577 Happy 2019

Happy New Year 2019!

It was a nice, lovely, and stormy 2018.

Bunch of tracks and videos I created.
More will follow in this new year!


Farewell to the year of Dog.
And say hello to the year of Hog.

Happy New Year 2019!

551 A week before Vernal Equinox Day

It's White Day
  in White World!

Are you feeling Spring has come, or still chilly? Here in the arctic region, it's still cold! But don't worry, we're OK, because we have these traditional wears of our tribe!

And..

549 Dawn February - Chapter 5: Dawn Goddess

This is a series called "Dawn February", and this is the last chapter.

My first trials of "HALCYON SKY" EXPANSION. Drone sound, synthesizer pads, and detuned chords. Super beautiful sound pack especially for ambient and experimental track lovers.

Lovely birds visiting my garden in chilly February morning inspired me to create these tracks and videos.

The last one, Chapter 5: Dawn Goddess, features the Greek Dawn Goddess Eos, who a playmobil musician named Chloe Sounthernfield plays a roll. The music and video themed the whole process of dawn, from dark indigo sky for owls, a dusty blue for crows, chilly pale blue for early pigeons, and sunlight for woodpeckers and willow tits.


All the music of this series are born in just two hours right after inspiration like lightning. It is not because my talent nor skill :-) but the versatility of "HALCYON SKY". Each uses a kit in the sound pack. No keyboard, just MASCHINE's 16 pads.

Anyway, finally at the very end of February, here on YouTube is a series of videos featuring early morning in February. And now March comes very close. Happy Spring!!

548 Dawn February - Chapter 4: Willow tit

This is a series called "Dawn February".

My first trials of "HALCYON SKY" EXPANSION. Drone sound, synthesizer pads, and detuned chords. Super beautiful sound pack especially for ambient and experimental track lovers.

Lovely birds visiting my garden in chilly February morning inspired me to create these tracks and videos.

Chapter 4: Willow tit themed a little birds called Willow tit. In fact, Willow tit is not blue bird nor red, nor yellow. It is black and grey. There, however, is no such a bird figure within playmobil collection, the MV features colorful tiny birds.

547 Dawn February - Chapter 3: Pygmy Woodpecker

This is a series called "Dawn February".

My first trials of "HALCYON SKY" EXPANSION. Drone sound, synthesizer pads, and detuned chords. Super beautiful sound pack especially for ambient and experimental track lovers.

Lovely birds visiting my garden in chilly February morning inspired me to create these tracks and videos.

Chapter 3: Pygmy Woodpecker features a small woodpecker living in Japan which comes down when the Sun rise somewhat and the temperature is some up. To tell the truth, the time when this bird visits and that of the next bird - Willow tit - may vice versa..

*The MV has typos. The word pygmy is misspelled as pigmy. My shame...

546 Dawn February - Chapter 2: Early Pigeon

This is a series called "Dawn February".

My first trials of "HALCYON SKY" EXPANSION. Drone sound, synthesizer pads, and detuned chords. Super beautiful sound pack especially for ambient and experimental track lovers.

Lovely birds visiting my garden in chilly February morning inspired me to create these tracks and videos.

Chapter 2: Early pigeon, whose name comes from early birds, features herds of pigeon who get up early right after crows and whose wings generate pat- pat- pat- sounds.

545 Dawn February - Chapter 1: Ghost Owl

This is a series called "Dawn February".

My first trials of "HALCYON SKY" EXPANSION. Drone sound, synthesizer pads, and detuned chords. Super beautiful sound pack especially for ambient and experimental track lovers.

Lovely birds visiting my garden in chilly February morning inspired me to create these tracks and videos, one of which, Chapter 1: Ghost Owl, is actually sparked in my dream and the other birds really visited me.

544 Bit Bot Riot - KANSAS SIEGE v1.0

"BYTE RIOT" gave me an inspiration of bad boy.
A bad boy's riot which has become a legend called "Kansas Siege".

So, here is the second version of the MV. Actually, I love this version much more.

The sound is completely the same as the first version called "MASCHINE Age".

Kansas farmer boy called Quentin always makes troubles around him. His father, farm employees, and neighbors however still likes him!

Yes, we love a bit bad boy!

Please take a moment to visit my blog article of the same theme. [Japanese only]

543 Bit Bot Riot - MASCHINE AGE v1.0

8 bit!
Chip tune!

Yes, as you find it from the title, this is based on MASCHINE EXPANSION, which is newly called as KOMPLETE EXPANSION as well, "BYTE RIOT".

Family Computer, Game Boy, and more. 8 bit beep, saturated drum, and synth arpeggios. It's not just a nostalgic 80s but the dawn of the 21st digital age.

This MV is featuring playmobil motors so that the tech mood of the sound meets the visual. Please watch the second version too. Thanks.

542 Escape the Ten Trials v1.0

Another work on MASCHINE EXPANSION "BASEMENT ERA", my best favorite EXPANSION so far. 90s Hip Hop, which is jazzy, soulful, and brings vinyl sounds. I just just love it.

To get "Out of the Ring", we must escape the ten trials which are actually a fake ritual. Yes, it's not bad if we live good, but it is not for the fake trials for better afterlife. It's just for this life. She has lived good. I know it. It's enough. No thanks for ten trials.

The theme of ten underground kings and queens are based on my original mix of Ten Kings theory and Celestial Stem plus my blog articles. Do you remember them?

1. 秦広王／甲 - Lynch
2. 初江王／乙 - Daji（妲己）
3. 宋帝王／丙 - Fire Demon
4. 五官王／丁 - Regina the Evil Queen
5. 閻魔王／戊 - Wang Zhi（王直）
6. 変成王／己 - Octopus!!
7. 泰山王／庚 - Raoh（ラオウ）
8. 平等王／申 - Philistis Phoenicianus
9. 都市王／壬 - Stay Pufft Marshmallow Man
10. 五道転輪王／癸 - Dark Schneider (!?)

Note: Originally, Celestial Stem and Ten Kings have nothing to do with!!!

541 Out of the Ring v1.1

Featuring MASCHINE EXPANSION "BASEMENT ERA", this is the first of serial trial of Hip Hop sound, rhythm and mood.

Inspired by an eternal voyage of my relative, more precisely my grandma and the last having survived grand parents, I thought again about life, soul and afterlife.

Here is the answer. The life means while we're living. No hell, no heaven, no afterlife.

The essence of Buddhism is actually to get out of the eternal reincarnations. To be a Buddha, an awaken person, to get out of Karma, we do not need afterlives.

However, fake religion which was developed later in the history, partly because of money, partly because of political requirements, has forced people to fear their treatment in their afterlives. Does it make sense? Except for the rare and respectful cases monks or priests tell prayers that the most important thing is for you to gather, to talk each other, and be reminded the dead, the fake ritual is just a..

No afterlife. No reincarnation.
Meaning "Out of the Ring".

The MV features a couple, which might be my grandma and grandpa. If they were born in 21st century and meet in the peaceful era, they might have met like this ;-)


R.I.P. My ...

540 Seven Deadly Syncs

Happy Lunar New Year! Do you know Japan's folk gods called "Shichi-Fuku-Jin" or "Seven Lucky Gods"? Here are pirate characters pretending to be the gods but at the same time having Seven Deadly Sins within them.

The song is my old work in Sept 2017, which was initially for my job, market communication manager, but later turned into a soundtrack for my playmobil play. Combining seven songs into one with additional all-starz combination, this is a kind of DJ mix. Though I know the last all mix is just noisy.. Yes, all the seven songs play at the same time! Nope, actually, it was the first. Later, I picked up the parts separately seven times, I got the seven songs.

Some tweak because these had to meet my PowerPoint slide works. So the first 10secs of each song has 2 additional secs. Musically, they are wired, but ok. I always love experiments.

Although the MV is completely dedicated to my "Seven Deadly, Happily or Whichever" articles of playmobil, the original theme of these songs were technology such as Internet of Things and Servitization , ERP, retail tech, customer contacts, work spaces, Internet security, and software development. Those themes brought titles like:

1. Make to Serve
2. Asian Resources
3. At Any of Your Convenience
4. The First Contact
5. Work for Your Style
6. I Wanna Cry
7. Agility Pusher

and 8. All Starz Out.

And you know, the title is inspired by one of the Cyndi Lauper's best albums called "Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some". Great work in 80s and 90s. Must listen to.


*Since the initial version of the MV released on Feb 16th had a critical mistake of caption! Here is the newest version with no typo and a newer description for Ben-Zai-Ten to express her versatility. [Mar 1st 2018]

539 Purple Jack v2.1

It was totally my mistake.. This should have been uploaded on Dec 25th 2017!

Thought I've done it but actually not! Ashamed.. Yes, this is apparently and definitely Christmas track featuring Snowman, Santa Clause and B3 Organ!

Following the other pop rock track called "Naraka Progress", this also has J-Pop/Rock style of structure, 80s J style melody, but with  60s-70s type of B3 rotary sound. That is why this is called "Purple Jack".

While B3 Organ sound is out of Arturia V Collection, which I bought when it was still V Collection 5, all the other sounds are out of KOMPLETE 11.

I love so much B3 sound, and owns HAMMOND Xk-1c but still Arturia is great.

538 Naraka Progress v1.0

"Naraka Progress" is the proceeding version of possibly 80s J-Pop/Rock style track made by NI instruments. MV hopefully has some 80s atmosphere by analog TV style noise.

Because I always falls into massive club style tracks by adding, adding and adding more parts, which results in some cumbersome sound, this time I just tried to practice alternative editing method like muting some parts, especially drum,  and making the track calm and slow in the middle.

The famous literature "Pilgrim's Progress" inspired the track title. "Naraka" means the Hell in Sanskrit. Meaning this is my travel through and out of Hell.

This song features NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KOMPLETE instruments called "Strummed Acoustic". The song itself is something hard, but the acoustic guitar riff gives some nostalgic and warm feelings, I hope...

537 Fairytale volatile v1.0 /1.1 /1.2

It was when I watched the animation called "The Ancient Magus' Bride" that I was hit by an idea of fairytale-like, some spiritual, some fantasy-style track, with some old paganism feelings. And this is the final version of the track named "Fairytale volatile", which adds drone sounds to the proceeding versions listed below so that it seems like Will 'o the Wisp are dancing around the music.

v1.0 - singing Dryad

v1.1 - visiting Sprigan

Surprisingly, the best fitting MASCHINE EXPANSION was "PULSWERK" which is originally intended for minimal techno and house. It, however, contains bunch of glitch sounds and drone sounds, which I feel like voice, laugh, and footsteps of fairies.

And to tell the truth, this is my best favorite song of mine so far.

How do you feel it? Thanks.

529 GHOSTBUSTERS: 

TEHY ARE BACK - Oktober Chill v1.0

Happy Halloween 2017!

Heavily inspired by by the 80's cinema anthem, the new track turned my childhood favorite into the digital techno/house music.

Following the disco dancers out of wired tales like vampires, ghosts, skeletons, the undeads, the underground deities, a pumpkin scarecrow, a demon and an ax man, now THEY'RE BACK!

GHOSTBUSTERS!!

Thanks for playmobil collaborating with the legendary icons.

525 Samba de Sophia - 49ers Edition v1.0

It's a summer song!

Featuring Session Horns Pro and playmobil southern types of girls, it's a samba-like dance music.

Why not take a world travel with Sophia/Sophie/Zophie/Sofi/Zofi on the planet? Get along with them to dive into the Latin America, Southwest, Hawaii, India, Africa, and the world of Xenarthra!

All played by MASCHINE2 and KOMPLETE KONTROL S25. No EWI. Ashamed, but the KOMTROL S25's velocity control is so great that it could take advantage of Horns. I like the last moment of this song.

Thanks.

524 Tango Nu Yoricano v1.0 - London Gothic Mix 

feat. The Diary of Sir Arthur Cunningham

MV: The Personal Diary of Sir Arthur Cunningham, which is based on the Nov 2015 posts of pax fantasica as the beginning story of my Wolf Blood series, and, as easily found, my homage to JOJO the Phantom Blood.

A young Londoner, originally a butcher on the street, met a bourgeois girl and her governess, left them due to his brother's marriage and his own heart break, walked into Terra Incognita, and finally encountered the tragedy in London when he back.. It is the journey from London through Africa and Latin America to New York.

Not so Tango, not so Hip-Hop.. But shared some mood with the track. Precisely speaking, Armadillo and the African beasts expresses the Tango and Black music. Maybe.

Sounds: by Native Instruments MASCHINE and KOMPLETE

Mixing Urban style drum kit, piano called THE GIANT, orchestra-style strings and some Session Horns, tried to turn the traditional Tango rhythm and phrase into modern Hip-Hop track.

It is "Tango Nu Yoricano".

My first try with 2 Bars drum patterns and first strings on NI sounds. All played by MASCHINE2 and KOMPLETE KONTROL S25.

523 Hot Damn Days v2.01

It was a national holiday called the Day of the Sea in the country where I'm currently living. It was Hot Damn Day, and the whole week was the Hot Damn Days. It was, however, the glorious summer days!!

The second try on Native Instruments MASCHINE and KOMPLETE. It's the summer track! Session Horns and Funk Drum Kit gave me a Southern breeze. Hopefully. Plus, bass section was composed by the quartet of Arturia V Collection 5. Wurli, VOX, Forfisa and SEM.

MV from my 2014 Summer post of "pax fantasica".

522 J.S.Africa v1.21

My first work out of NI family!

Just out of box, MASCHINE and KOMPLETE sample library, and its tutorial documentation, took me to the journey into Africa.

West Africa drums, strings, and winds together with synth sound of J.S.B.


Respect Africa, Protect Rhinos, and Save the Wildlife!!

And finally, respect Germany! Thanks playmobil, thanks Native Instruments!