I am officially unable to hold back this information anymore.

The wait is over. Almost.

The upcoming album is officially my 5th album, as well as my longest yet.

The art can be found on my profile.

It will be set to release during early January 2024.

Some insight:

The name is CRYPTOGRAPHIXX. It's, if you haven't solved the riddle in the post I made some time ago, an attempt at breakcore (and other surrounding genres).

It all began when I was scouring the internet for resources and came across this old school drum sample mega pack.

Seriously, this thing is enourmous and contains samples of all sorts. I then began playing around with them and, after some time, realised that this could really go somewhere.

Weather it be the aggressive, agonising glitchiness of classic breakcore or the more modern, ambient DNB sound of the new 20's breakcore explosion and revamp, CRYPTOGRAPHIXX covers all angles.

For almost every song I have made, I have composed the drums manually. However this genre, as you might as well know, focuses entirely on composing drums in a completely different way.

With this, I had to get comfortable with sampling.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this album involves split-up, chopped, rerranged frankensteins of drum samples, some roaring out of your speakers at speeds as fast as 200bpm.

Note: there were a handful of songs with pre-made chops or just unedited drums.

Either way, it ranged from me making a song in a single evening to building and improving on one over the course of months.

Making breakcore is somewhat different to making other genres, for the better and worse. I think that it's a super fun, immersive genre that's basically a goldmine for producers to seize by the neck and slice it apart, stitching together whatever aspects they want and painting it their colours. To be honest, I enjoyed it a lot, and would definately consider coming back to it at some point, definately going in with a different take, taking it further. Possibly expanding on the ambient side of things.

One or two songs, as you will find, aren't even breakcore, but I still saw fit for the album.

Every song was made using MPC Beats.

And, of course, because I take pride in my albums, it's fully furnished with an atmospheric intro, song transitions, mixing straight from the bedroom through budget Logitech speakers, and fully sequenced and exported through Audacity (chosen to give it that low quality, bass-and-volume-fluctuation, washed-out sound which was imperative to the sonic qualities of the album).

Trust me.

It's gonna be great.

Okay at least.