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Title: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: C-jeff on January 03, 2012, 03:42:14 PM
Hello!

I'm C-jeff and I just released my new solo album. It is almost 40-minutes full of progressive chiptune/electronica, consist of sounds from Nintendo Entertaiment System/Famicom, Commodore 64 and lots of FM ones, with influences from Dream Theater and Planet X to Yes and Pink Floyd.

While I understand it has a pretty unusual sound, probably someone may be curious to check it out :) It is free (stream or download)/pay-what-you-want via Bandcamp (just push Buy Now and enter "0"), so enjoy the music, and Happy New Year!

Album link:
https://c-jeff.bandcamp.com/album/preschtale

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(https://ubiktune.org/images/news/2011/54.jpg)

I found my true north in the land of shining stars,
I'm moving on my way from morning Earth to evening Mars.
I'm rising through the silence of Mother Universe,
And faith in God that helps me keep my inner force.


Software used:
Open ModPlug Tracker, Plogue Chipsounds, Native Instruments FM8, DSK ThoR, Vember Audio Surge, Apple Logic Pro, tons of various chip samples

Special thanks to:
My lovely family, Samuel Ascher-Weiss, Sergey Mukhorin & Digt, Isak Halling, Ken Snyder, Steven Velema, Jake & Kristina Kaufman, Jeffrey Roberts & Open Circuit, Kyle Crouse & KNGI, Mikhail Ivanov, Oleg Nikitin, Andrey Tselishev, Vyacheslav Kalinin, Alexander Matchugovsky, Vladimir Tugay, Sergey Kosov, Jimmy Hinson, Audun Sψrlie & originalsoundversion.com, 8bit.fm staff, Jay & Christine Tholen, Frank Martin, Dave Harris, John Tiberio, Nils Feske, Blake Troise, Rich Vreeland, all my friends who I have forgotten to mention and to all of you who supporting me through my music! Enjoy the album, and Happy New Year!

1. Preschtale, Part 1 (1:55)
2. Preschtale, Part 2 (10:24)
3. Preschtale, Part 3 (5:44)
4. Preschtale, Part 4 (10:04)
5. Preschtale, Part 5 (2:41)
6. Preschtale, Part 6 (6:36)
7. Preschtale, Part 7 (1:47)

"Preschtale, Part 2" - guitars - Danimal Cannon (Daniel Behrens)
Artwork by Junkboy (Markus Toivonen)
Mastered by Megus (Roman Petrov)
All Other Credits to C-jeff (Dmitry Zhemkov)

© All rights reserved.


Grab it at Bandcamp, it's free (stream or download)/pay-what-you-want!

https://c-jeff.bandcamp.com/album/preschtale
https://ubiktune.org/releases/ubi035-c-jeff-preschtale
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: rumborak on January 05, 2012, 09:33:24 AM
Dude, that stuff is really good. Damn!

rumborak
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: Jamesman42 on January 05, 2012, 11:24:20 AM
Downloading now, thanks.
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: C-jeff on January 06, 2012, 01:57:30 PM
Hey, guys! Thanks much for cheking this out!
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: Jamesman42 on January 06, 2012, 02:00:30 PM
It's prty cool. It did feel too long to me, IMO, but some great ideas for sure. I would work on refinement. Kudos!
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: aparadoxindeed on January 06, 2012, 08:22:24 PM
I like it man!  I love old-school keyboard sounds, so that first track really got my attention.  Overall, it really made me want to go play Sonic the Hedgehog!  :D

Are you going to be doing this stuff in a live context as well?  Or is it just a studio project?
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: C-jeff on January 07, 2012, 10:35:50 AM
Quote from: aparadoxindeed on January 06, 2012, 08:22:24 PM
I like it man!  I love old-school keyboard sounds, so that first track really got my attention.  Overall, it really made me want to go play Sonic the Hedgehog!  :D

Are you going to be doing this stuff in a live context as well?  Or is it just a studio project?

Thanks, man!

Actually, we're going to play some of the songs live in future, planning to divide the soloing parts between keyboard and guitar (via midi controller). That's not going to be easy, but we're going to try anyway :)

Although, of course, this is primarily a studio project.
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: aparadoxindeed on January 07, 2012, 05:09:24 PM
Quote from: C-jeff on January 07, 2012, 10:35:50 AM
Quote from: aparadoxindeed on January 06, 2012, 08:22:24 PM
I like it man!  I love old-school keyboard sounds, so that first track really got my attention.  Overall, it really made me want to go play Sonic the Hedgehog!  :D

Are you going to be doing this stuff in a live context as well?  Or is it just a studio project?

Thanks, man!

Actually, we're going to play some of the songs live in future, planning to divide the soloing parts between keyboard and guitar (via midi controller). That's not going to be easy, but we're going to try anyway :)

Although, of course, this is primarily a studio project.

That's so cool man!  You should post some live videos up here when you start playing gigs!  I love seeing electronic groups do creative things to play live.  It's so much more interesting that the usual guitar/bass/drums/vocals setup.

Good luck with it dude!
Title: Re: C-jeff — Preschtale (new prog chiptune/electronica album DT influenced)
Post by: Volk9 on January 07, 2012, 11:08:28 PM
I'll definately d/l and give it a listen tommorow :tup