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Getting into my Electronic music swag bag to make this album, which is also a concept album and part of the Afrofuturism moods I’ve been doing. I won’t get into the story as I’ve already made a YouTube video with all the music on the album in the video, and I timed each chapter to the music so it fitted good and there weren’t any hanging bits. The video, which is a short comic-like story, has me and my dog Patch as the main characters. I like to think of myself as a storyteller and enjoy making up things for pure entertainment, as you may have discovered on my other websites, gameforexpermentation.co.uk and randomgas.com. I used my own drums from my own collection of drum kits, and I think I used the Roland 808 drum kit, which is one of my favourites to use, but I’m starting to favour the Lin Drum, but not the snares. For the synthesizers I used the Matrix 12 from the Artuia’s V Collection which I like to use on all my spacy tracks and I made quite a few by now some are unreleased and stuff I was meant to release on a day but forgot so it’s unreleased for now until I find the tracks again. My friend and I wrote the story first, well, first there were chapter ideas, and it turned into a brief description of each chapter, which I followed along with in the track titles and also in the story, which is below if you want to check that out. I enjoyed making the story, which I used a comic style and photoshopped the pictures. It’s something I’ve done before and enjoy doing I think it’s quite fun and keeps me busy for a second but I use the free open source software called Gimp and is my go to program for photoshopping and making stuff with pictures. The first track, which is called Cheers, is a soft, synthy number and has a warm bass and gentle follow-along synths to go with the rest of the track. I like it and it is one of my favourites on the album. I wish it were longer, though.  The next track, called Weird is a more upbeat track with more lively playing and drum action. Once again, it should be longer, but it had to fit the chapter. The next track, called The Feel Is Strange, is another favourite of mine on the album, as I like the upbeatness to it, and I like the synths to this one. The next track, called Lock & Key, is another one I quite like, and I like the robot fear to it and the chorus synth, which wakes the song up; it’s meant to invoke danger and evil aliens and their robots, which I think it did quite well. The next track is called A Bid For Freedom, and another favourite on the album, as I like the danger feel to it and the extra-terrestrial feel to it. I also like the melody to this one with the frantic end-of-the-world playing. The next track is called Captured, is a more laid back track that I quite like until the strings start kicking in, then it’s more doom doom doom music. I was going for that tense feel to the track to invoke being captured and being held hostage by the captors. The last track, Home Dry, is another favourite on the album as I like the bass with the frantic string stabs and the chorus which makes the track.