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CROATIA THE OPENING 2013 [Enormous Tunes]: Sonaris – Pen & Paper

Very proud to announce and present my track Pen & Paper on the amazing chillout compilation “Croatia The Opening 2013” on Enormous Tunes.

The European summer season is back and with it Enormous Tunes once again provides the essential soundtrack to your vacation with ‘Croatia The Opening 2013’. Cramming in a massive 50 fresh and upfront tracks, this compilation includes no less than 30 previously unreleased exclusives plus anthems from international superstar artists such as Dinka, EDX who teamed up with Australian singer Sarah McLeod, Maya Jane Coles, Gorge, Croatia Squad, Nora En Pure, Leventina, Passenger 10 and many more.

Offering the full spectrum from downbeat chillout music to danceable beach house music, across 4 huge full-length mixes. Soak up the summer season with another complete collection of uplifting and dreamy electronica and jazz lounge grooves.

Go on a journey with the ‘Downbeat Chillout DJ-Mix’ mixed by PASSENGER 10 who lays down a pure journey through the finest of chill out tones and sounds. Containing tracks from some of the most wanted artists of the genre, such as Californian based duo Koda, Ross Couch, Stan Kolev & Matan Caspi, Helvetic Nerds member Dinka, Chris Reece or Leventina just name out a few.

The second ‘Jazz Lounge DJ-Mix’ is offered by SUNFRIENDS who collected and compiled some fabulous unreleased soft jazz songs to present in their unique DJ-mix. Smell the flavor of the summer with tracks from James Bright, Jennifer Needles and Scrooge who teamed up with brazilian singer Anissa Damali.

With the third ‘Melodic House DJ-Mix’ which is mixed and compiled by Swiss star artist DINKA our summerish journey heads on to a more danceable corner. Some exclusive tracks from Dinka herself can be heard on that mix as well as tracks by Johan Vilborg, George F. Zimmer aka GFZ, upcoming super talent Calippo and Nora En Pure’s current club hit ‘Come With Me’ amongst many others.

And finally we reach the seaside with our ‘Beach House DJ-Mix’ which is mixed by CROATIA SQUAD. Feel the crashing waves of the ocean with tracks and mixes by Huxley, Maya Jane Coles, Sezer Uysal, Gorge, or Karol XVII & MB Valence.

TRACKLIST

1. Chris Reece ft. Britney Serano – Falling Hard (Original Mix)
2. Sunfriends – Sand Sharks (Original Mix)
3. Dinka – Fountain (Original Mix)
4. EDX ft. Sarah McLeod – Falling Out Of Love (Lounge Mix)
5. Koda – Hands (Original Mix)
6. Leventina – Glorious (Passenger 10 African Lounge Mix)
7. Jennifer Needles – Hold On (Original Mix)
8. Fair Light Ranger – Brighten Up Life (Original Mix)
9. Paul Richmond – Tears In Heaven (Original Mix)
10. Chris Reece – Higher Ground (Original Mix)
11. Passenger 10 – Changing Season (Original Mix)
12. Hazy J – Slide (Original Mix)
13. James Bright – Twilight (Original Mix)
14. Paul Richmond – Sunstate (Original Mix)
15. Denissa – Summer 1993 (Original Mix)
16. Ross Couch – Angel (Original Mix)
17. Scrooge – Harlem Jazz (Original Mix)
18. Sunfriends – Give It To Me (Original Mix)
19. Scrooge ft. Anissa Damali – Planet Earth (Original Mix)
20. Unarticulate Harmony – Una (Original Mix)
21. Stan Kolev & Matan Caspi – Midnight Caravan (Original Mix)
22. Johan Vilborg – That Morning (Original Mix)
23. Dinka – Windmills (Original Mix)
24. Kid Vibes – Ocean Blue (Original Mix)
25. Dinka – It Just Won’t Quit (Original Mix)
26. Dinka – Islands (Original Mix)
27. Calippo – Slipstream (Original Mix)
28. Croatia Squad – Age Of Technology (Radio Mix)
29. Nora En Pure – Come With Me (Radio Mix)
30. Anton Ishutin ft. Tiana – Deeply In My Soul (Original Mix)
31. Croatia Squad – Swimming Pool (Radio Mix)
32. Johnny Cade – The Sanguine (Huxley Remix)
33. Passenger 10 – Street Names (Original Mix)
34. Nora En Pure – Tanlines (Original Mix)
35. Karol XVII & MB Valence – Maruda (Gorge’s Summer Vibes Remix)
36. Calippo – Feel Good (Original Mix)
37. Drumschool – One Shot (Original Mix)
38. Maya Jane Cole – Bubbler (Original Mix)
39. We+ – Night Game (Original Mix)
40. Calippo – Soledad (Original Mix)
41. Croatia Squad – Break Out (Original Mix)
42. Sezer Uysal Ft. Chinar – Baku (Spennu Deeper Mix)
43. Enviado Vida – If I Could Live Again (Original Mix)
44. GFZ – Sophisticate (Original Mix)
45. Stanley Ross – The Meal (Original Mix)
46. Manse – Misterious Alley (Original Mix)
47. Sonaris – Pen & Paper (Original Mix)
48. Digital Elements – Rain (Original Mix)
49. Sandro – Drift Away (Original Mix)
50. Scrooge – Down By The Shore (Original Mix)
51. Croatia The Opening 2013 (Downbeat Chillout DJ-Mix by Passenger 10)
52. Croatia The Opening 2013 (Jazz Lounge DJ-Mix by Sunfriends)
53. Croatia The Opening 2013 (Melodic House DJ-Mix by Dinka)
54. Croatia The Opening 2013 (Beach House DJ-Mix by Croatia Squad)

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Reddit External Links Data Out: How You Can Use This To Promote Music More Efficiently

New numbers from Reddit are out, on the Top 100 external domains submitted to reddit (as of March 27, 2013). Top 10 below. So, how does this help you promote music?

If you’re not familiar with Reddit, it’s a site which essentially aggregates information in one place, shared by its own users. It being one of the top sites for this sort of thing right now means that the below sites are some of the most relevant sources of content at the moment. No huge surprises on the sites listed there. What does this mean for you?

If you want to gain visibility, be in the places where other people are. Namely:

  • Do use images, photos to promote your releases, yourself, your band, your label, whatever – post these on Flickr and Share them on imgur
  • Do post videos on YouTube even if they are just a static image, but make sure that the music is of good quality (yeah, it might get ripped, but no one is going to share your 30 second 90kbps mp3 file). You’re better off with people ripping and sharing your music than not… exposure!
    • If possible, do try to use some animation in your videos so people have a second reason to share it, not just for the sound
  • Do focus your efforts on getting publicity so you can get on Wikipedia, it legitimizes your presence in the industry

An article in the NYT certainly wouldn’t hurt, but if that’s not you today, it can always be a goal.

# Domain Submissions
1 i.imgur.com 4,907,577
2 imgur.com 4,013,285
3 youtube.com 3,367,658
4 reddit.com 994,339
5 qkme.me 641,745
6 quickmeme.com 355,509
7 youtu.be 278,618
8 flickr.com 263,352
9 en.wikipedia.org 178,003
10 nytimes.com 159,780

 

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New Sonaris Music: 4 “New” Releases

For someone who works in marketing, I seem to be really bad when it comes to promoting my music. Maybe it’s a case of the chef not wanting to cook at home, or perhaps that I see my music as something deeply personal and while I want to put it out in the world I don’t want to sell or promote it myself kind of thing, or maybe a bit of both – but, here are some releases I haven’t mentioned on here at all:

Live it up, Play it loud Vol 2 (Compilation/ 4 Tracks) – Feb 2013 [AVR]

These Moments EP – Feb 2013 [AVR]

Beats & Breaks Essentials Vol 3 (Compilation/ 1 Track) – Dec 2012 [LWR]

Glowing EP (Remix) – Sept 2012 [AVR]

So, five new original Sonaris tracks and a remix. Check them out, listen, share and enjoy. I hope you like listening to them as much as I liked creating them.

P.S. If you don’t feel like paying for the tracks, you can download decent quality shortened previews of all of them on the Sonaris Soundcloud page.

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Dred Scott (Rapper): Breakin’ Combs — One of The Best 90’s Rap Albums You’ve NEVER Heard

2018 Update: This album is now on Spotify!

Sometimes it so happens that I run accross a track that completely blows me away, and this happens less and less lately. I’d say this is less because music is “getting worse” but more because I’ve probably heard quite a bit of it already. The rap scene lately hasn’t been getting a lot of my attention. That’s why it’s mind-blowing when I find an entire album that’s just this crazy journey of smooth beats, flawless delivery and witty rhymes. That album is Dred Scott’s “Breakin’ Combs”.

I’ll begin the story by saying that I found the first track I heard from this album by typing something completely random into YouTube and just happened to click on the video for “Back In the Day”. Immediately I went from the surroundings of my office to a day in the park in the Bronx after I first moved to New York in the early 90’s. Memories of after school basketball, pump-up high-tops, Looney Toons, fruit punch, JanSport backpacks, Super Nintendo, breakdancers in Central Park, all this came rushing in. The thing is, Dred Scott was an L.A.-based rapper, but the vibe is so strongly, distinctively 90’s that I couldn’t help but get lost in my own world of the time period with a sound so distinctively 90’s rap.

An entire day worth of play-on-repeat later I realized I need to know if there is more of this out there. As it turns out, Dred Scott only released one rap album, in ’94. (He also released a jazz album a year later). So, I quickly tracked down a few more tracks on YouTube, and all of them are bangin’ beat gold! Practically every beat I found is a grandiose percussive tribute to the boombox, screaming to be played in my car with the windows down. For a 90’s rap album the fidelity of sound is quite good, even in digital recordings on YouTube and a couple I found on this post by Jeff Leon on KevinNottingham.com

Well, now I definitely want a copy of the album. Over to Amazon, but alas there is no MP3 version. Luckily, a few used copies were still available for a reasonable price. Needless to say I grabbed a copy and now eagerly await to get these jams in my possession to listen to at my whim. It kind of feels like I’d been waiting to find this album and, as if by fate, I have. One of my favorite feelings is when I find new music which I want to enjoy over and over and over, music which makes me feel something, takes me to a different place.

Is it a shame that Dred Scott only put out one album? Should he have gotten more exposure? Would he still be around rhyming right now? I’m not sure, but maybe this is meant to be a treasure to be discovered by a few, the lucky ones.

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How to Mix Electronic [Dance] Music [EDM] 101: Tricks, Tips and Winning

How To Mix Electronic [Dance Music] Sonaris Music

I get this question a lot and I’ve posted about the difference between mixing and mastering before (update 2019: article is no longer archived on the site), but I figured I’d throw together some thoughts, and [my own] secrets – if you will, in this short article on mixing electronic music. There are lots of tutorials out there, but this one is unique because this is how I mix my own tracks and I pretty much learned most of it by trial and error, so my techniques may be different than what you’ve seen out there. Continue reading “How to Mix Electronic [Dance] Music [EDM] 101: Tricks, Tips and Winning”

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Free Music Pack: Sonaris Music Deluxe Samples

New, premium sample sound pack 29 high quality 30 second and 60 second loops loops. For licensing info/iqnuiries (more on this below) please contact Elite Sync Lab.

If you decide to download the pack, here is what you can and cannot do with the music in these packs:

CAN DO WITH THIS MUSIC:
* Use this music for your personal website
* Play this music at your gym, restaurant, bar, salon, small business
* Sample this music for your own music project as long as you’re not selling it
* Listen however you feel like, on your music player, in the car, etc…
* Give to your friends or strangers to listen to
* DJs may drop any of this music in your set
* Enjoy

Sonaris Music LogoCANNOT DO WITH THIS MUSIC:
* Sell any of the files to anyone or any organization
* Use the music for a commercial website
* Use for any sort of advertising
* Use for any video project which brings in revenue
* Use for any show (TV or Internet) or film
* Play on the radio or internet radio
* Sample any of the music for a commercial release music project

Basically, as long as you are not making money off of my work, it’s all good.

If you do want to use any of this music for commercial purposes, e.g. advertising, TV, films, videos, website, radio etc… you can license the music for a small and yet very reasonable sum.

You will need a .zip extractor to open the archive and extract the mp3 files.
You can find one for free online (I recommend 7Zip).

What’s in the packs?
In total there are 37 tracks and loops in the three files.
The first two packs , Full Length or Minute Plus are either full length finished tracks or near finished tracks, 27 total. The last pack, Shorter Samples & Loops is a pack of 30 second – 1 minute clips of music, 10 total. The music contained in the packs is of all sorts of various genres: progressive house, dubstep, downtempo, electro house + more.

Sonaris Music Deluxe Music Pack > [Right Click To Download]

My earlier sample packs are available for licensing here:
Elite Sync Lab at AudioSparx