Celestial Body Mass

The first track on the album is the title track, Celestial Body Mass. This track was what you can say was the very first "techno" song that I composed. As you can hear at the beginning of the song, it was just a bell like synth that FL Studio had for one for one of their custom synths. I think it might've been Sytrus or something like that, and I just made a simple chord progression that was taken from Randy Rhoad's Mr. Crawley second guitar solo. Originally, I had composed the song at 120 BPM, because I thought it sounded more atmospheric, however, when I brought in the kick and snare, it was a little too slow, so I sped it up to about 140 BPM, taking some inspiration from the dub-step artists of the time that were becoming big. The track takes some inspiration from the Hip-Hop beats that I had originally been working on with the sporadic high-hats, and has the "signature" wobble bass that most dubstep artists incorporate into their tracks, however, as you can tell, mine wobble bass wasn't as good as Skrillex, or Knife Party's. lol

Horizons of Illusions Part 1: Genesis

The next two tracks, Genesis (Horizons of Illusions Pt. 1), and Exodust (Horizons of Illusions Pt. 2) were originally one track called Horizons of Illusions, however, the whole song itself came out to about 9 and a half minutes, and honestly, that was a little two long for a track of this style of music, so with that in mind, I decided to cut the tracks in half, making Genesis and Exodust. I still have the original mix, which I'm probably going to include as a bonus track to this album soon.

The first part of Horizons of Illusions was originally composed to make fun of the DJ Blend styled EDM music. I was pretty cynical towards that type of music at the time, and I didn't think that it took all that much talent to create, so with that in mind, I got the most obnoxious siren synth preset that I could find in Fl Studio and just started working on music. I ended up going overboard and creating a 9.5 minute track that goes through so many different phases that I don't even know where to start talking about. However, the first half of Genesis was all those damn annoying siren synths, until finally a build-up starts and the wobble bass comes in accompany the annoying synths. I had run out of ideas at the time, and made a "trash metal" styled drum beat because I wanted the song to come out "heavier", and there's even some double pedal to increase the intensity, until finally the "dubstep" beat comes in to break up the intensity. This is finally where the song begins slow down and when the choirs and final hard synth come in, Genesis finally begins to close and stop suddenly pivoting into the next part of Horizons of Illusions...Exodust. 

Horizons of Illusions Part 2: Exodust

Exodust opens up with a piano mimicking the previous synth accompanied by the choirs following the chord progression set by the piano. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with this half of the song, so I just kept building up the choirs and making the track way more orchestral until I decided to bring an arp that introduced the previous chord progression. The marching snare brought back in beat for some heavy house styled, classic techno drum beat. This beat is broken after a while and brings back the dubstep drum beat from early. This brings back elements from the previous part, and concludes with a strong hit accompanied by the choirs, concluding Horizons of Illusions.

Planets

The fourth track of the album, named Planets, is suppose to work as the "ballad" of the album. I say this because at the time of writing Planets, my parents were getting a divorce, and that kinda influenced that in the writing. The song, if I remember correctly, was originally at 70BPM, which is how I write the piano intro, but I also wanted to write a techno song, but that wouldn't fly, so I raised the BPM, and added some synths after the intro and turned something negative into a positive. Of course, at the time, I was also working on a piano instrumental album done in FL Studio called When the Sun Fades, which was a manifestation of all the negativity I was constantly around. Anyway, this song is nothing special in terms of production, and serves as kind of a filler song if I'm being honest, but it means something to me, and that's why its in this album. I wasn't sure why I named it Planets, but I thought it was a fitting name.

Metamorphic Regeneration

Metamorphic Regeneration is the fifth track of Celestial Body Mass. I honestly wasn't sure what to call this track, and I remember that this song almost didn't happen because I was just messing around with some synth sounds just to get an idea of what the presets sounded like. I don't remember much about the production of this track, but I do know that it starts off with a some basic synths, and I believe this song is when I started experimenting with the text to speech feature found in FL Studio. Before the drop, it whispers "Black Gravity", which was the name that this album was originally released under, so that's a fun Easter Egg. I remember that I had discovered this very cool theremin VST that I wanted to use in a song, so I added it here, and I think that it did some justice to the song. That theremin VST would find its way into many other songs.

Treasures of the Cosmos

Going back to my "roots" at the beginning of Black Gravity, being a guitarists who loved making ballads, I decided to make a Hip-Hop ballad for the album. This will be a common theme throughout the rest of the albums. The song opens with with a simple guitar that I composed on FL Studio. I didn't have a way to record my guitar, but I found a decent sounding VST that did the job pretty well. It wasn't he best, but I thought it was passable. I believe it was called Real Guitar, or something like that. Anyway, there's nothing super special about this song other that it's another key compared to the rest of the album. This song was in E Minor unlike the rest of the songs that were in D Minor, and it actually gave this song it's won aesthetic and identity on the album.

Dancing Nebulas

The final song on Celestial Body Mass is called Dancing Nebulas. Yes, I am aware of the typo, but I had released like this along time ago, so there you go. It should be Dancing Nebula, because I was just getting into space and I didn't pay it any attention. Anyway, grammar rant aside, this song opens with a marimba like synth with some strange arps that I had found. I honestly wasn't sure what I was thinking when I was putting this song together. I think I was listening to a lot of Infected Mushrooms, and that didn't end so well lol. This song isn't the best, and I kind of feel bad that the album didn't end as strong as it started because the first three tracks are honestly some of my favorites. At one point of the song, I brought back the first bells arp that I used in Celestial Body Mass and a frame device, but it didn't mix all that well with the rest of the strange synths that were happening around it. The drop isn't anything spectacular either, and I didn't know what to make of this part of the song. I'm sure I was high off my ass and thought it sounded good, but I did include one of wobble synth that sounded kinda like a car engine, but it was pretty bad, and with that, the album ends. No, like it really just stops. lol