All for one

I was workin' with the material yesterday evening, again - and yet again I didn't have time to write about it here then. I managed to get just one song done. Or almost done, might be that I have to tweak one section a bit. Just one song, as it's one of the longer songs - not necessarily tricky one to play what I was playing & recording there, but to get the kind of mood I wanted was the tricky part. I got it handled in the end - just one section will have to be listened and possibly worked a bit more. Good to have one night sleep and then see how it goes with fresh ears so to speak.

I think I might have this first guitar recording session completed during the weekend.

Progressed yesterdaysian

Didn't have time to write about this yesterday as I stopped recording sessions quite late. I got two more songs worked during yesterday evening - again quite different songs if put next to each other. One is simply crazy rollercoaster ride and the same goes somewhat with what I recorded to it - the other one is not crazy at all, but dark and brooding, heavy yet groovy tune.

Only four more songs to be worked at this point. One or two recording sessions, depending on how things go. After that I'll be listening the full package through in rough mix format, how it sounds and feels. If I feel like doing additional guitar sessions, then it's time for that. After another possible listening session I'll have to decide whether I'll do some ambient sessions or not.

Guitar session clip

I had this video clip online already yesterday, briefly, but the video itself was bit of a messup so ... I deleted it, fixed it a bit (improved sound quality) and reuploaded a moment ago. This clip contains a section of the "happy techno gabber" guitar session from yesterday's sessions. Completely different kind of song if compared to other two songs, as stated.

Three is them numbers

Got three more tracks worked with guitar tonight. Funnily each of the three songs represents completely different approaches from musical points of view. One is techno gabber thingy, one is straight extreme metal'ish chiptune thingy, one is very dark game music sort of slow brooding song. Each got different treatments, too.

Continued only today

Got two more songs worked with them electric strings tonight - so I'm quite far from finishing this first guitar session, ha! ... I thought I'd be done by the mid'January. It's 15th Jan today, and I have 9 songs to go through out of 20. The reason for this break was such a big one, too ... blame it on Bridge Constructor Portal ... yeah, a game! ^_^ Funny little game, even that I was expecting notably more "portal" humor, Glados style ... other than that it was a very entertaining case. And yeah, it took some time to complete it. Time that was taken from continuing Chipfusion.

Well, Chipfusion has a strong game music element in retro style, so I guess that's acceptable.

Progressing according to inspiration and not starting any games for now ... :)

More with them strings

Got three more songs worked with guitar today and overall I've now worked nine of the songs this way. I'll go them all through now on the first run - after that I'll check them for second time, listen & feel if there's space for more guitar stuff. If there is, I'll do some extra recordings.

Progressing nicely, might be that I'll get this first guitar recording session completed before middle of January, or so.

Afterburnin'

Holiday break came at perfect time, took a complete break from the Chipfusion material as well - and simply let it steam in the back of my mind subconsciously. I went back into workin' with the songs some days ago. Had a free day from my daytime job on friday and planned beforehand that it's a "Chipfusion day" ... and that it certainly was.

I went through six songs and recorded additional soundscapes with guitar. Back when this whole Chipfusion was born, the original idea was to mix chiptunes into Scumfusion's scifi grind mayhem. Now ... it's not about inserting grind into chiptunes, but it's sort of inserting certain kind of metal edge to the chiptunes. Ok, some of the chiptunes in this package are quite uptempo to say the least (wait until you hear them drums in some cases!) ... but there are more midtempo and even somewhat slowish songs, too.

Based on the recordings from last friday, the expansion idea seems to be working nicely. Not just in "metal" way, but ... in many ways. Today I've recorded guitars for one song already and aim to do some more today. When I get the guitar sessions completed, there might be still some sound expanding sessions ahead - not necessarily massive ones, but perhaps some ambient elements. We'll see.

In any case, I really like the way this package is forming - it is quite different from "Yksi" release, but yet at the same time it is a clear continuation. Twisted continuation. ;)