Sunday 24 June 2012

Artist Feature: Chris Crawford


Trying something new here on ElectroCity, Artist Features. So from now on everyone once and a while i'll post 1-3 tracks by an artist on youtube and all the rest of my favourite tracks by them on the blog. This weeks featured artist is Chris Crawford. Here is a description of how he got into making electronic music in his own words: "Ever since GarageBand came out on mac computers in 2004 I've been making music on the computer, but Newgrounds.com got me into electronic dance music. I was a big fan of flash animations when I was little so I ventured over to the audio section and started to get into all the drum and bass and electro tracks on the site - Paragon X9 was a huge inspiration. Eventually I discovered Daft Punk, downloaded a free iTunes Electronic Music sampler from their Facebook page which included the first deadmau5 and ratatat tracks I'd ever heard. Then I was hooked on edm and realized that GarageBand was suited to make it on my compute. Obviously I sucked pretty bad at first, but after learning all I could on garage band I moved on to bigger DAWs stopped using preset synths, and it grew into a pretty involved hobby." Without further ado here are my favourite tracks by him.


Free DL: http://soundcloud.com/christophercrawford/bingo-players-rattle-chris


Free DL: http://soundcloud.com/christophercrawford/not-getting-any-better-chris









Chris Crawford on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/christophercrawford

Bambuko


Older remix from about 7 months ago but wasn't released until 3 months ago.



Buy here: http://www.beatport.com/#track/bambuko-rouge-remix/3345094
Rouge (PL) on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/rottenpineapple

Blazing Lazers


Just a tad on the hardcore side.



Buy here: http://www.beatport.com/#track/blazing-lazers-original-mix/3528765
Model Style on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/model-style

Sunday 3 June 2012

Chase it High


New remix by Frederik Mooij with nice vocals and a sick funky beat, Track of the week.



Buy here: http://www.beatport.com/#track/chase-it-high-frederik-mooijs-funkd-remix/3452193
Frederik Mooij on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/frederik-mooij

Carousel


This is the title track of Meisterbrein's first EP Carousel. I can't help but feel like this track is missing something but whatever it's still pretty good.



Buy here: http://www.beatport.com/#track/carousel-original-mix/3491393
Meisterbrein on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/meisterbrein

Jurassic Snack Pack


Was waiting for this one for quite a while, PrototypeRaptor back with some nice gamer sounds :)



Free DL: http://soundcloud.com/prototyperaptor/prototyperaptor-jurassic
PrototypeRaptor on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/prototyperaptor

Phantom of Electro


Got a new one here from Ryan Enzed. I don't post very many of his tunes because he generally uses the same sounds and often very corny melodies but every once in a while he uses his signature sounds and comes up with something good. This song isn't one of those because he actually used different sounds this time and only a few of his signature sounds.



Free DL: http://soundcloud.com/ryan_enzed_nzmusic101/phantom-of-electro-ryan-nz-d
Ryan Enzed on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/ryan_enzed_nzmusic101