Over the past year or so I have been able to build up a good relationship with a Christian EDM promotion group called Jesustronic. They are based in South America and have a focus on the Spanish-speaking world and so it has been interesting to see my music be shared and fanbase start to grow in exotic places like Guatemala and Columbia etc.
Jesustronic have been very good in promoting my One-Life album and music videos, but recently they asked me to do a 30 minute guest mix.
After DJ'ing many years ago, it took a while to raise my courage for a live mix - and I had to learn the new style of decks (not CDJ's anymore!) using my newly purchased Traktor S8.
On the 12 month anniversary of the release of my debut album One Life, I am pleased to share the definitive edition of the album to include new extended release tracks, b-sides, the 3 official music videos and the Native Instrument Stems files of 10 album tracks for DJ's using Traktor - and all for a new lower price of $10 Australian (around US$5).
This time, around, the album will be digitally released on Beatport as well as iTunes, Amazon etc. on June 23, but to pre-order and download all the extra goodies, please head to my Bandcamp site: a-duff.bandcamp.com/album/one-life-anniversary-edition
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Louder than the Music:
"A brilliant EDM record"
Indie Vision Music:
"Reminds me of playing SSX3 on the PS2"
CCM Magazine:
"Plenty of gritty break-beats and glitchy break-downs"
As promised, I have prepared a little something to celebrate - a video of part of a train journey I took between Shenyang and Benxi in China's Liaoning Province last month set to my track 'Church Mice' from last year's album One-Life.
China has been a large part of my life for many years. I first began learning Chinese 21 years ago at The University of Adelaide and then met the girl of my dreams in Dandong, China nearly 17 years ago and we now are raising an Australian-Chinese family.
This song 'Church Mice' incorporates Chinese instrumentation overlaying electronic beats inspired by deadmau5 - hence the name. I hope you enjoy this latest audio-visual creation and have a fantastic 2020!!
After a
month or more in China to visit family, I’m back in Adelaide and able to access
the rest of the internet allowing me to share what a year it has been for me
and my music.
It’s hard
to think 2020 will already be 5 years since my first signed track, ‘The Ghost
Music’ was released by Deep Garnet Records. In this time, I have improved so
much as an artist in things like sound composition, automation, mixing, compression and
space, as well as performing live – yet I know I still have so many areas I can
improve. Got to keep chasing perfection!!!
2019
started off with a guest DJ mix for Chinese New Year for Adelaide’s EDM radio station Fresh FM. As someone who has married into a Chinese family and speaks
Mandarin, I really enjoyed putting together a cross-genre set that combines some of
the best Chinese and Western sounds and beats together.
Of course,
the big news this year was the release in June of my first artist album One-Life.
I look back
over my musical heroes and all of them have released albums that I come back to
and revisit over time – and I do that much more than listening to their single
releases. Their albums define their musical journey for that period of their
career and I wanted to do the same.
One-Life
took me 3 years to put together and while Ihave further improved as an artist since then, I am still very proud to
have released it. I managed so get some really good and honest reviews from
some reputable media including:
I also had fun putting together music videos for some of the tracks including 'Don't Stop Believing' which got some really nice words from one of my musical heroes in A Skillz.
My
album release went on iTunes, Amazon, Youtube and all over the place, but interestingly Spotify tells me I had listeners from 40 countries on their
platform last year which is really cool. For me though, the best bit is listening to my two children aged 11
& 13 plugged into their headphones at home listening and to my beats and asking why aren't I more famous for my music lol!
I’m still
working on new music for release in 2020 (but nowhere near as ambitious as a
whole album) and I have something exciting planned for Chinese New Year that I look
forward to sharing soon.
Thanks for all you support in 2019 and have a
great 2020!!
