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An update on our latest two releases:

Viral by Alex Kontra
The first Alex Kontra single, a preview of his upcoming ep/mini-album.



Tracklist:
01 - Viral
02 - Viral (Bio-Warfare Mix by Corroded Master)
03 - Kross:Kontamination

The title track is a medium tempo track with heavy beats and dark atmosphere, influenced by industrial dance artists such as Combichrist, Reaper, Sam, etc.
Corroded Master's remix gives the track a slight techno/trance-edge, and still retains the track's grit.
The b-side track Kross:Kontamination is less of a dancefloor track, and more of an industrial/ambient crossover. A deep, slow groove with crunchy, glitchy synth sounds.

Alex's upcoming ep/mini-album will also contain a charged up club-oriented remix of Viral, made by Bart Nova and Alien Kontenaaier.

You can hear the single here on Last.fm, or grab a free download from Bandcamp (http://alexkontra.bandcamp.com/).

Ros Erop Los! by Alien K's Allstarz
The first Alien K's Allstarz release, a track recovered from the Imperium Nova-archives.



Tracklist:
01 - Ros Erop Los! (Kontenaaier's Trieste Radio Edit)
02 - Ros Erop Los! (Da Rimboe Zigeuner Remix)
03 - Ros Erop Los! (Kontenaaier's Trieste Klub Mix)
04 - Ros Erop Los! (Da Rimboe Zigeuner Demo Mix)

A bouncy blend of hardstyle, (early) jumpstyle, and hard house. Definitely dancefloor material!

Includes the original demo version by Da Rimboe Zigeuner and his later remix, Alien K's extended "klub" rework, and a shorter version of that mix (for the casual hardstyle listener).

Check it out here on Last.fm, or get the free download at Bandcamp (http://ak-allstarz.bandcamp.com/).


Stay tuned for an update on our latest remixes!

Justed wanted to give a quick heads-up about two recent Imperium Nova releases that were added to Last.fm. All tracks are fully streamable and available for download.

Infernal Affairs
1-track demo by Alex Kontra



Tracklist:
Infernal Affairs.
A heavy hard dance track with cyber gothic influences.

Pray To Your Government - The AxK Remixes
3-track remix ep by Corroded Master, featuring remixes by Alex Kontra/Alien Kontenaaier.



Tracklist:
Pray To Your Government (Riot Edit by Alex Kontra)
Pray To Your Government (Riot Reprise by Alien K.)
Pray To Your Government (Riot Mix by Alex Kontra)
3 tracks blending breaks, electro, techno, acid, and industrial.
The remixes contain elements from all tracks on Corroded Masters album Pray To Your Government.

As usual, there is some new stuff in the works, most notably the Viral EP by Alek Kontra. The title track is a remade version of Bart Nova's previously released track Viral.

I just realised that I haven't mentioned in my Last.fm blog that my "first album" is available for download, for free. The reason I'm using quotation marks when I say "first album" is because it's actually more of a compilation. The album is appropriately called ReCollected Works: some of the tracks were already listenable at Last.fm, but I reworked, re-edited and remastered most of them. Also included is an exclusive, previously unreleased track, Roboballad. The album is available as 320 kb/s mp3, FLAC, OGG, and more – which is a lot better than Last.fm's 128 kb/s mp3-quality!




The tracklist is a follows:
01 Field Work (Dub)
02 Destiny
03 The Hype
04 Mesmerize
05 Intimate Moments (ReWorked)
06 I Suppose You Want To See The Drawing Room?
07 Serenity (Re-Edit)
08 Moonlight Interlude
09 Future Funk
10 Dream Addiction (Trance Edit)
11 Haze
12 Sigh...
13 Roboballad

Genre-wise, it's rather varied, containing trance, progressive trance, breaks, downtempo, hard trance, ambient, and some stuff inbetween.

You can download the album for free from Jamendo and from Bandcamp.

Hi-res album artwork files are included with the Bandcamp download. Jamendo users can get theirs right here. Notice that both sites have a tiny difference in tracklisting, hence the different artworks.

That's it for now. Feel free the leave comments/feedback/remix requests!

Due to Last.fm retiring their on-demand listening function, I have made (almost) every track from the Imperium Nova catalogue available as a free download. This includes releases by myself (Bart Nova) as well as the EPs by Alien Kontenaaier and Mark Weather.

Currently I'm also exploring other ways of 'releasing' tracks. I might upload new tracks to Jamendo, seeing as their catalogue supports higher sound quality for the downloads. I'm also considering changing the Imperium Nova homepage to something that's easier to update.

In the meantime, Alien K uploaded two tracks to YouTube. These two aren't (yet) available anywhere else, so if you're interested, check them out:

First is 666 bpm, a short speedcore track.



The second one is Prawn Crackerz, a neat tech-house track with funky synthstabs and the typical Alien K acid sounds.

Hello everyone,

Today I'm presenting my new Last.fm release: Bart Nova - ElectroChrome - The EP.
A little while ago, I compiled a CD for a classmate featuring some old tracks, and some stuff I had written especially for that CD. Since the guy is a fan of all that electro-house that's so popular nowadays, I thought that it would be nice to try and choose the more electro-influenced tracks from my discography for the disc.
Besides ElectroChrome - The Album. there is also ElectroChrome - DJ Promo, which is a 6 track EP featuring the extended, "mixable" versions of some tracks on the album. But what we have here, is ElectroChrome - The EP, a small selections of tracks from both the album and the promo.

Tracklist:

1 - Let Me Show You...

The opening track is a mellow house track with some trancier elements. Not much electro going on here, except for maybe the crunchy lead melody. Groovy piece.

2 - A Better Life

Another house track, quite similar to Let Me Show You... although the bassline is a bit more electro-house styled. Plucky guitar-like synth provides the lead, accompanied by some gated pads.

3 - Let Me Show You The Extended Mix

The name speaks for it's self: this is an extended dj-friendly version of the first track.

4 - A Better Life (Extended Mix)

And again: An extended dj-friendly version of the second track.

5 - Viral

This one is a lot heavier than the rest, a bit dark electro/hard trance in style. I guess Reaper inspired this track. A bass heavy groove with some rough synths.

6 - The Waiting Room

Time for some more variations: this track is a sort of interlude. Some pads and e-piano flowing on a simple
electro rhythm. Moody.

7 - Constructor

The last track is more tech-trance orientated. Stabby leads with a little synth-choir action starting from
the break, all chugging along a nice techy-housey groove. And dj-friendly too!

If anyone wants some hi-quality versions, or maybe an entire (actual, physical, real life) CD, contact me :)

I thought it was about time to upload some more track form my vast collection of creation! There is no real theme or anything going on here, these are just 8 more tracks I have made over the years...
I picked them almost at random, or else it would have taken me another month or so simply deciding which tracks to upload, and which to re-edit, or remaster, or save for later...

So here we go, a track by track description of my new release, Collected Works - Volume 2!

1 - Serenity (Original Mix)

An old trance track that I made in a very short period of time. Starts out with some floaty pads, and builds up from there. Nothing spectacular, but a nice tracks from listenin', a warm up, if you will...

2 - Destiny

Another older trance track of mine, this one has an epic melody after it's breakdown. I'm quite proud of that melody, and I also like the way the (gated) pads work out. I might remake this one later on.

3 - Da Hype

A short funky breakbeat/electro track. Made mostly to just pass the time, and has a nice laid back vibe going on.

4 - I Suppose You Want To See The Drawing Room?

A bit of an odd little track. Very short, since it was actually just made for me to test the programming of the lead synth. Serves as a bit of an interlude.

5 - Dream Addiction (Trance Edit)

I made the demo version of this driving trance track over a year ago, and made the finished version a couple of weeks back. It's main features are a nice flanged pad and a thick, rolling arp melody. Very atmospheric, this might be my favorite track of this EP.

6 - Intimate Moments

This is a downtempo track I made at my girlfriend (Annetje16)'s house. Since I didn't have all my usual tools there, this track might sound a bit lo-fi in places. The main lead is an melancholic wind instrument. Another track with a well devoloped atmosphere, if I may say so myself...

7 - Haze

A banging hard trance track ispired by the likes of Lab-4. Double bassline, and double synthlines provide quite the punch. the track does sound a little rough around the edges.
There was some additional unused material left after I finished this track, which later became a track called "Security Breach", produced by me and a friend of mine (Wessel, from Wezz & Fisher).
This track, in all three it's versions, will probably turn up on Last.fm later on.

8 - Serenity (Re-Edit)

The final track is a re-edited version of track one, Serenity. The difference between the two versions is the length (this one is shorter), and some different percussion sounds.

And that's it. Some variety here, although I still have a lot of different stuff I want to upload, since I find it hard to choose which ones are "ready", as I mentioned in the first paragraph.
Some of the releases that I'm planning to upload are teh Security Breach EP, trance & ambient tracks from Mark Weather (W00t3R), a collection of video game remixes I have made, bunch of hardcore tracks I made a long long time ago in Rave eJay (they're actually quite good), and a whole lot of other tracks I've made over the years, varying from ambient to breakbeat, to trance, to hardcore...

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this new release from Bart Nova, on the Imperium Nova label!

Hi all,

There is a new EP available on my labelpage (Imperium Nova). The EP contains six tracks that were all made by me + other artists. Some of them are a bit old, but you might still enjoy them. I did update some of the tracks, adding some compressor and other fx here and there...
The EP is called Synergy 1.

Time for a short track by track description:

1. Bart Nova & Mark Weather – Wood Of Desire
Trance track with strings, bells, piano, and some synthy stuff. Quite typical of Wouter's (Mark) style at the time, although the overal arrangement is more my style. An intro strings, followed by some building beats, leading to a breakdown introducing the piano riff and some simplistic breaks, followed by a basic trance style climax. Not really full on or mega uplifting, but still quite nice.

2. Bart Nova & Sedy – Coron X
Sven (Sedy) has recently started experimenting with music software, and this is one of his tracks for which he ran out of ideas. So I took the sourcefile and molded it into this nice lil' trancer. Quite dancey, slightly frantic lead.

3. Bart Nova & Mark Weather – Fairytale (Old School Mix)
On of the first tracks I made with Wouter, this tracks has a pretty old school trance vibe to it, a bit 95-ish. Ironicly the track was made 5 years later... Again the bells, but also some nice layered synthlines. I deliberatly kept the overal sound a bit "cheap" to stay with the concept/feel of the track.

4. Nova & Luuk – Luuk Gaat Kutte (Updated Mix)
While at a LAN party organised by a friend, I showed Luuk how I made my music. He was also interested in making some tracks, and we started writing one right away. Luuk has some pretty good piano skills, although it doesn't really show in this track :P Melody is quite original though. This version is a bit different from the original, since I made the original without any outside software, unlike most of my own tracks (I didn't make it on my own computer).

5. Nova & Luuk – Luuk Gaat Kutte (Live @ LAN Mix)
Guess I already said enough about this track already :)

6. Bart Nova & Mark Weather – Identity
Our latest collaboration is a nice mellow downtempo track, with some dreamy pads.
We made this track for a CD that we gave to a teacher as a farewell present when we were still in highschool. The rest of the CD were all tracks by me, plus one solo track by Wouter: Evolution.

There was going to be an extra track titled "Security Breach", a furious hard trancer made by me and Project G., but since G had already made a personal remix, I thought I'd make one myself aswell, so that I could release all three versions at once.

That's all for now...

Bart Nova.

Since I recently scrobbled my 20.000th track, I thought I'd check out my stats...

Current Eclectic Score: 82/100
Mainstreamness: 5.60 %

20.000 - Taucher - Waters (Phase III)
19.000 - Icon Of Coil - headhunter (exclusive single edit)
18.000 - Ozric Tentacles - Myriapod
17.000 - DieTRAX - kiss me more
16.000 - Freezepop - Bike Thief
15.000 - Moonitor - Wicked Polar Breakz (Online Single Edit)
12.000 - REDALiCE - Funky Light
11.111 - DJ Tatana - Soul Cry (Sam Sharp remix)
11.000 - Johan Gielen - TRIPLE CROSS (REMO-CON VS CASTALIA REMIX)
8888 - Perfume - Sweet Donuts
5555 - Planisphere - O

None of these tracks were deliberatly scrobbled, I always find out afterwards that I had past a certain amount of scrobbles, and that's when I start calculating what track made me cross the mark.

On to more interesting matters: I have started a label here on Last.fm, called Imperium Nova. This way I'll be able to upload tracks made by friends of mine, aswell as tracks I made with them. So that'll mean more free music for y'all!
Currently I'm updating a lot of old tracks of mine (and of others) so I can provide some higher quality when I add the tracks to my label.
Relases in the works include Collected Works Volume 2 and 3 for Bart Nova, as well as EPs including video game remixes I've done, and old tracks that i made during my eJay period. Furthermore I'm working on collecting tracks for a release by Mark Weather (aka W00t3R), and a release that'll feature collaborations between me and various others, including Wessel Grift, the mastermind behind
Wezz & Fisher, whose first vinyl, "Ultrablue", will be released October 12. (edit: release has been post-phoned to somewhere in januari)

But that's all stuff in the making...