu ultraproteus, emu morpheus, tr-707, tr-626, kawai k11, and more.

Trustworthy, was one of my character traits, that I wanted to be remembered by. As Eulogy was an album, of things to be remembered by, so the song tracks contain all of those traits, that I wanted to have prominently in my life, and as a result, have aligned my life to posses those traits, and head in that direction.

Its important to remember, that when you discover in life that you want to make a change in direction, that you do so step by step. You can only change so much a day, sometimes only one habit at a time. As you go, you build up one trait, or habit, one by one, and soon afterwards, you have made great changes in your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_X8rK2cFm8

Onitod – Eternal Love [ Album: Analog Movements ]

August 5, 2015Analog Movements, Musicanalog, edm, electronic, eternal, eternal love, juno106, juno6, jupiter8, love, mks10, mks20, mks70, mks80, synth, tr909, vintagewp_onitod

Eternal Love, is a song about my love and passion for electronic music, and how I love to revive the sounds, of the vintage synths.

Vintage synths, were not so much just transistors and circuits, but the way they interacted, is close to how a guitarist falls in love, with the acoustics of their guitar, or of their tube amp. The synths, of the olden age, they interacted, they played, they had a feeling, a character, a way about them, and to mix those feelings are character together, you get a sense of how they were born, of the feelings the designs had, or could not have every imagined.

Eternal love, also speaks about God’s love to each one of us. If we so desired, each one of us, could have a personal and direct relationship with God, and even receive guidance, direction, and comfort, many times over in our lives. So it is for this reason as well, that I named this song Eternal Love, to remind me of that connection, that leads me and guides me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcVa-OQrzsQ

Onitod – A Swan Dances in the Rain [ Album: Looking for the Sunshine ]

August 5, 2015Looking for the Sunshine, Musicanalog, beauty, depression, edm, electronic, rain, swan, symbolism, technowp_onitod

A Swan Dances in the Rain, is an exclusive melodic song, in that it focuses on themes, and rounds, much like a classical piece. The construction, is melodic, and relaxing, soothing to the soul.

The album was written with the struggle of depression in mind. For those who do struggle, it is a reminder that like a swan that dances in the rain, there is always something more fascinating that the mind can focus on, a perfect distraction, if you will, and the swan dancing in the rain, is a symbol of the beauty that is missed, and lost, when depression is allowed to run free, and trample of your enjoyment, and pleasure of living on this earth. When you find yourself pending to the side of depression, have a hint to remember all that will be lost, the beauty that will be missed, and all the joy, that has to be passed up, to stay focused on depression.

Onitod – Between Space and Sound [ Album: Analog Movements ]

August 5, 2015Analog Movements, Musicanalog, edm, electronic, emu, juno106, k11, kawai, korg, roland, siel, tr909wp_onitod

Between Space and Sound, is a deep electronic song, that is themed around the love of old vintage synths. The music is specific to use elements and old sounds to stir up the vintage era, and showcase the sounds that were available, and prominent in the 70s and 80s.

The whole album, Analog Movements, is about collections of sounds together, living in innovative and pleasant ways. The track features rich pads from the Roland Juno-106 coupled with drums from the Roland TR-909.