freezedream: Recent Episodes
freezedream
Australian music producer, electronic audio artist and sound designer. For more than 18 years I've been experimenting with electronic music and challenging myself to push the boundaries of what is possible with limited musical hardware.
Always endeavouring to explore various genres, I've released multiple albums and made contributions to both demoscene productions and most recently the award-winning Tanglewood video game soundtrack. I also have live performance and remixing experience.
Ultimately I seek to use my creativity for good, assembling electronic and analogue sounds into pieces that reflect the human experience and shine light in a sometimes dark world.
After 7 years since my last full length personal album, it's time to finish something new!
Here's a preview of a new track that will be on my upcoming album!
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"Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less." - Charles Spurgeon
VIDEO: youtu.be/6mn3KPwjFWw
CREDITS
Released April 11, 2020 Music digitally created by Nathan Stanley Cover art photography & design by Nathan Stanley Mastered by Alex Mader at Disk-Edits Pty Ltd
Line out recording of my dual Sega Mega Drive live set as part of JoyPad 2020 launch at The Jade, Adelaide.
Sorry about the distortion, the level was a bit too hot! Also noisey knobs on my mixer and I forgot to turn my delay pedal on, so it is what it is!
-freezedream
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Originally released on Perelandra Records on 19 July 2016..
Perelandra presents: Mist. A musical story told by ten artists. A journey through cosmic uncertainty; the mysterious universe around us and within us.
"A stillness and emptiness pervades our dark universe. But we don't have to look to the skies to find this confounding vastness. This same cosmic ballad plays on in the lonely worlds within us all.
How can we speak out of the darkling depths of ourselves into the cosmic depths of others?
It seems impossible. A thick veil of mist lies between us all.
Yet music, in this dark nothingness, gives us just enough light to get by..." - Jonathan Roberts
A track created using almost only Pocket Operators PO-12 samples from little-scale that I started about two years ago. Since I released exactly zero new pieces of music in 2018, I'm hoping to get into a better routine for 2019, starting now!
Sound sources: PO-12 samples from little-scale, 1 x sinewave sample, vocal samples. No VSTi or any other samples. d-_-b
PO-12 Samples: http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2016/12/free-sample-pack-pocket-operator-po-12.html
Background music for a book trailer video that was never used. Contact me if you'd like to use it for a project!
Super excited to be working on the music and sound design for Tanglewood game for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. This is the current version of the title theme music recorded directly from my Mega Drive!
Check out the fully playable demo available at: http://www.tanglewoodgame.com
Goodbye Robert Miles... He was such an inspiration and influence on my music when I was just starting out (19 years ago!). Here's one of my earliest tracks (created when I was 15) which shows how his music shaped my sound.
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Recorded directly from the original .XM file using XM Play 3.8. Unmastered.
Artist: freezedream Group: Hereford Album: Outside In Written: 1999 Software: Fasttracker 2
Audio from my recent live set featuring two Sega Mega Drives running VGX Live! I'm hoping to release an EP including a few of these tracks soon (as clean audio, no effects). Enjoy!
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Hardware: 2 x Sega Mega Drive model 2 with CCAM 2 x Original Sega joypad controllers 1 x Novation Launchpad original model 1 x VGX Live hardware interface 1 x Mackie Mix8 mixer 1 x TC Electronic Hall of Fame reverb 1 x NUX Time Force delay 1 x Cheap Analogue delay 1 x Home built analogue filter box
It's time to get out of the office! Track 4 from my brand new album, 'Arrival' just released on Perelandra Records!
Listen to and buy the full album as either a beautiful, limited edition CD with artwork or as a digital download here:
http://www.perelandrarecords.com/arrival/