No Hope - No Fear

New track

2009-12-26T19:56:00.001+03:00

Hi all!

Here's the new track I've composed and recorded for boyinaband.com's "Hip-hop composition competition". It features dirty beat, heavy guitars and some sweet synths. Check it out.

Winter by Strock

I'm back!

2008-07-26T14:50:00.004+04:00

Hi all. I haven't been writing here for a long time, because I had to work hard and had absolutely no time to make some music or something. But, I'm back and here's my new composition - but I don't know how to name it )))) It's made with Propellerheads Reason and mastered in Cubase (by the way, I think, mastering of this song is totally bad. But don't know how to make it better). Anyway, listen to it and, maybe, write some comments on it. Enjoy.

New untitled track - Strock

New gear

2008-05-08T14:06:00.002+04:00

On the last week I've bought some new stuff for my entertainment ))) Here they are.
1) ESI Juli@ sound card
2) Tapco Mix 50 mixer

Hope they'll help me a little. Later I'll write some review on them.

Beat goes on

2008-01-01T14:59:00.000+03:00

Happy new year everyone!
I've done some beat samples for the song. Here they are in action.

Electronic one is made with Native Instruments Battery with certain kit loaded into it, and output passed through Waves Guitar Amp to make it crunchy. Live drums are done with the help of EZ Drummer.

Experiment troubles

2007-12-30T12:54:00.000+03:00

Crap, I've just realized that I've lost vocal tracks.

The year is almost over

2007-12-29T21:22:00.000+03:00

...and now I have a lot of time for a certain period. So tomorrow I'll start my little experiment, and I think that you'll see rhythm section with details on how I did it on tomorrow evening. As I've already said, stay tuned! )))

Crazy Frog vs Yarilo - garmoshka-core drum'n'bass mix

2007-12-22T18:46:00.000+03:00

This one is a funny thing ))) Sometimes my friends formed a joke-band named "Yarilo" and started to perform some Russian and world-music hits in a funny way accompanied by accordeon. I've then made a remix on their performing of famous "Crazy Frog" theme (originally "Axel F" electronic theme from "Beverly Hills Cop" movie) in Propellerheads Reason. Here's what I made.

By the way, all songs of "Yarilo", including cover-version of David Guetta's "The World Is Mine" are available for free download on last.fm. Here is the link. If you just want to listen to what Yarilo is, here's David Guetta's cover:

Roxette cover

2007-12-22T18:30:00.000+03:00

Another not finished work. In early March, 2006 I've been working on cover version of "Listen to your heart" by Roxette. I didn't even get to recording guitars for it. Here's what I've finished on.

This record doesn't contain any live instrument. Drums are from EZ Drummer, piano - Edirol Orchestral, bass is done with my favourite Fender Jazz Bass SoundFont, different synth sounds - Korg Legacy Collection.

A little experiment

2007-12-22T16:40:00.000+03:00

Recently my friend and me decided to rewrite one of the most beautiful songs of our old band "DiZkordanT". This was some kind of indie hard-electronical band, and it wasn't very popular, as always ))) Anyway, I decided also to present parts of upcoming work in this blog. I'll rewrite everything but vocals, and will put parts of the song here for you to look at them. And now, let me introduce you the song itself.

Song is called "Morning" ("Utro" in russian). This was the last serious song our band ever released. Musical part was composed and performed by Kasyanov, and lyrics and vocal parts were performed by Salut. Song was written in 2005. I always wanted our band to be more live, less electronic, but this song doesn't fit in this rules ))) This is one of the things I'd like to correct by reinterpreting it. And Kasyanov doesn't like song's arrangement at all by now. So, we have some general ideas about how to rewrite it, and we'll try. Stay tuned.

Google Analytics and Blogger.com

2007-11-29T16:43:00.000+03:00

As you know, it is not trivial to insert Google Analytics tracking code into your blog on Blogger.com. Google just doesn't see your code - it says that tracking code is installed, but gets no data from your pages (you see "Tracking code installed - waiting for data" on your analytics page). In order to make your tracking code work, you should do following:

1) Go to your blog template editing page
2) Paste your tracking code into <head>...<head> section of template
3) Make sure Google detected code on your page by updating it's status in Analytics interface
4) Then wrap actual call of urchinTracker in Javascript's eval function like this:

<script src='http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js' type='text/javascript'>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
eval('_uacct = "your_id_goes_here"; urchinTracker();');
</script>

Click "Save" and it should work! I don't know what actually prevents Google Analytics code from running properly, but wrapping it with eval() call works.

Let's start with a song.

2007-11-07T09:17:00.001+03:00

So let's start with a song ))) In early march, 2007 I wrote this song and recorded it. But, because of my total stupidity, I just didn't finish it. I played with arrangement and mastering for about a week, but didn't decide what variant would be final. Also, there is no text for this song. I thought I'll write it myself but - as you already know - I'm just too lazy. So if you'd like to help me with it - just go on!
Oh, and the song itself:

Let's do it

2007-11-06T21:24:00.000+03:00

So for now, I don't feel like I can do anything but just start again. Just start again everything I've failed to do earlier. So I'll do it. I've just put new strings on my guitar - which isn't even mine - and that's the thing that made me opening this blog. So let's try! Never before did I write completely in English, so that's the thing that I'll do first time in my life ))) Not only things I've fucked up, but the new things also, you see )))) Let's go on!