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I don't know how you guys feel about this, but there's something shocking and inappropriate in Adrian being part of a GPKISM topic.

Would you agree that we start a FoR topic?
 

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You're absolutely right, MissUMana!

Indeed, there is something wrong in discussing music with Adrian in GPKISM topic.
Anyways, Flood of Rain deserves to have a separate thread. Moreover, people who don't like GPKISM and never check that thread may like Flood of Rain.
So, here's a link to Flood of Rain's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/floodofrain
Please, everyone, check it!
 

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Adrian, dude, there's a topic devoted to your work now. :cool: Looks like you might've missed it~

If you don't mind me asking, what trance/electronic artists influenced you? You mentioned liking Malice Mizer and Schwarz Stein earlier (as well as anything industrial sounding), but did any other band(s) outside of Japan have the same kind of effect on you and your composing style?

Thanks! And I'm really enjoying the songs you shared. :D
 

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aww thanks so much guys :D
its kind of surreal having a topic here about my music, thanks to those of you who like my music and wish to talk about it :)

Red Scarf wrote:
Adrian, dude, there's a topic devoted to your work now. :cool: Looks like you might've missed it~

If you don't mind me asking, what trance/electronic artists influenced you? You mentioned liking Malice Mizer and Schwarz Stein earlier (as well as anything industrial sounding), but did any other band(s) outside of Japan have the same kind of effect on you and your composing style?

Thanks! And I'm really enjoying the songs you shared. :D

I think 2 electronic artists who have influenced me a lot would be earlier work of the prodigy and Robert Miles. my main influences can be traced back to Videogame soundtracks (like the Sonic the Hedgehog series on megadrive/genesis) as well as a lot of industrial music. Have you ever heard of an artist from Germany called Unheilig? i love what he does. it is like industrial music with warm lush strings and a great big wall of sound :D

I like a lot of different artists though. my reasons for doing Flood of Rain was because i couldnt find many bands at the time who were making music combining elements of industrial, ambient, rock or orchestral music into 1. it was my attempt to do something to fill that gap. im not so sure if i succeeded there or not, though ::kisaki::
 

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Mademoiselle Folie wrote:
one more thing has been rounding my head this days. You said Ryonai asked you to make 2 remixes of BLAM HONEY. i would like to know what songs you remixed and if there is a way to let us listen to your remixes :oops: since you said you know Ryonai, i started to make fantasies in my head of both of you working together. :roll:

Ryonai is such a wonderful person, i have known him since late 2006, when i was working as a solo artist, i got the opportunity to speak with him often about music and art. he has some great ideas and i look forward to many of the things he has planned in the future.

the 2 songs i was originally asked to work on were Geneous Forture In The Garden (Part 1) and Transparent Sky (the 2nd one, being one of my fave all time songs) i dont have the songs with me on this computer, but i had almost completed transparent sky and was working on the other up until early 2008 when circumstances became hard for me to work on the project.

I hope someday i could have the opportunity to work with him in the future, but i also understand he has a lot of things he needs to work on regarding his music as well. he always has my support with anything he does. its very rare to have the opportunity to know somebody who is a legend in their own right, who is also a kind and humble person


:grin:
 

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This is such a great thread, and it's amazing you got to know RYONAI. Can he speak english?

Ohh and I hope you don't mind this question, but do you have a day job?

I'm aiming to be a composer in the future (hopefully my portfolio will let me get into this conservatory after my national service) and I'm kinda worried that it won't be enough to be a full time paying job. Right now, this part time job I have, composing music for casual games pays really poorly.. I mean, I understand that when pursuing art you shouldn't put things money into consideration, but to survive with it ... it can happen only under perfect-world situations, which, unfortunately, isn't really realistic.

Also, I agree with your sentiments on dark music! Really good reads here, and I humbly feel that flood of rain does combine elements of ambient, orchestral and industrial rock in it. It is really a beautiful beautiful project, and I have spent many hours enjoying the music, so thank you!
 

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I hope, that we finally completely moved to this thread, so I will comment Adrian's last post in GPKISM thread here.


First of all, Mademoiselle Folie, thank you so much for asking Ken that question! If I were you, I would do exactly the same! Though, maybe I would make my question in more harsh way which is not really good, so I glad that it was not me who asked him.

Adrian, I am so happy that you made a decision to e-mail Ken! I will be "praying to the sky" for Ken to answer you.

I tried to listen to BLAM HONEY several times and I liked music a lot, but I didn't like the vocalist's voice, so I listen to them seldom. But I became attracted to Ryonai since I saw him for the first time. There feels something special in him, he looks like very energetic person, very artistic with lots of ideas. And he definitely does only what he wants to do, so there is no any Kiwamus who can force him to change his mind. So, Ryonai is the one whom I respect very much, even though I almost don't listen to his music.
I have another question for you, Adrian. You said that you like Malice Mizer, Schwarz Stein and BLAM HONEY... I think that at least one band is missing in this row. And the name of this band is Velvet Eden. They definitely had unique dark world. They always were very creative, never tried to gain more popularity, but just did what they wanted to. What do you think about them?
 

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I'm so glad for the existence of this thread!

and, Adrian, you made me soo happy! i really hope Ken replies to you *cross fingers*

well, i will have to bring yr post to quote:


Adrian [FoR] wrote:
I dont think he was ever stupid for parting ways with me, i think it was needed in order to gain a larger fanbase to reach out to others. Kiwamu has many connections and i think that has really helped him a lot. i see GPKism quite often on the top friends of many underground industrial bands from Japan :D

I guess i have been too afraid to approach him because i didnt want to recieve a negative reply from him but i dont have anything to lose, a lot of you guys have given me the courage to try and sort things out (god knows i dont need any more enemies in this world :lol: )

now that you say it... in the A&Q session, the Flood of Rain question was the second. A few questions later, i don't really pay attention what was asked to him, but he suddenly started to say stuff like "you only live once" "there's only one life so you have to enjoy and live the moment and take the chances" he seemed to be looking at me very often while saying this, i thougt maybe he was trying to justifying his departure from Flood of Rain, but don't trust me, maybe i was just paranoid. xD

Adrian [FoR] wrote:
Ryonai is such a wonderful person, i have known him since late 2006, when i was working as a solo artist, i got the opportunity to speak with him often about music and art. he has some great ideas and i look forward to many of the things he has planned in the future.

the 2 songs i was originally asked to work on were Geneous Forture In The Garden (Part 1) and Transparent Sky (the 2nd one, being one of my fave all time songs) i dont have the songs with me on this computer, but i had almost completed transparent sky and was working on the other up until early 2008 when circumstances became hard for me to work on the project.

I hope someday i could have the opportunity to work with him in the future, but i also understand he has a lot of things he needs to work on regarding his music as well. he always has my support with anything he does. its very rare to have the opportunity to know somebody who is a legend in their own right, who is also a kind and humble person


:grin:

aw! Ryonai is also one of my favorite persons in the whole world. I remember when i just get into japanes music, thanks to Malice Mizer, i was searching for Malice images and suddenly found a BLAMHONEY image and i felt immediately attracted to it's visual so go and searched for the music, i have to said i wast into industrial stuff at all yet, it was weird cause i was very much into noise but not industrial, i got into industrial thanks to Közi, Eve of Destiny, Schwarz Stein and BLAM HONEY, so when i listened to BLAMHONEY i got really impressed all the distortions, insanity and "nonsense-like" feeling. I remember the first song i adored from them was Changing Sprout in my Head. I respect and love Ryonai as much as i respect and love Björk, Közi, Mana, Dada and some other people. I think you are a lucky person to have the chance to talk with a person like Ryonai... well, and i'm feeling really lucky too for having the chance of talking with a smart and talent person like you, Adrian ^^. That's why i want you to work together.


K-kun wrote:
First of all, Mademoiselle Folie, thank you so much for asking Ken that question! If I were you, I would do exactly the same! Though, maybe I would make my question in more harsh way which is not really good, so I glad that it was not me who asked him.

To tell the truth, since Adrian came here i had these feeling of "something's not right here" i don't really know how to describe it, i felt really bad about all the situation, i felt bad about GPK, and i felt like an idiot for being Kiwamu fan, it moved me a lot all the things that happened to the point that my fangirlism levels to Kiwamu has getting really low xD just because i truly admired Adrian's work and i thought it was not fair in my moral codes (?) so i thought if i had the chance i would ask GPK something about Flood of Rain, and i had it and i did it. I'm so glad about it as well!

:D


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I have another question for you, Adrian. You said that you like Malice Mizer, Schwarz Stein and BLAM HONEY... I think that at least one band is missing in this row. And the name of this band is Velvet Eden. They definitely had unique dark world. They always were very creative, never tried to gain more popularity, but just did what they wanted to. What do you think about them?
i'm seconding this question!
 

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Mademoiselle Folie wrote:
K-kun wrote:
I have another question for you, Adrian. You said that you like Malice Mizer, Schwarz Stein and BLAM HONEY... I think that at least one band is missing in this row. And the name of this band is Velvet Eden. They definitely had unique dark world. They always were very creative, never tried to gain more popularity, but just did what they wanted to. What do you think about them?
i'm seconding this question!

Thirding! And what do you think of Soft Ballet? (I know they're older, but I'm just curious. ^^)
 

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I have a question Adrian...

Can you tell about your tech stuff at your studio (I mean what software you use most &/or your synths)
 

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Haku wrote:
Mademoiselle Folie wrote:
K-kun wrote:
I have another question for you, Adrian. You said that you like Malice Mizer, Schwarz Stein and BLAM HONEY... I think that at least one band is missing in this row. And the name of this band is Velvet Eden. They definitely had unique dark world. They always were very creative, never tried to gain more popularity, but just did what they wanted to. What do you think about them?
i'm seconding this question!

Thirding! And what do you think of Soft Ballet? (I know they're older, but I'm just curious. ^^)

Velvet Eden have some great sounds. very darkwave-ish music. i really like the compositions a lot. Dada's voice does take a while to get used to in the beginning. Streets of Alice was a great release.

I dont know so much about soft ballet, ive seen a few videos of them and it reminds me quite a lot from a lot of 80s since pop i grew up listening to, the vocals sound quite nice though. ::squee::

voixdinferno wrote:
I have a question Adrian...

Can you tell about your tech stuff at your studio (I mean what software you use most &/or your synths)

Ive had many different setups in the past, but over the years, ive minimized what i have because i found i could achieve just as much on a laptop than i could on a big rig.

As for sequencers, i use Reason 4, Ableton Live and FL Studio (each DAW has their own advantages, its hard for me to stick to one) When Ken and i were collaborating, both of us worked in FL Studio (except dance of bullets, which i did in Ableton)

I have 2 guitars which i currently use at the moment. one is a Black Les Paul copy which i used for most of FoR's stuff, recently i came into the possesion of an ESP custom japanese Baritone guitar (tuned down to A) its a real nice guitar, it was rescued from a warehouse fire, so it has some burn marks up around the head of it, it kinda adds character)
http://images3.souq.com/uploaded/0709/71e3969915a90bc0c8b3f79efef8514e_74026037621247320010.jpg

A Roland JV-1080 hardware synthesizer (most notable for the nice piano tones, like in Dance of Bullets and Celestial Frost off dream sleep) plus an M-Audio Radium midi controller keyboard

Various virtual instruments and editing applications. with most sequencers (except Reason) their built-in synths and fx dont sound too good, so i always try to get a hold of whatever has a great sound. it can get pricey though. i remember spending $700 once on a virtual sound FX synth :lol:

Phantom Pabulum wrote:
This is such a great thread, and it's amazing you got to know RYONAI. Can he speak english?

Ohh and I hope you don't mind this question, but do you have a day job?

I'm aiming to be a composer in the future (hopefully my portfolio will let me get into this conservatory after my national service) and I'm kinda worried that it won't be enough to be a full time paying job. Right now, this part time job I have, composing music for casual games pays really poorly.. I mean, I understand that when pursuing art you shouldn't put things money into consideration, but to survive with it ... it can happen only under perfect-world situations, which, unfortunately, isn't really realistic.

Also, I agree with your sentiments on dark music! Really good reads here, and I humbly feel that flood of rain does combine elements of ambient, orchestral and industrial rock in it. It is really a beautiful beautiful project, and I have spent many hours enjoying the music, so thank you!

RYONAI can speak a little english, but it is through messages, we cant speak directly, as he needs yahoo translater to understand some of the stuff written in english :)
I always appreciate his artwork, as well as his music. in fact, he made the pic im using as my avatar at the moment

As for a job, i work a normal everyday job like everybody else. I think that in order to succeed as an artist and make it into a career, you have to choose one of 3 avenues. there is the soundtrack work, where you could earn money composing for games, TV shows and Film. the route of the producer, where you work in helping shape and tweak the music of other artists (generally if you are good at what you do, to produce an album for someone could earn you from about $10 000 and upwards)
Or the 3rd route which would be in a band or as a solo artist. selling cds wont make a giant amount of money though. most big name artists only really make money off touring and merchendise.

I dont know if i have the talent to succeed as a fulltime artist, its merely a passion of mine that i would like to bring to life, but in the meantime, i wont be quitting my day job just yet ;)
 

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i used to play with Hypersonic and Cubase, but i quit them and stearted with FL Studio, actually i think FL Studio is the most comfortable for me, it's easy to use and the layers thing is great... I miss it so much! =(

About Ryonai, i remember he once mentioned in his blog he uses yahoo tranlator a lot to translate our comments <3

Thank you so much for your answers Adrian ^^
 

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Thank you for all the kind words and questions, everyone :D
Ableton is a good application, i find many aspects of it similar to pro tools, its really good for automation of fx, you can create some really nice stuff in there.

I recently heard back from Ken the other day, after a year and a half without chatting to each other. it was nie to talk again. I am glad there is no longer any awkward feelings or bad blood with each other. i only wish him the best for the music he is working on.

I got a couple of new songs happening at the moment and things are coming along well. i learned a lot of new techniques and improved on my mixing in the last year or so, i cant wait to post some new stuff on my page soon :D
 

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i have never proved Ableton, neither i heard about it since now... maybe when i get fixed my pc i should prove it. After all i'm nothing else but an amateur and selfpleasant musician who play tools only for fun. xD

I'm so glad Ken & you can talk again without bad feelings and stuff. =)
maybe it's soon for me to say it but i really hope you could colaborate together again maybe just for a remix or a little colaboration. I feel nostalgia for the mix or yr sound + his voice.

and i'm glad as well to hear you have some new sounds to share. Thank you. I'll be looking forward to it!

and btw... yes, these image is sooo Ryonai-ish xD it's cool.
 

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Hello, Adrian! :)

I have a small question for you : are the scratching noises and piano playing we can hear at the beginning and end of "Farewell" sampled from a recording your grandfather made?

Thanks a lot for letting us know all the good news! As all here, I'm very much looking forward to the brand new music!
 

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MissUMana wrote:
Hello, Adrian! :)

I have a small question for you : are the scratching noises and piano playing we can hear at the beginning and end of "Farewell" sampled from a recording your grandfather made?

Thanks a lot for letting us know all the good news! As all here, I'm very much looking forward to the brand new music!

no, it was just an effect i used to make the beginning seem as if it were from an old record player. the song had a nostalgic feeling for me, its about saying farewell to a dear friend and not knowing if you will ever see them again :)
 

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Hey Adrian! Thank you so much for being so awesome, it is really nice of you to be here and answer all of our questions so willingly!!

I was wondering if you could do me a favour? I really love the song Submerge, and I would love to know it's lyrics! I am able to make out most of it myself, but there are some parts I would love to have confirmed sort of speak. So... *puppyeyes*
 

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Can I ask about the eyepatch that you had on one of your photos? Where did you get it from? It's very nice. I wanted to show it to my sister but it seems to have disappeared from the web.
 
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