Phantasiis

Celebrating a new milestone and changes moving forward.

I hit 500 subscribers on my youtube channel. This is something I never gave much thought about. Since I tend to make music videos of my beats and not videos about my music. I am happy about it and I hope to keep my video upload discipline.

I’ve been revamping this website on small bursts at a time. I think I like the skeleton aesthetic for now. So most of my socials now look similar for brand consistency. I wonder what would be next?

I am taking online courses on creating better content, video editing, and overall how to leverage modern tools like AI for creative work. I am a huge fan of MidJourney and while I am not a power user, I am admired for the power of words-to-image can have on art.

I tend to use the creations I make and then do post-FX using Canva or my iPhone apps. Personally I have been a user of Mextures app for as long as I remember.

As a former Photoshop power user, I find it difficult to go back to it with its current pricing model. For now I have a perpetual license of Affinity photo, and I am happy with it.

I have been collaborating with a vocalist and artist remotely. She goes by the name Adelaide Wan.

I have produced a couple of songs for her and I am happy to share her latest collaboration with you here:

This song turned out amazing -totally biased of course- and has been received well by YouTube. I hope that Adelaide and I create more songs together.

If you would like to collaborate my DMs and contact form are available. Also, if you need original music for your content and projects feel free to reach out.

Here is an example of a collaboration I did with a book author from Tijuana Mexico. This was the book trailer for the novel titled “From Tijuana With Love”. In this project I had the privilege of creating the soundtrack.

Luis, if you are reading this, thank you for believing in me and for your support.

I am working on a 5 song instrumental EP that I will write about here soon. I am still in the process of mixing the songs and then master the tracks to the best of y ability. Soon on my BandCamp and all places where you listen to music.

Last but not least, I recorded a band.

My first time as an audio and recording engineer. This is something I wanted to do for a long time. I am glad that one of my friends decided to reach out. Happy to help.

This was the end product. I recorded, mixed and mastered the track. This is my friends band Honeyblume. You can see my laptop on the bottom left corner.

The song is called “Ecstasy”. The song was a submission for NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2025.

I almost wanted to cry at the end of the whole process. One major bucket list item was checked off as a musician and producer. I was genuinely happy and excited from start to finish.

More about them soon.

Thank you for reading this far! Stay inspired friend.

-Phantasiis