Endless Blue

Our latest single, a song about saying goodbye because you have to.

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Wrote this one killing time right before I hopped on an Uber to the airport on Friday. Just plinking around on the piano as usual. Sunday rolled around and I still hadn't really started, but this one was definitely going in the lo-fi bets direction, so how hard could it possibly be? Yeah, 1.75 hours, LFG.

As usual, just dinking around and found something that reminded me of Metroid. Decided to follow the thread and chase it down, but where I was looping wasn't on a 4/4 grid... So rather than force it I rolled with a 7/4 time signature that gives the whole track a lopsided unsettling feel, which is Metroid all the way down.

Started this one early in the week while preset surfing on the AstroLab, but as usual ended up being a photo finish on Sunday. Went with a really simple progression/structure and chased the production and builds instead. Baritone and bass and wurli oh my. About eleventy billion vocal melodies running through my head for this one.

I don't even have much to say about the process in this one, maybe more about the anti-process. I wanted to make sure I didn't have any loops running through the entire song (something I feel I've been suffering from lately), so I purposefully removed them when it felt right. Got pretty far on the verse vibes, then created a chorus. Wasn't big enough, so the baritone guitar came to save the day. Really getting into mics and using physical amps. And needed that angel chorus at the end to close it out.

Ahhhh first non-Jamuary Weekly Beat... Got to work on this one over several sessions. Grew organically from the main melody, especially the chorus chords. Still following the Jamuary thought of playing everything live, except for one of the string layers that I MIDIed in. Last thing on the track was the bassline, which is kind of odd for my process.

Wrapping it up with a slow build lofi track. Made the main piano melody slowly disappear in the track.

Rolled with big beat drums and a few synth lines. Live bass line worked well here. Second to last!

Got rolling with this one after finding a cool 808 bass sound and a matching cool drum loop. Built from there bada bing bada boom.

Pretty simple one, banged it out in less than two hours. Hit the jackpot on the beat, wrote the verse chord progression in my head, followed the rabbit down the hole.