Track 1 - Himalaya [Radio Edit] - Imphenzia 1 Track Per Day Release Marathon
UPDATE 2014-12-23: This track has been removed from SoundCloud, the marathon tracks are only downloadable for about a week. You can still get Himalaya [Radio Edit] from http://music.imphenzia.com.
This is the first track in my complete 1 track per day #Imphenzia release marathon. Every day until I run out of tracks I will release one of my tracks as a free download and write some history behind it.
If you like my music, if you want to support it, and if you don’t want to wait for the entire marathon to finish to get all my music – you can download all my music from http://music.imphenzia.com for what you think it is worth ($2 - $50) – there are 109 tracks to grab =)
First one starting off this marathon is Himalaya [Radio Edit].
In November 2001 I composed this track called Himalaya. This is the 3.5 minute long radio edit (that ironically enough has probably never been aired on a radio station =) and the original track is over 11 minutes long.
Himalaya was the first track I was truly happy with and I remember being proud as I release it. It may also be the first track that contains most of the Imphenzia characteristics with the melodies, energetic and euphoric atmospheres, with layers and layers of leads and fillers. I had recently bought a Yamaha CS6R rack module and it had some sweeping pad sounds I had been lacking earlier.
My main inspiration for the track was “Airwave” by Rank 1. In my usual fashion I tried to copy the sound of that song and I failed which made it a unique track. I wrote a long blog article once about creating a unique sound and Himalaya was the main reference for that blog post even though I didn’t mention it in the article =)
The name Himalaya was chosen as I felt the track and melody kept climbing higher and higher gaining more energy or altitude. I also had quite an idea to climb Mount Everest at the time but I have since long abandoned that idea – I believe it requires a lot of effort and not everyone that goes up will come down, better off just not doing it =)
Himalaya remains to be one of my favourite tracks even though it’s now 13 years old. I hope you enjoy it too!
You can follow me on twitter: @Imphenzia
This is the first track in my complete 1 track per day #Imphenzia release marathon. Every day until I run out of tracks I will release one of my tracks as a free download and write some history behind it.
If you like my music, if you want to support it, and if you don’t want to wait for the entire marathon to finish to get all my music – you can download all my music from http://music.imphenzia.com for what you think it is worth ($2 - $50) – there are 109 tracks to grab =)
First one starting off this marathon is Himalaya [Radio Edit].
In November 2001 I composed this track called Himalaya. This is the 3.5 minute long radio edit (that ironically enough has probably never been aired on a radio station =) and the original track is over 11 minutes long.
Himalaya was the first track I was truly happy with and I remember being proud as I release it. It may also be the first track that contains most of the Imphenzia characteristics with the melodies, energetic and euphoric atmospheres, with layers and layers of leads and fillers. I had recently bought a Yamaha CS6R rack module and it had some sweeping pad sounds I had been lacking earlier.
My main inspiration for the track was “Airwave” by Rank 1. In my usual fashion I tried to copy the sound of that song and I failed which made it a unique track. I wrote a long blog article once about creating a unique sound and Himalaya was the main reference for that blog post even though I didn’t mention it in the article =)
The name Himalaya was chosen as I felt the track and melody kept climbing higher and higher gaining more energy or altitude. I also had quite an idea to climb Mount Everest at the time but I have since long abandoned that idea – I believe it requires a lot of effort and not everyone that goes up will come down, better off just not doing it =)
Himalaya remains to be one of my favourite tracks even though it’s now 13 years old. I hope you enjoy it too!
You can follow me on twitter: @Imphenzia
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