2k12 Production Roll Call

Salutations party people and a belated "Happy New Year"!  I been pretty dormant on my production blog, and even my production in 2k11... was so busy touring with the home Random that i had my lowest beat output in 10 years!  So that was my #1 new year's resolution in terms of music- make LOTS of new beats, which subsequently means MORE projects!  Already, I'm off to a nice start and felt like i should share with you loyal fans what exactly you can expect from me & Neosonic Productions in 2012, so here we go...

1.  Hero Muzik Vol. 1 - I came up with an excuse to do another instrumental series as i was slacking in 2k11, and the idea behind this one is flipping the themes of the protagonists of some of my favorite RPGs; The first volume will feature the music of the 14 heroes of Final Fantasy 6 (which was 3 here in the States).  The title spawned from the song myself & Ran did in 2k10 called "Hero Muzik", where i flipped Link's theme from Zelda 2; Listen & download the FREE instrumental of the song below!  My fave of the FF series was #6 mainly due to it having the most playable characters of all the installments (thus far), so look out for that at the end of this month dropping alongside  the remixes to Random's classic Black Materia album, which will be celebrating it's 1 year anniversary on 1/31.

K-Murdock - "Hero Muzik" (Instrumental) by Neosonix
2.  The "Beats From The East" EP - This FREE EP was inspired by my recent trip to Japan as part of the "More B.A.R.K. Less Bitin' Tour".  It will be another instrumental project featuring me flipping songs from some of my favorite Japanese-born musicians who have influenced me and i'm releasing this in conjunction with one of my favorite music sites who is known for their promotion of dope hip-hop around the world- The Find Magazine.  Look for that later this winter too ;)

3. "Net-works" - Announced last fall, "Net-works" will be another collaborative project i'm doing with yet another one of my favorite music websites- WordisBond.com. Shouts to the whole WIB staff for essentially acting as A&Rs by recruiting a glut of DOPE emcees, singers & poets which will all be featured over my production for this project that will drop top of Spring.  It's similar to my album Piano-rama in that it'll showcase an array of styles, but BIGGER!  The name of the project derived from the idea that the majority of indie music WORK these days is done via the interNET, plus via networking, i have been able to expand my sound globally and look forward to continue that by partnering with forward-thinking sites like WIB!

4. Panacea - Midnight Morning Africa - Yes, myself & Raw Poetic are STILL together as we are in pre-production mode for our 6th studio album after a year hiatus making music!  We dropped the free track "The Prelude" (below) last fall to whet you all's appetites and also plan on hitting the road (hopefully) again in 2k12 to better promote MMA.  Not much to report yet about this album as we usually keep tight-lipped but i think it'll be our best effort yet as both myself and especially Raw P have grown individually as artist, so collectively we'll be that more potent as Panacea ;)  If i had to speculate however, i'd say this new album may be surfacing sometime in the summer/fall.. and on vinyl!

Panacea - "The Prelude" by Neosonix
5. Mega Ran & K-Murdock - SEGA-City - Last but not least, myself & Ran will be closing out the year with the follow-up to our 2010 collaborative project Forever Famicom as we are doing a whole album flipping some of Sega's classics that range from the 8-bit master system to the Dreamcast!  We will both be holding open voting on our forums this spring to see what games you would like to hear flipped on the project and we have some pretty fresh ideas for packaging the album once it's done. Admittedly, i've always been a little more partial to SEGA (as the underdog) so i anticipate this album to be epic & a solid compliment to FF.

So that's it... for now.  I do plan on continuing some of my other series in the future too, a la iMANGANAtion & the Mood Muzik series, so who knows, but i can say for sure that these aforementioned projects will all be 100% sureshot Neosonic releases this year!  Speaking of which, I have made the Facebook fan page for Neosonic Productions the primary site for info on me & the label, BUT have some BIG plans for a more interactive site in the works... i call it my Kosmetropolis... stay tuned!
K