Info 9 - Saccharine (Patreon)

This is Saccharine. The first collection of music I released under a proper album format back in 2015.

The story behind it is dramatic to me, but probably not much to anyone else, so I'll summarize it with a few bullet points:

• Breakup album I made when I was 19 
• Pessimistic, gloomy and boring drone/ambient
• Unironically samples paulstretched Touhou eurobeat
• Was made before I had any knowledge of music theory
• Very small run of CDs were printed and sold

It also featured the lovely voice and lyrics of Ivy Hollivana, who sings on the first track. The song was used as the basis for her later song Far Apart, something much happier and danceable.

It's a bit embarassing to think about this album. It was only five years ago, though, so I suppose I am making a bigger deal of it than I really should. I used what I learned from Saccharine and put it into Bugdaughter, which takes on a completely different mood.

As for the actual process of creating it, it was more like my trial-and-error stage of learning digital audio workstation programs. Before this, I had only been doing mashups and long DJ mixes that were silly and mostly unoriginal. I was and still am into some types of drone and ambient music, and I wanted to emulate artists like MA.S ATTACK and Kouki Izumi.

Though I removed it from all of the sites I was distributing it on after about a year, today I felt the need to look back at it.

You can listen to it below, a link to a zip folder with the mp3 files. I likely will not put it up anywhere else, so I ask politely that you don't share it.