I gave out a whole pile of isk tonight for the lightshow contests. For the first show, I gave out a measly 300 million isk. However Brad314 gave me over 2.5 billion isk for the second contest! In total the pot was 2.8 billion isk! I’ve never given so much isk away for the light shows. Spike Spiegel ended up judging the second show and choosing Arcturus Aurilen as the winner. Here’s some snapshots:

I submitted the song to several trance labels and got no response after two weeks. So, I’m opening it up for you to grab for free now. You can find it on my soundcloud page at www.soundcloud.com/erkenfresh or the “my music” page of this site. I hope you like the tune!

I worked pretty much all day on my new tune today. Cosmic Raider gave it a good title yesterday of Chasing the Stars. I decided to remove the the and just call it Chasing Stars. I’m almost done finalizing it but you can listen to it here:

Once it’s finalized, I’ll put it up here for download. Comments are welcome. Enjoy!

EDIT: I’ve set this to private on SoundCloud for now while I pursue sending this out to labels. Supposedly a public song on SoundCloud is less valuable to labels. I’ll let you know in a few weeks how it goes!

I’ve been hard at work on a new trance tune. After doing the tutorial from Sonic Academy (see the post below), I decided to put the new techniques into practice. It’s coming along quite nicely. I’m not ready to post the half finished song yet but I hope to have it done by the end of the week. I played what I had for you on my show and the best titles are as follows. The submitter name and number of votes are also included:

Cosmic Raider – Chasing the Stars, 6 votes
Zyphor Baynes – Locking Onto Serenity, 5 votes
Recon Ellecon Ellecon – Tender Love in our Stars, 1 votes
Odst Captain15 – Caress of the Light, 1 votes
Presson – Love Circle, 1 votes

I decided to sign up for another quarter of Sonic Academy. This is a web site where you can learn better music production techniques. I had done their Trance and Hard Dance tutorials before and watched most of their tech tips. It has already helped me out a ton! I just finished the Peak Time Trance tutorial and it’s simply mind blowing. Enjoy the final product of what I recreated by going through the tutorial. Expect to hear some improvements in my next few tunes!

Hi fans, I’ve created a simple chillout style tune. It’s nothing super special but you may find it fits with the theme of Eve’s spaciness. Pop this in as you autopilot across empire space or mine some roids.

Also tune in on April 23rd 0300-0500 GMT (April 22nd 11 PM EDT) for an electronic music lesson with Dr. Erkenfresh, PhD. I’ll be teaching you about various sub-genres of Trance, Drum & Bass, and Hardcore. The best part is for those of you who pay attention, I’ll be giving out prizes for those who can answer my questions correctly. Don’t miss out!

So we had a chance to do some Name That Tune this week during my show. My next tune is about done so I asked you, the listeners, for some good song titles. I narrowed it down to five choices for you to vote on with these results:

Deep Sea Sunrise, 0 votes
Lighthawk’s Serenade, 2 votes
Infinite Escape, 5 votes
Rapid Lucidity, 6 votes
Crystal Lattice, 2 votes

Thanks Callista Athanas for submitting the song’s title of Rapid Lucidity! I have submitted this new tune to a label for consideration to be included on their next release. If Rapid Lucidity gets chosen, I will not be able to distribute the song freely, but you’ll get a chance to buy it. Yay!

Also, the light show in Frarn was quite amazing with a trio of Abaddons owned by the Solaris triplets and the unstoppable Kelgarth/Thy Beard team (click a picture for the full view).

My next track is going to be some kind of mix between goa/psy trance and freeform.

On a side note, while looking for some help creating that acid lead sound, I looked on YouTube. I searched on “how to make goa sounds”. YouTube thought maybe I was looking for something else instead…

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During my most recent show on Eve Radio, we played Name That Tune, and my latest tune received the name Paranormal Anxiety. The finalists for the song title were:

Renos Xenos – Karma Incarnate (2 votes)
LingWai II – Aurora Irae (3 votes)
Dukkeone – Furious Transition (0 votes)
Courtie – Nova’s Light (1 vote)
Dol Deldrimar – Paranormal Anxiety (4 votes)

Paranormal Anxiety is now available for download from the “My Music” page and you can also sample it here:

Enjoy the tune and see you next Monday 0300 GMT for another Erkenshow!

My latest tune is nearly done so it’s time to play Name That Tune yet again. All of the music I’ve made has been named by Eve Radio listeners through these very contests. You can preview the song here:

Be prepared to have an awesome idea for a song title during my show Feb 27th at 0400 GMT. The best song titles get a chance to be voted on and the most votes received will win some ISK. Don’t miss out on this chance to become a part of Erkenhistory! Also, the light show contest this week will be in Hek. Make sure to strap an extra layer of armor (or cardboard for you Minmatar) to your ship to avoid the ganking that is sure to happen!