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2025-09-20
Unused BNG FMV OST

An unused version of BallisticNG's FMV theme can now be downloaded here.

The album info for The BallisticNG Sessions has also been updated.

2025-09-09
No more streaming

I just cancelled my Artist Pro subscription on SoundCloud, which means all my music is going to be removed from streaming services when it runs out, which is March 9th 2026.

I will keep using Bandcamp and all future releases will of course be available on this website.

2025-05-15
A new home

Welcome to my new home on the internet.

In case online music services (SoundCloud, for example) becomes unusable due to enshittification, AI slop and whatever else, this place will remain.

I offer FLAC and Opus downloads for every release. Pick FLAC if you want the highest audio quality at the cost of disk space. Pick Opus if you're short on space. Opus sounds extremely good despite being a lossy audio format.

Currently, the "pay if you want" links lead to Bandcamp.

There's a news feed for those who like to use RSS feed readers.

Got any questions, or just want to talk? Write me an email. Email is the most reliable way of reaching me.

Enjoy the music!

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Renegade

  1. Paralyzed *
  2. Renegade *
  3. Logic Bomb
  4. Play My Game *
  5. Machine Learning
  6. Plasma Spin
  7. Genesis
  8. Softlock *
  9. The City of Copper *
  10. Echo/Response

Album released November 13th 2023

Lots of synthetic vocals on this one, courtesy of chipspeech.

Worked on this all throughout 2023. My most aggressive work to date. I'm especially happy with how Paralyzed turned out.

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Label: Shiftdelete Music
Catalog #: shftd05

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Neuwerx
Confidant: Pull

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead 2X
  • chipsynth MD
  • chipspeech
  • AudioRealism Drum Machine
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 3

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Antivirus

  1. Antivirus *
  2. Scareware
  3. Antivirus (Funk D'Void Remix)
  4. Antivirus (Xenofish Remix)

EP released October 26th 2022

Uplifting breaks with synthetic vocals.

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Label: Shiftdelete Music
Catalog #: shftd04

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Neuwerx
Remixes by Funk D'Void and Xenofish

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead 3
  • Nord Lead A1
  • chipspeech
  • KORG minilogue
  • Sylenth1
  • Microtonic
  • Jomox MBase 11

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Flash

  1. Shockwave
  2. Flash
  3. Warning
  4. Acrid 303

EP released March 21st 2022

I wanted to make a 303-centric EP and this came to be. It turned out less 303-centric than I envisioned, but I think it's better because of it.

Shockwave is featured in BallisticNG.

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Label: Shiftdelete Music
Catalog #: shftd03

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Neuwerx

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead 3
  • Sylenth1
  • Microtonic
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 3

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We Came from the Internet

  1. Intro
  2. Photon
  3. Speed Ghost *
  4. Twister
  5. Soundrise
  6. Black Keys
  7. Satellight
  8. The Stars of Orion
  9. Gathering at Q's

Album released January 26th 2022

After an intense two weeks of constant music making, this album came into being. The entire album is dedicated to the people I've gotten to know online over the years.

As of writing, this album is the only Shiftdelete release available on physical media.

The CD version contains an exclusive bonus track.

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Label: Shiftdelete Music
Catalog #: shftd02 / shftd02CD

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Chelsea Lavelle
Voices, track 1: Chelsea and Q
Co-writer, track 3: Pull

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead 3

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Hard Reset

  1. Subtract *
  2. Take the Lead
  3. Never Dwell
  4. Awave

EP released June 21st 2021

Electro, tech-trance, a beatless intermission and then techno. First release on Shiftdelete Music.

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Label: Shiftdelete Music
Catalog #: shftd01

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Chelsea Lavelle

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead 3
  • Rob Papen Blade-2
  • Waldorf Pulse 2
  • Microtonic
  • chipspeech

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Shiftdelete & M. Karlsson
Relentless

  1. Synergy
  2. Relentless

Single released April 16th 2021

Special collaboration with drummer Magnus Karlsson.

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Label: Swerve Music
Catalog #: SWERV011

Music: Emil Nord & Magnus Karlsson
Drums: Magnus Karlsson
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Chelsea Lavelle

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead A1
  • Modor NF-1m
  • Sylenth1
  • Waldorf Pulse 2
  • MAM MB33

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Polyphasic

  1. Polysynthetic
  2. Phasic

Single released March 23rd 2021

Purely synthesized techno music. All sounds 100% made from scratch.

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Label: Swerve Music
Catalog #: SWERV010

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: noisivy

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead A1
  • Sylenth1
  • Waldorf Pulse 2
  • Microtonic

$ Pay if you want

Shiftdelete & Atlanticore
Accelerator

  1. Accelerator
  2. Breakout

Single released August 28th 2020

Electronic rock two-tracker made in collaboration with Atlanticore.

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Label: Swerve Music
Catalog #: SWERV008

Music: Emil Nord & Oleg Matis
Guitar: Oleg Matis
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: blu3

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead A1
  • Sylenth1
  • Modor NF-1m
  • Waldorf Largo
  • MAM MB33
  • Stylus RMX

$ Pay if you want

The BallisticNG Sessions

  1. Antigraviton
  2. Fearless
  3. Swerve Xtended
  4. By Any Means
  5. Tranceblaster
  6. Dream Catcher
  7. In the Zone
  8. Antigraviton (Mothership Loudspeakerz Remix)
  9. By Any Means (Synesthesics Remix)
  10. Only They Can Reach the End
  11. Antigraviton (Low Orbit Satellite Remix)
  12. The Only Way Is Up

Album released December 28th 2018

Collection of all tracks I made specifically for the futuristic arcade racer BallisticNG. The game's soundtrack is enormous and I wasn't the only contributor.

There's an unused version of the in-game FMV music that can be downloaded here. It's based on one of Vonsnake's menu themes. Xpand did most of the composition and I did the last arrangement and added a few sounds and sequences.

Check out BallisticNG on Steam or GOG.

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Label: Swerve Music
Catalog #: SWERV003

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Chelsea Lavelle
Remixes by Mothership Loudspeakerz, Mellow Sonic and Low Orbit Satellite

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1
  • Roland JD-XA
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 2
  • kHs ONE

$ Pay if you want

Emil Nord
Sensory Overload

  1. Nova
  2. Resonator
  3. Phosphene
  4. Sensory Overload
  5. Last Call
  6. Raving on the Moon
  7. Protocol 7

Album released August 3rd 2018

Probably my most experimental work to date. The album was made over the course of two weeks, although Last Call and Phosphene were made before I started working on it.

First (and probably the last) album released under my real name, as well as the first release on Swerve Music.

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Label: Swerve Music
Catalog #: SWERV001

Music: Emil Nord
Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Chelsea Lavelle
Vocals on track 6: Sunn St. Claire

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1
  • Roland JD-XA

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Pure Mix

  1. Slowdown
  2. Niacin Flush
  3. Swerve

EP released April 1st 2018

I wanted to make something fairly straightforward and these tracks came out.

Swerve was featured in BallisticNG. I later made a BNG-specific version of it called Swerve Xtended.

This EP was originally made for a netlabel that unfortunately died right after it launched.

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Everything done by Emil Nord

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1

$ Pay if you want

DefGridRedux

  1. DefGridRedux
  2. Ascella
  3. Hi-Score
  4. Ascella (Low Orbit Satellite Xmix)
  5. Final Destination

EP released February 19th 2017

I locked myself up for two weeks and created this EP.

The whole idea for this release came from an old arcade game called Zektor, which was released in 1982.

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Everything done by Emil Nord
Remix by Low Orbit Satellite

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1

$ Pay if you want

Skyline EP

  1. Skyline
  2. Zodiac
  3. Sound Discovery (Low Orbit Satellite's Verydiscomix)

EP released July 3rd 2016

Retrofuturistic techno tracks created a month after New Heights. Skyline is another of my personal favorites.

Skyline ended up being featured in BallisticNG.

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Everything done by Emil Nord
Remix by Low Orbit Satellite

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 2

$ Pay if you want

New Heights

  1. Inner Alien (feat. Low Orbit Satellite)
  2. Impactor
  3. First Light
  4. Crash Site

EP released June 2nd 2016

Euphoric techno, house and downtempo tunes made in the summer of 2016.

Low Orbit Satellite was working on a similarly themed EP at around the same time and I provided a remix for it.

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Everything except track 1 done entirely by Emil Nord
Co-writer on track 1: Low Orbit Satellite

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 2

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Anthology Three: Trivium

  1. Orion's Jam
  2. Moln
  3. Swift (303mix)
  4. Snowflake Factory
  5. Take One
  6. Gyroscope (Shimmermix)
  7. 173au
  8. Rightward
  9. Sleepless (Fuckthistrackmix)

Compilation album released July 19th 2016

The final collection of tracks created between 2012-2016.

Contains the very first track I made as Shiftdelete: Swift.

A lot of the tracks in this collection were reworked. The biggest changes were made to Rightward and Sleepless. Rightward originally had a different title. Sleepless (Fuckthistrackmix) is an entirely different track compared to the original.

Gyroscope was originally made for the now abandoned SlipStream GX.

Moln (the swedish word for "cloud") is featured in BallisticNG.

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Music: Emil Nord
Artwork: Pull

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 2

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Anthology Two: Night

  1. Into Space
  2. Up High
  3. Illusions
  4. Sound Discovery
  5. Resonant Filters
  6. Shifted Satellite (feat. Low Orbit Satellite)
  7. Aeon
  8. Into Space (Low Orbit Satellite Remix)
  9. Nightlight (Windy City Mix)
  10. 808 Lullaby

Compilation album released May 14th 2016

Collection of single tracks created between 2012-2016. I tried collecting tracks you would listen to at night.

This collection contains two of my personal favorites: Illusions and Sound Discovery.

Nightlight was heavily reworked for this release. The first version was created at a demoparty in 2012, using unsuitable headphones in a noisy environment. It didn't sound very good.

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Everything except track 6 done entirely by Emil Nord
Co-writer on track 6 + remixer on track 8: Low Orbit Satellite

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1

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Anthology One: Arcade

  1. Defense Grid
  2. Boost Power
  3. VR Will Kill Us All
  4. Hyperdrive
  5. Rapid Transit
  6. Three Laps To Go
  7. To The Finish
  8. Defense Grid (Low Orbit Satellite Remix)

Compilation album released May 8th 2016

Collection of single tracks created between 2012-2016. I grew up playing a lot of arcade racing video games and I think it shows in this collection.

Hyperdrive is the only track in the entire Shiftdelete discography that was NOT created with Renoise.

To The Finish was originally made for the now abandoned project SlipStream GX. It later ended up in BallisticNG.

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Everything done by Emil Nord
Remix by Low Orbit Satellite

Instruments used:

  • Sylenth1
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 2

$ Pay if you want

B-Sides

  1. Versus
  2. Jolt
  3. If Only
  4. Dissolver
  5. The Virus
  6. W
  7. TDT
  8. Raid Force 2000
  9. Sidetracked

Compilation album released May 11th 2021

Collection of standalone and unreleased tracks created between 2016-2019.

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Everything done by Emil Nord

Instruments used:

  • Nord Lead 2X
  • Sylenth1
  • AudioRealism Bass Line 2 & 3
  • AudioRealism Drum Machine
  • Omnisphere
  • kHs ONE
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