Earth Summit: new mixes!

[Marc JX8P]

Today we finished three mixes for the new album: Unknown Earth (of which we posted a first mix earlier)  http://soundcloud.com/marcjx8p/87pm-unknown-earth-30-12-2011 and Hidden World (preview at http://soundcloud.com/marcjx8p/87pm-hidden-world-30-12-2011) and Industrial World (preview at http://soundcloud.com/marcjx8p/87pm-industrial-world-30-12). Hope you like them!

Percy & Marc

[Oren]

"Unknown Earth" is outstanding!
The preview for "Hidden Earth" is intriguing. I like the way you gentlemen are continuing to develop your skills with synthesis.
"Industrial World" promises to deliver some gritty audio with lots of percussive bottom end. Love it!

[Marc JX8P]

Thank you very much Oren!

[folderol]

Wot the canadian sed

Very good material indeed

[Marc JX8P]

Thanks you! It's really cool to finally start to finish these tracks after working on them for so many years... I'm also working on a new version of our 87PM website and I'll soon post something about that as well with a little request for the KM members to test it on their various different computers and browsers. It's going to make heavy use of Javascript in order to be visually exciting without resorting to Flash and such.

[elwoodblues1969]

I don't remember the particulars of the initial mix of Unknown Earth,but this is mixed very well(although I have a preference for the bass being a bit more pronounced).My favorite segments are 3:04 - 3:16 and 4:12 - 4:44. 

I like the timpani & that "Tibetan"-type sound in Hidden World and both this and the Industrial World tune have bass levels that suit my taste...nice work all around.


-Thom

[Marc JX8P]

Cool! Thank you for your specific comments! Bass levels are always a tricky issue - especially when you're trying to balance so many tracks. My main effort was on removing the muddy-ness of those frequencies just above the lowest bass levels but I gather that that has worked.

[MarioD]

“Unknown Earth” is as good as anything that David Arkenstone has done.  This is simply outstanding.  They other two do intrigue me.

Great work here.

[Marc JX8P]

Thank you! I didn't know David Arkenstone but I listened to a few tracks on his website and this is really high praise. Thank you for mentioning his music.

[Marc JX8P]

Woohoo! Three more mixes finalised (which would be fast if you wouldn't take into account that we've been working on them for years...):

http://soundcloud.com/marcjx8p/87pm-earth-evolved-04-01-2012

This 17 minute long track consists of four different sections and is quite ambient. Unfortunately, for now you're just going to get a peek at the first 30 seconds!

http://soundcloud.com/marcjx8p/87pm-ronys-theme-04-01-2012

We posted this track, dedicated to Kara, here before. There hasn't been much change although we did work on the drum sounds a bit as you may be able to hear here.

http://soundcloud.com/marcjx8p/87pm-mountain-ranges-04-01

Was called Blue Mountains, now Mountain Ranges. Together with Earth Evolved (which started as Earth Summit) one of the oldest tracks we did for this album.

Hope you'll enjoy these!

Percy & Marc

[folderol]

Some great teasers there. Rony's Theme sounds especially good.

[Oren]

"Earth Evolved" - spooky, clandestine, pensive.
"Rony's Theme" - complex rhythms... beautiful percussion, bass, and piano - a fitting tribute to the man who helped us hone our craft.
"Mountain Ranges" - Majestic, with a tropical feel. Cool!

[Marc JX8P]

Thanks guys! Glad to hear you like it!

[Marc JX8P]

In addition to the six previews we've published so far we can now also reveal the artwork for our upcoming album!

[folderol]

Looks good