SMAAD Music
Glory of Dementia
Glory of Dementia is the music of Gary "Smaadmin" L. His music has been gaining interest on sites like newgrounds since 2008, and it's easy to see why. You won't know whether to smile or cry that his rock-inspired but heavily electronic tunes get stuck in your head from the first time you hear them.
The music of GOD is almost always fast-paced, energetic fare that's meant to charge you up, and at times can be really inspirational and uplifting. Expect great melody, and plenty of it, in each and every track. Beefy drum lines often pin down the melody, and piano, orchestra, synths and sometimes guitar join the fray making Gary's music feel like an aural Red Bull.
An important aspect of Glory of Dementia is how strongly the emotion of a track can come through. Almost everything is covered here - you've got happiness, you've got love, regret, everything imaginable. Gary proved his talent for writing energetic, melodic and well-felt music with his first album release in 2009 called A Black Square. A Black Square is one of those albums which stays with you for a long time - if not for being a great album, then for having really memorable, good music.
Later in 2009 GOD released Heavy Bubbles, an exciting album which ties off many his early ideas and music. It is unmistakably "GOD-like" and it is required listening for GOD fans.
You can hear the influences that went into this music - a little of everything from rock to trance to orchestral music and soundtracks. But what Glory of Dementia really sounds like is hard to pin down - no easier than trying to explain what chicken tastes like.
Gary is composing more music all the time, so look forward to more new tracks and reworked and improved versions of old tracks. You can listen using the music widget on this web page. :)
Sevish
Sevish (Sean Archibald) is an independent ‘bedroom producer’ from London, UK. He often produces drum’n’bass, breakbeat, and electronic music but always with a heavy syncopated beat. While much of his music should be considered experimental, most is uptempo and danceable. Most of his 2009 music is microtonal, meaning it uses musicals scales outside of the Western 12-tone equally tempered system. Much of this music will be released as an album in early 2010.
As of mid 2010 Sean has released two albums, Golden Hour and Crowded Images, and two EPs, Exposure EP and Sevish EP. Also his work has been included on at least six netlabel compilation albums, one on spontanMusik and five on faturenet recordings.
Sean has been producing under the name Sevish since 2004. His eponymous debut EP was released in 2005 straight to friends via home-copied CD-Rs, and in 2006 it was made freely available online. As an unsigned hobbyist, Sevish produces and masters his records in his project studio, controls his own distribution (through his official website, last.fm, Jamendo and the Internet Archive), releases the work under a creative commons license and participates in free music culture.
The official Sevish website can be found at sevish.com, which contains his discography available for free download, a biography and some more goodies.