- For other uses, see Spectre (disambiguation).
Spectre was released through NoCopyrightSounds on 6 January 2015. The Spectre is the vocal remake.
History[]
Background[]
Since 2014, Walker transitioned to producing House tracks after producing Hands Up tracks between 2012 and 2013.
Following Fade's release through NCS in November 2014, the track became an instant success. Walker then planned to release another track through the label. He went with the name "Spectre", and it was released less than 2 months later.
Aftermath[]
Just over a year later, on December 22, 2016, Walker performed live in his hometown of Bergen. One of the tracks featured in the live performance is a vocal remake of Spectre named "The Spectre". Obviously, it does share many similarities with Spectre, but not as much as Faded does with Fade. The 2016 version of The Spectre continued to be performed live until Walker released a new version to YouTube on September 15, 2017, which shares even less similarities with the original Spectre than the 2016 version does. Upon its release, it was a success, albeit to a lesser extent than Faded. It wasn't able to top the chart of Walker's native Norway, only peaking at number 5. As of now, The Spectre has over 1 billion views on YouTube, making it Walker's third most popular track after Faded and Alone.
After being the third most popular video in the NCS channel with somewhere between 200 and 300 million views, Spectre was taken down on November 12, 2021 due to Walker's contract with NCS expiring. This also extends to Fade and Force.
On July 23, 2022, Walker uploaded a new official music video of Spectre. This video is part of a series of new official music videos of his former NCS tracks, going by the name "Origins", although these videos aren't associated with NCS themselves. The uploading of these videos to Walker's channel also doesn't necessarily make up for the tracks' removal from NCS. Walker rather simply intended to "head back to the beginning to the music that started everything."
Description[]
The song is set in common time and has a tempo of 128 beats per minute. It is written in the key of Db minor with a chord progression of Dbm-A-E-B.
Trivia[]
- Spectre sounded like as if it was inspired by Dennis 2014, which in turn was inspired by K-391.
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