Beyoncé – End of Time (The Remix)

Hi all.

This is my submission for a remix competition. I’m presuming you have heard the original ‘End of Time’ by Beyoncé. You know, very uptempo, loud with samba like percussion. Very positive affair.

Well here is my remix

You can vote for the track on my competition page. Please do!

http://endoftime.beyonceonline.com/tracks/1344

SYNOPSIS

In keeping with my love of ambient, soundtracks, space and the ethereal (and a little melancholy), I thought I would focus on the pretty vocal melody and the lyrics and work the story from there.

The story crosses between the original song (based in the present) and the future. The soul of the character singing is immortal. She loves the same person throughout all realities and timeline’s. In each timeline there is a tragedy that befalls her loved one that breaks her heart. She is imploring that person to ‘never let me go’ because as long as that person still loves her back, she can sense him anywhere and come to his aid.

In the climax of the song, she discovers his location but he is almost destroyed by those who consider such unbridled love a threat to their control, but the closer she gets, the stronger he becomes, like two galaxies exchanging stars over millions of years. They eventually merge into one spirit which becomes a star which then proceeds to create planets that harbour new life. As the life evolves on that new planet, a woman is born. A woman who senses that her love is out there, somewhere. Waiting for her…

She reaches out through time and space and senses his location. He is in trouble. He is suffering from immense sadness and pain. She must go to his aid…

Esgi’s Saturday Night Live – Hypervirtua

Keeping the theme of my latest release going, I thought I would upload the entire Hypervirtua EP onto YouTube and present the first track here

I will not embed six YouTube videos into one post as that will probably cripple your browser. Instead I will post the links to the other tracks for your convenience!

Descent – Silicon City – Buffer Overrun – Oasis – Hypervirtua – Pulse-Sentience.

Note, the 44.1kHz 16bit Edition is available to download through my Jamendo account: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/106545

The 96kHz 24bit Edition is available to download through my website: http://music.esgi.co.uk/album/hypervirtua-hd-edition

The ‘Hypervirtua’ EP is now released on Jamendo

Hello fellow music lovers!

I would just like to announce that my electro-ambient-soundtrack concept EP, titled ‘Hypervirtua‘ is now available on Jamendo. The main link is here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/106545.

This follows on from my first release on Jamendo (Echoes In Time) which I am proud to say has built up almost 100,000 plays on Jamendo and is still rated at over 9 out of 10.  The people have spoken!

‘Hypervirtua‘ is a concept EP spanning a common theme. Integrating orchestral parts, trance, dubstep, ballads and more with technology, so you get more futuristic sounding parts merging with the classical. That is what I am having fun with in this EP and is a personal development in songwriting and production, merging the two.

Unless you have great speakers (like studio monitors) and a treated room to listen to them in, you are probably best downloading the original FLAC files from the EP page and playing the whole EP in the order the tracks are presented in a dark room on good headphones, that way you can begin exploring all of the parts in the music that you probably won’t hear otherwise, at least that is how it works for me

This version of the release (Standard) would be better suited for people who want to broadcast it on podcasts or radio stations and the like, as it is mixed to a more commercial spec. The uploaded files are 44.1kHz 16bit FLAC (CD quality) mixed closer to the K-8 spec. There will be a HD release which comes in a tasty 96kHz 24bit flavour and mixed closer to the K-14 system (which is my preferred regime, being as you get to keep more of the original dynamic range). There will an additional update for when that hits the virtual shelves.

I must say I am proud of this composition, the mixing and the artwork and I hope you enjoy it too. It compares to ‘Echoes In Time‘ like Tron: Legacy compares to Tron, more advanced in every way. Looking forward to the other projects I have lined up in 2012. Much to do, so little time.

Thanks for reading,

Esgi.

P.S. Follow my main blog at www.esgi.co.uk for more updates.

Update on EP release

Hello there, for those who haven’t seen it on my Twitter or Facebook feeds, my first music project of 2012 is due to be released this Friday (17-02-2012).

The release will have a section published on this blog with under the ‘Music page‘ with additional details about the different versions (there will be two), why there are two versions and other bits of information about why it is being distributed through the vendors I am using and not more popular outlets.

Anyway if you want to listen to it before the official release, here it is.

(If the media player above doesn’t load, it is probably because your browser doesn’t support HTML5, in which case just use the link below).

http://soundcloud.com/esgi/sets/hypervirtua/s-ns9zQ

Esgi’s Saturday Night Live Ep10 – Improv – Brett Garsed track

For those who are interested. I recorded this directly into audio software called REAPER http://www.reaper.fm/ via an Mbox 2. It’s a Pro Tools interface but I’ve found myself using REAPER more as it’s faster and has a 64bit pipeline (and unlimited super-tracks). Aaaaanyway. The tone was provided by Waves GTR3. I intend on moving from an Mbox2 to something of higher quality, like a TC Electronic Konnekt 6 or something. I put a JS (user-name plugin, comes with REAPER) stereo expander on the solo track (after the delay, which I used from GTR3). This helped spread the delay across the stereo field. I gave the tone a bit of sting to match the HF’s in the backing track and Bobs ya uncle. Quite nice sounding track, now just to work on the guitar playing lol…

Esgi’s Saturday (Um Monday) Night Live Ep9 – RandomJamdom

Whoops. Two days late this time. I have a good reason though.

I got caught up working on my EP which should be ready ( as in released) in a few weeks. All of the tracks are written, just to mix them down, master them and finish the rest of the artwork for the project. Looking forward to it!

Esgi’s Saturday Night Live Ep8 – Drunk Cyber Blues

This episode is a day late. Due to alcohol. Funnily enough, I was quite drunk when I recorded this track. Improvised as usual.

Esgi’s Saturday Night Live Ep7 – Deckard’s Dream

Have a great weekend!

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For WordPress.com Users. SOPA/PIPA Ribbon, HowTo

WordPress.com has only gone and given you an option to express your rejection of SOPA and PIPA. It’s easy. Follow these steps:

1. Log in to your wordpress.com account.
2. Navigate to your Dashboard.
3. Under ‘Settings’ (near the bottom of your option bar) you will find a PROTEST SOPA/PIPA entry.
4. Select one of the options.

As you probably noticed, I have the second option set. (Top right).

UPDATE: As SOPA and PIPA have had their butts very nicely kicked, the banner option has been removed from WordPress. For now…

So Continues the SOPA / PIPA War

From: http://fightforthefuture.org/

Today was nuts, right?

Google launched a petition.  Wikipedia voted to shut itself off.  Senators’ websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them.   NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.

You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before.  Tech companies and users teamed up.  Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms.  The free network defended itself.  Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet.

The really crazy part?  We might even win.

Approaching Monday’s crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA.  Last week there were 5.   And it just takes just 41 solid “no” votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate.  What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.

But don’t trust predictions.  The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass.  Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don’t understand why–so they’re easily duped by superficial changes.  The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical.  Here are two things to think about:

1. Plan on calling your Senator every day next week.  Pick up the phone each morning and call your Senators’ offices, until they vote “no” on cloture.  If your site participated today, consider running a “Call the Senate” link all next week.

2. Tomorrow, drop in at your Senators’ district offices.  We don’t have a cool map widget to show you the offices nearest you (we’re too exhausted! any takers?).  So do it the old fashioned way: use Google, or the phonebook to find the address, and just walk in, say you oppose PIPA, and urge the Senator to vote “no” on cloture.  These drop-in visits make our spectacular online protests more tangible and credible.

That’s it for now. Be proud and stay on it!

–Holmes, Tiffiniy, and the whole Fight for the Future team.

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P.S. Huge credit goes to participants in the 11/16 American Censorship Day protest: Mozilla, 4chan, BoingBoing, Tumblr, TGWTG, and thousands of others.  That’s what got this ball rolling!  Reddit, both the community and the team behind it, you’re amazing.  And of course, thanks to the Wikimedians whose patient and inexorable pursuit of the right answer brought them to take world-changing action. Thanks to David S, David K, Cory D, and E Stark for bold action at critical times.

P.P.S. If you haven’t already, show this video to as many people as you can. It works! http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/