-------- NOTES AND THANKS Hey there! I'm guessing a lot of you who are reading this didn't actually purchase the release... hah, but as much as I'd like to whine about people not paying for my work (actually I have no desire to do that at all) I can truly understand--i empathize deeply. More importantly I sincerely appreciate that somebody was kind enough to spread the music on their own volition. That means the world to me. I'm immensely excited that people find my creations to potentially be of enough quality to be shown to other people--to be shared and heard to me is much more important than the monetary income and I appreciate it to no end. I've been putting out releases consistently for a fair number of years now. I started making albums in 7th grade (2006) and haven't stopped since then for more than a period of maybe a couple of months. I dread the idea of selling my music because I have such a long running past of not doing so. I still fight with myself a lot on what material is worthwhile and what needs to be scrapped. I'm still sort of locked in the mindset of being amateur even though i've been doing this long enough that i shouldn't. So, to see people listening and appreciating what i'm doing... It's really been pivotal in my attitude. Not on the premise of egotism but on simple self-respect--something i lacked until very recently. Something I still struggle with in morbidly gratuitous proportions in essentially everything except my productions. It really plagued me, so it makes a huge difference to see people listening. The feedback I've gotten since TELNET EROTIKA came out has just astounded me repeatedly. The last five months since that EP's release has been indescribably rewarding. In these rough times of internet-era pop and flagrant amateurism receiving the lionshare of current attention, it's just nice to be able to get heard without having to sell out. But seriously, to those who actually purchased the release, you are true loyalists. I'm shocked to see anybody reading this. It truly, legitimately surprises me. You guys are the people who are always encouraging me to continue even when my productions were garbage. I would've given up if it weren't for the few people bold enough to sift through the bad parts to find the good and help me quantify on them. You are the people who keep me writing and ultimately the ones who make my hobby/business/obsession as VEKTROID such an integral and incredibly gratifying facet of my life. I can't tell you how much that means to me. So, this whole folder is for you--the ones that actually cared! I tried to think of ways to "reward" people for purchasing the album... don't know if this'll really make the biggest difference since I suppose these can be shared just as equally as the album itself, but consider these bonus releases a nice rarity--let's see how long it takes for them to spread... -------- BONUS RELEASES POLYMIND EP (19:30) SPHINX CAVERNS (26:36) WINDOWS SAFARI (26:09) POLYMIND EP: Consider this your traditional set of "bonus tracks". I wrote FEATHERSKULL/ORION MEGALITH before ever really thinking about this album as a thematic endeavor, when it was in essence nothing more than my further experiments in expanding my production techniques after TELNET EROTIKA came out. I'd like to thank Betamaxx for finding me the stem for this track. He's a great producer and I feel obligated to plug his tunes: http://facebook.com/beta0maxx I was hoping to include my remixes (PAGAN COMA, DENDRITE and FRESH HEX to be specific) with this but I needed to keep the copyright status relatively neutral on these. So, I was forced to leave them off. I'm hoping to find a way to get these out there soon, but for now I had to leave them alone. NOVA PROPHET is a piece I decided to sit on because it was a bit too reminiscent of other tracks I used on the official album. Parts of it were sampled into PLANETARY ZONES and others were taken from WALK WITH ME SATURN, so I felt it wasn't really worthwhile in the pursuit of album continuity and progression since it was built so heavily upon samples used elsewhere in the album. It was created about a day or two after AWAKENING PARAKEET and merely a few days after that I started working on the track STARSCAPE, both of which were included on the album. I actually intended, initially, to include all three as their own release, but ended up giving them all electronic overhauls and finding out they were incredibly suitable for the persistent image throughout STARCALC. VIRTUAL RAINFOREST is a cute little jungle safari track I wrote a couple weeks back, based off a MIDI file I'd found sometime in March. I never actually started on it until after the rest of the album'd been put together and almost finished. I think i've spent maybe four hours on it total. I'm hoping to do a lot more with it but in the meantime, enjoy the preview--assuming it turns into anything! WINDOWS SAFARI/SPHINX CAVERNS: These are pretty strange pieces for me. This is a lo-fi drone tape I've been meaning to release, but I hesitated to do anything particularly official with them because I simply didn't spend an immense amount of time on them--not like with the main album. The first side is a bright space-aged drone piece which ended up getting sampled in various places in the final LP, the 2nd one a more dark counterpart to it written while half-asleep sometime shortly after binging on the William Basinski discography sometime in February. I actually recorded these to tape and transferred them back and forth between them about a dozen times, so there's a huge sum of intentional wear on these. I used about four or five different tapes total so I could get a wide variety of characteristic wear from each one and collage them together. I have plans to release WINDOWS SAFARI on a split with another artist soon, but I felt it was fun to have in the meantime. -------- LINKS AND ALL THAT http://facebook.com/vektordrum http://vektroid.tumblr.com http://soundcloud.com/videocommand http://vektroid.bandcamp.com mailto:vektroidmusic@gmail.com