Those of you on Facebook might have seen a pic of my setup with a project open: this is that project. It’s a remix of Rebecca Knight’s “Poison”. I have to admit that I didn’t catch the original when it came out, and still now I can’t say I’m a big fan. However the vocal is absolutely fantastic. I’d say this is the first real ‘test’ of my new workstation since I put it together a...

Every now and then I get a little tired of the soulful/smooth/deep house stuff and try my hand at something different. Two of those tracks you can hear at my Nichou soundcloud account. “Harder 3″ might sound like an odd name for a track, but if I told you that the other tracks (Nightglider & Collision) were called “Harder” and “Harder 2″ originally, things might start making more sense. One of the...

Haven’t been sitting still, but I haven’t been moving a lot either. Got my new PC up and running, and this is just a quick result of two nights’ work. Hardware wise I can’t complain but I need to tweak some settings here and there, but on overall it’s a big improvement. Hope it’ll help my productivity. The track itself is just an idea that I stretched into a full song. It’s three chords and a beat,...

Here’s a short and sweet update: I finished the track that I was working on a few weeks back, Yasmeen’s “Gone”. Most of the track content was already in the preview, but there’s a lengthy piano break in the middle to mix things up a bit. I think it works okay in this track, building up towards the chorus near the...

This track is a little bit ‘different unfinished’, in the sense that it’s an original track. I didn’t have a vocal to work off, and just tried to come up with a nice groove. It’s nice a mellow & laidback groove, hence the title. In the set there’s three versions, the first is the original idea, with me sketching out a (possible) melody with a simple synth. I tried to come up with the main groove, and...

“I wake up, stand up, put my hands up”. It’s the chorus to a song that I’ve heard way too many times now, but in the end it was all worth it. Again this track was part of a remix competition, and although I didn’t actually win I do get a release now, two years later.More importantly, it put me in touch with a producer called Jay-J whose music I’ve liked since I got into this genre. The remix was done in a...

Nichou is my second account on SoundCloud. I felt I needed to separate my instrumental/harder stuff (Nichou) from my soulful house-y stuff, just to make it easier for people to get an idea what kind of tracks to expect. So you might be interested in what the name Nichou means or you may not be. I’m going to tell you anyway. Nichou is a complement to my first account Isseki in the sense that they are both part of the same Japanese...