Artist Bio
Influences: Hybrid, TCM, Moby, Trifonic, Ben Lukas Boysen, Poppy Ackroyd, Andy Hunter, Harry Gregson Williams, Noisia and many many MANY others
The final chapter of The Explorers is at hand. Join us for their final adventure as we bring the 6 year story to a close. (Scroll down for a recap of last year)
We are:
DJ Kenneth A (soundcloud.com/djkennetha)
Manoptic (soundcloud.com/manoptic)
Joining forces for the powers of awesome.
Honestly though we just like making cool music that we hope people enjoy.
We have been posting previous year's FAWM albums on our bandcamp page for free download. (aeye.bandcamp.com) We also will have some of them available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music etc.
A quick recap of last year:
The Explorers chased Gentleman Greene to Tomi. The planet Sibir equivalent of las vegas. He just escaped their grasp and made off with important information about the location of 6 totems (fuel cells). What is he planning? What do they power? How does it all end? Tune in this year to find out :)
Songs (23)
The Explorers VI -Ep1: Initium FinisSoundboard
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@sunnymae Mar 2022
Heehee... they should seriously have a reward for recommendations You'd be swimming in more plugins by now!!!
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@guatecoop Feb 2022
Hey there! Thanks for the listen.... WOW, you have been busy! I need to get back in there and do some listening. Actually, it is a perfect day for your styles of music.
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@elesimo Feb 2022
Thanks for your comment on "Elephant cemetery"! I'm using this plugin for the guitar, it's free and really amazing: https://mourednik.github.io/argotlunar/
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@pianoonthepatio Feb 2022
aaah I've been listening to your stuff and enjoying your story/adventure! they're amazing
thank you so much for your praise on Strangers with Memories, comment on Finding Blue Garden (I love that you pointed out Thomas Newman lol Finding Nemo was my no.1 song most played in song Spotify last year without me realizing.. so peaceful), feedback on the lyrics for Glass Flowers, and your reaction to Choose a Character! I love that it made you think of a castle town in a fantasy RPG/mana game! I was going for that -
@splittybooms Feb 2022
Aaaand I've bought Super Audio Cart! lol
Geez thank goodness for payment plans! Haven't gotten a chance to mess with it as I'm working, but cannot wait to see what it has to offer.
May tap you on the shoulder to pick your brain at some point about it lol -
@headfirstonly Feb 2022
The organ's the Korg M3's "French Big Pipe" program. It's insanely over the top—real grand guignol stuff—but it beds in nicely to a dense prog track like that.
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@slightlydrunk Feb 2022
I'm really impressed by your output quantity and production quality! Very inspiring!
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@paulharrison Feb 2022
Baltimore? A while back (15 years or so) I was in Baltimore Songwriters Assoc. and played for a while with Paul I, Nita, and others. Anyway, enjoy your FAWMing!
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@paulharrison Feb 2022
Thanks for your comments on my songs! I really appreciate your listening give the many options that are out there!
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@bethyrose Feb 2022
Thanks for the comment! Happy FAWM to you as well! :)
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@splittybooms Feb 2022
hey re: the vocal samples on Brenda From 227 - the "ooh ooh", "making me go crazy", and "tell me" vox were from Arcade vst by Output, which is part of the Kontakt/Native Instruments stuff. I also used their Glaze and Exhale vsts for some of the vocal-like instruments to play the melodies and chords.
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@nahlej381 Feb 2022
Thanks for the kind words!
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@kenmattsson Feb 2022
Thanks for your comment on Winter Still. I used GarageBand entirely on it! I worked it out on the ukulele first, and then just transferred it to MIDI instruments. Again, a stretch for me.
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@farmyardorchestra Feb 2022
Hello, thank you for your Cobweb comment! "Dew" was actually the first provisory title. Nice to see that it survived the name shift. :-)
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@persaab Feb 2022
Thank you for the comment.
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@manoptic Feb 2022
Should I comment on this being the end of the Explorers saga? I suppose I could. This is it. This is the end of the story for the Explorers. We've pumped out six installments and each one has been better than the last, in my opinion.
So next year we start with a new universe. A new story. New characters. No title yet, but I hope that next year you'll enjoy meeting the members of the Policemen's Lodge. -
@heliosonorous Jan 2022
Thanks for the greeting, looking forward to more of the Explorers story!
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@deadhead Jan 2022
A team unite! We're going to have a killer year, I'm feeling it!
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@skylermf Jan 2022
Hope you have a great FAWM as well!
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@piney Jan 2022
You too! Happy magic making!
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@robynmackenzie Jan 2022
Happy FAWMing to you as well!
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@andygetch Jan 2022
By the time I make it to Baltiquerque.........
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@vivalarayna Jan 2022
Thanks - happy FAWMing to you, too!
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@zecoop Jan 2022
Cheers to the instrumental FAWMers!!! I just love building that music up from nothing and seeing where it goes. Looking forward to yours as always! :)
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@tcelliott Jan 2022
Jello! Was good to see you on the Tuesday Night Music Zoom.
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@adnama17 Jan 2022
LYRICS FIRST OR GO HOME
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@chandra83 Jan 2022
I will use the llama potion however I want! :p
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@headfirstonly Jan 2022
Yay—AEye is in the house! Happy FAWMing!
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@metalfoot Jan 2022
We will explooooooooooooooooore till there's no moooooooooooooore!
Rock on, folks. Thanks for this wonderful Explorers series. Looking forward to hearing how it ends! -
@pearlmanhattan Jan 2022
Dude! Yah! FAWM on!
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@elesimo Jan 2022
Hi, there! I'm looking forward to more Explorers! Have an amazing FAWM!