This work article is more about a brief explanation of my musical endeavors and a little bit about my label, Velocity Music.

Astedroid: The Fallen rising from Art

The Fallen is this character of mine who’s sentimental, emotional, and vivid persona who had been shut down multiple times. Despite all that, The Fallen shakes it all off like it was nothing, but unconsciously it did really hit that hard.

The Fallen is part of my artistic self with my artist’s name Astedroid, which the name first came off with an honest typo: the letter d in the middle of the word. And what the “D” means, is up to the reader.

After giving more thought to the name Astedroid, it began making more sense than I initially thought it would. I began thinking: “Asteroid, it’s a space rock… usually something that is steering towards a planet, but still outside of it all, but will eventually fall down…” and that, was my eureka-moment.

Its worth mentioning that I've started my hobby in music production back all the way in 2016, with more serious grasp in 2017. — Well, my first-first attempts and introduction into music production was with an iPad app called Garage Band, but that was such a primitive experience that I eventually gave it up and just did some random stuff with it and let the music thing be for a little while.

Below is my latest, and greatest release, in collaboration with my online friend producers, pulse! and Lexder, released via Neoluminum's Fragments Volume 1. (background visuals by Neoluminum's team, but the visualizer by me)

What about my main YouTube Channel?

Oh yeah, on top of creating music, I am keen on content creation, mostly on my YouTube channel that, for the better or worse, has been under really inconsistent uploads due to personal views on myself, how I sound and appear on camera, which for I came into Riveria to challenge myself and give myself the right kind of push and motivation into back to it.

One other challenge I've faced with my main YouTube channel is my ambitions of becoming a global YouTuber who creates their content, primarily in English.

Below is a video from my main channel that displays my editing capabilities using Premiere Pro by Adobe in Creative Cloud. Note that my facecam feed and audio was recorded using my Galaxy A52 smartphone while recording on my Desktop PC (Ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1660 Super OC & 32GB of 3200mhz Ram) using OBS, an open-source and free screen recording application that also allows streaming to most, if not all, Streaming platforms (YouTube Live, Twitch, Facebook…)

What about the label?

The label of mine, Velocity Music, was born out of thin air because of my interest in founding one (with more or less because of my producer-circle’s push). In the producer communities I was part of, I saw people founding their small labels left, right and center. And I thought to myself: “If they are founding their labels, why wouldn’t I give it a try?”. I inevitably founded my first iteration of my label named United Records.

Step 1: Uniting people to Record

It all began with finding a few artist friends of mine to become interested in my new small, yet totally neat, label project, which had just one release, “Millenium” by X3ll3n (a friend of mine) and Aerin. One other thing that pressed my mind was the naming scheme; it didn’t hit just right yet. Besides I kind of hated the “Records” suffix. I did a next move by rebranding it to Radius Records.

Step 2: Broadening the horizons with larger radius

 The idea with Radius Records was to broaden its reach by opening its arms to many more artists, while still kind of struggling with its brand identity and purpose. This time around, it had far more releases with a total number of five. At this point, I began thinking to myself: “I need to create something that’s worthwhile for its artists and something that not many labels would even consider of doing”, and this is when it hit, a compilation album. But not any Label Volume X-album.

I wanted to start by including a story that would after each one paint a larger picture. Oh, did I tell you the project name I had for the label?

Step 3: TheV-ification through Velocity

For the next step, I had to start fresh by going back to the roots, and by that, its literal codename, which coincidentally was TheV. TheV, while formatted differently, comes from one of my most defining musical artists in EDM, Archie with their track “The V”.

You could say that my entire label was a respect nod towards him but eventually started developing into something new entirely. the final rebrand for the label was Velocity Records, with a minor tweak for the suffix being changed to “Music”.

The debut of this label began with its debut of a new concept: Velocity Original Albums: like short Netflix series, but audiovisual storytelling through its tracks. The first album of the bunch was CodeV.

The latest, and by far the most ambitious and largest project coming out from Velocity (and me) is a video game OST collaboration with a Roblox rhythm experience Sound Space with our Arcade Blasters Vol.1. An album that, being infused with our TheVLore, of course, tells the early childhood story of TheVLore Phase 1’s antagonist, Dawn (DAmien WarreN).

Below, again is the latest release from my label, Velocity with DERREL and EbenAP's track "Arcade Frenzy", a second debut single from the Arcade Blasters Vol.1, releasing early 2026. (Artwork & Visuals by me)

Wait… Hold on, what TheVLore?

TheVLore is the core of TheVMedia, of which Velocity Music is a division of. TheVLore is this story driven experience through Velocity’s originals and sometime in the future potentially a few video game experiences with to-be-planned video game studio, CodeVStudios.

As for what the story is about, it is a discussion for another time.

What did I learn from these projects… so far?

I learned the importance of marketing, creating art with meaning, and expressing myself through them and collaboration with other amazing artists.