It’s a huge joy, and honestly a big personal milestone, to present a new Enimatik track with my dear friend Jane Demonroads. More than a year has passed since our last release together, and I truly feel the wait has been worth it. There’s a lot behind this song, so let me tell you a bit about it.
"Immortal" was the last piece we created together in April of last year. Since then, Enimatik has been evolving, sonically, emotionally, and in its own identity. I like to think there’s a duality in my music that comes from complete creative freedom, on one side harder styles like hardtechno, hardwave or electro, and on the other softer landscapes like chillstep, wave or downtempo. "A Moment in Time" belongs to this second, more intimate world.
Because of personal circumstances, both Jane’s, mine, and my darkest friend Renat Hassler who created the visuals, this track took its time to grow, but it never stopped. After releasing Noktherion, I knew I wanted to return to a more emotional, romantic and delicate side of Enimatik. I missed working with Jane. The time apart had been creative and necessary, but I felt ready again, with new space in my mind and new ideas to share with her.
That’s when "A Moment in Time" arrived. The track flowed naturally from my mind to the DAW, almost as if it wrote itself. The composition and first arrangements felt effortless, as if the song wanted to exist and I only needed to let it pass through me.
When the demo was ready, with my rough reference vocals, I sent it to Jane and used that time to refine details, structure and sound. This is usually our method, I work intensively for about a month shaping the base and my own vocals while she prepares hers. It’s a personal challenge I enjoy, it pushes me to give the best of myself before her voice arrives.
Musically, "A Moment in Time" blends chillstep, wave and a touch of synthpop. It’s an electronic ballad with detailed rhythms, a strong bass, classic arpeggios and dreamy pads, and I believe the vocal melody lifts everything to its highest expression. One of those choruses that stays with you from the first listen. It took many hours of composition, of trying and discarding ideas and progressions until I found the one that felt right.
When Jane’s recordings arrived I couldn’t wait, I inserted them into the project immediately. As always she doubted herself, her voice, her performance, and as always she trusted me fully to shape the final result.
I selected the best takes, placed them alongside mine and pressed play for the first time. You can hear it clearly in the final track, her voice elevates everything.
She records with very limited equipment, without musical studies, English isn’t her native language, and still the result is beautiful. I process the vocals with EQ, dynamics and effects, but I don’t use pitch correction, I simply don’t need it. She sings naturally, intuitively, always in tune, adding emotional variations guided purely by instinct. Our voices just fit, they complement each other perfectly.
And visually, as always, my dark friend Renat Hassler completes the universe of the song. He captured Jane in a beautiful series of photographs, on the beach, at sunset, warm, emotional and delicate. Those images reflect exactly what the track represents. They look like something I imagined before even writing a single note. There is a touch of magic in that.
I truly hope this new song means as much to you as it does to all of us, and that it invites you to reflect on how precious those small, beautiful moments in time really are...
If you enjoy the song, don’t forget to support Jane and Renat. Their talent deserves it.
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