Hi folks!

I'm working this week-end on a preset pack for a software synth update, so I used it pretty much in this week track.

I initially wanted to make a sad track because I'm sad, but eh, I made a rather sad track but with some energy in it, because life is strong.

I hope y'all ok. Hard times, stay safe!

2026 Copyright All rights reserved

Crazy week for writing this week, which is good as I am stockpiling ideas ready for the birth of our second child at the end of the month - I will try my darnest to keep up the streak!

Going back to a more full, involved arrangement and mix - trying to channel the almighty Phoebe Bridgers with the ambience, tape-y saturation and a Lossy-styled plugin called maim - designed to give an MP3 style bitcrushing effect... I'm not top sure I'm using it right!

Enjoyed putting the acoustic down and going for a bigger sound - more of this to come!

Thanks for any new listeners and commenters - your time and thoughts are always appreciated!

Have a great week!

Lyrics:

You were right behind me and I just left

You showed me you hand and I took the deck

You told me your secrets

I told you to leave it

You would try talk to me But I'd play deaf

Where do we go now

What do we got?

How can we built on what is not

How are ever going to give this a shot

When all that's left us apathy

All that's left is you and me

You were always chasing

I would always run away

You would always call me

I wouldnt even say your name

But you would always follow

And I would always borrow

The things that were not meant for me

Where do we go now

What do we got?

How can we built on what is not

How are ever going to give this a shot

When all that's left us apathy

All that's left is you and me

You were always honest

I was always faking

You were such a giver

You were there for the taking

I knew Id always win you

I couldn't face to lose

What i knew was batter than me

Where do we go now

What do we got?

How can we built on what is not

How are ever going to give this a shot

When all that's left us apathy

All that's left is you and me

Rewind

Its right there

The moment that it broke

In time

Ill learn

Theres no fire without some smoke

2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

Sometimes, it's good to be proud. Proclaim to the world that which is true to you. Stand UP, and be counted - and join the party!

Featuring overdubbed bass clarinet, frame drum, and shaker.

2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

Downloaded the Genesis (Mega Drive) VST, it being a core musical inspiration for me. This is really thrown together  using presets, but is super fun. Aw Yeah!

I imagine an intro screen with scrolling text describing the history leading to the mission. Like this hot garbage I just made:

2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

I've been filling space with sustained textures in most of the mixes I've been doing lately, so it's time for an experiment with mostly percussive and shorter melodic parts, plus a more sparse arrangement. The lead didn't fully work like that so one of its three layers is a quiet sustain; otherwise every sound decays, except for the intro/outro pad. Finally some damn dynamics!

2026 CC Attribution Share Alike (BY-SA)

This one was the product of two late-night sessions and one afternoon session. The music seemed to want to lead to different places each time, so we have a variety of meters and approaches to tempo. During some tracking sessions, I had to turn off the click entirely to get the "feel" I wanted, so it was a bit of a challenge to get these different sessions into an integrated whole. I decided to follow the intuition in this one. It wanders.

The first thing I tracked--bass--had no relation to the guitar parts that came immediately afterward, so I cut it. Counterintuitively, the strongest section I tracked (strong ascending chord progression with ostinato figures in the other voices) ended up not fitting into the piece at all, so it too is gone. Does the piece work this way? Maybe. It was an effort to get the sections not to feel too disjointed, and balance the idea of restating themes to build a motif with the editorial sense of not overstaying one's sonic welcome.

Three tracks of PureSalem Mendiola (first version) into the UA Volt. There's convolution reverb send and compression/eq/limiting on the stereo.

The title comes from the River Wharfe, some of which is near the A659 road.

2026 Copyright All rights reserved

I feel like it is time to start posting again. This is my least worked on submission to date, but something is better than nothing. A little groove.

2026 Copyright All rights reserved

Less of a song this week and more of a few production studies. Used Glitch 2 (Kieran Foster RIP <3) and Arturia Efx MOTION on just three loops to build a track. Spent a lot of time learning how to use these tools and how to properly automate/sequence them. Just freestyled the bass with a felt mute to get that percussive, no-sustain sound. Eh, it was fun.

2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

Here's a last minute spacy noodle thing

I wanted to explore Luch and Annulus after stumbling across them a couple weeks ago

Title was borrowed from the M8 beta discussion; what would rho sound like?

› Production Notes‹ Production Notes

------------------------------------------------------------------

Produced in Reaper

Length: 2m18s

BPM: 77

Genre: Dark Ambient

Plugins

- Moloko Instruments Luch

- Phase Fiasco Annulus

FX

- Reverb on the master with Valhalla Supermassive

- Dunked the master in Arturia Tape Mellow-Fi

------------------------------------------------------------------

2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

Another round of using the M8 on board mic! I just wanted to do something on the melodic side with piano as base, but after recording some piano sessions I just started a new base using a sample chopped up to fit the tempo I wanted, then it was about placing the bass and I decided to sing and see where I could go, initally I thought of using the vocals just as atmos but it then felt right to give it a bit more focus and use it as lead, I hope you'll like it!

I guess I wanted to play some instruments so that I could do something different than usual just programming on the m8, but with the piano (midi keyboard and some AU on the ipad) it just wasn't working, hands everywhere, out of tempo if not perfect, and didnt want to record the notes as midi and all that jazz, so just singing was quite libearting, just hit record everything already inside the m8, hard to go out of sync, easy to go out of pitch tho ahah, but way more creative at least for me this week!

render straight out of the m8 <3

2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)