Synoiz Music Blog

Posted 28th October 2011

Well as someone pointed out, I totally failed to update this blog on Sunday. There will be news of the Cutting Edge Film Festival soon but for the moment I'm just getting excited about Halloween!

Free Shock! Horror! single still available

I can't believe it's been an entire year since the release of my single Shock! Horror! If you missed it or are just finding Synoiz now then check out the creepy horror music video by 12 FT Beast Productions by clicking on the animation to the side and click here to grab the 4-track free horror music download Shock! Horror!.

At the moment I have two main projects on the go, one is completing the main theme/intro music for a creepy game soundtrack for a publisher proposal and the other is remixing the new Erasure single "I Lose Myself" (which isn't really work as it's for a competition but it'd be amazing to get a remix on an Erasure release!).

How is everyone doing for Halloween? Looking forward to it? Costume sorted? Been out already?

Posted 30th October 2010

Happy Halloween!
Finally my new single "Shock! Horror!" is released for FREE download from my website.

The 4 track single includes both the orchestral "Acoustic Edit" and the exclusive new B-Side "Indrid Cold".

Also available is the brilliant new music video by 12 FT Beast Productions which you can watch below. Hope it gives you a Halloween scare!

Posted 31st October 2009

I'm so excited, my debut album "Ambients" is OUT NOW!

You can buy it from any of the stores listed in the dropdown below, including iTunes and Amazon.

One thing I must mention is that I have had very little control over the pricing of my album and personally I think it's way too expensive on Amazon (£6.99/$8.99) and iTunes (£7.99/$9.99). To apologise for this I'm offering a FREE Limited Edition CD copy of the album (only 100 in existance) with every digital purchase from those two stores (including postage to wherever you are).

I love this album, spookily it was exactly a year today that I finished the album with my tongue-in-cheek horror piece "Shock! Horror!" which was the last track made for Ambients. It seems weird that it's been an entire year of producing/mastering/re-mastering/promotion and working on the EP and three singles (two of which are still to come). Please buy the album and and follow the instructions on the mini-site to get your free CD.

Since posting the best place to get the Ambients album is now the Synoiz store, click here to visit it.

Posted 22nd August 2009

Hello all, It seems like a very long time since I last updated my blog yet I think it's been about 2 months. I've pretty much never stopped working during this period and so apologies about the lack of blogs.

It's a bit ironic really as when I did have time to blog every day/week it was when I didn't really have anything to tell you, now that I have 101 things to tell you about upcoming albums/singles/websites I'm somehow not finding the time. I guess it's like homework, you let it pile up and then it becomes too much to handle so you avoid it!

Really exciting news now though, my debut album "Ambients" has a final release date. Ambients will be made available digitally (iTunes/Amazon etc) on 31st of October 2009. Halloween! You can view the final cover artwork to the side there.

Please note that the CD copy mentioned below may not be available to purchase if we get too many press requests (ie: we run out of CDs) but if you can comment on this journal/message me to tell me that you'd like a CD copy then I'll gauge the demand and try and get more printed. 

Somehow being able to have something as freakin' awesome as a Halloween release date makes me kinda glad there's been so many setbacks/distractions over the last couple of months. I admit though that 90% of those setbacks have been my fault as, following Ghostsmut's amazing work on mastering the album in Edinburgh, I still wasn't totally happy with it and it took me like 2 months to pull it off the shelf and finalise the mixes to be (in my mind) perfect.

Obviously because of this upcoming release I've had to shift things around a fair bit, basically the "Chernobyl EP/OST/whatever-it-is-called-now" is on hold yet again, and the next single "Getting Safer" will be released AFTER the album sometime in November.

Still to do...

If you look to the side you'll be able to see what my current To Do list looks like for the upcoming 2 months until Halloween. It's slightly daunting, but as a lot of it is dependant on other people/getting things back etc, I should have a few nice pauses between steps with which to blog/keep in touch.

I was meaning to do a VBlog today but that may have to wait until tomorrow as I have to meet up with an old friend for dinner (I'm having to miss her wedding next month so it's the least I can do!).

Thank you very much to everyone who is following me on Twitter and helping me out, over the last month I've been posting lots of nice tidbits on there such as the "in production" artwork for the album and allowing people to suggest things to help me get it right.

Help me out

Basically releasing this album is a daunting task so I really need help from fellow artists and fans in order to get me through it, if you can do any of the following things for me I would be very appreciative:

1. Help me get the word out. If you know someone who might be interested in my music and the upcoming album/singles, tell them about me, send them a link to the MySpace or the Facebook.

2. Help me get radio play/press coverage. If you're a DJ or music critic and you'd like to be added to the list of press to receive the album for review, get in touch and I'll look into it.

3. Join the Facebook group. If you're on Facebook then please join the group I set up to promote/inform everyone about Ambients, click here to join the Ambients group on Facebook.

4. Follow me on Twitter. I talk a lot about stuff on Twitter as well as posting new song demos/ideas, links to early artwork etc. If you want to know everything that's going on before I can be bothered to write a blog entry, sign up and follow me: http://www.twitter.com/synoiz

Right now that that's over with I've got to get washed and showered for this meal! Hope you're all doing well, Graeme