I am working on a music video for TRUTH AND LIGHT and doing a special mix for it. Playing around with double tempo, which is quite fast (166 bpm) but it really fits the story of the video…

The musicvideo (about 4 minutes long) will be for free of course but now i wonder: if there was a special mix of TRUTH AND LIGHT that you like that is longer as the musicvideo - say about 6 minutes - and is downloadable for 99 cent - would you buy it? Or would you stay with a 4 minute free video instead? How hesistant are you with downloading single songs for 99 cent?   (Im also thinking of other future release plans)

MERRY XMAS + A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Rolf Maier Bode, hiw new wife & The Sound Tourist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JkPOLsmhJ8

Real art is always progressive.

But sometimes i am not an artist but just a tourist.

A Sound Tourist.

My new side project “Sound Tourist” is online @ iTunes & amazon! You already know the pre-versions of the three songs from this blog. The style is… some kind of 2011 melodic oldschool techno, inspired by 90s sounds, by the fun of doing something simple, well known and by analog synths… somehow…

@ iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-travel-e.p.-ep/id480921787

@ amazon:

search for “Sound Tourist Time Travel” in your domain - so for people from germany that is:
http://www.amazon.de/Time-Travel-E-P/dp/B00684DM1Q

…if this one could become the third song on the upcoming EP… its still chaotic and unmixed, but what do you think… does that one have enough potential to justify more work on it…?

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If any of you have 1990s recordings of either raves or touristic stuff (typical 90s vacation videos, visiting other cities, sightsseing videos etc.) in any kind of digital form (DVD, avi, mpg) PLEASE get in contact with me…

Your video could become a part of a music video of my upcoming side project (90s inspired, harder, melodic stuff) which might lead to more fans and therefore to more music of that kind by me

here is a snippet of another track for the new side project… it will get a vocoded sample about “time travel”

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i think about releasing an EP for download with three tracks… might this one be the “a side”?

http://soundcloud.com/rolf-maier-bode/st105

found the time to improve that one… will be part of a side project which will be released in some weeks…

DIRECT ORDER - pre-version

I had some fun with my self-built synthesizer, the “DECADE COLLIDER”, as i got another part for it yesterday… i programmed a rather complex loop and recorded me modulating (turning knobs) that beast three times… added some drums and effects, and… like it so far

The question for you is: What should i add next?
A simple oldschool sample, a vocoder phrase or a break with pads?

OK; to spice it up: You can DOWNLOAD this pre-version via sound cloud the next days for free
EDIT: download time window closed…