Frontier Eternal EP

Hello, everyone!

The rest of my debut EP - Frontier Eternal - is now uploaded on here too. So at the same time, I wanted to use the opportunity to ramble about it a little bit and make some (more or less) interesting comments about the tracks. 

Originally released on January 9th, 2026 barely over a couple of weeks after I first purchased FL Studio. I guess I just felt the creative juices flowing, so I didn't really bother hesitating. Also available on your other streaming platforms of choice, as well as the one EP I currently have available for free download on Soundcloud - in .wav format too!

In order of being made:

Void Oceans was the second track that I ever made (first is yet to be published) and what convinced me that this kind of thing - moody, atmospheric Dark Ambient - was what I wanted to do. In fact, I made this on the free version of FL - no re-opening a project once it's saved and closed! Overwhelming, slow, piano/siren-like synths before Space Boops (see next paragraph) take over, before the void swallows it all. Suitable for an ending, I reckoned, so at the back it went!

Satellite - that was the one I made next, but the first one that I published, around 25th or 26th of December, 2025. Something calmer, more soothing and yet still quite ominous - at this point I'd already noted that I had a particular FLEX preset that was my favourite - called "Enlightenment", more reckognisable as "Space Boops", though. I like that name - it fits, hehe.

Breach was up next, and the second track that I released. Something different from Satellite, something less... ominous and more explicitly grim. I found the hit sound while browsing synths, which is where I got the idea for this track - the rest of it kinda came along by itself. Also a bit of a brat of a track - when exporting in various formats, it always seems to sound different. The signal heard throughout was a late addition, but one I found as really sealing the deal, which then lead me to the next track.

Departure was something I now had in mind for the intro track. Something that sounds somewhat more human, more optimistic, even if "misleading" in that optimism, as ominousness still looms. Initially it had a different lead synth, but I played around with the ending strings and turned that into the intro as well... and then there's that signal sound... calling.

The Traverse then followed. I don't have that much to say about this one, it went by pretty quick and smooth once the idea popped in my head, though just like Departure, I made a refined version the next day, finding the second half a bit too empty at first. The metallic ding is the same preset as the banging sound in Breach, just with much higher notes being used.

Wandering Lost is a name fitting more than just thematically - it's the one track that I'm still kind of unsure of, ironically. I wanted it to go long, drag on a bit, as if wandering (lost) in deep space after some kind of an event. Again, like The Traverse, I found it a bit empty in its first version, but later altered it again because I wasn't happy with the notes. I'm still not, but when I re-exported it for uploading here, it's actually one of my more complex ones in terms of how it's arranged. Well how about that...

I've got more tracks that I've made - stay tuned for those to get uploaded as well at some point in the near future.

Thanks,

Cordell