Moonguy’s Departure
This song, entitled Moonguy’s Departure, signifies the end of a painful couple of months. The story of the song goes along the lines of our hero, Moonguy, who has come to the realization that something he held quite dear was nothing more than a lie and the process he goes through of detaching from his delusions and moving on.
I haven’t produced music in ages and finally breaking the silence is rather satisfying. I am by no means a professional producer and I have only used free software to produce this track, but I am quite happy with the result. I hesitate to ask, but let me know what you think.
The song leans towards drum and bass with trancy strings, but rounds off to be quite relaxed. I would like to thank Gerry Cueto for the buzz string template and Trinesha Reddy for some of the voice samples.
This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
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shodan - moonguy’s departure
Note:
I found out the other day that there is a drum and bass DJ/Producer who calls himself DJ Shodan. Similarities in our pseudonyms are purely coincidental and I am by no means affiliated with or competing with the artist- at this time I produce music as an experimental hobby and will assign another pseudonym to my audio work if I intend to use it commercially.
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Gerry Cueto
DJ Shodan
November 21st, 2006 at 9:55 am
Wow man!!! This is out of this world! Wish I could catch what the guy says at the end, I think he is saying a lot! I am the first guy to buy your album…remember that!
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Thanks Alfling. If you listen carefully you’ll pick it up. I reckon I still have a long way to go before it comes to selling any music, but it is good to know someone is listening
November 26th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
I love this track, and it’s very inspirational! Thank you for doing this!
November 27th, 2006 at 11:36 am
I am extremely impressed, this is after all your first attempt at a drum & bass track. Looking forward to what may still come.
December 2nd, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Afflict and Villy, thank you for your encouraging feedback! I hope to do even better in future…
December 4th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
AWESOME stuffs!!!!!! Loved it!!!!
December 11th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Thank you dcoyboy, glad to hear it!
January 9th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Hello from one Shodan to another!! ;0). Quite bizarrely, it appears from one of your posts that you know a bit about PHP and I’m a freelance PHP developer! Spooky, huh!
Best wishes from the UK!
January 10th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Hey DJ Shodan, thanks for visiting! I am a system developer by trade, so the similarities in interests are bizarre indeed. I see you have updated your site as well; I will pop in later to checkout what’s cooking in your audio section
April 6th, 2007 at 9:40 am
This is good stuff, shodan… reminds me of how bad it was to have lost the CD I produced, during 2000-2001, when my harddrive popped. Similar progressive feel as this, but slightly slower. I’ve been wanting to get back on the wagon, but haven’t been able to muster the courage to take on that many hours again. You’ve given me inspiration, and I’m thinking I might take it on, one song at a time.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Pj, I too have lost many sequence files of songs I produced in an unfortunate hard drive crash and listening to some of the surviving mp3’s I wish I had those files to tweak them with things I learned along the way. It also takes me many hours before I am content (at least momentarily) with something I create, but it is extremely satisfying to release your own creative work for everyone to consume. I look forward to hear some of your creations. Perhaps we could co-produce a piece or remix each others work one day. That would be interesting, wouldn’t it?