Track 2 - Prisma - 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 Prisma from http://music.imphenzia.com.
Welcome to 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 – you can download all my music as MP3 and FLAC files from http://music.imphenzia.com for what you think it is worth ($2 – $50) – there are 109 tracks to grab =)
The second track is Prisma (download it in the top right corner of the SoundCloud player.)
Nearly a year after making Himalaya, in July 2002, I create a track of similar style named Prisma. It’s nearly 8 minutes long with many similar pads and leads like the sounds used in Himalaya.
Most of the track features detuned leads, energetic beats, and melodies inspired by System F (side project by Ferry Corsten.)
Unique to Prisma is the (mostly) popular calm section starting at 02:12 with a very soft, mellow and melodic sound that builds up until 03:42. This calm section was originally not going to be a part of the track but I put it in when the record label releasing Ian Van Dahl’s album “Ace” approached me to create a remix of the track “Try”. I sent off the remix to the label but was never contacted again so the remix never saw a release. I don’t think I’m allowed to release it but if you want to hear it, give me a shout for a private listening link.
Judging by comments on YouTube and mails I’ve received over the years some people absolutely love the calm section but I also received the odd mail saying that calm breakdowns totally destroy trance tracks. My music was never really intended for any dance floors and I enjoy the calm sections so in Imphenzia music they have become quite common following Prisma.
Mainly trying to find ways to promote my music I made a freeware game called Beat Ball, a simple breakout clone like Arkanoid. This was the first game I ever made and Prisma was one of the tracks featured while playing the game. Beat Ball was featured on the disc included in a German computer / game magazine named Computer Bild Spiele (www.computerbild.de). This magazine was distributed to thousands and thousands of people so the game gained quite some popularity and I still receive e-mails about Beat Ball. Funny enough I found some YouTube comments on Beat Ball music such as “My childwood (7 years ago) game soundtrack”, “nostalgia”, and “LOOOOOOOOOVE THIS^^ MEMORIES COME BACK :D” – I’m thrilled and proud that my music (and game) now are parts of childhood memories because I felt the same when listening to music by Chris Hülsbeck back in the 1990s. By the way, I don’t want to compare myself with Chris, he is a genius with some of the coolest computer game music and melodies ever made =)
I mainly used Logic Audio, a Roland JX-305 synth, the Yamaha CS6R module, a Novation A-Station, and the Creamware Pulsar 2 DSP soundcard when making Prisma. Like Himalaya, Prisma is one of my personal all-time favourites and I hope you enjoy it too.
Prisma is the second track on my double disc album Event Horizon released in 2002.
You can follow me and the rest of this track release marathon on twitter: @Imphenzia
Post-Release: Some nice SoundCloud comments were received while the track was available for download, including this one:
Welcome to 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 – you can download all my music as MP3 and FLAC files from http://music.imphenzia.com for what you think it is worth ($2 – $50) – there are 109 tracks to grab =)
The second track is Prisma (download it in the top right corner of the SoundCloud player.)
Nearly a year after making Himalaya, in July 2002, I create a track of similar style named Prisma. It’s nearly 8 minutes long with many similar pads and leads like the sounds used in Himalaya.
Most of the track features detuned leads, energetic beats, and melodies inspired by System F (side project by Ferry Corsten.)
Unique to Prisma is the (mostly) popular calm section starting at 02:12 with a very soft, mellow and melodic sound that builds up until 03:42. This calm section was originally not going to be a part of the track but I put it in when the record label releasing Ian Van Dahl’s album “Ace” approached me to create a remix of the track “Try”. I sent off the remix to the label but was never contacted again so the remix never saw a release. I don’t think I’m allowed to release it but if you want to hear it, give me a shout for a private listening link.
Judging by comments on YouTube and mails I’ve received over the years some people absolutely love the calm section but I also received the odd mail saying that calm breakdowns totally destroy trance tracks. My music was never really intended for any dance floors and I enjoy the calm sections so in Imphenzia music they have become quite common following Prisma.
Mainly trying to find ways to promote my music I made a freeware game called Beat Ball, a simple breakout clone like Arkanoid. This was the first game I ever made and Prisma was one of the tracks featured while playing the game. Beat Ball was featured on the disc included in a German computer / game magazine named Computer Bild Spiele (www.computerbild.de). This magazine was distributed to thousands and thousands of people so the game gained quite some popularity and I still receive e-mails about Beat Ball. Funny enough I found some YouTube comments on Beat Ball music such as “My childwood (7 years ago) game soundtrack”, “nostalgia”, and “LOOOOOOOOOVE THIS^^ MEMORIES COME BACK :D” – I’m thrilled and proud that my music (and game) now are parts of childhood memories because I felt the same when listening to music by Chris Hülsbeck back in the 1990s. By the way, I don’t want to compare myself with Chris, he is a genius with some of the coolest computer game music and melodies ever made =)
I mainly used Logic Audio, a Roland JX-305 synth, the Yamaha CS6R module, a Novation A-Station, and the Creamware Pulsar 2 DSP soundcard when making Prisma. Like Himalaya, Prisma is one of my personal all-time favourites and I hope you enjoy it too.
Prisma is the second track on my double disc album Event Horizon released in 2002.
You can follow me and the rest of this track release marathon on twitter: @Imphenzia
Post-Release: Some nice SoundCloud comments were received while the track was available for download, including this one:
Emod Music says at 0:48:
this is the greatest track you have ever made and it always be my favourite trance track mainly cause i discovered it when i played beat ball when i was really young (i think i was like 7 or 8 or 9, a single digit age number) and it causes such a nostalgic feel for me. it is truly a timeless classic and this track has a special place in my heart. well done, imphenzia! :)
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