May 30
Bulutlar Arasidin
May 24
Till The Bells Bring Us Home
High-energy synths and percussion with intertwining, anthemic melodies. (My love of Rush probably shows but it's a pretty straightforward tune.)
May 20
Chilliwack
This was a fun one to make. Basically one improvised take on a MIDI keyboard which is hooked up to 3 synths and drum machine, with a pad from a 4rd synth going on in the background. Piano and noise-wave crashes were added afterwards.
Using the JX-8P as a bass synth for the first time and gotta say....not too shabby!!!!!! [more inside]
May 19
Komatiite
Electronics with some guitars that really need to be re-recorded but this had already taken too much time. [more inside]
May 16
Whih!
Just mucking about with Audacity, playing with sliders and buttons and numbers. This is a 3-minute slow-motion loop of the Gap Band, Dif Juz, and PJ Harvey, all noodled up and sludged out and ready for your next terrifying bout of sleep paralysis.
May 13
Systems
May 7
Slopes
Sequestered
May 5
Least
08 - crickets tell the temperature - vampire deer
"but they didn't do their repetoire for long" - that's the last song for now - thanks for listening
May 4
If I Can (You Can Too)
A pretty simple dance tune. I borrowed (well, adapted) a melody, I admit - but it was a 4/4 melody crying out to be in 3/4, and I wanted to set it right. This is track 2/5 on the Hellish EP.
Lush
Got an Arturia Keystep which means I can now program sequences on the JX-8P and baby it is a game changer!!!!!! Marimba sounds are from the Roland SC-88 which is MIDI'd up to the JX-8P as well.
May 3
Belkin
2 analogs synth looping together. Experimenting with CV connectivity to create syncopation.
07 - sunflower year - vampire deer
April 28
06 happy ever after - vampire deer
April 25
05 through my window - vampire deer
April 24
Middlesex Fells
April 23
04 golden hole - vampire deer
the golden hole is in the median of hall rd, between utica and sterling heights, which is a horrendously busy section of northern detroit suburbia - locals are more specific about what kind of hole it is but i will refrain from crudeness - i would really hate to deliver stuff around there, which i think this song is about
April 22
03 everything's under control - vampire deer
either than or we're totally incompetent and nobody wants to believe that
April 21
hesitations
April 17
02 lost and dazed - vampire deer
April 16
Another Daughter
April 15
01 can't get away from the smog - vampire deer
i wrote this when i was 16 or 17 - funny how things haven't changed - it's the 1st of 8 songs - the album's name is crickets tell the temperature
Entrance Music for the Billionaire Techbro's Throneroom
April 13
Hellish
Upbeat melodic Euro-trance style tune with big hooks - should get you to put your hands up and/or your foot down. Check out the video here. [more inside]
April 10
Jharkhand Assembly - The Descent Part II
April 9
In a Bomb
April 5
Refuge in the boughs of the ancient oaks
way more fantasy/forest synth than dungeon synth this time for sure, but the story continues. might have hit the idea of a lullaby too hard on the nose. [more inside]
April 4
A Broken Clock on a Starlit Beach
Mostly electronic. An increasingly oppressive cloud of ambience over a basic beat.
April 3
The Sound of Carrying On No Matter How Terrible It Gets
The latest Junto prompt asks you to do something out of tune, so I put my phone next to my amp and started recording myself playing these two riffs and detuning the A string every so often.
March 30
schism
March 28
Pressures Accumulating
March 25
leguminate
March 16
Silica
Trying out a new piece of gear, the Roland AD-10 which I used on the acoustic guitar and double bass [more inside]
March 15
Python's Peak
Arps: Roland SC-88
Chords: Roland JX-8P
Drums: Korg S3
Bass: Korg Monologue
March 8
pro deuce.mp3
been listening to lots of Sun-El Musician and wanted to do some marimba loops
March 5
The Spine
March 2
130 stories high (remix)
February 27
On a Night Like This
Got inspired by hearing the Los Lobos cover of the song on KUVO and liked it so much I cut a demo. [more inside]