Before anything else, I should probably explain the album's concept. The concept is similar in structure to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" or "Magical Mystery Tour" by The Beatles. The basic idea is that it is structured like a small-scale music festival with all of the styles of music that I make: electro house, metal/djent, trap, dubstep, etc. I made the album as an homage to The Beatles' way of making such a successful album with a crap ton of weird ideas going on. Not to say that this album is a modern Sgt. Pepper, or that it's really experimental. It's just a fun album with a theme. I will go more in depth on this later, but I digress.
Anyways, Here We Go!™:
- Intro
- "Hello everyone, and welcome to The Incredible Musical Festival Tour. Make sure to get merchandise after the show. If you are hungry you can go buy insanely overpriced food. You are about to witness the greatest performance of all time. There will be dance music, metal, rock, experimental, jazz, mashup, remix. If you have a seat, please go to your seat. If you are on the floor in front of the stage, please continue walking around until music starts playing. Thank you for coming, and we hope you enjoy." This pretty accurately encapsulates the album's theme, minus the promise of mashups, which aren't legally okay unless I personally got in contact with the producers of LazyTown and figured out a deal. I did include a sneaky sample at one point towards the end of the album, which I will discuss later.
- Genres: interlude, ambient, sound art
- Plants As Overlords
- There are a lot of things going on in this track. The basic idea was inspired by a Jared Dines video in which he combines genres in weird ways. One of them was a combination of djent and jazz, or "djazz." I thought it sounded cool, because he was using jazz chords to play djent rhythm patterns, which I immediately picked up on as being a good idea, so I decided to write a song with that type of sound. Of course, I unintentionally wound up sounding like Animals as Leaders because I didn't realize that they are literally a djazz band. I decided to run with it by adding a solo with tapping and shredding. Cool. This song and the next song are meant to be forming the set of the first band to play in the festival. They are a djent band, currently nameless, but I am trying to come up with a good name. By the way, all these bands are fictional, meaning that they only exist in the mythology of my albums.
- Genres: djent, jazz fusion, shred, noise rock, "djazz", progressive metal, heavy metal, groove metal
- Djent of the Sugarplum Fairy
- This song was explained pretty accurately in the music video, so if you want to know any more about this song, all I can say is that inspiration struck while watching tv. Commercial comes on with Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy, so I wrote a metal song out of it. This is also by the same fictional band that did the previous song.
- Genres: djent, Christmas music, classical crossover, symphonic metal, progressive metal, classical, groove metal
- Crush The Opposition
- This song is a pretty crappy dubstep song. Not much else to say here, other than the fact that it took a really long time to make. The fictional artist that did this song is a dubstep/EDM producer who will probably get a name at some point soon.
- Genres: dubstep, 2-step garage
- Throwback
- Title refers to the fact that I used a production technique that I actually was using on some of my first songs. This song is for a YouTube series that a friend is doing. In the mythology of the album, it is written by the same artist as the previous one.
- Genres: brostep, dubstep, complextro
- Classically Trained Beat
- No real explanation, basically I decided that I wanted to make another beat and it turned out pretty well. This one is by the same dubstep/EDM producer as the last two.
- Genres: trap, instrumental hip hop, classical crossover
- Space Battle
- This song marks a milestone in my career, because it was the first one I produced in Logic Pro, and it was pretty crappy when I first did it, because I was new to the software and had just started making that type of music. This song is meant to be the headlining act, and it is EDM Side Project (aka Me), in the mythology of my album.
- Genres: big room house, complextro, noise, progressive house, electro house
- Emotional Support
- This is a trance-inspired house song that I did a few months ago for a smaller project, and it turned into a bigger thing than it started out as because it made sense in the structure of the album. This one is also by EDM Side Project in the album's concept.
- Genres: progressive house, uplifting trance, electro house
- We Want an Encore
- The crowd cheers because the EDM Side Project performance wasn't long enough for a headlining act. Trap music starts playing to signify the return of the headliner.
- Genres: trap, ambient, sound art, interlude
- Fatal Error
- EDM Side Project returns to the stage, initially faking out the audience with a different intro to an older song, then the synth riff plays, and it all is revealed as the old song Fatal Error, which I originally wrote last year not long before summer started, and I completely rebuilt the song from the ground up in November 2016. The sample before the drop is from the video "Another Sleepless Night with Phil" by AmazingPhil. In the video, he takes off his contact lenses, and then spins around while putting on his eyeglasses, resulting in him kicking a glass door in his bathroom, which made an insanely cool sound. I immediately grabbed the sample and put it before the drop and then at the end of the song, but made longer to provide context. The song contains my favorite synth pattern I have ever written.
- Genre: big room house, electro house, EDM, progressive house
- Think Fast
- EDM Side Project plays one last song. It is totally new and nobody has heard it before. If I could put out radio singles from this album, they would be "Djent of the Sugarplum Fairy", "Fatal Error", and this song. This song was the one I completed the most recently, and the story behind it is a bit odd. This song started with me writing an electro house version of "All Star" by Smash Mouth, but the song worked well enough on its own, so I removed the All Star vocals and made the song better. This one sounds pretty generic, but I really like it.
- Genres: electro house, progressive house
That should be it! Thanks for reading!
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