Just fucking around a while back under the influence of Tequila. That first part is a bit of a Minutemen song.

Be sure to check out my vid.

I didn't really stick the landing but it doesn't suck. Cheers!

In honor of the Tour de France, which starts this weekend, here's a little techno track i made featuring samples from race commentators Phil Liggett and Bob Roll. Good workout music.

A song about a time when I felt incapacitated by my own anxiety, but like, make it fun, kinda.

Lyrics:

Defenseless

Stripped of every habit that protects me

Sexy

If you like neurosis and fear of closeness

Precocious

Quick to fall apart thanks to a big headstart

Red heart

But what it pumps through me is

Matte beige and unvivacious

Afraid that I'm contagious

Afraid to turn the pages

And see what happens now

But it'll happen anyhow

Distracted

Trapped in autopilot, blankly smiling

Beguiling

If you like 'em vacant-eyed and pacing

Erasing

Everything but that which found me hapless

Cat piss

Soaking all my idle time and I'm at

Wit's end and feeling half-witty

I don't want to want it but I need your pity

If I don't get it I'll make do with my own

And my head in a cone

My life's completely blown

I spent it all just dealing

A quirky little 90s(ish) jungle track. It goes like: | A | B | a+b |

Synth Brass over more synth pings and wubs

An Ambient Office installation with a little actual keyboard playing. Patch notes: Just Friends and Operat on pings and bass, with Mangrove put through Beads for the brassy notes. Teletype as sequencer.

I loved the song dangorma as played by Malian kora player Sanjally Jobarteh, so I arranged it for nylon-string guitar.

For the guitar version, I use the dadf#be tuning that South African guitarist Derek Gripper figured out works well for most kora tunes.

I really like sections where a steady repeating pulse ends up sounding syncopated because of what is going on under it, and this tune has two of those. There is also a muting thing I have never done before that is basically like playing a 0 fret harmonic.

The repeating bassline is either stolen from or inspired by a performance by Wet Ink Ensemble that I was watching last night (thus the name). It got stuck in my head so hard that I had to stop the livestream and start working on this instead.

Post-rock instrumental.

Guitars, bass, logic drummer. 110 BPM in D. Recorded through a Tonex One.

Kind of a lowkey ORGANic cover of the Depeche Mode tune.

Video of me in different sweaters recording it.

is a song inspired by a trip to the high desert.

Last year we traveled around the US looking for a place to settle down. The best place was Sedona, AZ. When we got back, I put this together on my Maschine.

I worked a vocal sample from Sia that was part of a Native Instruments community pack (so there are no barriers to using it this way) into a short song that preserved for me the feeling of sitting on the mesa, connecting with everything. I lost my fear of heights there, lost my fear of flying, too.

For now, we've given up on our dreams of moving, but we'll always have this song, and I will never be afraid of falling.