Suppressed by unfa

Suppressed t-shirts:
https://teespring.com/unfa-suppressed2
https://teespring.com/unfa-suppressed-crescent

Official album mix:
https://youtu.be/BohntXrEhTM

Also on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/unfa/sets/suppressed

And on Audius:
https://audius.co/unfa/album/suppressed-58898

Get LMMS project files (with 2 extra unreleased tracks!)
https://is.gd/unfasuppressedsource

With this album I'm blending various styles of modern electronic dance music with musically richer inspirations like baroque and jazz. There's even some hard-rock feeling in "Overheat" and "Mumbling", even though there are no electric guitars used.

Heavy drum&bass and dubstep vibes interleave here with a bit of chiptune and ambient even.

I like music that is hitting hard (not to the point of being painful though), yet delivers interest beyond that. I like rich harmony and a bit more complicated song structures than just "intro, drop, breakdown, second drop, outro" over and over. If you feel that a lot of EDM is a bit repetitive and boring, you'll probably find this album to be a much richer experience. If you're more into minimal techno and trance vibes this might be an information overload. I guess you'll enjoy this especially if you have some appreciation for classical music ("Sincerly"). I try to pick my favorite things that happened in music over the centuries and blend them into a cohesive mix, that has a lot of flavors in it.

This is the first album to contain vocal samples taken from my YouTube videos ("Anti-Feature", "Quite A Lot Of Bass").

While mastering the album I've settled down on -14 LUFS integrated level for the whole thing, which is leaving plenty of room for the drums to smash, while having enough volume to properly blast away even on mobile devices (but not to the level of being painful). I think that modern EDM would gain a lot from leaving more headroom in, and I want to proof that with my music. Without it, it lacks a lot of punch and clarity.

As usual - I've synthesized almost all sounds (even drums) from the ground up. There's one track ("Tito, The Lost Cat") that uses acoustic drum samples that I recorded myself using a Perl drumkit during a band home-recording session, but they are only supporting the main body of synthesized drums anyway - everywhere else the drums are fully synthesized.

This album was entirely created using open-source software under GNU/Linux operating systems. Specifically:

LMMS - for the sequencing and mixing,
Ardour - for recording vocals, editing and mastering,
ZynAddSubFX - for 90% of the sound synthesis,
ARSS - for creating sounds from images,
Inkscape - for drawing images for ARSS, for cover art and font design,
Blender - for the cover art 3D components, and album mix visualiser animation and compositing,
Natron - for cover art compositing,
Linux Mint - my operating system of choice,
KDE5 - my desktop environment of choice,
KX Studio repositories - for getting the audio software.

I'd like to thank everyone who provided me with feedback and supported me during the production of this album. Big thanks to all who have bought the album digitally or physically during Sonoj Convention 2017 and to all my Patreon subscribers!

- unfa

Tracklist

1.	Zynthetic	4:33

2.	Anti-Feature	3:28

3.	Stomia	4:53

4.	Bristol	3:07

5.	Overheat	3:59

6.	Sincerely	1:32

7.	Quite A Lot Of Bass	3:48

8.	Rebooting	4:41

9.	Riddle	3:59

10.	Fighting Myself	3:41

11.	Breaking The Routine	3:42

12.	Mumbling	3:07

13.	Rest	2:31

14.	Polyrhythms	2:45

15.	For The Kicks	3:10

16.	Tito, The Lost Cat	4:30

17.	Soul Link	2:27

Credits

released November 3, 2017

License

CC BY-NC 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.