{"id":264,"date":"2017-08-08T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T11:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nutronixx.de\/wpcms\/?p=264"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:23:18","slug":"the-history-of-the-nutronixx-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/2017\/08\/08\/the-history-of-the-nutronixx-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of the Nutronixx songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if The Twins haven&#8217;t released albums including new songs very rarely after their last official album &#8220;The Impossible Dream&#8221; back in 1993, I have always composed new songs every once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>While the Twins could not make any decision for a new regular album for a very long time, I had archived all those compositions and I kept reviewing many of them over the years. I have changed, added and removed bits and pieces and tried to make them better or converted them to a more modern style, when I thought that they sounded a bit outdated. So chances are good that some of them were born as a typical 80&#8217;s synth-pop influenced tune and ended up two decades (!) later as a more Dance\/EDM\/Trance influenced piece of music.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not only true for the Nutronixx songs. There will be one song on the upcoming Twins album, which I had composed around 1994 and which I constantly overhauled throughout the years. In fact, at some point I even had lost the sequencer file* from my Atari 1040 computer and the Emagic Notator software (both completely outdated nowadays) and only had a cassette tape left with a rough mix of that song. So I had to recreate this song from memory and by listening to the old tape.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: About two years ago, I made a terrible mistake on my music computer and as a result I had fully lost the sequencer file* for a song that I had worked on for many weeks. Unfortunately the backup files were also destroyed \ud83d\ude21 So I had to recreate this song from memory, which was very tricky because it included a lot of short audio snippets, which had to be fiddled together again. At one point during the reconstruction process, I couldn&#8217;t fully remember how the chord progression of the refrain exactly was. So I kept trying a few things and to my own surprise ended up with a chord progression that did sound massively catchier than the original one. Lucky me! \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">(The mentioned song will be included on the next Twins album, by the way)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there were many compositions along the way, which only existed as a very basic structure for a very long time and which needed further review and additional parts and polishing. Sometimes you come up with a basic idea, but somehow the main melody doesn&#8217;t cut it as needed, for example. That&#8217;s when you put the whole thing aside and then come back later for another review and hopefully with some new ideas. I guess that I have a good dozen of those song skeletons hovering somewhere, waiting to be finished some day. More Nutronixx albums ahead, right?<\/p>\n<p>To summarize the above: There will be some songs on the first Nutronixx album who had to wait a long time to be included on a release finally, but there will also be some songs which were composed not so long ago.<br \/>\nBasically, as a composer, most of the time you don&#8217;t knock out songs off the cuff. Composing can be a process which takes time and also needs a good portion of self-criticism here and there. Oh yes, very frequently you need to throw something away, because it&#8217;s crap.\u00a0\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>More soon &#8230;<br \/>\nRonny<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">*that&#8217;s the file that you load into your music software, which tells every instrument which notes and chords to play at what time\/segment and at which speed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if The Twins haven&#8217;t released albums including new songs very rarely after their last official album &#8220;The Impossible Dream&#8221; back in 1993, I have always composed new songs every once in a while. While the Twins could not make any decision for a new regular album for a very long time, I had archived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/2017\/08\/08\/the-history-of-the-nutronixx-songs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The history of the Nutronixx songs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutronixx.com\/wpcms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}