#music #house #electronic #chillEd Ryan - Dead Flower Garden (Instrumental)Ed Ryan2025-04-19 | Dead Flower Garden (Instrumental)
Same as the original song but without the lyrics.Ed Ryan - Dead Flower GardenEd Ryan2025-04-19 | Dead Flower Garden
First i had the wobbling background plugs, which build-up twice throughout the song. Out of them, the typical tech-house/minimal-tech beat emerged. The 128 bpm don't really burst of creativity. But the layering of the different instruments and the interocking of the individual elements work rather nicely. The melodic parts just happened. I usually like to play around with different chords but this time i only had two which seem to be still plenty to work with.
After a while, i had the idea to write a text, which almost got scrapped entirely, as they usually do. But the ghost writer insisted on me keeping it, so i did. Most of you probably won't understand it though, as it is in german. Why is the name in english then? Because it sounded cooler. The lyrics are about the usual uncertainty of one's own doing.
I especially like the build-up and the whole structure of the song. Maybe the beginning is a bit too long.
Some fun facts: - the song started in october 2024 - the image was originally supposed to be black and white - i used my alto recorder for the solo before the second dropEd Ryan - Beyond the Cellar DoorEd Ryan2024-12-22 | Beyond the Cellar Door
Quick! Before the year runs out! The Project started the day after my old smartphone broke down back in November 2023. Quite a lucky coincidence as i wanted to make a more aggressive "in your face" electro track for years, but never had the sincerity behind it.
The Song turned out to be a mix of the Halloween theme and Mr. Oizo, which i quite enjoy. It came together rather quickly and the last few month went into the mixing and mastering, which was quite a challenge, as i usually do quieter songs. I don't know when somebody is supposed to listen to this track but i guess whenever they feel like it.
The artwork was inspired by the batman the animated series art style, which i watched during the early days of the project. Probably not the most fitting, but at least not too boring.
I guess that's it for 2024. "Only" five songs got released, which is definitely a huge step down quantity wise from the last years, but we coincidentally made huge step up quality wise (at least in my oppinion). I also started a lot more songs than got released so the next couple of years should already be set.
Thank you for listening, happy holidays and a happy new year!
Some fun facts: - the theme was inspired by some old slasher/horror movies - the name was inspired by a magic: the gathering card - initially it was "behind" the cellar door but i thought "beyond" sounds better - it has 113 bpm - the image was created in blenderEd Ryan - OubliéEd Ryan2024-11-24 | Ed Ryan - Oublié
It certainly has been a while (again)
The project started back in early march, after i completed my final french courses. But as new things kept on coming up, the song was pushed back even though it was mostly finished.
I think you can hear quite clearly that this song is much older than my previous two in which a lot more action is going on. But "Oublié" was supposed to be more on the simpler side to better focus on the melancholic atmosphere.
The recorder is still the same as in Hidden Sickness and a couple of other songs of mine. I've grown to be a recorder enjoyer over the years. A big inspiration of the song was one of the leitmotifs in the Nils Holgersson anime, which is generally full of melancholy and a sense of longing.
A lot of time has gone into mixing and mastering in the last few weeks. If you have to wait several months for a new song, it should at least sound as good as possible. I effed up at some small spots, just don't notice them.
I really like the airiness and E minor, as well as the outro. Maybe i should have added a few more highlights.
The cover has little to do with the song and was created more out of necessity. But it's still better than asking AI for an image.
I probably won't be able to do 11 songs as last year, but a fifth song should be possible.Ed Ryan - There used to be more butterfliesEd Ryan2024-09-08 | There used to be more butterflies
I wanted to make a waltz but it turned into the usual 4/4 time. First i had developed the main melody, then added layer uppon layer on top of it. Most of my leads usually contain no more than two or maybe three different instruments but in this, the finallies are played by at least ten different voices, which doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be good because of that, but i wanted to try something new and managing more than five different instrumenst at a time definitely wasn't easy especially in the mixing department. One of the Instruments had some tiny disturbing sounds which almost drove me crazy until i could finally get rid of them.
The next challenge was to structure the whole song. As nice as the finalies and the whole ensemble sound, i can't let it play the same thing over and over again for four minutes and call it a day. I played around with some chords which let me to the slower parts before, between and after the drops. It would have been impossible for me to create these parts a few years ago, especially the slight melodies playing and developing from beginning to end. Maybe the slow parts are too big of a contrast to the drops and the finallies because they keep it from being an ordinary EDM track but that wasn't my goal to begin with.
I really enjoy the slight variations of the main melody and how it morphs into and out of the slower parts.
The picture was taken by egomaschine and chosen by me because i liked it and it fit the theme of the song even though it should probably be a bit more lifeless.Ed Ryan - Hidden SicknessEd Ryan2024-07-22 | I originally wanted to create something similar to the songs found on the "Electronic Circus" playlist by Spotify because they all seemed to be the same background-filler-content without any real substance to me and i wanted to do better.
I started with the basic drums, then added layer upon layer of different sounds and instruments. Nowadays, i want to focus a lot more on sound design as i still think i'm quite laking in this area. I could rely more on already existing presets to save me some time and headaches, but where is the fun in that?
Once i figuered out the chords (especially the "unpleasant" sounding ones) the lead and supporting melodies evolved quite naturally. It almost felt like painting at a certain point.
I especially like how many different elements and ideas are present and evolve throughout in under 6 minutes (!). I had songs in the past, almost double in lenght with hardly any more story to tell.
The name came after the song and felt like a good fit with the sort of unpleasentness shimmering through the dancey house beat. And combined with the innitial idea (the lifeless, almost ai generated spotify playlist content) and the image of a human (?) introducing an android (?) to smoking (?) i called the project complete.
Some fun facts: - the "shrieking/broken-trumpet" is a distorted recorder played by me - the cries scattered throughout the songs are voice samples by nivkii - i had the idea for the cover after seeing images of C-3P0 getting a smokeEd Ryan - Feast and ProsperEd Ryan2024-06-24 | Happy new year! It certainly has been a while since my last upload but i definitely have been busy behind the scenes. I just didn't have the time and energy to push out as many projects as in the years prior due to many other things which demand my time and energy.
Nevertheless, i still found the time to work on numerous songs which may drop over the course of the second half of the year. I can't tell how many there are going to be, but hopefully more than just one.
This song in particular started with the muddy bass sound which was inspired by Ivy Lab's "Cake" but instead of trap, i turned it into some kind of electro house. It was a pretty fun project all around and i learned a lot of usefull new techniques. My last attempt at a song like this didn't turn out that great so let's see how this one will do.
I didn't take the picture myself but i asked the photographer if i was allowed to use it as i thought it expressed a simillar tone as the song.Ed Ryan - Cinis CineremEd Ryan2023-12-17 | Cinis Cinerem
My last song of 2023. "Only" 11 this year rather than the 13 in the years prior but what can i say, time doesn't get any slower and there are so many things to do.
For this song, I wanted to do something different by aiming for a clean composition as many of my recent projects tended to become quite overloaded and chaotic. To achieve this, I deliberately refrained from using reverb or hall effects, as they make the songs sound quite big but often muddy (like in "Outlaws in Space").
It all started with a bell-like sound, which you can hear right from the beginning and evolving throughout the song. I find myself handling the (multi-voiced!) melodies and chord progressions much more fluidly and better now than a year ago, which makes me quite happy. Especially with the variations and transitions.
After constructing the house beat and melodies, I wanted to add a mechanical ticking sound because it felt fitting in line with the winding clockwork music box vibe. I don't particularly have a time fetish like some other artists might, but a ticking clock does sound amusing at times. The ticking is just a few high-pitched snares (#sounddesign 😎). At that point, I imagined I was making a remix of an existing song, except I was creating both the "original" and the actual end product myself, much like I did with "Zeldor" back then.
The title and the artwork don’t contribute much, but they're meant to match the vibe of "the old music box in the attic that nobody cares about until someone adds a beat and bass to it" and perhaps playfully poke at that idea.
There are a few "The Menu" (2022)-like hand claps that occasionally break the whole ensemble. Initially, they were just playful additions but they fit into the underlying meaning too.
Some test listeners mentioned that the beginning sounded a bit like an alarm clock until I transposed it from major to minor.
Some fun facts: - the cover was done in gimp - the bpm slow down and speed up from time to time - production officially began in october 23
First i had the title which inspired me to try my hands on a track similar to "still bleeding but not dead yet" from back in 2021, because that project was quite fun and i was sure that i could do better now. I wrote the melody, chords and bridge and after that i wrote the remaining lyrics. I guess that is now the (released) project with the most amount of lyrics written by myself.
A problem which occured to me was (as it usually does, while doing a project with vocals) that after adding lanes and lanes of instruments to fill all the empty space i also had to make room for the singing. But later i usually don't want to cut back on any of the instrumental lanes and the whole project ends up sounding pretty cramped.
An additional problem was that i didn't get any professional singers from my producer and had to work with what i got. He was defenitely quite excited and gave it its best but he isn't quite the singer yet unfortunately.
The cover artwork might not be one of my best this year but i wanted it to look like something you could draw on some fogy bus or subway windows just where the person in it might be sitting right now.
I want to do more projects with lyrics in the future but these projects take like at least twice as much work as my instrumental songs do as i've said time and time again.
The lyrics:
i saw a dead person today his brown eyes were blank but his suit looked rather nice i asked him "where are you headed?" he just shrugged me off but he answered anyway
"i don't know - what does it matter?" "first i earn then i spend then i do it all again" "but that's none - none off your business" "i feel great can't complain my sole purpose is to work that's it"
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i don't want to be like him though it has to happen maybe sooner than later but i can't imagine myself ever being the all singing all dancing the not knowing not asking the consuming and serving crap of the world
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i saw a dead person today his voice was pleasant but i couldn't understand how he thought - thought about himself can't be much of a life for such a sparkless drone
"do you know - know any better?" was his question to my speechless little self "anyways - thanks for the chatting" "i really have to go maybe we will meet again good bye"
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i don't want to be like him though it has to happen maybe sooner than later but i can't imagine myself ever being the all singing all dancing the not knowing not asking the consuming and serving crap of the world
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i met a dead person today and got frightened by the words he had to say to me i don't want - want to admit it but i know that someday i'll be just like him
another dead person that's what i will be the spark will fade away leaving nothing but my body
another dead person that's how it will be the spark will fade away leaving nothing but a body
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i don't want to be like him i don't want to be like him i don't want to be like him though it has to happen maybe sooner than later but i can't imagine myself ever being the all singing all dancing the not knowing not asking the consuming and serving crap of the world
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i saw a dead person today his brown eyes were blank but his suit looked rather nice i asked him "where are you headed?" he just shrugged me off but he answered anyway
A little project to help me keep preventing from working on bigger projects.
It started with the arpeggio, which you can hear in the later half of the song. It was inspired by a (sad) waltz from a children show i used to watch. I'm definitely going to make a waltz at some point in the future, but that might still take a while.
After the arpeggio i got the dramatic keys and the bassline, which you can hear at the very beginning. Then i got the other lead instruments (guitar, voice and the plug) which interchange throughout the drops.
You could read the song as a pulp science fiction show or as its intro in which each drop represents its own episode.
I couldn't keep myself from working in some doctor who references like the bassline in the beginning or the "space howling" in the end. The e minor key also isn't a coincidence.
I think it's pretty cool that i'm now able to work with chords and melodies much more fluently than a couple of years ago. The songs appeared to be a lot more stiff and undynamic back then. ("Terastiar" for example, the more or less direct predecessor)
What started as an attempt to finally make a "good" song turned into this.
First, i had the accords played by the vibrating pluggs which you can hear at the beginning and the end. Then i added the kick and bass and finally the "dramatic" synth. Now, it's more like one of those minimal/tech songs i try to do from time to time but with a lot more melody. I got a bit more creative in the structure then usual and implemented i tempo change during the last third. The song was supposed to be about 7 minutes long but i cut it down because the seconds which got cut didn't really contribute anything to the overall song.
The text is inspired by planet of the apes (1968) in which the astronaut talks about his long journey inside his vessel, the warped passage of time and his fear of the eternity and the corresponding loneliness. "Stubenhocker" is a person which usually doesn't leave its room.
The cover artwork was supposed to show the view through a window into the stars but got a bit more abstract. Now it looks more like the death star or the jump into hyper space.
Some fun facts: - the cover was done in blender - the speaking was almost cut but i had to leave it in as the song wouldn't make sense otherwise - production officially began in august 23
I wanted to make something simple and minimalistic as my recent work seemed to contain a high amount of energy. Innitially inspired by some Worakls and Oliver Koletzki songs and further down the production i tried to envoke the feeling of some retro-futuristic science fiction. The name and cover is supposed to mimic said feeling and is a play on a certain Love Death and Robots episode and a direct call to a card game i play from time to time.
Some fun facts: - the cover was done in blender - the first 5:55 song in a long time - production officially began in april 23
Haven't done a song like this in a long time. It started with the melody which got turned into the baseline which upon enhancing it with a bunch of reverb and distortion became the centerpiece of the song. After experimenting with the drums i discovered the cowbell instrument as the "second lead". As per usual, i struggled the most with the build ups. I'm still not the biggest fan of them, but they will probably never satisfy me enough.
Once i finally pinned down the theme of the song i added the vocals and additional sounds. The cover "artwork" took a cupple of attempts but now convey at least a similar energy as the song itself (but it probably could have been executed a lot better (oh well)).
Some fun facts: - initially, the cover was supposed to show a cat cleaning itself but i'm bad at drawing - all the vocals have been done by me - you can read the vocals in the cover
Tried my hands on another techno track as the last one was quite a bit of fun and i watched some movies in the meantime which had some "weird/unsettling techno scenes" in them. it started with the "acid-plug"-sound which starts playing at about 0:30 and evolves from there throughout the song. next, i added the wailing strings which reminded me a lot of the "The Map Room: Dawn" theme by john williams. the second part of the song got a tiny melody and some key variations to make it more interesting and to give it more charakter. The name of the song (something like "in the search of the spring of tears") was stuck in my head for a couple of months because i liked the sound of it and after deciding on the "unsettling" theme of the song by the screaming strings and the indiana jones/pulp adventure influences i thought that the name was quite fitting.
Some fun facts: - the speaker yells "ihr aber werdet ihn niemals finden" ("but you will never find it") inspired by santer in winnetou III - the yelling was added only a couple of days before the release - the cover artwork is supposed to mimic old pulp-fantasy-adventure novels
I usually experiment a lot with my songs during production. I change the pitch, tempo, rythm and sometimes try to mix the song with other songs. I don't know how it happened but i layered it with the fight club main theme "stealing fat" (not the pixies' "where is my mind") and got the idea to make a dirty, "punky" drum and bass remix of the song (which came in pretty handy as i was thinking about making an alternative mix anyway as i did with "phantasia" back in 2021).
Drum and bass still is quite difficult for me to do as i have problems with designing mainly the drums and the bass, but with this remix, everything went rather smoothly and i quickly had the right sound for the individual parts. I also didn't really bother with changing the overall structure and just added a outro and a tiny intro.
As the cover of the "original" was inspired by the colors of spider-man and/or superman, the alternative mix of course had to look different and now tries to mimic the classic colors of batman and wolverine. (And nivkii just realized, that these are also the colors of the ukrainian flag, which also fits in a different way)
Some fun facts: - i tried to implement a similar "needle" drop in the beginning as in the fight club theme song - before the needle drop, nivkii says "ja, nochmal" which means something like "yes, again" - i innitially didn't know where to put the "alternative mix" into the cover as i couldn't simply add it on one of the sides because of the "X" but then i remembered that brackets exist
Lyrics:
Ran right out the door Can't take all those pictures On the news Don't give me more Sure I still hope there's saving
Raptured to the core No room left in my chest So sell my heart At the store Next to all of the solutions
No heroes anymore This world will crash and fall So let us toast Right before It all just goes downhill I'm scared there are...
No heroes anymore The prophecies were false So let us toast Right before The shadows darken the horizon
No heroes anymore Just tales and stories for us all The ones in need get ignored Could they be the true escape
The world like once before our screams shouldn't be unheard Hand in hand Through the storm Right into the next disaster
The world like once before our screams shouldn't be unheard Hand in hand Through the storm Right into the next dirrrr
No heroes anymore This world will crash and fall So let us toast Right before It all just goes downhill I'm scared there are...
No heroes anymore The prophecies were false So let us toast Right before The shadows darken the horizon
Finally a new song with Nivkii. It started with the instrumental as i was experimenting with a song containing only "real" instruments to get the feeling of an indie garage band. The song is maybe a bit too dramatic but we had fun with it.
The cover artwork was done in blender and is supposed to remind you of the 20th century fox logo, a scyscraper, advertisements, maybe a bit of monty python and the colors are inspired by superman and spider-man.
Some fun facts: - i didn't use any autotune or pitch correction - most of the lyrics were written by nivkii - the song started on the 17th of june 2022
Lyrics:
Ran right out the door Can't take all those pictures On the news Don't give me more Sure I still hope there's saving
Raptured to the core No room left in my chest So sell my heart At the store Next to all of the solutions
No heroes anymore This world will crash and fall So let us toast Right before It all just goes downhill I'm scared there are...
No heroes anymore The prophecies were false So let us toast Right before The shadows darken the horizon
No heroes anymore Just tales and stories for us all The ones in need get ignored Could they be the true escape
The world like once before our screams shouldn't be unheard Hand in hand Through the storm Right into the next disaster
The world like once before our screams shouldn't be unheard Hand in hand Through the storm Right into the next disaster
No heroes anymore This world will crash and fall So let us toast Right before It all just goes downhill I'm scared there are...
No heroes anymore The prophecies were false So let us toast Right before The shadows darken the horizon
This one happened rather quickly. First, i had just a name (not the current name) which inspired me to make some sort of sleezy 70s/80s pop song. But after i got the main melody it developed into a different song but i kept the 70s/80s pop theme. Now, it's supposed to be a bit more influenced by the intros of some children shows i watched as a child which happened to be produced during the 70s and 80s. I especially enjoy the baseline and the feeling of "finallity" in the refrains.
I only speak un peu francais but i thought that the name fit the song and the feeling. Mostly because of the innocence and naivity which comes with speaking a non native language, the colours and themes i associate with the children shows i watched and because of the overall child like nature.
Some fun facts: - the whole project took me a bit less than 2 months - the cover artwork is supposed to mimic images found in vocabulary books - note that it's not "the" but rather "a" little adventurer - throughout the song, the "adventure" becomes more and more full
The production began back in november 2022. The innitial idea was to make a more traditional house track with a bit more rythm than i usually do. After experimenting with some synths i accidentally "discovered" the seashore sound wich then led me to the theme and name of the song. Surely, a shorter name is better as nobody wants to type such a long name but i thought it was funny. I imagined it as the beginning of a lovecraftian horror story with a different focus and without all the racism.
I'm still not much of a "real" painter but i had some fun in krita and i think you can clearly see(/sea) what i was going for.
Some fun facts: - working title was "color out of sea" (a play on "color out of space") - it's "neighbor" because lovecraft was an american
I'm a bit worried as it's now march and i've only released one song (of hopefully 13) but i've got at least six other more or less finished songs lying around, but time is already tight.
My last release of 2022. The ideas for the song began when i rewatched "ali g indahouse" (2002)and some of the hip hop tracks inspired me to give breakbeat another try. The melody and instruments came together quite quickly. About a year ago, i had much more problems constructing long melodies but it seems that i've overcome (some of) those problems. Another big inspiration for the song were probably a couple of Aphex Twin's more chill dnb tracks. I wanted to have some fun with the name so i chose that one.
As this is the last thing you will probably hear from me this year, i want to say some additional things. It's a bit awkward that my twitter and (private) instagram are both in german so i can't really use them to speak to my non-german-speaking audience (not that it's a huge audience, but i want to be a bit more inclusive). But you can certainly contact me through those platforms, wherever you can find me. I tried to manage an english instagram account but i just don't have the time and energy to create those posts as i do on my german account, where i go a bit more in-depth about the creating process. I try to compensate that with these texts under my soundcloud and youtube posts.
Anyways, what i actually wanted to say is that i'm very happy about how things evolved with my music throughout the past year. I had a couple of new mile-stones, learned a lot of new things and realized (again) that i have still no real clue how all of this works but i'm still making improvements. I also managed to hit my goal of 13 songs, i'm curious on how long i can keep that streak. There are now also a few more people who listen to my (non remix) stuff, which makes me very happy and i'm glad that you seem to enjoy some of my work. And that you are reading this, because writing these texts also takes some time. Sadly, there weren't any collaborations with cuzizme or nivkii this year, hopefully there will be some next year (there are some things planned, but you never know how things will turn out).
So thank you very much for listening and till next year!
A bit more dramatic than usual but i had fun with it. The melody has been lying around in my head for over a year now and the song was innitially supposed to be about something different (maybe even more dramatic) but i couldn't wrap my head around writing the text. Unrelated to that, i wanted to make a song with a similar mood to "another round" (2020) but those attempts didn't realy go anywhere until i tried building a beat inspired by scarlet pleasure's "what a life" with my previously mentioned melody, which turned into this song. Writing the text wasn't that big of an issue, it actually went pretty well. The picture was also a bit more unusual but turned out as i wanted it to. But the singing could definetely better as i'm still not a great singer and i'm not very happy about that name since there seem to be thousands of songs/movies/shows with that name but i sadly couldn't think of a better one.
Some fun facts: - the song has 111 bpm - the 5th (and last) song this year which contains my voice - my shortest song in 2022 yet - that's me in the picture
Lyrics:
we want to the state of euphoria with another round another dance no need to slow down as we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up
heads are thinking straight throats are getting dry no more time to wait can't miss another high numbing down the fear last chance to disappear let's have a bit of fun before the light is gone
heads are thinking straight thoughts are passing by are we the one to blame can't miss another high numbing down the fear last chance to disappear let's have a bit of fun before the light is gone
we want to the state of euphoria with another round another dance no need to slow down as we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up
we can't tell if it's the last time today we don't want to lose the fire the world is turning grey we're not ready for tomorrow not ready for the grasp not ready for the sorrow just relishing the gasp
we can't tell if it's the last time today we don't want to lose the fire the world is turning grey we're too scared of being sober not ready to decide to either keep on dancing or to end the night
numbing down the fear last chance to disappear let's have a bit of fun before the light is gone
we want to the state of euphoria with another round another dance no need to slow down as we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up we don't want to wake up
I didn't think that a successor to "Traumata" would come so quickly, but here we are. The Song itself came together quite smothly so i tried to take extra care of the correct mastering, as, in the past, i always aimed to make the track as loud and big as possible even though it (sometimes) hurt the overall sound of the song. So from now on i'm going to try to make tighter and cleaner mastering which fits the genre of the song. That might sound rather trivial and i had noticed the problem with messy mastering for a while now but it isn't that easy (for me) to make a big decission because they're bound to a lot of self doubt. But a big decission is (hopefully) also bound to some growth and that's one of the most important things to me.
Anyways, i'm happy about this song and quite optimistic about future projects.
Some funfacts: - the lyrics are "defameno morarite elimende donosepa" and don't mean anything (as far as i know), they're just supposed to sound latin and cryptic (and maybe a bit more) - the vocals are sung by me - the song isn't even a month old - first, it was supposed to be a remix of a song, later a remix of another, but then i decided to make something of my own - if i haven't miscounted, this is now my 11th song of 2022. i want to release 13 songs as in 2021 but time is running out
Probably the first "good" drum and bass song by me, even though i don't know if you really can classify it as dnb as the bass isn't the main focus of the song. Usually these kinds of "loud" songs with lots of "spectacel" are very hard for me to do as i can't convey enough energy to make it really pop. But this time everything happened very fluently without any huge post-production difficulties and i'm very happy about that. The name and artwork aren't really tied to the song but rather something i wanted to do for a long time and it seemed to fit to this song. I'm especially proud of the first build up.
Some funfacts: - i had the main melody and idea since 2020 - the artwork and name is not only but also inspired by the Magic: the Gathering card "Time Walk" - this is the first song (after about 8 months) that's under 5 minutes long - the "strange" sounds in the beginning are mostly edited flutes - i actually don't listen to a lot of drum and bass
This one was quite the roller-coaster. Started in january 2022 as a very different approach and slowly turned into this while being regularly dropped and resurrected. The whole song sprung out of a "puppet-master/marionette-master"-idea because i thought that would be pretty neat for some unconvential minimal-techno (i don't know if that is the correct genre, i hadn't time to check it yet), but then i scrapped that until i revisited that idea. And now, in combination with the voices, the cover-artwork and the name (puppenspieler = puppet-master), i enjoy the project as a whole.
Some funfacts: - this might be my best attempt at this genre yet (after "rote farbe" (2020) and "zeitverschwendung" (2021)) - the "rain" playing while they talk is actually just edited applause - the strings/web in the cover were done in blender - the song is in german
Another one of these "chill-lofi-house"-songs of mine. This one is even quieter than my most recent one (grotesques) even though this one is much faster. It also has some similarities to "guess who didn't do his homework" as both are just looping their melodies while changing the pitch, but this one has more variety in the instruments and a more obvious finale. I innitialy wanted to implement some singing and even wrote the text and recorded it but i couldn't make it fit at all. Then i tried some spoken words for additional detail and flavor but that didn't fit as well.
I'm currently working on some more intense edm songs but they unfortunately aren't as "easy" to me as this one.
Some funfacts: - the song isn't even a month old (at the time of release) - the pattern for the globe was created in blender - the name is (not only but also) a play on the music label "hungry music" because as some people said to me, that some of my music reminded them of said label
My longest song and maybe even the biggest song yet. Even though production began back in january 2022, it took me a rather long time until i was truly pleased with the result. A lot of very annoying and exhausting reworks had to be done and the finished track sounds a lot different than the innitial idea. I really enjoy the sheer "size" in the finale, but i don't know on which occasion you're supposed to listen to the song as 8:33 minutes is quite a commitment for some. Most people i asked said that it reminded them of video game soundtracks, so that might be a good starting point.
Some funfacts: - main inspiration were "adventures" - the artwork is supposed to be a reference to "the legend of zelda" (nes) - the "generative" "art" was made entirely with blender nodes - there might be other songs with "islands", "swamps", "mountains" and "forests" in the name
the weather is so fine the sun is shining bright birds are flying high till they're dropping dead
so much time to spend got nothing else to do just fooling around till it is too late
kinda funny how time flies when you're trying to forget all the stuff you want to do all the things that you should do
kinda funny how time flies when you're starting to regret all the things you didn't do all the stuff you wanted to
but who am i to blame i've got no time to judge you will figure out what this is all about
(and so on)
I wanted to make a "weird" french-house song. First i had the name than everything else evolved out of that. I wanted to cut the song down, but i didn't know what to cut so i left it as is. I really enjoy the drums, the melody and how the whole "light-heartedness" is conveyed.
Some funfacts: - i painted the butterfly by myself - most of the song was created during a couple of days - there was a long "creative-break" until i finished the song - The "organ"-instrument was built out of my voice as are most of the vocals - i haven't used a vocoder in a long time - most of the inspiration came from hot weather and some mr. oizo tracks
A lot more calm and relaxed than my recent releases. Basically a "back to the roots" track as i've done a lot songs like this one before (or that's how it feels like to me). Even though it doesn't sound like much i actually had to put a lot of effort into mixing and mastering (as i usually do, but this time it was even more frustrating) because the lack of high frequencies combined with the loud bass made a lot of tiny distortions which i had to get rid off. I actually learned a couple of new things which i already implemented in my other projects that i'm currently working on.
Some funfacts: - the song isn't even a month old - you could say that it is the sequel (or prequel?) to "Nightwalker" - but the name had to be very "artsy" with a bunch of different meanings - that's why i couldn't call it "2 Nightwalker 2 Furious" - "Dreamwalker" was a close contender for the name
Probably one of the more aggressive songs i've done so far. Usually, i struggle really hard while trying to make such "hard" techno tracks but this time it went rather smoothely. It started by discovering a new (new for me) technique which allows me to create sounds with a bit more variance and depth. Sadly, it sounds a bit "mashed" at some parts but that's probably intentional.
Some funfacts: - production started in october 2021 - one of the rare occasions where i don't use a snare or clap in the main beat - the "howling" instrument was a innitially voice sample i've been using for quite some time now - the song has 13 "segments" - i wanted to add some text but i thought that that would disturb the imagination - the artwork and animation was done in blender
The next song is probably going to be a bit calmer.
I want to make some more unconventional and chill stuff since i've done basically only "high energy" or "basic EDM" stuff in the past couple of months. I actually started with this song almost a year ago but it took me so long to get a satisfying name, image and mix. I wanted all of them to be different to my usual releases to get a bigger contrast.
Some funfacts to the song itself: - this is my first release with a fluent speed change throughout the entire song - the recorder (or flute? where's the difference?) is played by myself - i started it while my frustrations at "mostly harmless" (another release of mine which i started only a couple of weeks before) were probably at its peak
But that's it for now. My next releases are probably going to be a bit more "conventional".
I don't do remixes that often anymore since they aren't as interesting as making original music for me. Unfortunately, to a lot of people, remixes are a lot more interesting than the original music I make.
But i really wanted to make this remix for a long time and finally it worked as i wanted it to. The hard part was syncing the two versions from Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze because the SNES version doesn't have a constant tempo. I had to cut the "third part" of the original songs as they don't fit the mood of the remix.
As always with these remixes, I don't own this song and you have to use it on your own risk.
Sources: youtu.be/jEE-RzKMelU Donkey Kong Country (SNES) (Nintendo) Song: DK Island Swing Composer: David Wise Year: 1994
youtu.be/rMudHClToL0 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (WiiU) (Nintendo) Song: Temple ~ DK Island Swing Composer: David Wise, Kenji Yamamoto Year: 2014
Donkey Kong and Characters/Music are Property of Nintendo.
A bit more aggressive, dramatic and spooky than my last releases. I'm especially proud of the animation as i haven't done something like that before and it was quite fun to make. The project as a whole went pretty smoothly without any problems or hickups.
I actually wanted to make a Video where i talk about all my songs from 2021 (as i did in the year before) and i actually wrote the script and started recording but i realised in the post-production that i would be very unhappy with the endresult and i didn't have any time to make a reshoot. So sadly no "ERTA the songs that he made in 2021" :/
Initially, wanted to try to make some psytrance, but it ended up being too melodic for that. So i thought, why not make a theme for some sort of space-city out of it? The song was actually ready for release since last june (or so i thought) but i used the extra time to make it sound as good as i could (as i usually do).
This will be my final track of 2021. Sadly "only" 13 songs this year, but i needed that time to put a lot more effort into each and every single one of them and its corresponding cover/"artwork".
A bit more "artsy" than my recent releases. First i had the melody and some of the instruments and components but i didn't have a general direction until i added the vocals which were originally supposed to be for a completely different project. But in the end everything worked out pretty well and i'm very happy with the overall project (at least for now).
Finally a new song by cuzizme, Nivkii and me! We started back in april 2021 and now it's finished. cuzizme had the idea and the text, nivkii sang/rapped her part and i made the rest. It was pretty fun and we're very happy with the endresult. I would have never thought that i/we can do something like that. I'm especially proud of the beat since i've (as far as i know) never done something like that before.
I should definitely update my instagram and bandcamp pages...
#hiphop #rap #trap #bassEd Ryan - The FallEd Ryan2021-09-10 | The Fall
It took me almost a year to find a fitting name and picture. I actually don't really like this song as it's supposed to be very similar to a lot of basic-edm-festival-songs. But maybe you will like it nevertheless.
#dance #edm #progressive #trance #electronicEd Ryan - Fungi Are BigEd Ryan2021-09-03 | Fungi Are Big
A bit more chill than my recent releases. The name wasn't initially planned but i liked it combined with the roots and letters. It mirrors the main melody "shining" through the arpeggios.
I wanted to make a song which captures the atmosphere of the ship in the movie Alien (1979). I don't know if drum and bass is the correct genre. Tell me if you know a genre that's more fitting.
I wanted to do something i haven't done before, with some singing and a "nivana-athmosphere" but without resulting in a "nirvana-knockoff". I just wanted to express myself and the genre fit the best.
Vocals:
yes, i'm still bleeding but not dead yet the pain doesn't hurt, i'm okay why do you even care it's not the first time the last time i showed you you looked away
my head's a bit dizzy but not dead yet don't mind the blood dripping on the floor i'll clean it up as soon as i'm finished i need a bit more time, it will be fine
so leave me alone now i can handle my own blood i don't need you to tell me how to fix me up
so please go away now i will do it my way i don't need you to tell me how to fix me up
yes, i'm still bleeding but not dead yet i already tried to make it stop but sometimes the wound sits a bit deeper and can't be healed in a little while
i'm grateful for your time and effort, thank you but i think you don't know what i need i tried to explain the problem to you you only seem to listen to yourself
so leave me alone now i can handle my own blood i don't need you to tell me how to fix me up
so please go away now i will do it my way i don't need you to tell me how to fix me up
yes, i'm still bleeding but not dead yet don't mind the blood dripping on the floor but sometimes the wound sits a bit deeper you only seem to listen to yourself
Making this song was one big headache for me. I initially wanted to have some singing/choir in the drops, but i couldn't make it sound good. So i searched through all sorts of instruments to take the lead part instead, but none of them seemed to fit. Then i thought that maybe the bass is the big problem and after fixing the bass, the drums seemed to be the odd ones out. And so on and so on, which got me very frustrated and into a "selfdoubting-mindset". Usually i have about five to ten "checkpoint-versions" of a song until i reach the final result, but this time i had 33 (which is a new record, if i recall correctly). But now, i'm actually (and gladly) very happy with the endresult.
#dance #electronic #electro #houseEd Ryan - WiedergängerEd Ryan2021-06-04 | Ed Ryan - Wiedergänger
I'm going to post future projects and insights on my instagram channel. You can check it out right here: instagram.com/edryanmusic
"Wiedergänger" is a bit "softer" than my last couple of releases. The song itself was actually finished back in november, but the picture/artwork took me so long to get right. I wanted to animate the smoke/fog stuff but my computer wasn't powerfull enough, so some flashy lights have to do it for now.
#dance #chill #electronic #houseEd Ryan - Wurm Thoughts [Electro-House]Ed Ryan2021-05-07 | Ed Ryan - Wurm Thoughts
I wanted to make something "weird" and "glitchy" with a lot of action, since i haven't done something like that before (IIRC). I had a lot of fun designing the bass and the random "trt" and "kurr" sounds and i'm pretty happy (for now) how it turned out. I could have added a bit more stuff in the breaks between the drops, but i didn't have any fitting ideas and now it's too late.
#dance #edm #electronic #houseEd Ryan - Zeitverschwendung (feat. Nivkii) [Minimal]Ed Ryan2021-03-12 | Ed Ryan - Zeitverschwendung (feat. Nivkii)
I tried to do another "minimal"-song. Inspired by "Instance Of Time" by Mark Dekoda: youtu.be/IqOgkfQz23k I don't know yet, which song will be released next.
#dance #edm #minimal #technoEd Ryan - Silverbird [Techno-Trance]Ed Ryan2021-02-26 | Did you know that i've got a twitter account? But i don't really know what to post/tweet there yet.
My first real song of 2021. This one actually took me a whole year to release. I started the production on it in february 2020 but somehow forgot about the whole project. A few months ago i rediscovered it and polished it up to my current standard and tried to make it sound as good as possible.
#electronic #dance #music #borat #remix #house #electro #techno (?) #edmEd Ryan talks about: the songs that he released in 2020 (#2, December 2020)Ed Ryan2020-12-29 | I hope you enjoy it. I had a blast and a lot of headaches while making it. There are unfortunately a lot of grammatical-errors in it since i'm not a native speaker. They hurt me probably as much as they hurt you. See you next year. I don't know yet when the next song will "drop", but i will let you know on twitter. Did you know that i have a twitter profile? (twitter.com/edryanmusic) I don't use it a lot yet but i wan't to at some point. Thank you for watching!
#dance #edm #electronic #house #electronicaEd Ryan - Fortress of Reclusiveness (Dance Edit)Ed Ryan2020-11-20 | Ed Ryan - Fortress Of Reclusiveness (Dance Edit)
My last song for 2020. Maybe a bit too loud overall, but i like the melody. This is my "dance edit" of the song. I only added some kicks, claps, hats and a bit more bass.
#dance #edm #electronic #houseEd Ryan talks about: how we got here and where we might be going (#1, October 2020)Ed Ryan2020-10-17 | My first "ERTA"-Video. Editing done in blender. Not perfect but good enough (for now).