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.
Major site updates! We’ve revamped the side-bar to include a featured release section and a dedicated downloads page. The downloads just got ALL pumped full of goodies. In addition to the debut album and remixes, it now has instrumental mixes of all the album tracks as well as remix stem packs for everything we’ve put out so far. All of you aspiring DJ’s/Producers that have been hitting us up for those, rejoice- you can now remix our music and vocals cleanly and in total control. We offer the stems for use freely, just please give us credit if you do and hit us up, we love hearing what you come up with!
Moving forward, in addition to the track releases, we’ll keep the page updated with the appropriate instrumentals and stems as we drop new tuneage. We also plan to include some wallpapers, phone screen savers and more, so keep checking back.
Now that the stems are all up, we will be announcing the Midnight Insight remix contest soon!
We’re excited to share that our first official review of Midnight Insight has arrived! It comes from the EDM blog yourdailyjay.com. Check out what they had to say about the album HERE.
Here it is, finally. This is our debut album, Midnight Insight, and we’d like you to have it… for FREE. We believe very strongly that this is something you NEED to hear because we don’t think dance music has ever been approached quite this way before and we’re beyond proud of how it turned out. The only payment we ask from you is, if you enjoy the album, tell your friends about it. Send them the link to the album. Click the Twitter and/or Facebook buttons at the bottom of this post and share it. That’s all. Not much to ask considering this wasn’t free to make, right? 🙂
Today we are also releasing the first track from our upcoming mixtape. It will include our takes on artists who have inspired us at some point in our musical careers and this first release is an original vocal remix of the incredible Deadmau5 song “Strobe”. Just like the rest of the mixtape and our album, this song is 100% free. You can expect the rest of the mixtape before the end of this year.
So with the mixes finally finalized, last Wednesday we went into M-Works in Cambridge to audition mastering on a track. Jonathan has an incredible resume of artists he’s added his polishing touch on for decades including Nirvana, David Bowie and Godsmack to name a few. We spent a little over an hour working on the track and it sounded much more vivid and sparkly. Once we took it out and checked the translation in various stereos, we realized in compromise of cleaning up the track a bit some of the mix dynamics were changed and not as good as before. This is in no way saying we weren’t thrilled with what he did on the track, it just led us to ultimately deciding to master the record ourselves because we can still have complete control over the mixes while mastering to wind up with the best sounding final product.
So that brings us to today. We’re back in the studio banging it out. We intend to walk out of here tonight (or tomorrow morning, lol) with the mastered finished record. That means it’s coming to you within days. Are you ready? We are.
