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burkek
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In today's music environment - and this economy - it's difficult for a well known artist to sell albums let alone someone just doing it as a hobby. I'm an older guy (48) who has loved the "physical" aspect to album releases - the artwork, liner notes, lyrics and have done so since the days of LP's (well, actually 8-track if you must know).
So I'm setting my music free.
Some of you have known me for years as 'Elektroniqa', but I've recently changed my moniker to 'Avionik'. My music is heavy electronics and percussion/drum laden and is influenced by a broad swath of artists including: Skinny Puppy, OMD, Elton John, VNV Nation, Jean Michel Jarre, Gary Numan, Klaatu and likely the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Morrissey and others who's ability as songwriters I envy.
I have used Cakewalk sequencers exclusively as my compositional tools since Cakewalk 3.0 for DOS. I now employ Sonar Producer 8, Project V 2.51 and Kinetic 2. I also license an extensive list of soft-synths and FX, sample libraries, and have enjoyed using racks of hardware for the past 27 years. I write and sing my own lyrics, although my latest album is my first without vocals.
On to the music then! My new album is 'Disarticulated' by Avionik (um, me). Released on February 9, 2009, this album has been more than a year in the making. What you will find will take you on a journey through a landscape of tribal beats and unconventional multi-layered percussion, static and glitch-laden neo-industrial intelligent dance music, EBM, creepy Beatle-esque nightmares ala 'Revolution #9', lush strings and evil harmonics. While the landscape may change, the penchant for memorable melodies and retaining listener interest remains. This is my most ambitious production to date.
You can now download the entire album, and my 5 previous albums "Exagerrated Sense of Self", "Impure Ice", "Looking for Myself While Hiding", "Hot Sun Ate The Sky", and "Droplets of Water and Air" in high quality 320kbps MP3 format (properly tagged and with album covers for importing into your iTunes or Windows Media library), or lossless FLAC format which will expand to the original WAV files for burning a CDR.
One of the great things about writing and recording music over a long period of time is that one can look back and reflect on the progress they've made over the period of time. Similar to photography, there is just so much to learn. And as the tools change/improve there is a never-ending opportunity to learn and an ability to improve both the quantity and quality of our output. I don't release everything I write; I have a boatload of crap songs (if you want to call them that) sitting on my hard drive. The albums above represent the best of what I am able to accomplish in my home studio - unsigned and unfunded. This is a hobby. A most enjoyable one.
I hope you find something that interests you in the 82 songs represented by these albums. And if so, feedback is appreciated.
kevinburke.ca
KEv
So I'm setting my music free.
Some of you have known me for years as 'Elektroniqa', but I've recently changed my moniker to 'Avionik'. My music is heavy electronics and percussion/drum laden and is influenced by a broad swath of artists including: Skinny Puppy, OMD, Elton John, VNV Nation, Jean Michel Jarre, Gary Numan, Klaatu and likely the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Morrissey and others who's ability as songwriters I envy.
I have used Cakewalk sequencers exclusively as my compositional tools since Cakewalk 3.0 for DOS. I now employ Sonar Producer 8, Project V 2.51 and Kinetic 2. I also license an extensive list of soft-synths and FX, sample libraries, and have enjoyed using racks of hardware for the past 27 years. I write and sing my own lyrics, although my latest album is my first without vocals.
On to the music then! My new album is 'Disarticulated' by Avionik (um, me). Released on February 9, 2009, this album has been more than a year in the making. What you will find will take you on a journey through a landscape of tribal beats and unconventional multi-layered percussion, static and glitch-laden neo-industrial intelligent dance music, EBM, creepy Beatle-esque nightmares ala 'Revolution #9', lush strings and evil harmonics. While the landscape may change, the penchant for memorable melodies and retaining listener interest remains. This is my most ambitious production to date.
You can now download the entire album, and my 5 previous albums "Exagerrated Sense of Self", "Impure Ice", "Looking for Myself While Hiding", "Hot Sun Ate The Sky", and "Droplets of Water and Air" in high quality 320kbps MP3 format (properly tagged and with album covers for importing into your iTunes or Windows Media library), or lossless FLAC format which will expand to the original WAV files for burning a CDR.
One of the great things about writing and recording music over a long period of time is that one can look back and reflect on the progress they've made over the period of time. Similar to photography, there is just so much to learn. And as the tools change/improve there is a never-ending opportunity to learn and an ability to improve both the quantity and quality of our output. I don't release everything I write; I have a boatload of crap songs (if you want to call them that) sitting on my hard drive. The albums above represent the best of what I am able to accomplish in my home studio - unsigned and unfunded. This is a hobby. A most enjoyable one.
I hope you find something that interests you in the 82 songs represented by these albums. And if so, feedback is appreciated.
kevinburke.ca
KEv
