Music News – New Album; Mind The G.A.P.

When making music I like to have a focus point and that means some sort of concept behind it this is my first proper attempt at making an instrumental concept album about a man and later on down the line the world’s demise. I won’t give away the plot as I have made an eBook and an audiobook of the story I wrote around the events of what went on so I’ll leave a link to both below but it has a few twists and turns. Mind The G.A.P. which is short for government against people was from an old album I made and wasn’t happy with so I reused the name for the story and concept album as it fitted into the story which is partly on a train. I had fun making the intros which are on all the tracks and I used free samples from Pixabay and my own collection of synth plugins which vary from the Aturia Collection and the Korg Collection which I used quite a lot on the album. I tried to make the album a bit dystopian feel to it thanks to the heavy machinery and I also tried to set the scene for the intros which I had fun doing even though it was sort of a pain collecting samples for the bigger picture but I’m happy with all of them. As I said I won’t go into detail for this album as there are a few things attached like the audiobook and eBook but overall I would call it a synthy Electronic album inspired by Hip Hop drums, Reggae, Dub and Electronic music. It gives me a good excuse to get the keyboard out and play something instead of doing it by hand or playing bare minimal notes which is fun but I like my songs to have variations. It’s a mixed batch of BPMs so there are fast, medium and slow tracks that aren’t for dancing but to have on in the background while you are doing your stuff. I finished this album in four days or though I was writing the story and picking suitable photos for the eBook even though I scrapped them and went for my friend’s lovely drawings for illustration purposes. It’s funny as after my many anxiety dreams I’ve had a lot of inspiration from my nuclear dreams and made a few things around it. I don’t even know what it all means apart from I’m worried about some sort of nuclear attack happening but I’m still not taking the threats that seriously not as much as the internet tells us it’s all doom and gloom. Also, it talks about the careless government and their uncaring but I’m caring side that got a lot of people into trouble. It’s funny as I knew there was going be some sort of hoo-ha with the government which is why I made my first version of Mind The G.A.P. which was all about mocking the government and warning people not to trust them so in short don’t trust them if it’s the last thing you do. It’s like it was in the making and was all planned out and I don’t know what it was but I should have been more vocal in the lead-up to the Brexit row which severed the UK into half.  The world is now an ugly place with people like Trump, Boris and even other countries who are now being plagued with rotten and greedy governments who are not for the people no matter how much they claim to be complete hogwash for sure. Part of me is wondering if these people just want to be elected to get rich off the poor and by the looks of things that is what happening so do try and remember your own feelings and others around you before you hit that ballot box cos I don’t want to hear any sighs once they been elected.  I don’t care anyway we are doomed either way it’s like picking the lesser evil in a bid to get what we desire come to find out it’s all based on lies and temptation to get us the voters to vote. It does get me angry and that is why I stay away from the news and newspapers when I can it’s too many lies and cover-ups some make me really mad and don’t get me started on the double standards they have the newspapers, outlets and government.