Nakura

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My roommate made a display stand for my first mechanical keyboard.

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It is Bandcamp Friday again! If you want to pick something up from me, consider grabbing what is my favorite track that I made this year. “All I Need Is Tekno” is a fun track where I tried my best to combine my sound with the classic Next Generation sound.

Or consider “Edge of Autumn” from around this time last year, I am very proud of this one.

And as always, my entire discography is available for a big discount. Consider grabbing it if you want to get everything from me all at once.

-NAKURA

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My track from the amazing Orbit 21: Cyberpunk compilation. You can check out the full compilation full of all kinds of cyberpunk goodness here: https://novatonecommunity.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-21-cyberpunk

For this track I decided to do a more soundtrack style piece where I combined my all time favorite piece of cyberpunk fiction, Ghost in the Shell, with the amazing music style from Blade Runner (RIP Vangelis).

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Novatone's Orbit 21: Cyberpunk is high-key one of my favorite compilations released this year and "Cybernetic Angel" by Mana Weaver makes for a hauntingly beautiful closing track. Can't recommend this enough!

P.S.: 100% of proceeds go to Novatone's partner, Save The Music Foundation!

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Thinking About Doing A 30 Day Linux Challenge

I am thinking of doing a 30 Linux challenge next year after I complete this album project I have planned. It will be challenging since almost all of my software I use is Windows only, but I don't want to be stuck with it forever and I think I will be rewarding to see if I can adapt. The plan will be to get a new system SSD and pull out my current Windows SSD. That way if I want to abort, or decide to go back after the challenge, I can easily swap back.

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Sequencing drums on my Polyend Tracker and using it as a clock for my modular synth. So glad I got this set up and working now.

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Track I made for Halloween this year. While I was working on it, the pads reminded me of the save room music from the Resident Evil games. I absolutely love Resident Evil, so I immediately went with that as the theme. I added a plucky melody very similar to the one from the Resident Evil 1 remake and the whole track just came together.

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My track from the amazing Orbit 21: Cyberpunk compilation. You can check out the full compilation full of all kinds of cyberpunk goodness here: https://novatonecommunity.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-21-cyberpunk

For this track I decided to do a more soundtrack style piece where I combined my all time favorite piece of cyberpunk fiction, Ghost in the Shell, with the amazing music style from Blade Runner (RIP Vangelis).

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Edit I made of the incredible "I Really Want To Stay At Your House" from Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

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Cool remix I made with ZARCOXX of Alex Prospect & Jakka-B's track.

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The first track from my Heat Wave EP.

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The second track from my Heat Wave EP.

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The third track from my Heat Wave EP.

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My remix of the Styles & Breeze classic.

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"I am really happy with this one! It is another song where I mixed hardcore with hardstyle, but this time instead of a remix of one of my existing songs, it is a new song using some very old Kate Lesing vocals. Well mostly new, I actually used these vocals way back when I first started making music before the Nakura alias even existed, it wasn't very good. This time however, I was able to really do the vocals justice with my current production and songwriting skills. Overall I'm really liking the sound I am getting out of mixing hardcore with hardstyle, so probably expect more songs of this type from me in the future."

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"I have been experimenting with hardstyle sounds lately and this is the my first finished track using those types of sounds. I discovered that I could cut the tail out from the "tok" part of the kick, and then time stretch copies of the tail differently, to create a bassline. I got really excited from this discovery, but I looked it up and it turns out that hardstyle producers have been doing that forever and I just did not realize lol. Still, I think it is kind of cool that I discovered the technique all on my own. I decided to put what I have learned to use and also wanted to make a summer themed track, so I thought it would be cool to see how my 2019 song "Summer Breeze" sounded with a hardstyle kick. It works surprisingly well and I am very happy with how this remix turned out!"

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"A while back, I was opening up some really old projects looking for inspiration, and came across this one that I started all the way back in 2010. I felt like the track had potential, so I decided to finish it up. It was originally going to be an instrumental track called Sunshine, but that was shortened to shine at some point. After restarting production on this relic, I decided that the song could use some vocals, so I searched for "shine" in my sample library and stumbled across the "Shine 4U" acapella. I found out that the vocals pitched down by 200 cents have the same chord progression that the original WIP did. I adapted the track to better fit the vocals, which sadly meant having to scrap the melody from the old original, but I think it was for the best, since I am very happy with the final result."

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"It is crazy to think that Audio Vitamin is 8 years old! To celebrate, I decided to give one of my favorite old tracks a proper release and make an updated version of it. Since this is the 8th anniversary of Audio Vitamin, I decided to call the update "Infinity Mix", as a play on the fact that the infinity symbol looks like a sideways 8. The Infinity Mix is not a dramatic departure from the original, mostly just gave it a better mixdown (IMO), slightly changed the arrangement, and fixed a few small things. I also remastered the original version, it sounds much better and fuller than it ever has. I am super happy to have this release out for you all and am happy to celebrate 8 years of Audio Vitamin with you."