Welcome To Triplicate
This site is a collection of the music I've written and/or recorded, including full albums, singles, and music videos. There's really nothing more to say than that... other than that I hope you enjoy the site.
If there's anything you'd like to ask me in regards to my music just hit me up via the Contact Me section and I'll get back to you as soon as possible! Thank you for visiting and enjoy your stay. =]
"Pretty Soon" (23/10/13)
2013 has been a long and complicated year for me. I've moved out for the first time, and two more subsequent times. Since before that first initial move out of my parents' house, and in fact almost immediately after I released "Saying Goodbye To Yesterday", I've been working on my next album. I had originally planned to throw it together as a quick EP due to the wildly different musical style, and release it at the end of the same year. Now, almost a year removed from the time I started on it, I'm close to finished. But I've had a ton of problems along the way between my music, this website, and my personal life.
This project officially started with the creation of a demo called "Nightcrawler" that I wrote after a walk with my friend Nick. The track almost sounds like a hard rock track, with a distorted synth that sounds a bit like a crappy guitar, and heavy drum, bass, and string use. Another unfinished song called "Windswept" was written in the same style, around the same time (I think I might have made both of the original demos on the same day, actually). The more I worked on tracks for this, the more different the style became. Lots of tracks were written and dumped. Some because I just couldn't finish them. One because I wrote a song I was physically incapable of performing vocally. Sometimes, I just didn't feel the lyrics anymore. I burned some bridges I probably shouldn't have throughout 2013 and I don't know how or if there's any way I can go about repairing them.
In September, I moved from the Annapolis Valley to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to start college. I'm taking Recording Arts and loving every second of it. I'm still working at shitty-old Walmart as an unloader. The same thing that made me realize I didn't want to be stuck in that hole anymore. That prompted me to enter into a field where I was told upon entering the course has an extremely low employment rate. I accepted that challenge, as much as it hurt to hear.
Just before I moved, during the summer, not only did my old computer officially kick the bucket, but so did the external hard drive that the last four years of my work were saved to. This is the second time that an external hard drive has cost me years of work on music. I was used to the feeling by this point, but it still cut deep and made me doubt that I'd finish this project. Using a file recovery program, I was able to get most of the finished tracks back, but the project files for a lot of my work from the last four years are gone forever. There's nothing I can do about that. Shortly before this, I was getting ready to move all of the files to my new computer. At the same time, my 4Shared File Host account got banned for having a remix that I did years ago on it. That's right, they officially banned me and deleted my files because it was the "third strike" against my account for copyrighted material. This was after they un-suspended it the previous year for my own fucking songs somehow violating their copyright policy. So between the hard drive crash and my account being deleted, I've lost the saved copies of those albums as well. On the bright side, my file recovery program did find them all. It's just that I have to sort through thousands of un-named files in order to locate them again, then put them back into a group, fix all of their meta tags, then upload them to another website so that I can provide the downloads here again.
Oh, the house I moved into has like 12 foot ceilings. I'm not sure yet if that's to my benefit or my detriment. The reverb is kick-ass but it makes recording vocals that don't sound like they're in a hall really difficult to do. If they're not relatively low and right up against the mic, then it sounds like I'm in an echo chamber and adds unnecessary background noise to the tracks.
Ironically, "Nightcrawler" was the only track I can't seem to find the instrumental of and as a result, the first track I wrote for the album is stuck with demo vocals and unbalanced instrument levels and actually maxes out the gain to the point of distortion at some point to where I want to cry.. So, I can either try to rebuild an extremely complex instrumental from scratch and re-record it in less than 3 weeks, or I can upload the version I have that I'm not overly proud of. I'm not sure if I can pull off a Kanye West yet. I'll get back to you on that.
At present, I'm working and procrastinating on a ton of things. Work, repairing and rebuilding my website (You may have noticed the name change on my Facebook post), my classes and their associated projects (of which there are many), WWE2k14 coming out next Tuesday and of course this album. It's called "Music", by the way. I didn't want to complicate things. :P
As of right now, the release date I'm pitching for Music is November 9th, 2013. I hope that if anybody who cares about me or used to care about me sees this, that they might be willing to give it a listen. It's very evolved from my original work, and I've put a ton of time and effort into its making. It features my first guest appearances to date, from the lovely Kaitlin MacDonald (Thanks Kate!), and a wide array of styles that I feel blend together well from beginning to end slowly building up and changing, and incorporating everything I've learned since I first started out making music years ago. Yet, the album begins and ends in a way that's so wildly contrasting that if you were to listen to the first and last tracks, it'd be hard to believe they're from the same album.
The long and short of this update: I'm still making music. It's still different and there probably aren't too many people listening to it now. I've moved a bunch, been through some shit, some of it my fault, and some of it not. I'm learning how to properly record music for the first time and moving a step closer to becoming a producer, which is my first eventual goal. I have Robb Nash or Live on Arrival to thank for planting the idea into my head via Facebook message back when I was working on Through The Cracks.
Love you all, and I promise this site will be of some relevance soon.
- Rob Chapman
This project officially started with the creation of a demo called "Nightcrawler" that I wrote after a walk with my friend Nick. The track almost sounds like a hard rock track, with a distorted synth that sounds a bit like a crappy guitar, and heavy drum, bass, and string use. Another unfinished song called "Windswept" was written in the same style, around the same time (I think I might have made both of the original demos on the same day, actually). The more I worked on tracks for this, the more different the style became. Lots of tracks were written and dumped. Some because I just couldn't finish them. One because I wrote a song I was physically incapable of performing vocally. Sometimes, I just didn't feel the lyrics anymore. I burned some bridges I probably shouldn't have throughout 2013 and I don't know how or if there's any way I can go about repairing them.
In September, I moved from the Annapolis Valley to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to start college. I'm taking Recording Arts and loving every second of it. I'm still working at shitty-old Walmart as an unloader. The same thing that made me realize I didn't want to be stuck in that hole anymore. That prompted me to enter into a field where I was told upon entering the course has an extremely low employment rate. I accepted that challenge, as much as it hurt to hear.
Just before I moved, during the summer, not only did my old computer officially kick the bucket, but so did the external hard drive that the last four years of my work were saved to. This is the second time that an external hard drive has cost me years of work on music. I was used to the feeling by this point, but it still cut deep and made me doubt that I'd finish this project. Using a file recovery program, I was able to get most of the finished tracks back, but the project files for a lot of my work from the last four years are gone forever. There's nothing I can do about that. Shortly before this, I was getting ready to move all of the files to my new computer. At the same time, my 4Shared File Host account got banned for having a remix that I did years ago on it. That's right, they officially banned me and deleted my files because it was the "third strike" against my account for copyrighted material. This was after they un-suspended it the previous year for my own fucking songs somehow violating their copyright policy. So between the hard drive crash and my account being deleted, I've lost the saved copies of those albums as well. On the bright side, my file recovery program did find them all. It's just that I have to sort through thousands of un-named files in order to locate them again, then put them back into a group, fix all of their meta tags, then upload them to another website so that I can provide the downloads here again.
Oh, the house I moved into has like 12 foot ceilings. I'm not sure yet if that's to my benefit or my detriment. The reverb is kick-ass but it makes recording vocals that don't sound like they're in a hall really difficult to do. If they're not relatively low and right up against the mic, then it sounds like I'm in an echo chamber and adds unnecessary background noise to the tracks.
Ironically, "Nightcrawler" was the only track I can't seem to find the instrumental of and as a result, the first track I wrote for the album is stuck with demo vocals and unbalanced instrument levels and actually maxes out the gain to the point of distortion at some point to where I want to cry.. So, I can either try to rebuild an extremely complex instrumental from scratch and re-record it in less than 3 weeks, or I can upload the version I have that I'm not overly proud of. I'm not sure if I can pull off a Kanye West yet. I'll get back to you on that.
At present, I'm working and procrastinating on a ton of things. Work, repairing and rebuilding my website (You may have noticed the name change on my Facebook post), my classes and their associated projects (of which there are many), WWE2k14 coming out next Tuesday and of course this album. It's called "Music", by the way. I didn't want to complicate things. :P
As of right now, the release date I'm pitching for Music is November 9th, 2013. I hope that if anybody who cares about me or used to care about me sees this, that they might be willing to give it a listen. It's very evolved from my original work, and I've put a ton of time and effort into its making. It features my first guest appearances to date, from the lovely Kaitlin MacDonald (Thanks Kate!), and a wide array of styles that I feel blend together well from beginning to end slowly building up and changing, and incorporating everything I've learned since I first started out making music years ago. Yet, the album begins and ends in a way that's so wildly contrasting that if you were to listen to the first and last tracks, it'd be hard to believe they're from the same album.
The long and short of this update: I'm still making music. It's still different and there probably aren't too many people listening to it now. I've moved a bunch, been through some shit, some of it my fault, and some of it not. I'm learning how to properly record music for the first time and moving a step closer to becoming a producer, which is my first eventual goal. I have Robb Nash or Live on Arrival to thank for planting the idea into my head via Facebook message back when I was working on Through The Cracks.
Love you all, and I promise this site will be of some relevance soon.
- Rob Chapman
Resolved (09/07/12)
I've gotten the issues with 4Shared fixed... they actually didn't notify me, so I have no idea how long they've been working. I'm working on getting the downloads fixed. I may switch from 4Shared anyway as I don't feel like trusting them with my files after that, though I'll certainly use them for album download mirrors, since they don't usually flag zip files for bulls**t copyright infringement. Black Sun and Saying Goodbye To Yesterday are both fully operational once again, and the album downloads for all four are still good. All of the singles should be okay as well.
Coincidentally, I'm in the process of uploading SGTY to Soundcloud, and I might be back on CBC Radio 3 in the near future as well. :)
I might have a small handful of new covers and such to upload in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned.
Have a nice day everyone!
- Rob
Coincidentally, I'm in the process of uploading SGTY to Soundcloud, and I might be back on CBC Radio 3 in the near future as well. :)
I might have a small handful of new covers and such to upload in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned.
Have a nice day everyone!
- Rob
Snag (07/07/12)
This one upsets me more than a little. Somebody unrightfully flagged one of my own songs from my first album as Copyright Infringing on 4Shared. I've had 2 strikes there in the past; one wrongful, the other correct, and because I've hit three, my account's been suspended indefinitely, and is subject to deletion/IP Banning unless I can somehow prove that the content is mine. I've been in contact with them and the third party organization that flagged it but it hasn't gotten me anywhere. I'm currently in the process of trying to find a new home just in case I'm not able to get my 4Shared account back, though I hope that I can.
So why am I mentioning this, you ask? Well, every single audio file on this site is hosted through them... which means, thanks to this stupid incident, every single download on the site is broken, as well as every stream with the exception of the songs off of my new album, because I decided to use Youtube for that this time around. So, until I can get this fiasco sorted out, nothing works, aside from the Youtube stuff.
I've uploaded the zipped albums to FileFactory, but this is only a temporary solution. Filefactory only hosts files for 90 days without a premium membership, but that's more than enough time to either get my 4Shared account back to proper standing, or to forcibly migrate to a new file host and get everything fixed.
So yeah. For now, only the whole albums and youtube streams are available. I'm very sorry and I'm working and checking my email constantly until this gets remedied somehow. At least the albums are there to download.
- Rob
So why am I mentioning this, you ask? Well, every single audio file on this site is hosted through them... which means, thanks to this stupid incident, every single download on the site is broken, as well as every stream with the exception of the songs off of my new album, because I decided to use Youtube for that this time around. So, until I can get this fiasco sorted out, nothing works, aside from the Youtube stuff.
I've uploaded the zipped albums to FileFactory, but this is only a temporary solution. Filefactory only hosts files for 90 days without a premium membership, but that's more than enough time to either get my 4Shared account back to proper standing, or to forcibly migrate to a new file host and get everything fixed.
So yeah. For now, only the whole albums and youtube streams are available. I'm very sorry and I'm working and checking my email constantly until this gets remedied somehow. At least the albums are there to download.
- Rob
The New Album Is Live! (24/06/12)
"Saying Goodbye To Yesterday" is officially live, and fully available for download in both explicit and clean versions! Thank you so much to everybody who supported me when I worked on this album! Check out the blog for more information. You can get the album from it's page in the music section. :D
- Rob
Album Preview! 16/06/12
I apologize for it taking longer than I said it would for me to post the preview track for "Saying Goodbye To Yesterday". But here it is, finally. And along with this new track, I have good news; as of right now, I'm slating the release date for the album as July 24th. Also, the page for the album, along with all of the lyrics, are viewable on the "Music" tab to your left. :) This song has a bit of a story, so let's get to the actual song, shall we? It's titled Black Rose, and it was originally written in 2007. One of the first songs I ever recorded.
Obviously, this is a fresh recording of the track. The instrumental is also new, because the original, as well as the loop it was created from, was lost a few years ago in a hard drive crash. The site the loop was downloaded from, SpliceMusic.com, no longer exists. It was bought and converted into LoopGalaxy.com. Same music creator, but none of the loop library. >_> Then, the site I used to post my music on, imeem.com, was bought out by MySpace music a few weeks before the hard drive crash, crash, and had its entire library deleted. So the original of this song is sadly long since lost. It's an important song to me for several reasons. One of the reasons I got into making music when I did was because a friend of mine asked me to record this song. Originally, it started out as a song to the tune of Stabilo's "Cold And Lonely Night", but was changed to fit that loop that I no longer have. I was very proud of it. On my 2010 album, "Come To The Dark Side... We Have Angst", I did a remake of this using vastly different loops in a heavier style, but I wasn't as satisfied with the end result as I'd hoped. The more I got into use of Virtual Instruments, and the more competent I became with composition, the more I realized I could remake some of my loop based works into something original and entirely mine, as well as re-create lost sound. So, I decided to do that for my first album that doesn't include the use of any external loops. I'm very proud of how this song turned out, and I hope everybody enjoys it as much as I do. I know it's a bit on the long side, but it always has been. And a lot of the album is. Some of my biggest inspirations for this album were the works of Pink Floyd and Abandoned Pools, so there are almost no 'short' songs to be found. ^^;
Anyway, for those of you who've come here for the free Mp3 download of the track, here it is:
Download Black Rose (320 Kbit, 19 MB)
I'm aware this file is on the "Why is an Mp3 file that big?" scale, so if you're looking for a smaller Mp3, just use a Youtube converter to download it (such as http://www.youtube-mp3.org)
Have a great day everyone. Hope you enjoy the track, and I'll see you all soon. :)
- Rob
Anyway, for those of you who've come here for the free Mp3 download of the track, here it is:
Download Black Rose (320 Kbit, 19 MB)
I'm aware this file is on the "Why is an Mp3 file that big?" scale, so if you're looking for a smaller Mp3, just use a Youtube converter to download it (such as http://www.youtube-mp3.org)
Have a great day everyone. Hope you enjoy the track, and I'll see you all soon. :)
- Rob
New Blog and Site Update! 01/06/12
I've added a blog to the site where you'll be able to see updates on whatever's going on, and you can subscribe via RSS feed. Blog updates, when pertinent to an album or the site (or anything else of importance) will always be posted on the main page of the site. The first entry (which was actually written a bit before the blog was installed, but I moved it over) is up now for anybody who'd like to check it out and comment. All of the old site updates have been moved to an archive page that can also be accessed from the blog page on the nifty little sidebar to your left, should you want to grab any of the song downloads from the old updates (They're all still there :) ).
I should have a preview track up for everybody in the next day or two. Gonna be doing some mastering tonight and then heading downtown to celebrate the 2012 Appleblossom Festival in Kentville. :)
Have a great day everyone!
~Rob