Posting accordion work and a album in progress!

"Nearly Live" is going to be a commercial grade album with me mainly playing Keyboards, Pianos, Accordion and doing vocal works and all composition and lyric writing. This is an example of one of my singles from the new album, which is still a rough copy, but sounds really good anyway. This ones called "Space Fantasy" http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/761465

My accordion song developing as a single is called "Why don't you remember me?" https://soundcloud.com/exedistmusic/dont-you-remember-me-anymore-accordion-and-vocal

There's "Garden Party" also to be released a single at the time that I release the album! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtHFA2lyMEU

Lots of progress!

So firstly I'm now starting to do a open collaboration with a band of mates called "Infektera" which is pretty well established metal and death metal group. They have been going for the last decade...

Andy is the guitarist and is also the brains behind "Inferktera", I've given him the chance to play guitar and get their lead singer to do some work on the extended edition anyway as I've already released "Heartless" the other day and it's doing fairly well with sales, and it scored position number nine on Mixcloud in the Metal charts. The other day I also released "Exedist Sings" which is available on Amazon and Spotify. Again its not doing badly and is selling albeit a bit slowly, probably as I'm known as a Electronic artist and there's a lot of new wave, brit pop and other stuff on there as well (its a compilation album! of many different likable genres, and a few fusion in there for good measure. 

This morning I release a new dance/trance track which is here: "The Vortex '17 Remix" its a remix of a track by me best friend Daniel Levitt. He composed it an original track back in 2006, and it's had quite a few iterations and remixes of it done. This is me playing everything in live on keyboards, while using soft synths for all the sounds (which I mainly used a VST called Vanguard by ReFX (its no longer available as they made it into a new VST synth which I've used and it has a different sound, I really like using Vanguard and have been using since 2005!).

I've also been making new accordion pieces which I'm making towards a accordion album of my best and catchiest of my works, on here I would like to share this piece: "Garden Party!" and one I did today which I did on accordion and hammond organ: "Shining in the Moonlight". Both tracks have vocals by me, I like singing and playing accordion at the same time... 

I also did a two covers in the couple of days, the first is a band piece by "Beirut" called "Nantes", this is my doing a very opera style vocal to it: "Nantes"

The last one is a cover of Andrew Lloyd Webbers Phantom of the opera "All I ask of you": "All I Ask of You, Practice edition"

Double whammy! Two new albums coming out in the next few weeks!

Two albums, one is a compilation called "Exedist Sings" the other is a rock, electro-industrial and metal album called "Heartless". 

These albums will be available on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, Deezer and Google music. Both are compilations of some of my most popular work in the last six months, and has taken a lot of planning to get this release right! Heartless is seven tracks and is around $4.99 and Exedist Sings is nineteen tracks and will be $9.99. I still have to get full approval from mastering artist, and after I will become available throughout the English speaking world...Heartless has already before been released as a test bootleg on Mixcloud and got really good reviews, Exedist Sings the majority of the work had been before released through Newgrounds, music portal and again got pretty good reviews, accolades and awards (front paged and featured music of the day). Pretty much all the tracks have vocals on them which different from my other albums before which were pretty much all instrumentals, with the odd vocal track in there. After seeing what did and didn't sell over six months I've built new albums with completely original music and tracks which actually want to hear. I've also extensive re-training and research and created sounds from the 70's up to the mid 00's, and I've been inspired by legends like Giorgio Moroder and Trevor Horn, and greatly improved on the sounds of my overall tracks and mixes. 

Any way more information to come when it becomes available, and I hope everyone likes my newer releases! 

Your Stu (Exedist Music Reg '96)

New project post getting back from seeing Jean Michel Jarre play live

TSCHERNOBYL

This is the first track I would like to share, its named as such as its based on sounds that I’ve created after listening extensively to Kraftwerk. Other sounds were inspired by the following artists: Jean Michel Jarre; Oxygene and Equinox, Vangelis; Blade Runner and Daft Punk; Tron Legacy and Random Access memories. All sounds were made in a VST (software synthesizer) called Vanguard, which is fairly old, but I’ve been able to make some interesting sounds and primarily used Vanguard on this track. If you like to leave me a comment as I would love to make more tracks like this but only if there was interest from people. You can hear the track here: Tschernobyl

CREATION

This next again built up using custom sounds in Vanguard. I composed this on paper on holiday last month and only got around to producing it. Its again inspired by Kraftwerk. You can listen to that here: Creation

FEEL THE WAY I DO

This was made on and for piano, it’s a piano ballad with me on microphone, I made this track to play live, but with someone else singing. This made using Eightyeight piano VST by Air gmbh. But I played every thing in live plus I did all the drums on the Akai MPC Studio Black. Feel the way I do

DON’T TAKE ME BACK (OXFORD)

I lived in a care home for two years as social services thought that the right thing for me, even though I was capable of living by myself, my parents had legal attorney over me through the courts, until I was eighteen. This was all due to my Asbergers Syndrome diagnoses, as soon as my eighteenth birthday came I escaped and started a friends house where I got a room as a house share. Oxford house was the name of the care home. This song was written a few months later. I’ve played this one live a few time and was of our set last year. This is the studio recording: Don’t take me back (Oxford)

MY DOWNFALL

This is one of my hit tracks from last year, it’s been on regular rotation on our tour at the beginning of this year, which I did with old band mates, and we played five gigs. This I wrote when I had a near death experience last year, this piece took about a week to compose and record, its got light vocoded vocals and we are redoing it with our new singer for live work which may come in about two to three months time. My Downfall

STABBED IN THE BACK

I made this track at the weekend, I hope you guys like. Stabbed in the back

This is going to be a regular thing on here, so check back on how things going and I’ll update with progress on the new album, preparing our new stage set and with dates of gigs and where. This will be my fifteenth studio album and we are going to make it the best one yet.

New songs and the official bootleg

If you go to: https://www.mixcloud.com/stuart-wright7/exedist-complete-2015-ft-the-pad-bank-bootleg/ It will go to my last completly free album. This has been composed using Cubase, Studio One, MPC Studio (1.9.6 as a VSTi).
this was made using Nexus, Predator 1 and 2, HalionOne, Sonic SE, Vanguard. I also used various Analogue synths including a 2600 by ARP which is a rebuild V2.1.

New tracks with Vocalists

I've been making new mainstream sounding songs, which I think people would like more than some of my other pieces. I've had a girl called Jane Honsend, come around with decent microphone and did a recording session, in this Blog post I shall explain my process of how I handled these sessions, and how I adapted to learning mixing of vocals.

I started a month ago putting out adverts on Facebook, Newgrounds, for vocalists, and about this time I found a website called "Looperman" which is a Acapella and sound clip website...which I promptly put out a call on there for someone to sing some lyrics I had provided. I had a call from a girl which I had worked with in the past called Jane, she is an excellent singer and we arranged for her to come to my house for a recording session. She came around and she came with a case which had a bunch of professional grade microphones which included SE electronics valve microphone, and a high end Neumann microphone (these mics were much better than my Presonus M7 cheap condenser microphone, and Art valve preamp and DI box combo). We did a song called "Talking without Conversations" which we did within a few takes, I started off by playing the basic tune on the keyboard and get her to sing along with it, but in the end we decided to sit down, create a fifteen minute sequence, which made quite a good backing track. After I had recorded and she had gone home, I recreated all the sequences, recorded in a section of live keyboard playing which I imported into the MPC and set it to loop and then layered the vocals over the top. It's turned into a light EDM track, which sounds more acoustic than my usual pieces. 

A couple of days later I had a message back from a Bryan Tig, which had listened to one of my instrumental songs on Soundcloud and had rapped some bars over it. he sent me a FLAC file of the separate vocals and one layered over the song. I remixed it to bring out the vocals more and create something which could be used on my upcoming album (which is now out!). This is the finished song:

The next song I worked on was a song which my fiance wanted me to remix, which was a song by Led Zeppelin called "Kashmir", I loaded it into the Akai MPC and then made a general like bass line out of the main hook, added layered synths and pads. Then I went on Looperman and picked out a pre made acapella, I then autotuned the vocal to give t much more better dance tone and the final result I was really happy with! Heres the finished song, its EDM, with a Drum and Bass section. Its got a sample from a film called "Dude! wheres my car" which I used on the two drop sections, instead of a silent break and drop. The song still needs a bit of work, as I don't like how the song ends.

The next song is a dance song with me singing on it which has been heavily autotuned and pitch shifted, this is one of my favourite songs of this latest project. Its a light EDM song. 

 This next one is from another person who contacted me back on Looperman, called Steely Vibe, she is extremely popular on there and is extremely busy all the time, so I feel honored to have her sing lyrics for me, this song is mainly a piano electronica song, I hope you like it!

This one is the last person who got back to me, which is called Katrina. She remade a song which she had done before but did it in a different timing for this song. This sounds like a mainstream electro pop song which is mixed with EDM, it stars me playing all sections on keyboard and it is an excellent song and the vocals fit like a glove. 

You can find this one here on soundcloud! Stars Collide This will also be released as a new single, next week!

Honorable mentions: I am not Proud
                                  Feeling Alright
                                  Voodoo you do?

Kashmir remix ft Steklo