Today’s a dope day. We premiered the second track from our new record “Still Amazed” with YourEDM.com along with an interview about our release plans for the record, inspiration, production and more. That brings us to release plans. When we dropped the first track, “No Rest, No Sleep” back in November, we told you we had big plans to unveil the rest of the record. We are going to release one original track a month starting with this one in February through August. Roughly 2 weeks after each original, a remix will drop. We’ve asked our friends and fellow artists whose work we admire to throw down the heat on remix duties and they totally delivered. So, that’s a fresh track every 2 weeks from now through August. On top of all the audio, we’ve tackled an ambitious endeavor; a series of short films will be released, 1 “chapter” at a time alongside each original track every month. This album, like our first, is a concept album so we enlisted Emmy winning filmmaker Torey Champagne to help us portray an interpretation of the album’s story via film. Come August, both audio and visual versions of the story will have unfolded. It all came out dope and we are beyond excited to finally get underway with releasing what we’ve spent nearly the last 2 years creating. We hope you’ll join us for the ride! <3
So we give you track 2, “Amazed”. Stream and/or download for free below or on our Soundcloud page: soundcloud.com/NUFOBoston. If you like what you hear, please thank us for the free music by sharing via FB/Twitter. <3
We had a chat with the amazing people over at Propellerhead Software about why we choose to use Reason as our all-in-one production tool and how we utilize it live and in-studio. We have been incredibly gracious for their support of us as artists! Check out the interview and this amazing software if you haven’t already! .
Did you miss our radio interview on The Audio Spectrum on UnRegular Radio where we talk about things like production, the new album and why we have dedicated our lives to music? No worries, we posted it on our Soundcloud:
As we grow more and more excited for what’s already shaping up for 2013, we wanted to take a look back on what 2012 meant for us. When we did, it was humbling to see it all laid out. Here’s a look back on the past year for NU.F.O.:
– We watched our fanbase grow across all our social media from a few hundred to over 20,000. Whoa. Minds = blown.
– Had many of our tracks featured on numerous blogs and radio shows including one of our personal faves, Digi10ve.
– Released 11 new tracks including a 5-song EP, “Midnight Remixed” which featured other artists remixing our work which was a personal first in both of our musical careers. It’s an amazing thing to hear your art reinterpreted by other amazingly talented musicians.
– Charted #1 for 2 weeks on PureVolume with our “Fire Fight” vocal remix of Skrillex’s track “Cat Rats” over Skrillex himself.
– Furthered our DIY approach and learned how to use video editing software to make our first music video ever for our vocal remix of “There & Back” by Wolfgang Gartner.
– We were featured on the “Into the Mix” radio show with Ioan Holland on Zone One Radio all the way over in London. We did about a half hour interview (with tracks) covering things like what influences us, what makes a good remix, how we approach EDM, remixes and more. We were then included in the 2012 wrap-up “Remixers of the Year” episode. We come in at the 33:30 mark.
– Came in 17th place out of 1400 producers in Linkin Park’s “Lost In The Echo” remix contest due entirely to your support. You guys are nothing short of amazing, we ♥ you.
– Had the TBMA remix of our track “Above the Surface” aired on BBC Radio 1 in Modestep’s mix. Comes in at the 43:30 mark.
Although these accomplishments seem grand and we are indescribably gracious for them, they pale in comparison to the greatest thing we got in the past year: an insane amount of new friendships and connections with all of you. That’s the payday for us in this, and why we give our music out free. We just love creating this art and meeting so many new people from our backyard to all over the world because of it. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. We genuinely appreciate you.
So right off the bat for 2013, we’ve got a music video in the works which will feature our first track from our forthcoming sophomore record, “Still Amazed”. We expect the record to be out by late spring/early summer. We’ve got some other great remixes on deck already as well, and are starting preparations for our live setup. We’re excited for what the rest of the year will bring, the growth and transformation in our music, more awesome convo with all of you and for all the new friends we’ll make down the road. We wish you all a brilliant year in your own lives.
Derek Sawaya and co. from Khross came out for a day in Boston with us back when we were working on our “Lines Drawn” vocal remix. We got to chat it up about what it’s like to be an EDM artist in Boston and then they came along with us to the studio. Khross makes clothing for those who “Live Inspired”; definitely check out their post about us and browse the rest of the site while you’re there. There’s also direct links to snag the dope tee’s we were wearing in the vid. 😉 Here’s the link: http://www.khross.co/blogs/news/6608565-interview-with-boston-edm-duo-nu-f-o
Before we went out to get crazy and celebrate on the 4th, we were graciously featured as the “Remixers Off Record” with Ioan Holland all the way over in London on Into the Mix. We did about a half hour interview (with tracks) covering things like what influences us, what makes a good remix, how we approach EDM, remixes and more. Ioan also created a guest mixtape of our favorite remixes to dance, travel, dream, chill, work and yes, get busy to. 😉 Didn’t get a chance to tune in? No problem. Below you’ll find links to the full hour-long episode of Into the Mix which features some of our tracks, just the interview portion of the show and then our guest mixtape. Ioan was a blast to talk to and his show is awesome, you should definitely go give his Facebook page a supportive thumbs up: facebook.com/IntoTheMix
