My music from FAWM 2010
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So once again this year, me and a friend (who now lives in Finland, makes things a bit harder) tried to get some music done for the FAWM challenge. We have our little "Fort Elmfield" name that we release stuff under; it's just for fun, nothing serious.
FAWM (February Album Writing Month) challenges you to write 14 tracks in 28 days, which is pretty tough when working full-time at the same time (and my friend was crunching on Alan Wake), which meant we only got 7 tracks finished this year.
Still, that's better than last year
So here are my contributions:
Fort Elmfield - 1923
Fort Elmfield - A Thousand Below
Fort Elmfield - Devil In The Dark
Fort Elmfield - Lampblack
Fort Elmfield - Measures
Fort Elmfield - Old Nick
Neither of us can sing, so all of these are instrumental, mostly in or around the rock/metal/pop-rock genre, with varying amounts of cheese.
All of the above were written, recorded and mixed by myself, usually in the region of 5-6 hours work per track, usually over 2-3 evenings.
All guitars are actual real guitars, recorded and mixed in FL Studio. The bass, drums and any other instruments (there's string/synth here and there) are sequenced from samples in FL Studio.
I'm not going back to re-do any of these, but it'll be interesting to hear what people think. I think it's pretty difficult to write an "interesting" instrumental-only piece of music, certainly some lyrics and singing would make these pieces much more interesting (IMHO).
If the contest happens again next year I might look into finding a singer (or buying a mic
) and try to make some proper songs...
Anyway, enough words. Just give 'em a listen if you're interested, and let me know what you think.
FAWM (February Album Writing Month) challenges you to write 14 tracks in 28 days, which is pretty tough when working full-time at the same time (and my friend was crunching on Alan Wake), which meant we only got 7 tracks finished this year.
Still, that's better than last year
So here are my contributions:
Fort Elmfield - 1923
Fort Elmfield - A Thousand Below
Fort Elmfield - Devil In The Dark
Fort Elmfield - Lampblack
Fort Elmfield - Measures
Fort Elmfield - Old Nick
Neither of us can sing, so all of these are instrumental, mostly in or around the rock/metal/pop-rock genre, with varying amounts of cheese.
All of the above were written, recorded and mixed by myself, usually in the region of 5-6 hours work per track, usually over 2-3 evenings.
All guitars are actual real guitars, recorded and mixed in FL Studio. The bass, drums and any other instruments (there's string/synth here and there) are sequenced from samples in FL Studio.
I'm not going back to re-do any of these, but it'll be interesting to hear what people think. I think it's pretty difficult to write an "interesting" instrumental-only piece of music, certainly some lyrics and singing would make these pieces much more interesting (IMHO).
If the contest happens again next year I might look into finding a singer (or buying a mic
) and try to make some proper songs...Anyway, enough words. Just give 'em a listen if you're interested, and let me know what you think.
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I love the slower part a little bit before mid way in 'Devil In The Dark', sounds like something that would play during foreplay in a movie...