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Recently released my debut album, "The Good Ship Cacophony" as Space Pirates Guild. Heavy guitars, synths, drum machines.

- https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI...

- https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild

- https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/

- https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154...

- https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...

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Ooof some guitar riffs really hit right! Maybe the mixing could make them less detached in the highs from the rest.

Great stuff!

Hey thanks!

I would love if you could say a little more here - what exactly do you mean by making the guitars less detached in the highs?

Currently iterating my creative process for the next album and one of my main areas of focus is creating a better strategy for constructing my mix. This album has many layers of synth parts and I found it nearly impossible to preserve all the detail I wanted.

Really good work! :)

We should collab, I also love mixing heavy guitars + synths (https://open.spotify.com/artist/1KSqbxUwye5HzsZzILWnQ6?si=kh...)

Nice!

If the terrans from Starcraft were less war-prone and more into mild psychadelics. Very nice!

Thanks!

This description is hilarious - I may have to blurb it for promotional material (if you don't mind)!

By all means!

This is wonderful. I've actually been wishing I could create music like this for some time. I have some guitar background, but zero DAW experience. I just downloaded FL Studio last week and have been playing around with it. What would you suggest I do in order to learn how to make music like you?

Cool stuff :) Been listening to a lot of synthwave recently, and love how you’ve worked the metal guitars into this

Check out Perturbator - Dangerous Days. Synthwave used to be very heavily influenced by metal, both aesthetically and musically, but a lot of that has been lost as the 'chill youtube mix' side has taken over

I love it, playing it on repeat on Spotify, thanks for sharing!

Your approach to electronics + heavy guitars is very very cool!

I've been listening to your music all morning as well. Thanks so much for sharing!

Can you say a little about your background as a musician?

Thanks for your interest - it's been a lifelong pursuit. There was an old upright piano in the house while I was growing up that I always gravitated to. Had about 10 years of piano lessons as an adolescent; had a love/hate relationship with the structure of taking lessons but it was invaluable. Ended up playing tuba all through high school in various school bands, which got me in to playing electric bass in the school jazz band. Around this time someone gifted me an old electric guitar and I fell in love with that distorted feedback you get when you crank the volume and stand in front of the amp. Started a really bad high school rock band. This led to several more rock/emo bands over the years. Concurrently, a buddy in school gave me a pirated copy of Propellerhead Rebirth, which emulated several of Roland's old drum machines and groovebox-style synthesizers. Found this super interesting. Spent a lot of time in college making bad techno with Fruity Loops. Kind of gave it all a rest while I did startup life for a while... then I had the good fortune to be working out of a building near a recording studio and we sort of got to go hang out in there every so often. At some point, a band was set up in there and I laid eyes on an old Roland Juno-60. I was so intrigued I immediately bought one on craigslist and that has sent me down this enormous rabbit-hole of hardware synthesizers... which, to my eyes, is this wonderful center of the venn-diagram that intersects design and music and technology. Putting together a solo album has always been on my bucket list and this last year of isolation was the perfect opportunity... and here we are!

Hey I really like this. I have been listening to this on repeat. Thanks!!

I started listening and by the third track I was sold and purchased on bandcamp! Great stuff!

Thank you! :D

The style reminds me a little bit of the Awesomenauts soundtrack

I especially like your guitar riffs and wish they were louder in the mix.

Thanks. I really struggled with mixing the guitar and so many layers of synth. At this point it is what it is but I am definitely iterating on my process for the next album.

Wonderful music, thanks for sharing. Huge supporter of BC over here!

Of all the services I've had to interact with to get this album out digitally, Bandcamp was easily the most streamlined and easy to use. Definitely recommend them to anyone as a first-stop in getting music distributed.

This is really good. Thanks for posting.

Very nice, indeed! Congrats for the release.

Damn nice work!

love the "Expanse" themes!

I have been so pleasantly surprised at what a great adaptation the TV series has been so far.

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