The Great
The Great is a creative association made by danielStrawb. Since 2023 The Great become platform for my creative friends and collaborations between us. We are supporting each others and doing our best to create our own style and phillosophy.
The core concept of The Great is to share our works for free with everyone. Since DRM systems cause so many troubles for people with slow Internet connection or old hardware and software, you could download any release made by The Great Band and our partners for free in a high quality, and enjoy it on any device you have.
You can read more about The Great and our phillosophy in Biography of danielStrawb.
Emergency Exit Sign - the official logo of The Great since 2023Here is a list of people who already worked with The Great:
- Mae$tro - my childhood friend and beatmaker who contribuited alot to my creative process. We are worked on so many tracks together, and I'm going to show some in the next release.
- Worfi - a grahical designer. he created a cover art to my debut single
Careless
. - Sofia Vorobey - a graphical designer. She made the first concept art of The Great: example
- Diana Loomis - a graphical designer. After all the years, we still a good friends, so she helps me in drawing some sketches, like this one of Sakura Ayase: example
Feel free to join The Great by writing on one of my contact links here.
The Great Band
A rock band created by danielStrawb, consists of all the original characters of The Great universe.
Danny
The centre of The Great - the leader behind The Great Band
He is the main character of The Great Universe - based on this website author, Daniil Afanasev. His musical style is based on Alternative Rock from 2000s: Linkin Park, The Rasmus, Beck
Danny's main musical instruments are hollow-body guitar Epiphone Riviera and Casio CT-X3000 synth. Most of the time he record his ideas in DAW, and then work on them together with Dextra.
DexTra Lights
The Great Band's DJ, and sound disigner behind most records of The Great Band songs. She's an older cousin of Danny
She's music style inspired by 2010's Electro House, with producers like SebastiAn, She Music, Nero and Deadmau5. Her main musical instruments are DAW and DJ controller, so she could sample and resample music piaces to get something unusual. Even if dexTra dislike singing, she could scream some funny phrases, during her DJ sets, or performing back-vocals with Danny.
Dextra is pretty active in music making, so she always works on a new material, even if this some full-length songs, or just simple beats and sketches for future songs.
Fun Fact: Dextra's name comes from character created by Acidgvrl - dxra. I belive my Dextra have nothing in common with Acidgvrl and the name is the only inspiration. I've been inspired by Acidgvrl's early material and her recent releases not so exciting to me.
Petra Plaugh
Bass guitarist and lead vocalist for The Great. She's very helpful and usually bandmates call her "The Sun of The Great", since she knows so many fun jokes, and could make anybody laugh even in the worst moments of their life.
They met DexTra and her cousin when they are moving to a new apartament - Petra and Dimetra find out there's a new neighbours nearby, so they are become a good friends.
Dimetra Plaugh
The Great's Drummer, and younger sister of Petra!
Most of the time, Dimetra have fun with diffirent unpopular musical instruments, so even if her main instrument is drum set, you never know what she's going to put in her songs next!
Alison Woods
The president of The Great Records - she's busy mixing and mastering, releasing track from other The Great Records members. Also, you could see her under names like "Alison Forth".
She's not so active in releasing her own material, but there's something more important about her - she always ready to help any of her friends.
Usually, Alison is pretty sad, and have some bad habist like smoking.
Fun fact: Alison is the first fictional character from me, I created her for my school project back in 2022, because I need some random name in process of working on a project. Since then, Alison become for me some more than just a character - she's based on my friends, and didn't really linked to me as person, unlike others.