Synoiz Music Blog

Posted 14th November 2009

I'm rather excited, I managed to get tickets for me and Kirsty to go see La Roux in Newcastle tonight, just before I head out the door here's the latest news from Synoiz!

Ambients the debut album is out now!

My debut instrumental album of 14 electro darkwave tracks "Ambients" was released on the 31st of October to a wonderful amount of support from fans. Despite being pretty much ignored by the UK media (one local publication that I will not name choosing to put their sealed press copy on eBay rather than actually listening to it) the album managed to get a good amount of airplay on independant radio stations in the US and some commercial stations in Germany, even going so far as getting a very kind review in a Turkish newspaper!

You can get links to buy the album as well as listen to Ambients in full from the mini-site: http://ambients.synoiz.net

New single Getting Safer released 12th of December

If you've been following me on Twitter you'll know that these past few weeks have been full of the chaos of filming the music video for the second single from Ambients "Getting Safer". The single will be released worldwide through Amazon, iTunes, eMusic on the 12th of December (before the Christmas single rush I hope!). 

For the release I've written two new tracks to act as b-sides. They're both worth a listen and were rather fun to make even though I was drowning in promotion/artwork deadlines for Ambients when I had to write them!We're hoping to have the video ready for the week before the release and will be available, like the video for the experimental first single "Long Lost...", on the Synoiz YouTube

Ambients makes brief appearance in Amazon top 100

In a massive surprise (considering the low-key promo the album has had and the horrific £6.99 price tag the stores have slapped on it) Ambients managed to enter into the Dance/Electronic top 100 MP3 albums on Amazon for 2 days this week. It peaked at #73 which is absolutely amazing for me. When I attempt to make some commercial material I'll be bothered about charts but to get any kind of sales achievement for an album like this is a major thing!

Hope you're all doing okay,

Kind regards,
Synoiz

Posted 12th July 2009

Hey everyone,
I must warn you there may be more blogs coming atcha like an old woman with a shopping trolley, got a few of them stored up you see. Been amazingly busy lately that I've had no sleep or time to do anything except work for about 2 weeks. Thankfully we're almost finished the video for the 3rd (as yet unannounced) single from "Ambients", last day of shooting will be tomorrow; I'm pretty much done with the music for the Pebbledash game (huzzah) and now it's time to get our moo into gear for the 2nd single "Getting Safer".

Now "Getting Safer" is probably the most commercial song off "Ambients" and I'm sure everyone who has heard promos of the album (or listened to it on this mini-site here: http://ambients.synoiz.net ) knew it would be a single eventually. At the moment we're planning stuff for the music video (I've managed to get my way out of starring in it this time so you'll get someone infinitely better lol) however I need to get the artwork sorted and sent off before we start on the video.

Oh oh oh I'm quite excited about this, I'm not sure if the single will include a remix or not as currently I'm writing two b-sides for the single (both of them are sounding quite strong so far). So if you're interested in doing a remix of the song "Getting Safer" for the single, please send me an email at ambients@synoiz.net

Help me with the artwork for "Getting Safer"
Now the main point of the day, I really can't decide what to do for the artwork for the next single. I was really happy with how the "Long Lost..." art turned out and so I really want to have a each-single-a-different-primary-colour theme. However "Getting Safer" (you can listen to a sampler on the mini site) doesn't really fit any colour that I can think of.
Please click the following link to see a list of options I've created (you can suggest your own) and vote for what you think should be the "Getting Safer" artwork.

Click here to cast your vote for the artwork for "Getting Safer"