Quote Originally Posted by eyes without a face
12 Conquest featuring Alex Calver

i must ask dude, when u say featuring Alex Calver, do u mean he did the production because i notice it says out soon on a label, and what ive heard of ur stuff ive not heard a track of releasable standard yet, whilst good tracks of course, not an attack this just a genuine enquiry!

downloading the album now
I took a bunch of samples to alex with an idea of what I wanted and talked it over with him. we sat with Cubase for a day and made that tune. I needed alexs' insight for fills and different ways of filtering. I say featuring Alex Calver because I do beleive it was a joint effort even though alex was in the captains chair for this. It still reflects the mood and style of a lot of techno I make and I don't think this one is that far removed from what I already do. It will sound better than my usual stuff because Alex has years more experience producing than myself but I'm not entirely inept at production and I beleive my creative input was very much taken to account in the production of the track in question.

I also take credit for this work because I did my homework production wise as you can clearly tell from recent months work and unless I had done that I would not have been able to effectively communicate what I wanted from alex and ended up with something that wasn't close to my intent.

As for the rest of the tracks they reflect all of my recent influences and some older ones and regrardless of their releasability I am very pleased with them and in context of the album I think they work really well. It's a varied album and it works on the dancefloor so to this end it has done its job. It is my second prodution milestone album and I very much look forward to starting the next one because that will be even better. I've never been more excited to be producing because working withg Alex has opened up many new fields of exploration and I feel that my own personal twist of what I've learned will eventually yeild a new distinctive sound. It may not be groundbreakingly original but show me anyone on this forum who is.