StarTravels

Hi Orlando, good to see you back here! We've always enjoyed your music.
Cheers, Micky

Hi Brado, you're right, the track was originally made in Garage Band and sounded essentially the same as it does now. However, I recently transferred it to Logic and then mixed it a little differently and spiced it up with some bass and other elements. We're glad you liked it. Thanks for listening.
Cheers, Micky (also on behalf of Robbie/Jynxz)

Hi Anthony, glad you had an exciting listening experience. It was really nice to hear from you, much appreciated.
Cheers, Micky

Ha... yeah, he bites stardust!
Thanks for listening.

Hi Alan, well, Space Funk would probably be a good fit, but that is not a category to choose from here. Yes, it was a lot of work, but all of our tracks have been created over a long period of time. It always starts with a good idea, and then we work on it until our fingers bleed.
Thanks for listening and commenting.
Cheers, Micky

Thanks for stopping by and grabbing a bite.
Cheers, Micky

Thank you for listening and the nice comment, glad you like it.

Well, as I said, Robbie is still on a special mission and is currently unavailable, but we are in contact and he will certainly be with me again soon. In the meantime, I'm working on a few of the old things, well, I'm polishing up our machines, you know.
Thank you very much for the nice compliment.
Cheers,
Micky

Thank you very much for your incredibly encouraging words. Although I have already developed a little more musical self-confidence over time (and my presence on LM has played a strong role in this), I am very happy about comments like yours and help me overcome certain doubts that I still have. So again a thousand thanks, my day will be nice :-) Greetings, Micky

It's a meditation and if everything goes right, it should transport you to the next astral layer ...

Hi Michael,

Thank you for listening and the nice comment. My beacon is constantly burning and I'm sure he's keeping an eye on it at all times... But at the moment it's really lonely out here... sniff. Thank goodness my supplies of soma are full...

Cheers,

Micky

Thank you my friend. Yes, this track is one of my favorites... it went pretty well with that one.

Hi Wayne, aha, roller disco... when I was younger I would have liked to go to a roller disco, but we didn't have one. Just the normal Euro Disco stuff, with the unspeakable clothes, hairstyles and so on. I heard some really cool disco in Ibiza. Back then they had a DJ from NY at Amnesia who pretty much had the first maxi singles and mixed them. That really impressed me, especially since he had managed to get people to tear their clothes off. But that wasn't a roller disco either. Anyway, thank you for the compliment and especially for the fav.
Cheers,
Micky

Hi Chris, Yes, I also hope that Jynxz appears again at some point. But that probably won't happen for now - he has good reasons, I know that much. I created this background story so that it could be officially announced that this will be the last Star Travels track for the time being.
Thank you for your great compliment... and the nice greeting!
Peace from Neanderthal,
Micky

Hello Eric, I'm really glad the track made your evening... I think that's actually the best compliment you can give a musician. Thank you for that!
Well, it's a thing with bass: there's a frequency range in bass where it's ultimately a matter of taste how much you add or not. If possible, I try not to let any of the instruments play the main role, at least not in tracks like this where a lot is happening in the background, so that all the elements stand out well and don't overlap or even obscure each other. But I'll still take a look at the track again to see if there isn't more that could be done in the low end.
How did the track come about.... First there was this wonderful, cold synth sound that appears at the beginning at 0:32. It comes from a synth that is part of the Logic/Garage Band equipment... it's called RetroSyn and the sound is called Stratosphere. I was playing around with it and it kind of made me feel really cold. That's how I came up with the idea of staging the whole thing on an ice planet for our StarTravels project. The beat that was supposed to convey this came from the so-called "virtual drummer", which is also integrated into Garage Band/Logic, and I edited and reduced it. Then it was about the bass lines. Once these were decided, I recorded all the keyboards (VST), where it took me quite a long time for the harmonies... Then my guitar interludes, the power chords. The rest was a decoration of the “landscape” with all sorts of cold effects. At the very end, I recorded the guitar for leaving the planet. I use Izotope's Visual Mixer to distribute the instruments in the room, and Izotope's Ozone to master them. That's actually it.
I was very happy that you liked the track, and if you have any questions... always let me know ;-)
Cheers,
Micky

Oh no, Dennel, I'm an absolute bass fan. If there really isn't enough bass on this track, tell me and I'll change it. That would make you the second person to feel that way. Cincocent meant that, but I don't know....he has extreme taste in bass. In his compositions this is 100 percent correct and appropriate. But, to be honest, that would be a bit too much for me.
Well, it's always a matter of choosing a genre here... I didn't find anything suitable and then in the end I just chose Trip Hop because I don't care anyway.
Thank you for your valued comments.
Kind regards.

Micky

Thank you so much for listening. Glad you enjoyed.
Cheers,
Micky

Oh, yes, I'm already looking. Thanks for listening and review.
Peace,
Micky

Thank you so much for listening and the nice words. Glad you liked the track.
Cheers,
Micky