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Title: BLACKINK's Projects - Can 12-year-old BlackInk come out to play?
Post by: BlackInk on October 05, 2016, 01:28:39 PM
Thought I'd make my own thread for this instead of posting my updates in the musician chat thread.

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So after making my wonky-sounding MIDI-demos for my solo project since 2008, I finally met up with some people who liked the same(ish) type music as I do and also played instruments. So in october 2014 we officially started the band Oktober. Since that time we have been writing music for our first album 'Virgo' and have recently started recording demos for that album and have so far put two of them on our SoundCloud page.

The demos are self produced and a bit rough around the edges since we are sort of learning as we go along. I think we're managing pretty good results though, certainly good enough for first time demos.

So please check it out. Comment about what you liked, didn't like, general observations, or anything. Peace!

https://soundcloud.com/oktoberofficial (https://soundcloud.com/oktoberofficial)

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Daniel Larnhem (Me) - Bass
Marcus Svensson - Guitars, Artwork
Samuel Leckborn - Keyboard, Guitars, Saxophone
Title: Re: OKTOBER - Black Ink's Progressive Rock/Metal Band v. Demo Phase
Post by: BlackInk on May 28, 2017, 11:21:37 AM
The band and I finished a new demo and it's up on soundcloud. This will be the 'lead single' of the first album.

https://soundcloud.com/oktoberband/planetarium (https://soundcloud.com/oktoberband/planetarium)

We're still in the demo phase, trying to zero in on a sound we'll use to properly record the first album one day, and while we're not quite there yet, we're getting close. This is the best we've sounded so far. So have a listen. It'd be fun if anyone has any comments or thoughts.

We've also recently replaced the old audio for the other two tracks with some newer remixes. So check those out too!

https://soundcloud.com/oktoberband/sets/virgo-demos (https://soundcloud.com/oktoberband/sets/virgo-demos)
Title: Re: OKTOBER - Black Ink's Band v. Getting Closer
Post by: BlackInk on May 27, 2023, 11:40:14 AM
Man this thread is old.

Over the past months I've built a home studio and am doing some tests to slowly learn how to record and mix stuff. I needed to try out some more all-out metal sounds if I'm to make the demos I'm planning, so I made this cover/remix of Halsey's song Bells in Santa Fe to try some stuff out and get a general sounscape (partly) dialed in. Don't expect the overlap betweeb DT-fans and Halsey fans to be all that significant, but I think it turned out pretty mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Sv6n4ZoVI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Sv6n4ZoVI)
Title: Re: OKTOBER - BlackInk built a studio and is messing around
Post by: WilliamMunny on July 08, 2023, 02:01:17 PM
Dude, I totally love the remix!

Sounds like you have a really good grasp on sonics and mixing in general.

If you ever need some session stuff (I'm primarily a guitarist, but if it has strings, I can probably have it and can record it), feel free to send me a PM.

Title: Re: OKTOBER - BlackInk built a studio and is messing around
Post by: BlackInk on November 05, 2023, 04:31:16 AM
Experminetation continues. Done lots of stuff inbetween I might post at some point, but for now I thought I'd just share my latest thing I finished, which is a cover/remix of Coldplay's song 'Midnight' but--to the best of my abilities--in the style of the band TesseracT. It's not perfect, but it was a fun little project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUo5SOTRxc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUo5SOTRxc)

Dude, I totally love the remix!

Sounds like you have a really good grasp on sonics and mixing in general.

If you ever need some session stuff (I'm primarily a guitarist, but if it has strings, I can probably have it and can record it), feel free to send me a PM.

Thank you! I really appreciate it. May have slightly forgot this thread existed, otherwise I would have seen and replied to this sooner..
Title: Re: BLACKINK's Projects - Can 12-year-old BlackInk come out to play?
Post by: BlackInk on December 09, 2023, 05:39:15 AM
So in the interest of continuing to learn how to record, mix, and produce music, I went back and recorded the first six songs I ever wrote. This was way back in 2007, when I was just 12 years old, which is why the songs themselves aren't really good at all. I made very few alterations to my original demos, the biggest change being the new drums. But even there it follows the old crappier demos pretty closely. Since these are really old demos that even I don't like any more (other than for nostalgic reasons) I didn't make too much of an effort to play everything perfectly. I also didn't spend that much time mixing the songs, just enough so that I was marginally happy with the result. This was also a time when Dream Theater was basically my only musical influence, so the tracks may be a bit stale as I mostly tried to emulate them but without any of the song writing skills. This to the point of pretty much ripping them off (and a few things from other artists) straight up. I don't expect this to generate a whole lot of interest, I'm mainly doing this to document this for myself, and this place is pretty much the only place I can think of to post it. Also; ignore my very cool track names. I was apparently a lot more edgy when I was 12.

This was fun to make though, and I hope I can continue producing these proper demos of the other albums I wrote as a young kid, and hopefully eventually move on to stuff that I actually think deserve the full on production treatment.

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BLACK INK - SPOKEN (2007 Demos) (38:46)

01 - Never Look Back (https://youtu.be/PXulCUXr83Q) (5:22)
02 - Hands of Blood (https://youtu.be/lYW8w0gJgm4) (4:27)
03 - Shadow of Sin (https://youtu.be/vGjej5XinDE) (9:21)
04 - Don't End It (https://youtu.be/i7-EmSnKL_8) (4:12)
05 - Black Sun (https://youtu.be/HKvZ48X-mfs) (4:34)
06 - Speechless (https://youtu.be/cDD82nHd-PE) (10:48)