January 24, 2012
In the middle of building a mobile version of my website. Writing music is way more fun than
writing HTML codes. I'll launch it some time this week.
December 3, 2011
Last night I've got an email from Earbits. It's a progressive music discovery-type online radio
that streams a wide range of music genres with focus on Electronic music. They offered me an opportunity to get reviewed by Spectra Records which is looking for new talents to sign. If I get 250 people to listen to my songs on Earbits they are willing to check me out to see if I'm good enough for a record deal.
Now here's the thing: as I always said, I am NOT desperate to get signed. I'm hungry but I the reason I write music is that's what I love to do. I'm not good at promoting my own stuff and although it is not a motivation killer for me it sets a limit on expansion of my creative ideas. I can do more and I can do better.
I know it. But today a band can only have realistic expectations for a breakthrough if it has a team of specialists taking care of all aspects of promotion. Doing it all by yourself either proves ineffective or the results are so miserable comparing to the amount of effort and time spent it's totally disheartening.
Anyway, bringing my work to the attention of people who can facilitate what I'm doing and have faith in my artistic decisions seems like a reasonable thing to try. So if you're willing to take part in it use any of the links below to get on Earbits, play the song you selected and click on 'log in and add to timeline' button. They allow to log in with Facebook, song starts playing automatically, so it's all pretty much simplified.
Thank you. Here are the links:
October 13, 2011
I've come to revisit/rework a whole block of tracks from Hydra Missing album.
It's been on my mind for quite a while but I never really found time to get around to it. Now the summer heat is gone and my favorite season is giving me enough motivation to get this issue sorted. So, since October 1 I've been enjoying the process of deconstructing my old mistakes and turning them into deceptively attractive new ones. By the way, I'm wondering how typical is for someone who creates things to keep seeing his newly composed artifacts as finished just to ask himself How high was I when I thought this is perfect? a little later.
Because it keeps happening to me. Could be changing vision or raising standards and all that jazz but it feels like there's a bigger cause behind this mind trick.
September 9 , 2011
The July 27,2011 video shoot was a blast. As I told you before, we had to reschedule it twice because of the rainy weather (I love sky water as long as it does not end up on my gear) but the right day had come and we managed to get the job done.
It's just a bunch of raw footages so far, but it all will soon be put through some creative video editing and turned into a proper video piece. Naturally, I wanted to hire a video production company ASAP but after discussing it with my friends I've decided to put a deeper thought into all details to be taken care of.
I'm generally quite clear on what I want from my music but here is a different kind of challenge and I'd rather take my time and make it right than come up with some half-assed product.
June 1, 2011
Chrysaora is officially released. Tracks are posted here (Soundcheck page), my Facebook page (Bands page) and Soundcloud.
Artwork by Tim Jones (thank you Tim!).
Album is available on:
May 22, 2011
Today is my last chance to make any changes/corrections in the album. I've already made hundreds of those in the last three months and I still have doubts. It feels like a vicious circle that could most effectively be broken by someone who'd pour a bucket of ice cold water on me and tell me to stop. I wonder if I'm altogether capable of creating something that would sound impeccable to my ears.
But it's gonna be all over by Monday morning. It will take few more days for the tech guys to tune it all up a notch and then I'll let it out into the wild.
April 12, 2011
Everything is going according to the plan. Takes a bit more time than I thought but that's fine and I'm not worried about it. After I'm done with album production I'll finish and post a few remixes of my Hydra Missing tracks online and make them unconditionally downloadable. I was also very pleased to find some great graphics for the which I will show you right before the release.
Thank you for supporting my little music.
Now that myspace is a hopeless wreck and I don't feel like sending around add requests on facebook I have no idea on how to promote the album yet. If you have any suggestions drop me a note.
March 25, 2011
Revisited and rewrote some parts that didn't sound right to me in general. Now it's obvious that was the right thing to do. The source of my paranoia is now wiped out. Proceeding with production phase. Very excited. Will do my best to wrap things up in April.
February 26, 2011
Warping things out and enjoying the hell out of it. Still need a bit more time. April looks good but I wanna like March better. It's only a few finer tech issues that makes me paranoid, not a sunlight. Keepng late hours slowly proves to be quite efficient.
February 2, 2011
In the lab, jumping through hoops to get the sound clarity to its optimum. Every song begs for multiple improvements and I'd rather take my time to make sure every bit is in place and there's nothing else to add.
January 6, 2011
Just wanted to say THANK YOU to those of you who have bought Hydra Missing CDs from CD Baby within last two months and thank you for all the feedback about the music. I always listen to what you have to say, no matter is it positive or negative.
There was a radio girl from Arizona who has criticized the shit out of Verity and for a brief moment made me feel totally miserable despite all good things I've heard about the album before her statement. But after my first reaction subsided I've realized that she actually made me a big favor because she's also managed to make me angry at myself for not doing enough for my music to avoid this kind of criticism.
Despite being brutally negative she was specific about a couple of things I neglected to pay enough attention to when I was writing Verity and since I used to learn my lessons fast I have put both of them on my top priority list when I was in the middle of writing material for Biomorphic. Now that the new album is ready in its pre-production stage I can tell for sure that the things she mentioned and pushed me to take care of have clearly made a lot of difference in my sound bringing it to a new level which I've been struggling to reach since I began to write music. I can't give her all the credit because there were some other factors that allowed me to do that
but her part here turned out to be rather crucial.
So, as I say, I'm always listening and I appreciate when you guys take time to let me know what you think.
August 8, 2010
Contrary to my uncle Stewart's assumption that since the release of Verity I've been sitting on my butt giving my frontal neuromodulators a lingering break, I actually have not. A haunting feeling that near every formant of my sound begs to be retuned and refurbished was cruelly effective in keeping my dopamine supplies properly replenished. So after a few months of REM-less nights and fun-filled dyssomniac days I've come up with a pack of coherent drafts meant to be served as a core medium for my next album.
May 8, 2010
Me and Susan Frances talk about games, waves and layers.
"Electronic music canvasses a broad spectrum of styles from the tranquilizing atmospherics of Enigma to the club-driven melodies of David Guetta. Its terrain is the product of music technology made mostly from synthesizers, sequencers, midi files/samples, and drum machines which are accessible from an audio digital workstation. Electronic music is tilled by artists who bridge world cultures by being able to produce sounds that are identifiable to distinct regions, sometimes replicating Australia's didgeridoo or Scotland's bagpipes, and then layering the exotic accents with melodic expressions that have a futuristic-slant. In effect, electronic music can form visuals by shaping sounds, and New York City-based Andrei Lanes is one of the genre's finest illusionists to shape its landscape."
Read full interview here
May 4, 2010
Verity review featured in Hybrid Magazine
"Andrei Lanes composes cinematic pieces that are continually in a state of motion, emitting crystal clusters soaked in a solution of profound sonic assortments and viaducts of cryptic symphonies sprouting from the main artery."
Read full review here
March 8, 2010
Things Down There wins Billboard World Song Contest
That was a bit unexpected. Just a few hours after I uploaded "Things Down There" on Myspace I found out it has won Billboard World Song Contest of 2010 in Dance category (it's actually Electronic/ Dance category which is officialy announced as Dance). Here is the link:
Thank you guys for voting.
February 12, 2010
Verity is scheduled for an air play on KSCU 103.3 FM's
Skrawny: Electronic HiJinx show with Matt Romero
this Sunday, February 14, at 5 p.m. PST. Radio station
is located in Santa Clara, CA, so if you are in Golden State
you can just tune in and, if you are anywhere else in the world,
you can go to http://www.kscu.org and click on the word "Listen!"
to run a live stream on your comp.
And here comes a prize for you:
If you use your camera to record yourself (or you can ask a friend
to film you) dancing to any of my tracks during HiJinx show
and let me see the footage I will personally send you a signed
copy of Verity which you will receive within a week from the moment
I check your footage. Good luck!
January 10, 2010
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A good start for 2010 has been officially marked last Friday, January 8, when I was really excited and honored to listen to my new album premiere on KUCR 88.3 FM Siked Electronixx radio show hosted by Walter Douglas. The two-hour program has featured over thirty minutes of my music including selected tracks from all my albums with a majority of compositions taken from Verity.
I apolgize for not giving you a heads up before the feature and that's mostly because we were not sure if Verity is gonna make it into KUCR's Friday playlist and only got the good news right before the show.
But not to worry because Siked Electronixx has informed me that
they will rerun their "Lanes Mix" as early as next Thursday,
so if you would like to get a good load of my sound along with a nice dose of sophisticated Electronic Music from some great artists exploring the genre you can easily do it from anywhere in the world thanks to KUCR guys who took care of providing their listeners with such a cool feature as
real-time live stream right from their website's Home page (if you are in Southern California, especially in LA or Riverside area, you can catch KUCR programs on your radio at 88.3 FM).
I just wanna add that I have been a big fan of this radio station for
quite a while now, receiving their playlists and listening to their shows
and I can assure you those airwave manipulators know how to
expand your horizons and bring you some real fun.
So don't miss it! No, it's more like DON'T MISS IT!!!
Siked Electroixx show starts this Thursday, January 14, at 11 pm Pacific Time (that is 2 am Eastern Time). All you do is tell everybody else to go to hell (I'm kidding, please don't. Instead invite them over and let them enjoy the show with you), go to
few minutes before the program and then on the right, where it says
"What'That Noise?" Listen Live either click on the word "hi (fast)" or
"low (dialup)" according to the type of the internet connection you have.
Voila! Sit back and enjoy the show. If at any given moment you should
feel the impulse to show everybody else how good your dance moves are
please don't resist it.
And here comes a prize for you:
If you use your camera to record yourself (or you can ask a friend
to record you) dancing to any of my tracks during the Siked Electronixx
show and let me see the footage I will send you signed CDs of Verity,
Fractal Collapse and Hydra Missing.
So good luck. Do your best.
And let me know how you liked the show.
KUCR 88.3 FM, Siked Electronixx with Walter Douglas,
Friday, January 14 at 11 pm PST.
December 24, 2009
The official release was originally scheduled for tomorrow but since everybody involved in getting the new album out has come through a bit faster than we expected, I'm very happy to tell you that as of today,
Verity is officially released on CDs!
So if you'd like to get a copy you can order it here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Lanes1
It would be great if you left a comment on CD Baby's page. Your comments help me a lot to promote my little music and get the word out so if you a fan of my work please do not hesitate to show it.
November 28, 2009
I'm gonna keep it short. Since my part of the job on the new project is officially over and it's only a matter of few weeks till the CD is released I thought I could tell you few words about this album.
It's gonna be called Verity, with ten compositions in it which are
1. Deep Dirt
2. Verity
3. Midwich Element
4. Abyss
5. Asylum
6. Things Down There
7. Motion Creates Emotion
8. Dreamcatcher
9. Amyland Triquetra
10. I Can Be Anything
The overall format of Verity came out a bit different from my previous albums (mostly because of new influences, new approach and new stylistic elements I decided to try in it) - I think it's the most video game-ish album I've ever done. At the same time I don't think it might only appeal to gamers because every track has a set of melodic themes setting the mood without extra help from visual content. Am I right or wrong is for you to decide
The album itself is a combination of slower illbient tracks (Illbient music is basically a beat-based dark ambient, a sub-genre inside Electronic Music which I personally consider one of the most beautiful fields to be explored) alternating with bouncing four-on-the-floor pieces including a heavily reworked version of Amyland which I retitled into Amyland Triquetra (and yes, it's also devoted to Amy Lee, this time secretly).
You are gonna hear some weird sound effects, from disturbing industrial noises to spastic breathing, from deep rumbles to vibrating electric buzzing. You are gonna hear flashes of ethnic percussion and distorted resonating bells jumping through walls of atmospheric dissonance.
There will be segments led by what sounds like a detuned piano and backed by what sounds like a human vocal.
In other words, you will be exposed to a bit of a sonic complexity which, by the way, was entirely built from scratch, without any commercial sound samples.
Well, I hope you'll like it. I do. Believe it or not but I've listened to every track hundreds of times and I never got bored. So if I got you interested stay in touch and you will know the release date firsthand.
December 2, 2009
Verity Ringtones are free for you on Myxer. Get a taste of the album before its official release.
December 7, 2008
The Artists Forum which selected me as the AF Artist of September has just opened the poll for AF Artist of the Year 2008 and truly yours has made the ballot so if you think I'm good enough to have your vote please click on the link below and vote for me.
October 22, 2008
It's been a while since my last update and that's mostly because I did promise not to bother you with every minor little thing that happened to me (like my recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg with my weird uncle Stuart, for instance...I'm just kidding, no way I'm going down that road, ever!).
Well, I think now it's a good time to let you know that after few months spent on setting up my newly expanded studio environment and getting an idea on how to operate this whole playground I have come up with a track which in my opinion would give you a hint on what kind of sound I will be going after for my next album. It's basically a remix of my very first song Lemuria but as with almost every remix I make on my own stuff it came out pretty far from the original version and at one point I was considering to turn it into a completely new opus but eventually decided to keep certain parts of it intact and post it under Lemuria 2.0
It has just been posted here on Soundcheck page in both 320kbps and 128kbps mp3 formats as well as on Myspace and Reverbnation. Here are the links:
http://www.myspace.com/lanespro
http://www.reverbnation.com/lanes
Aside from that, I am in the middle of working on three new tracks for my next record. It's a little soon to talk about release dates but if everything goes according to my Big Plan I will have an idea about it by this Christmas. All I can tell you right now is I got the title, I got the substance both for music and graphics and I like it very much. Experimenting on the edge of dark Electro and soundtrack music can bring some really wicked results.
In the meantime I will be posting remixed versions of my songs from all three albums so don't turn off your comp for too long. I will be in touch.
September 13, 2008
The Artists Forum, Inc. (AF) is a New York-based non-profit company involved in helping upcoming artists to find additional ways to expose their work and to expand their knowledge on different aspects of promotion and marketing. It's community includes musicians, writers, actors, filmmakers, visual artists and art enthusiasts and all it's activities are highlighted on
http://www.theartistsforum.org
Once a year The Artists Forum launches it's very own Music Competition giving bands and songwriters a chance to show what they got and offering a nice set of prizes for winners. I took part in it in 2007 (almost lost miserably) and the whole thing has turned out quite a pleasurable experience. All promises were kept, all updates were in place and there even was an unannounced bonus. See, it's always realistic to expect any kind of glitches from a project based mostly on pure enthusiasm so when it comes to dealing with anyone who is out there on his own, honesty and good intentions become an invaluable asset. Seeing how much effort has been taken by AF's President Amos White to handle his venture in honest and professional manner from it's very beginning to the very end has definitely left an impression.
Now The Artists Forum has given me the honor to be selected as The Artist of September. They have posted a special page with a brief interview about my artistic themes, processes and goals so if you care to take a look you can click on the link above and check it out.
August 14, 2008
This is a quick follow-up to my previous blog where I have promised to add some features to my website. So here is what is already up:
Front page is now equipped with RSS feed, meaning that if you would like to keep an eye on me you can subscribe to Lanes Updates feed via your feed reader (if you are using Firefox, Flock or Safari as a web browser you are good because all of them got feed readers built-in; if you are still with Internet Explorer, Google Reader would be a nice choice) so every time I post an update you get notified at once. All you would have to do is click on RSS icon (top left corner) and choose your method of subscription which depends on what kind of feed reader you got. With Firefox, you may select Live Bookmarks and this will add News Update on Lanes option to your Bookmark menu so from that moment on you don't have to keep going to my website to check for updates. It is very convenient and it saves time.
If you would like to read a bit more about feeds and feed readers click HERE.
As you can see, I have changed the whole structure of my website.
Gateway page now is for the latest update and it has an option to leave comments (please do not hesitate to let me know your opinion, say Hi or express yourself. No registration required and you don't even have to give away your name if you don't want to, so it couldn't be easier).
Soundcheck page is for audio. Choose the track and listen to it. Simple as that.
Newsroom is now an archive for, you guessed it, news so it is most useful if you are writing a future Worst Seller about me.
Visuals page will host all graphics. So far I have posted three buddy icons with different edits of my logo and included HTML codes in case if you would like to use them for your page. We are working on a whole new graphic line for my next album so this page will keep expanding.
Also, as I mentioned earlier, if you would like to have my ringtones on your cell phone you can get them FREE and this is not a trick. Just go HERE, pick a tone and enter your phone number. You will get it in less than a minute.
If any problems just let me know and I will help you.
July 22, 2008
First of all, if you have a cell phone and live in US you can now get all or any of my ringtones absolutely FREE and very easy here. No registration required and it will take seconds so do not hesitate for too long.
This website will be expanded to have all my existing albums, tracks, artwork, images, banners, buddy icons, wallpapers, etc. as well as equipped with RSS Feeds and comments option.
As of today, I am opening a contest for the most interesting graphic and visual work which is related to and/ or inspired by my music. It includes photo edits, visuals, paintings, animation and videos which you might come up with using your fantasy and skills.
You can make it from scratch or use any of my images as a template in which case you can let me know and I will provide you with high-quality jpeg of your choice.
The winner gets all my albums as signed CDs plus I will feature his/ her art here, properly credited and linked. August 31, 2008 is the deadline so you got a little over a month to test your creativity.
...and the new track is coming.............................
May 21, 2008
Igloo Magazine on Fractal album :
"Lanes' Fractal Collapse on his own imprint is quite impressive; its prime directive crafted by metalic shards of eerie basslines and shredded industrial noise. "Shapeshifter" is the perfect balance of all the above mentioned elements and encapsulates the mood of Fractal Collapse."
(Pietrobot, Contributing Editor)
April 27, 2008
Hybrid Magazine has just posted new review on my record. You can read it here.
Thank you
April 12, 2008
New track Outsider is up on Myspace. Click the banner below to open it up.
April 6, 2008
Fractal Collapse is now available on iTunes. If you already have iTunes installed in your comp you can click on the banner above to get right to it.
March 18, 2008
Absolute Punk has posted a review on FC. Click here to read it.
New track Stranded has just been uploaded on Myspace.
Click on the banner below to hear it.
February 26, 2008
Fractal Collapse is officially released. Yay!!!
February 19, 2008
1. Music Dish Interview: This article has been published by Music Dish in January 2008.
2. Fractal Collapse CD is coming. I will announce it's official release here, in my Newsletter and on Myspace in few days. Anyone who would like to be constantly updated on my music and news please go to my ReverbNation page and sign up for my Mailing List (click on the banner below to get there):
December 10, 2007
1. Amyland has been nominated as one of the winners of Artists Forum Electronic Music Competition of 2007. Take a look at this montage on YouTube here.
2. Phantom has gotten an Honorable mention from Mark Furnas, Director of Billboard Song Contest.
3. I've just opened pages on Reverb Nation and Trig, both with audio clips from Fractal Collapse so if you'd like to hear album versions please click on the banner below:
4. All 12 tracks from this release are available digitally at Beats Digital store in UK so if you live in Europe you can download my fractal tracks from BD in either 192 and 320 kbps mp3 or Wave (CD Quality) format. Please click the banner below:
October 1, 2007
1. Amyland has made it to the finals of Artists Forum Electronic Music Contest of 2007.
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Most tracks from Fractal Collapse are available for downloads on www.beatsdigital.com/lanes and www.7digital.com in UK as well as on www.indiepad.com/lanes in US.
July 12, 2007
Eyeliner has just been re-produced and posted on Myspace, PureVolume and Channel 4. My pages on iSound.com and PureVolume.com have been upgraded and now include more tracks and images. I do plan to add samples from Hydra Missing and Smoke & Mirrors (I decided to re-produce the majority of my songs in hope to improve the sound). I believe most of my earlier tracks have good musical potential that can and should be developed further so I am excited to get it done. I will be uploading new edits from both S&M and Hydra albums along with my new tracks on the go.
April 26, 2007
New review on Hydra Missing album:
