Your proudest musical moment of 2020

[TritoneAddiction]

So another year of music making has passed. Let's take a moment and stop our obsession over gear/REs/plugins/upgrade wishlists etc and instead focus on the music we've created this year.

Post a track you're proud of from this year. Please just pick ONE. Let's not post entire playlists in this thread.
Also if you want to explain why you picked it, it's even more fun.


For me I think I'll go with this one. Mainly beacuse I tried a lot of new things in this track, for example experimenting with the RE "Delta MIDI Computer" to come up with chords I usually never use. Berfore this track I really disliked Players and thought they were pretty much useless. This track changed my perspective.

[Noplan]

Nice song, TritoneAddiction. My proudest moment was actually pretty unspectacular. It was just my first original song for the C64 that made me somehow proud.

[Loque]

Everytime i finish a song, i am very proud. This song was one of the proudest, because i finally realized how a lot of sounds i liked in the past were created and i found a way how i can start and finish a song and what i can do, when iam not inspired for a full song.

[TritoneAddiction]

Nice song, TritoneAddiction. My proudest moment was actually pretty unspectacular. It was just my first original song for the C64 that made me somehow proud.

Cool track. Made me nostalgic watching a tracker program. That's how I started back in the day. Pro Tracker on the Amiga 500.

[visheshl]

hey my proud moment is that i could get my music on spotify, amazon etc...im not linking any track here but i remember how difficult distributing music was earlier...you had to sign witb a big label the they would release your music...so yeah im happy that i have my music on anmazon google apple spotify beatport etc...

[MrFigg]

My proudest moment was today when my youngest daughter (10) played didgeridoo and managed to do gutterals and circular breathing for the first time .

[visheshl]

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[guitfnky]

So another year of music making has passed. Let's take a moment and stop our obsession over gear/REs/plugins/upgrade wishlists etc and instead focus on the music we've created this year.

Post a track you're proud of from this year. Please just pick ONE. Let's not post entire playlists in this thread.
Also if you want to explain why you picked it, it's even more fun.


For me I think I'll go with this one. Mainly beacuse I tried a lot of new things in this track, for example experimenting with the RE "Delta MIDI Computer" to come up with chords I usually never use. Berfore this track I really disliked Players and thought they were pretty much useless. This track changed my perspective.

nice! love it--this belongs in a cyberpunk-themed game (not Cyberpunk 2077 though, because that's a sh#@ show right now ).

[guitfnky]

of course I'm most proud of the fact that I've finally released a solo album, which is something I'd had on my bucket list for over a decade, but this track is one of my proudest 2020 moments.

it almost didn't make it onto the album, because I was having such a hard time figuring out how to make the non-singing sections of the verses interesting early in the song. and super proud of the subtle differences in the verse structures, and how they forced me to really work on the vocal melodies--wanted to keep the melody feeling familiar, but the weird shifts in how it's set up also required me to alter it in interesting ways in different verses.

also very happy with the lyrics.

and the coolest part is that after I released the album, somehow it made its way over to Scotland, and was featured on prog-rock show on a web-radio station called Scotland Rocks Radio.

[visheshl]

My proudest moment was today when my youngest daughter (10) played didgeridoo and managed to do gutterals and circular breathing for the first time .

nice man...i have no idea of playing a digiridoo..but looking at the instrument, playing it looks very difficult, congrats your daughter learnt how to play it

[MrFigg]

My proudest moment was today when my youngest daughter (10) played didgeridoo and managed to do gutterals and circular breathing for the first time .

nice man...i have no idea of playing a digiridoo..but looking at the instrument, playing it looks very difficult, congrats your daughter learnt how to play it

Thanks. . She already plays violin, piano, harmonica, penny whistle and various other instruments. She’s cracked the musical code .

[Noplan]

of course I'm most proud of the fact that I've finally released a solo album, which is something I'd had on my bucket list for over a decade, but this track is one of my proudest 2020 moments.

it almost didn't make it onto the album, because I was having such a hard time figuring out how to make the non-singing sections of the verses interesting early in the song. and super proud of the subtle differences in the verse structures, and how they forced me to really work on the vocal melodies--wanted to keep the melody feeling familiar, but the weird shifts in how it's set up also required me to alter it in interesting ways in different verses.

also very happy with the lyrics.

and the coolest part is that after I released the album, somehow it made its way over to Scotland, and was featured on prog-rock show on a web-radio station called Scotland Rocks Radio.

you have every reason to be proud of this song. I liked it very much.

[PhillipOrdonez]

I finished something like 40 to 50 tracks this year. Many more on the way to getting finished, I just don't have that much time to work on music but that's definitely a very proud point for me.

The proudest piece of music, I guess, isn't released yet, so can't share it, but this one I think ended up sounding good so is a good second choice:

I'm proud my mixing skills have reached a new height, and that this year I mixed more tracks for clients than ever before. I'm also proud I earned more from music this year than any year before. I even made my first few sales on Bandcamp after several years on there ()

I know this was supposed to be the proudest moment but hey, I guess I've had too many things to be proud of this year related to music that I couldn't leave any of.

Blimey, 2020 wasn't so bad, all things considered. Hell, it was great for me, all things considered!

[guitfnky]

of course I'm most proud of the fact that I've finally released a solo album, which is something I'd had on my bucket list for over a decade, but this track is one of my proudest 2020 moments.

it almost didn't make it onto the album, because I was having such a hard time figuring out how to make the non-singing sections of the verses interesting early in the song. and super proud of the subtle differences in the verse structures, and how they forced me to really work on the vocal melodies--wanted to keep the melody feeling familiar, but the weird shifts in how it's set up also required me to alter it in interesting ways in different verses.

also very happy with the lyrics.

and the coolest part is that after I released the album, somehow it made its way over to Scotland, and was featured on prog-rock show on a web-radio station called Scotland Rocks Radio.

you have every reason to be proud of this song. I liked it very much.

wow, thanks for that--that's really kind. appreciate the listen!

[guitfnky]

I finished something like 40 to 50 tracks this year. Many more on the way to getting finished, I just don't have that much time to work on music but that's definitely a very proud point for me.

The proudest piece of music, I guess, isn't released yet, so can't share it, but this one I think ended up sounding good so is a good second choice:

I'm proud my mixing skills have reached a new height, and that this year I mixed more tracks for clients than ever before. I'm also proud I earned more from music this year than any year before. I even made my first few sales on Bandcamp after several years on there ()

I know this was supposed to be the proudest moment but hey, I guess I've had too many things to be proud of this year related to music that I couldn't leave any of.

Blimey, 2020 wasn't so bad, all things considered. Hell, it was great for me, all things considered!

really nice track (still only about halfway through right now). love that bass. that's some incredibly clean production--well-done!

[PhillipOrdonez]

I finished something like 40 to 50 tracks this year. Many more on the way to getting finished, I just don't have that much time to work on music but that's definitely a very proud point for me.

The proudest piece of music, I guess, isn't released yet, so can't share it, but this one I think ended up sounding good so is a good second choice:

I'm proud my mixing skills have reached a new height, and that this year I mixed more tracks for clients than ever before. I'm also proud I earned more from music this year than any year before. I even made my first few sales on Bandcamp after several years on there ()

I know this was supposed to be the proudest moment but hey, I guess I've had too many things to be proud of this year related to music that I couldn't leave any of.

Blimey, 2020 wasn't so bad, all things considered. Hell, it was great for me, all things considered!

really nice track (still only about halfway through right now). love that bass. that's some incredibly clean production--well-done!

Thanks guitfnky. Your track sounds cool too, nice guitar (granular?) Delay.

[guitfnky]

really nice track (still only about halfway through right now). love that bass. that's some incredibly clean production--well-done!

Thanks guitfnky. Your track sounds cool too, nice guitar (granular?) Delay.

thanks! guessing you mean in the intro/verses/outro...very close! it's a sample of my guitar put into Grain. from there, it was just one held out note played in Grain, that resulted in that whole crazy evolving sound, from the weird staccato jitters to it almost sounding like a choir.

[platzangst]

I rather was happy with this whole album generally, but I like the way I stitched the spoken word samples together on this particular track. The original voice is from an old vocabulary/diction album, that uses seemingly generic sentences to demonstrate various words - but if you select certain sentences, you can construct a sort of narrative that is oblique but still suggests a noir-ish atmosphere...

[dioxide]

My proudest moment of 2020 is that I got to play a live set in Moscow before the pandemic hit. It was my first time there so I had a mad runaround trying to fit everything into the two nights I stayed there. Maybe for some other people foreign gigs are more normal, but for me I never could have imagine that I'd get to play in other countries.

[TritoneAddiction]

Everytime i finish a song, i am very proud. This song was one of the proudest, because i finally realized how a lot of sounds i liked in the past were created and i found a way how i can start and finish a song and what i can do, when iam not inspired for a full song.

Sounds good man. Lots of great and interesting sounds throughout.

[TritoneAddiction]

So another year of music making has passed. Let's take a moment and stop our obsession over gear/REs/plugins/upgrade wishlists etc and instead focus on the music we've created this year.

Post a track you're proud of from this year. Please just pick ONE. Let's not post entire playlists in this thread.
Also if you want to explain why you picked it, it's even more fun.


For me I think I'll go with this one. Mainly beacuse I tried a lot of new things in this track, for example experimenting with the RE "Delta MIDI Computer" to come up with chords I usually never use. Berfore this track I really disliked Players and thought they were pretty much useless. This track changed my perspective.

nice! love it--this belongs in a cyberpunk-themed game (not Cyberpunk 2077 though, because that's a sh#@ show right now ).

Thanks. Yeah it would probably work in that sort of context.

[rorystorm]

It's hard to say - I've been making some of the best music of my life over the last year which is weird considering what a fucking shit storm its been. After a long absence I've rediscovered my love for the experimental end of ambient music. I've been pretty busy and made a few albums in that genre, also some acid house and some dub techno. Plus I've recorded the music for a triphop album but I'm still working, slowly, on the lyrics which so far hasnt gone so good.... however I've leveled up on my production skills a little which I'm pleased about because they've always been a bit shit.

Anyway, I more or less chose this track at random but it represents where my heads at. I'm quite pleased with how its quite static in its structure but moves towards being more musical as it progresses without sacrificing its abstraction. If that doesn't sound too pretentious....

[aeox]

I wasn't proud of anything I made in 2020, but we'll see about this year

[EdwardKiy]

Mine is a long story.

I've only been writing music for exactly a year after not having touched the instrument for 15 years. This year I've barely made 6 songs (and of those only 3 are FINISHED-finished), but after wrecking my head overthe 4th one for over a month-and-a-half I decided to cheat and go to fiverr for help.

I found this guy: https://www.fiverr.com/jgrigg48 and paid $160 for 2 hours of his time to make an orchestral mockup of my pop song. After I edited and mixed the mockup he asked me what my plans were for it, to which I bleated something moronic. He asked if I would like to put it up for film directors' catalogue. I had no idea about any of that and suggested that my stuff was perhaps a bit shit for that. He told me my stuff was "superb" and insisted that I registered the songs (all of my songs, and told me how to do it - the ASCAN, the SOCAP, the copyright.gov and all dem' tings) and get back to him when I would. So I did. He said "hold on, I'll make a few phone calls" and in 3 days I was contacted by our local amateur film crew and they asked me if I wanted to sell my song.

So I got an amateur movie deal for my song. The tradeoff is that now I can't put out anything I make in public (technically I can with the new stuff, but I was explained why that's bad for me and that's a topic for a whole separate post), but I really can't complain - I got paid for that one song and potentially they might purchase the others for the same or other films . It should be out mid-2022 and I'll disclose more information when they start the advertising.

The fiverr dude turned out to have been working for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for over two decades, and as well as being a prolific musician-orchestrator-conductor, he also had tons of connections (I assume) to have reached from Montreal to Kyiv.

The moral for me was: not to be shy in asking for help. Everything other than the orchestral mockup, that guy did for me absolutely free of charge as a result of our friendly banter.

I think getting a movie deal (even a shitty one) a year into the business is not too shabby This wasn't the proudest moment, though.

I used to be a doctor and I worked in surgery since 8th grade of school (we have 11 and then straight to university, no college) and at one point I got a license to work in the UK as an anesthetists but they wouldn't give a visa to my wife and son, despite my wife officially making plenty of dough (apparently you have to be Syrian or at least muslim for that) or me working in UK officially, so after 2 years I was really fed up and came back to my family. Back in Kyiv I renewed my ukrainian specialist license and was offered a $1k salary, which is higher than average for Kyiv, but still a complete joke to me after having worked in the UK. My wife makes well over three times that in Kyiv, so I asked her if she could carry the burden for a year while I try to make music, which was my childhood passion, and she straight up said "sure", so I retired and dove head-first into music, even skipping walking the dog sometimes.

I own a house and a car, which I bought with my doctor money, but this NY I wasn't even able to afford presents for my family and it was an absolutely crushing experience. But my wife told me "you're doing good, you should take another year for music" - and THIS was my proudest, redeeming moment.

In case you're curious to have a listen, here's my latest work-in-progress, registered but not in any 'catalogue' so far.

[Auryn]

battle of cyborg city track

hadn't heard this before, it's definitely one of your best recent tracks!

long story

that's actually living the dream as far as that arrangement with your wife is concerned


here's my favorite track of 2020, a remix we did for Strangers' band Young and Blind

honorable mention goes to the bootleg remix I did for Teflon Tomb, who has since apparently vanished again from the public discourse...



Anyway, the best stuff last year was the collaborations that I found on this forum, and hope to continue this year