"Illusions EP" now out on Rock River Records!

This EP is featuring 3 different tracks and is released by the Japan-based label "Rock River Records". During the first two weeks after release on June 27th, it will be exclusively available via beatport, from July 11th on also on Itunes and other online mp3 stores.

"Illusions" is a very melodic, emotional and moody tune. It can roughly be qualified as progressive house track, but doesn't have any kind of big room character to it. It's accompanied by warm guitar sounds and a catchy vocal sample, whispering into the atmosphere from time to time.

"Phantasms" was actually a first experiment with Steve Duda's famous "Cthulhu" vst plugin. I was trying out different settings and functions of this piece of software and ended up having most of the ideas for this track. A couple of months later, I gave it the final touch.

"Get Real" is a pretty straight forward tune. Compared to the other two tracks, it's less complex and maybe also less warm, has more open filters and can be considered a little more rough than the other two tunes, picking you up from a dreamy state of mind to take you back to reality.


Artist: Armas
Country: Germany
Catalogue Number: RRREC033
Release Date: June 27th, 2014

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"Always Go South EP" forthcoming on Portrait Digital Recordings

Here's the mindset for my upcoming Always Go South EP, which is also featured on Portrait Digital's Tumblr:

Always Go South EP 

This EP features 3 quite different tracks. While “Always Go South” and “One Winter Morning” can be described as progressive house tracks, “Nite Watch” tends a little more towards the deep house genre. Therefore, the EP describes my musical mindset quite well, as I’m mostly switching around between these two genres, depending on mood, feelings and time of the year. Mostly my goal is finding a rather complex, emotional, but at the same time catchy melody.

I was working on a completely different track when I had the idea for “Nite Watch”. I was actually trying to write a secondary melody for a very housy track, when I decided to use this melody in a completely new and slightly deeper tune. From then on, everything went fairly quick.

“One Winter Morning” on the other hand, took almost two years to get finished. I had the idea for the lead melody in the early hours of a very cold day a couple of years ago. Then, it took several sessions, all of them interrupted by months of no work on the track, to simplify the initial idea and arrangement towards the final EP version.

“Always Go South” in turn, which is giving the name to this EP, was made in more or less one very optimistic mood and ended up being one of my quicker productions. I’m very happy to release this EP with Portrait Digital, a label featuring a lot of promising and very talented artists.


Artist: Armas
Country: Germany
Catalogue Number: PDR045
Release Date: May 26th, 2014


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Armas "Feel the Day" posted by MrSuicideSheep on Youtube

Today I'm very happy to announce that my track "Armas - Feel the Day" has been shared on MrSuicideSheep's Youtube Channel, a high influential music channel on youtube. They also managed to put in a beautiful artwork, which fits the track just fine. Enjoy!

 


Also available now on iTunes:

armas pres. tim lowell - nite watch

Out now, September 2, 2011!
My latest track "Nite Watch" is now released at No Border Recordings and available at the usual download shops.

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