Home EP

[DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN]

This EP is available for free download, but donations are accepted and greatly appreciated.

1. Home [02:08]
2. Divide The River [01:50]
3. Lost In Summer Rain [02:14]

Songs for home.

Released 14 May 2012.
Music composed by Ben Steed.
Artwork by Митко Костадинов.

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Ben Steed – From Atop A Frozen Summit

[PURCHASE AND LISTEN]

This album is available for free download, but donations are accepted and greatly appreciated.

A CD of this album is also available for £5 minimum. Only 80 in stock.

1. Convergence [02:21]
2. Saddest Factory (featuring IG88) [04:48]
3. Taste Of Rain [02:28]
4. Samadhi [04:09]
5. Samatha [02:00]
6. Nox Chronicle [02:36]
7. Machine Blood [02:03]
8. Melancholy Skies (featuring Nichelle Hammer) [02:37]
9. Sentule [02:49]
10. 0.1 [01:14]
11. Summit (featuring Dan Donahoo) [03:50]
12. Can You Hear The Sea? [02:11]
13. Taste Of Rain (reprise) [03:22]
14. Still Miss You [03:35]

Album four!
A release heavily inspired by fantasy and scifi concepts such as the work of Imperial Boy (Teikoku Syounen), Adam Adamowicz and Matt Rhodes.
I wanted to make this album something of a journey. I see it more of a soundtrack to a film that doesn’t exist, if that makes any sense. I really hope you guys enjoy this. Massive thank you to anyone who listens.
This album was written as a whole piece and therefore is best heard that way. Unfortunately, Bandcamp’s streaming feature adds a second of silence in between each shift into the next track, so that’s a perfect excuse to download it. ;)

Released 04 May 2012
All songs written, performed and produced by Ben Steed, except;
*’Saddest Factory’ written, performed and produced by Ben Steed and Branden Clark.
*Vocals on ‘Melancholy Skies’ performed by Nichelle Hammer.
*Vocals on ‘Summit’ written and performed by Dan Donahoo.

Mastering by Ben Steed and Rob Gilbank at PegasiaMusic

Artwork by Luis Felipe Ocampo

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Official music video for the new album’s title track

Hey guys! Great news! I have just released a music video for the title track ‘Summit’ from my new album ‘From Atop A Frozen Summit’. I hope you enjoy!

All visual credit goes to Edward Aites, a fantastic time-lapse director who was kind enough to allow me to use some of his work for this project. I highly recommend you check out his work!

4th May 2012… The time’s getting closer, guys!

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Album Announcement – ‘From Atop A Frozen Summit’

Okay! This is the official announcement of the my new album, ‘From Atop A Frozen Summit’!

Release date: 4th May

This will be available in both digital (free/name-your-price) and physical (£5) format.

This release will feature a number of extremely talented guests: The likes of IG88, Nichelle Hammer and Dan Donahoo will all be honouring me with an appearance.

Artwork is by Luis Filipe Ocampo. I highly suggest you check out his work, he rocks!

Exciting times! Let them commence! :D

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Album Continuation

Sup, guys.

So yeah, I took about three months or so off from writing, but in some mad subconscious yearning, I experienced a plethora of inspiration and creativity, and as such I am continuing on with the writing of my album! I had hinted towards it on my Facebook page a few weeks ago but I am just confirming now that my new album is now fully underway. I am hoping to release it during late Summer or early Autumn. Please follow my Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date; also to see me post all manner of crap as usual.

So yeah. WOO!

Also, I’m considering starting to use this blog to post more about game audio and music. Let me know what you think if you get the chance.

All the best.
-Ben :)

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An Announcement

Hi everyone.

This is a little update regarding my sounds and whatnot. For quite some time now I have been attempting to write my new album, but so far I have been relatively unsuccessful in finding a sound that I enjoy and wish to stick to, so because of that you will not be seeing any new music uploaded anywhere for quite some time. I really need to step back and evaluate everything that I have done so far and everything that I seek to do in order to make this album something special.

It’s not all bad, though. Because of this temporary (and I mean temporary) step back, I will have the chance to work on some other non-musical projects that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. For quite a while now I have been, on and off, writing a novel. Only now do I feel ready to take it on fully. With luck I will now be able to dedicate more time and effort towards this project and something will come into fruition.

I might possibly also be doing some other music projects with people in the future, as opposed to solo work- projects less electronic-driven and more stripped down. More developments will probably crop up in the future regarding this, but nothing is set in stone as of yet.

Thanks a lot for reading. Just wanted to let you guys know what the haps was (that’s right, I just used the term ‘haps’). I’m not disappearing, PegasiaMusic will be extremely active in the new year and I will no doubt blog about bits and bobs on here as I often do on occasion.

Happy holidays, everyone. Have a good one. :)
-Ben

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A bit of an update

Hey, everyone. I’m sorry that I haven’t posted on here for a little while. Times are busy (things have been hella crazy since I started university) but fear not! I am still alive. I felt like I should just post this little update just so people know what’s going on and what they can expect (on the exception of some little surprises I have lined up ;) ).

1) I have several collaboration projects lined up, the most prominent being an acoustic/orchestral/8bit project that I am working on with Japan-based electropunker Vlantis. Expect some sounds in the near-ish future…

2) PegasiaMusic is being very productive as of late. We have been mastering and releasing all manner of fantastic music, which I highly recommend to any music lover!

3) I am writing a series of short stories currently set in a fictional world of my own pretentious design. More updates to follow the closer the time these are ready!

4) Yes, yes, yes. I am working on a new album, but don’t tell anyone. Nobody’s supposed to know. Wink.

All of the upcoming things I’ve announced are going to be a very slow process, so don’t expect anything to surface just yet, but I felt like letting you guys know now anyway.

Anyway, that’s me. Take care, guys.
Ben

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