All posts by Francis Loch

New Track: Mencari Matahari

My new music track Mencari Matahari is now available for listening. Enjoy! (^_^)

Season’s Greetings

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and all the best for 2018! (^_^)

New Track: Run!

Run! is a musical collaboration done with bzur music featured in the United Music Front‘s Various Artists Vol. 1 collection.

The track Run! is available here:

UMF – Various Artists Vol. 1 is available here:

Old Track, New Video: Tokyo Rain

I’ve just posted an old track of mine from 2013 called Tokyo Rain with a newly created video on YouTube. I’m planning on releasing more of my older tracks on YouTube with new videos, so watch this space!

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Oscurito – Eastern Philosophy (bc028) EP Released

Oscurito’s EP Eastern Philosophy has been released on the Bricolage Collective label featuring my remix of the track Find Your Centre.

Eighteen months on from the release of his “Octopus” EP at the start of 2016, Oscurito, returns to Bricolage with fresh ideas, new philosophies and a whole new production skill set. The “Eastern Philosophy” EP sees the Glaswegian indulge his ambient side that bit more. ‘Kunoichi’ opens things up with a buzzing, calming drone, sparse keys, sumptuous synth work and some stunning string sections that slowly engulf your headspace before ‘The Nihon Shoki’ slowly flutters into view with yet more string arrangements and synths. This time they come backed up with carefully selected and perfectly placed percussive elements and a humming bassline. Then the deep vocals of “Find Your Centre” introduce us to the most danceable track on the EP. Out goes the overall ambient side of things and back in come those trademark bulky basslines, sliding perc work and psychedelic melodies to form a big, truly Eastern flavoured tech house special. It’s been a pleasure to watch the evolution of Oscurito over the past year and a half and there’s way more to come from a producer who’s just starting to find his own sound.

The EP comes backed up with two remixes of “Find Your Centre”. the first is an electro flavoured take on things from Dreamland Fantasy. Keeping all the main ingredients of the original at the fore and adding his own elements to create a fresh and engaging remix.

Minerva chooses to go down a more progressive route by manipulating the original percussion into her own bustling style and letting things slowly evolve in a repetitive and hypnotic fashion that harks back to the early days of that old school prog house feel of 2000’s. Big kicks at the forefront to really drum things home.

Oscurito: “Find Your Centre” remix competition

The Bricolage Collective is currently holding a competition to remix Oscurito‘s track “Find Your Centre”. When the competition closes, two remixes will be chosen and the winners’ tracks will feature on Oscurito’s “Eastern Philosophy” EP due for release on 24th July 2017. Full details of the competition are available here.

This is my submission for the remix competition. Enjoy! (^_^)

 

The Mermaid’s Reverie: Fragile X Remix

Due to personal reasons I am a bit late posting that Fragile X has done a remix of my track The Mermaid’s Reverie. Check out his remix below.

If you want to hear the original and other remixes of The Mermaid’s Reverie then the playlist for the tracks is below:

BBC Micro Image Converter: Incorrect Version

The BBC Micro Image Converter download that should have been version 0.20 was incorrect and actually a duplicate of version 0.13. This has now been fixed and apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Calling all remixers!

Remix “The Mermaid’s Reverie”

Fancy having a go at remixing my track The Mermaid’s Reverie? If so you may be interested to hear I have released the individual stems for it.

If you have done a remix you can showcase it at the SoundCloud group The Mermaid’s Reverie: Remixes.

The first remix submitted, featured below, is by Leit Motif which gives The Mermaid’s Reverie a more ambient vibe.

Be sure to check back at the group for more remixes!

Happy remixing! (^_^)

New Track Added: Catch One’s Heart

My latest track Catch One’s Heart, which is dedicated to my wonderful wife, has been released and is available on SoundCloud and BandCamp: