TAXI Road Rally 2012 !!
November 9, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
I’m glad to be back in California! After the ASCAP Expo in 2011, which in the end led to my turnaround from being an aspiring pop music producer, to being an independent instrumental artist, I’m now thrilled to be part TAXI’s music conference. Let’s see what happens this year. I hope to meet some great people again!
First million-view-video for relaxdaily
November 1, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Cool: About one year into my relaxdaily project I got my first small relaxation music hit on YouTube: B-Sides N°1, a 150 min compilation filled with “B-Sides” from the first 6 months of the project’s musical output. Thank you guys!
Pure Relaxation: Relaxdaily – Essence1
March 19, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
New eleven track relaxation music LP – free downloads to celebrate the release of Essence1
1800 cups of green tea. Really?
Yes. After visiting California and being creative in Los Angeles last summer, I quit drinking coffee. Now I run on green tea. My consumption is about one cup/hour, which sums up to 1800 cups after doing the relaxdaily project for 6 months now. The outcome: 42 chilling tracks attached to 42 YouTube videos.
For the LP Essence1 I tried to chose the eleven best tracks, the ones I like most, and the ones that got a good rating so far on YouTube, on the project’s homepage, on Soundcloud and via the relaxdaily Android app. Furthermore, I put in more energy to enhance these tracks, to make them even more enjoyable for you.
The result is 80 minutes of ambient background music that has the power to make you feel good.
To celebrate the iTunes release of Essence1 I give away free copies to the first 10.000 relaxdaily fans who show up either on the project’s website or on it’s Facebook page! (use the code: “relaxdaily”!) If you like what you hear, make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel, to get the latest new relaxation tunes 
Chocolate Rain 2.0 by Tay Zonday
August 10, 2011 Collaboration Leave a comment
Congratulations on the new baby! Tays’ first EP – ”Chocolate Rain 2.0″ – is here! Say hello to seven new songs and two remixes of the legendary “Chocolate Rain”, downloadable via iTunes and many other online music stores. The new songs are all written by the master himself. Guest on the EP are Olga Kay, Dave Days and Upwords.
For me, it was a pleasure and a good creative experience to be part of the production process. While the music creation and vocal recording took place in Hollywood/L.A., U.S.A, I did the mixing and some final touches in my home studio near Cologne, Germany.
While most tracks make heavy use of synthesizer sounds, you can also hear an acoustic guitar (which we got for 300$ from Guitar Center on Sunset Blvd.) on ”Trippy City” and “Pop Pop Pop”. As an artist you always try to sound a bit different than the rest of the pack, right? And you try to develop. Probably that’s why the new songs sound quite different to the one and only “Chocolate Rain”. But with this new release we get a true Tay Zonday again, that’s for sure.
I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed the creating.
- Michael
Behind the scenes: “This Is You” with Tay Zonday
June 27, 2011 Collaboration Leave a comment
While many still wonder what made “Chocolate Rain” a must see, I decided to do a collaboration with YouTube sensation Tay Zonday. We met each other at the ASCAP Expo in late April where Tay was speaking about internet, branding and musicianship. We exchanged business cards and Tay mailed me a couple of days later: “I like the tracks you have on you site!” The next night we discussed a potential collaboration. I had my laptop with me and presented Tay what I created on my laptop just that day. It turned out to become the track for “This Is You” by Tay Zonday (feat. Upwords). Read More »
quick analysis on “I Gotta Feeling” (the black eyed peas)
June 8, 2011 Analysis Leave a comment
I did an analysis on that already a couple of weeks ago, but I left that part of my brain back in Germany I guess. While working now on a pop-dance project, which is very important to me, I did a quick structural analysis on “I gotta Feeling” (the black eyed peas), again. This song is different to most of the material we are exposed and I believe this unique concept is part of it’s world wide success.
Touch my E – track by michael fesser
June 1, 2011 Track Leave a comment
Love it or hate it! Another michael fesser track.
This time I combine in an unheard manner the best of German “Schlager” with today’s US-Style production values. No fear. Experiment. Again. Win.
Something for J.Lo or Enrique?
How do you feel about what happens at 2:10 min?
Discovery
May 31, 2011 Track Leave a comment
Track of the day is “Discovery”!
What’s that? You don’t have to love it by now… But it’s a possible direction where pop music will head in the next months. Yeah, we’re getting faster and faster. We’ll hear more pop songs above 140 bpm. We’ll sweat again in the clubs!
Like every bubble the “4to the floor” one will burst at some point. Pop music in 2012 will sound different then what we had in the last years. How? Who knows. It´s up to us creatives to define that with great new songs!
GT680 (finally became a song)
May 28, 2011 Track Leave a comment
Track of the day today is “GT680″
Yes, I gone a little wild with that one… definitely inspired by some tunes I heard here in Los Angeles.
I hear some rap in the verses and a cool melody in the chorus with this one. And of course cool lyrics…
How do you like the filtered section just before the last chorus?
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Update 2011-06-24
I took the track off because it will be used as an exclusive in a collaboration. I’ll post both, the original track and the final song here, when the song will be released.
The Game
May 27, 2011 Track Leave a comment
man, this was a day… spend almost every minute on this new tune. I hate that: not having one or two hours to get out for some sport or seeing people… in the end I´m very proud of the result, so it was a good day!
I guess Dr, Luke would say the base in the verses is not locked in the center and there are no new elements in the second verse, or there could be more impacting sweeps here and there… and that´s true… I´ll fix that when the tune becomes a real song…
my favorite part is the very last chorus, where individual instruments are fading in and out…
… by the way: It´s my happiest time in my life so far. Los Angeles feels like musicians heaven, so many creatives here! Love it!
… I see people in the Capitol Records building working until in the night every day, that motivates me to get good results every day by myself…
