New album for preorder

[iPatcH]

So after months of hard work and months of you waiting, my debut album, Robit, is officially up for preorder.

If you are not familiar with my works, please take a gander at the links in my signature. The kind of music I do is a mishmash of chip and synth, most if not all tracks being melody heavy over intense percussion.

The album tells a story about Robit, our protagonist, a living musicbox living in a monochrome world who steps himself into a portal which takes him to a world of color. He interprets everything through the music playing from his chest as he journies to find his way back home. On his way, he encouters a lovely princess of the Cuddly Cactus Lands whom he falls madly in love with, only to have her whisked away by the dreadful Kaizer, a dark wizard living atop a mountain castle. Through the rains and the storms he fights his way up the mountain top and through the castle to find himself face to face with The Kaizer himself and, with the help of a few rocket punches, quickly takes him down. The Kaizer is not so easily defeated and begins a hideous transformation into a monster too grotesque to describe. He is a beast that not even Robit can stop. Hand in hand with the princess, they make their escape as the monster decimates everything in its path before becoming overwhelmed by his own power. It seems everything is in its right place... and out of nowhere appears another portal, this time leading home. With great sadness he must leave the lands of color back home, to the city of grey.

The most important part of this album is your imagination! Interpret the songs as you see fit and imagine the characters how you want to think of them. Fill in the dialogue, doodle pictures, make the best experience you can out of the music. That's the most fun part about it!

Track List

Chapter 01: A New World
01. Falling³
02. World of Whiskers
03. Cuddly Cacti
04. Onward He Marched
Chapter 02: A New Love
05. In Flight, In Love
06. A Ballad of Sorts
07. Back To Earth
08. Teebee Waltz
Chapter 03: A New Threat
09. The Gun Chase
10. Dark Castle in the Distance
11. The Dark Castle
12. Danger Lurks Ahead
13. Rocket Punch
Chapter 04: A New Terror
14. The Kaiser
15. The Hideous Transformation
16. The Monster
17. The Escape
Chapter 05: A New Plan
18. Resolutions and Regrets
19. Returning Home, or Gnillaf³
20. Welcome Home
Remixes (CD ONLY)
21. Flight 303 (Remix by The Fat's Sabobah)
22. I LOVE U KITTY KAT (Remix by sleeplessdragn)
23. Cuddly Cacti (Erothyme's Peruvian Torch Remix)
24. Can We Go Back To Earth? (Remix by Crucible)

Runtime:
63 Minutes with remixes, 50 without.

There are three ways you can preorder the album:

CD: $12 + 3 dollar shipping for a total of $15. (Add another $2 if you live outside of continental US)

Q: Why should I get the CD over the digital releases?
A: There are many! For one, many people love the idea of buying and owning a tangible product! It comes with additional artwork as well as FOUR remixes by The Fat's Sabobah, sleeplessdragn, Erothyme, and Crucible. Each song is incredibly unique and adds to the experience of the album. And unlike MP3, the album plays at maximum quality. Another reason is because it's super limited, only 50 copies! Each copy will be numbered, signed, and shipped by myself. 100% of your money goes back to me, which in turn pays for the pressing of the CD as well as bills so I can keep making music for you! The CD is officially "out" October 12 and will ship that week. As an added bonus, if you preorder the CD, you also get access to both the FLAC and MP3 copies RIGHT NOW while you wait for your CD to ship.

FLAC: $10

Q: FLAC? Never even heard of it! Why should I get this over MP3?
A: Just like CD, FLAC plays at FULL AUDIO QUALITY. This is something that cannot be done by MP3 due to its limited compression. If you aren't a fan of owning CDs or you can even burn a copy to your own CD-R and it will be the same exact quality as the real CD! This is my HIGHEST recommendation for a digital copy. Why? Not only is it maximum CD quality, but you also get access to the MP3 copy as well, so in case your music player doesn't support FLAC, you can quickly toss that copy without the work of converting it yourself.

MP3 (V0 VBR): $8

Q: What's "V0 VBR" and why should I care?
A: VBR, or variable bitrate, is the recommended format for the highest quality MP3 in comparison to the standard 320 kbps (CBR). As opposed to constand bitrate (CBR), VBR files vary the amount of output data per time segment. VBR allows a higher bitrate (and therefore more storage space) to be allocated to the more complex segments of media files while less space is allocated to less complex segments. The average of these rates can be calculated to produce an average bitrate for the file.

In laymen's terms, it has the best quality to space ratio amongst MP3. The "V0" is the highest qualty setting for VBR.

This option is best for you if you aren't too concern with getting the best quality audio or want something quick and painless for tossing on your MP3 player. The only real upside to this one is saving a few bucks.

SO HOW DO I ORDER?

To order, please visit this URL: http://ctrlfjesus.com/TOE/

***Be sure to include your name, address, and the format you'd like to purchase the album in.***

COPIES ARE LIMITED. ONCE THEY'RE GONE, THEY'RE GONE FOR GOOD.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy experiencing this album as much as I enjoyed making it. Stay tuned for "The Lethargic EP" coming soon!

http://www.rithum.com/theoneelectronic

[MooMoo_Cowfreak]

This is full of win. I'd love to buy it, I'll see if I can.

[-paexaea-]

Hell yes.

[Quigly]

Looks really cool, I'm checking out the music on your siggy now.

[FishFishRevolution]

Originally Posted by iPatcH

The easiest method is to send a paypal amount to [b]michael DOT vallejo AT gmail DOT com.

Do you think there's any bots or webcrawlers or spammers here?

[iPatcH]

THERE COULD BE SHUT UP.

Anyway I forgot to mention if you DON'T have a paypal account but do have a debit or credit card, PM or send me an email to the above address. I'll send you an invoice.

[The_Q]

I've listened to a lot of it. It's more than fantastic.

Also, look up "The One Electronic" sometime.

Q

[Starshot]

Preording now. I'm excited about this one.

Edit: Preordered. Can't wait to see this one show up in my PO Box.

[Lain_Iwakura]

Preordered. Totally awesome.

[iPatcH]

Originally Posted by KgZ

I ****ing love that album art

your girlfriend (iirc who drew it) is amazing

Actually my good friend Dustin did all the album artwork. =x

Carly is doing the physical CD, though.

[iPatcH]

also I will get the preorderers their digital copies as soon as they are up <3

[iPatcH]

triple post attack

holy balls the flashbulb just ordered a copy

[Gano]

Originally Posted by iPatcH

holy balls the flashbulb just ordered a copy

You are one step closer to a TOE Flashbulb collaboration.

Ordered!

[cal607]

Very excited to be getting a CD my man.

I've ordered. Hopefully this doesn't take too long to go through. :P

[Tonberry_Kid]

Bought this thing, yo!

[MalDON]

I ordered it as well.

[Lain_Iwakura]

i knew ipatch before he was famous

[iPatcH]

Alright, for everyone who has preordered should've gotten the links now. If you ordered a CD and have yet to receive anything from me via email let me know.

[iPatcH]

Definitely. Order away!

There are about 30 available copies iirc.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

There had better be one left for me. I know I haven't been around much recently due to some computer troubles, but I've told you time and time again that I'd be getting one of these