Okay. I figured that I'd let you guys in on a little secret, of how mah music/life/everything else is going.

FIRST THE BASICS

Music Software: Currently FL7/Reason 3
Soon to be Added: Reason 4 Upgrade/Sonar 7

List of WIPs with short explanations:

ambient.rns - 90% done - A strange song, I really had no idea where I was going to go with it. It's the type of song you'll have to listen to more than once to hear it all - it's like musical conceptual art.

apoc.rns - 40% done - an attempt at epic apocalyptic orchestra. :D

creator.rns - 90% done - An orchestral-trance prototype.

discovery.rns - 100% done - a song in the vein of Crystalline, as in, you see the origin of all things through the song. However, it's Crystalline's orchestrated counterpart. I'm just waiting for a good time to release it.

doom.rns - 50% done - A short, doomish, booming, foreboding song. You know the type.

epic.rns - 80% done - You probably know it as "End In Fire". I'm reworking it.

jazzy.rns - 10% done - all I've got, really, is a conceptual melody.

magnumopus.rns - ?% done - It's at 15 minutes and counting- a sum of all the things I have learned orchestrally. Going to be awesome. Totally don't know where I'll have it hosted. Will solve that problem when I finish it.

magus.rns - 20% done - A project I started when I got Reason, an attempt to make a remix of Magus' theme from Chrono Trigger. Not enough work put in, and as such, it just sounds like a shitty midi rip. Because it is.

phantomofthebanjo.rns - 50% done - a humorous song I'm making, a remix of Phantom of the Opera with a banjo as the lead instrument. All it really needs is a little mastering love and vocals.

strangeness.rns - 100% done - an orchestral/ambient/trance hybrid. Leans a lot more towards trance, however, it's not bad. Just waiting for a good time to release it.

tangdream.rns - 20% done - After having the original .flp on a hard disk that has since been formatted, it has been a long, painstaking process to recreate the melody- however, I have done it. There has been work put in to making it sound a LOT more professional- but the song won't be done for A WHILE. It'll probably get done in Sonar - three audio engine changes. Sounds like my personal Duke Nukem Forever.

unfin1.rns - 100% done - Despite the name, it's done. Just for a flash project not yet released.

weirdness.rns - 95% done - I'm bad at thinking up project names, I know. This one sounds very Hania-esque, and all it really needs now is for me to decide whether or not to include vocals, and if so, what ones.

smallambientintro.rns - 100% done - Again, for a flash project, not to be released at this time. Though the title explains everything.

atc.flp - 20% done - I've been working on a remix of ATC's "Around the World." Because I like that song.

weirdshit.flp - 80% done - I've actually managed to nail some of the elements of epic trance. I'm shocked. I've never been able to do it before. A few of you have heard bits of this song before- it'll probably be a while yet in development.

Yup.flp - 5% done - a tentative collab with B34T1N. Yes. You heard right. Solus is in his first collab. Shocking, I know.

Thoughts -

MaestroRage's nomination for me as Artist of the Year got me thinking. It's true, I have been drifting from style to style. I've been trying to master each one- and you've heard my shitty, early attempts, and a slow, but steady increase in skill. I feel I've mastered my ambient-chill-technotrance style, and now I'm working on my orchestrating skills- it's really a lot harder, but has been a massive learning experience for me- dynamics, for example, I now know how much they mean to a song.

I DO intend to take all the strands of skill I've acquired and weave them into a techno-trance-orchestral beast, but that day is still quite far off. That song will likely be a combination of the skills I have acquired in FL, Reason, and (soon to be) Sonar.

I just don't intend to make it sound any more appealing than it already does- that'll probably have to wait until next year.

FAQs

Why do I have so many unfinished songs?

Because most of the time I get inspiration from one of my songs and start on something new.

Either that or I get sick of hearing it and shelf it for a while.

Will you do a remix of _________?

No.

Please?

No.

Why the change from awesome technotrance to awesome orchestral music?

Mainly the same reason that I got into technotrance in the first place- I said "I can do that better."

Better than who?

A few people. Most notably, though, MaestroRage.

What's the difference between you and him?

He's gay.

No, seriously.

Well, he makes music in more of a symphonic orchestral style- spreading the melody/accompaniment around all sorts of instruments. He makes use of the full spectrum of instruments. Plus he has a hot-sounding chick to sing for him with whom he totally wants to get his hump on with. Fucking bastard.

Me, on the other hand, make more of a concerto-orchestral style- that is, I rely more heavily on the piano in my pieces. It carries all the songs, or most. Funny, though, as I don't know how to play the piano. I just find it easy to sequence.

Will you release a bit of your magnum opus as a teaser?

Possibly. No guarantees.

Where would we find the full version, and when could we expect it?

Where? When I figure out website programming and acquire hosting, you'll find it there. When could you expect it? Well, I can't tell you EVERYTHING :D

What's the next genre you plan to conquer?

Either DnB or Hip-Hop.

You guys totally didn't see that one coming, did you.

Do you ever plan to go commercial with your music?

Did it once. Went badly. Will probably never do it again. At least not for another couple of years- my stuff is so not pro quality.

Do you ever have bouts of self-pity about your relative lack of popularity on NG/lack of usage in flashes?

Not really. I never seem to feel the need to self-whore as much anymore- there are a few people who are rabid fans of my stuff, and honestly, I don't understand how they manage to hang on when I do abrupt genre changes. My fans are the damned best there are.

As for my relative lack of usage in flashes- well... my songs aren't really "generic use" in ANY sense of the term. Anything that uses my music will use it in one of two ways: Shitty - or expertly crafted around the music. My music really doesn't meld to certain situations- it forces the situations to meld to it.

Thanks for your time, Solus.

Any time, Lunes.

OTHER THOUGHTS.

I have my giant test on Tuesday and Wednesday. If I pass those... well, you can expect to get greetings from Japan in under a year. Hell yes.

And I'd like to thank a few people here for being either inspiration, pillars of support, or randomly useful :D

Chronamut, for starting all this shit
MaestroRage, for being awesome and being a target to aim at :D
B34T1N, for being a fuckwit :D
Rig, for... goddamn it, rig... FUCK YOU
RyeGuyHead, for being one of those supporters :D
Navij11, for supplying nifty tricks and things

And finally

NOT YOU

:D