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I am posting that at the last minute on Sunday night - I had less time that I wished. I think there is potential in this track but I really did not spend enough time on it for it to shine.

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The song is in French, but essentially: I’m dying of heat and I feel like the temperature is over a million degrees.

Anyway, a fun submission in a not so fun weather in Central Europe.

- I wanted to do some acoustic-punk. It didn’t work and the guitar was all over the place.

- Tried to have also the cajon. The rhythm was all over the place.

Gave up, had a meltdown (physically), recorded the bass track kinda okay and just picked my Telecaster and said fuck it and went ahead with this version.

Sprinkled a bit of 2 voices on the chorus. Did the solo on one take because I was fed up and the temperature in the room was reaching terrible levels.

I need 3 hours to properly record these tracks and correctly time the different parts. I just don’t have the energy anymore today.

That’s it, this week could have been better (like every time lol). But hey. It works!

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This is a quick experimental jam after inevitably lost a decent track to battery drowning and pushing the exact opposite shortcut to loading a state and overwriting it with a blank slate :) In any case I completely suck and can't quite remember half of the shortcuts of FMS, but 1.30 is definitely sounding a lot better and I will prevail.

Too bad you have to endure this shit before I get there :) The sound banks or whatever they're called are great too.

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This track was put together in Cubasis on iPad. Tools used:

Pads - outgrowth, pro a5, SynthMaster 2 & 3

If you listened then thank you 🙏

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Heads down on game stuff mostly. Had a meeting. Shot update video. Work critique. knocked out some versions of music. Introduced a new song. Weekly beat reps really paying off. Focused on enviormental sounds in between. Had fun staying up late and recording sounds (apartment is quieter then). Reading an easy book. Going by quick. Nice to not dissect and digest as much. Probably not the audience for the book but, I am enjoying my time. Structured like content rather than a book in a lot of ways. It was a thoughtful B-day present from K&T. locked in doors too much this week. need to get out. Sad the salad place is closing.

Had a good time celebrating CF's B-day w/ our mutual community of friends. Cheers buddy. Nice house party :) So hard to get us all together. Grateful to have had the opportunity. So many friends w/ kids. Took turns watching and playing. Love talking and seeing how much they have grown and what stage of life they are in. One of the great joys in life is seeing who they are becoming. Conversations made me look forward to the future. Power in community.

Media consumed: 30 rock, Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, Vangelis - Blade Runner, Kap Bambino - No Domination, x|k - Baud of Passion - old demos - Outra, Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Annihalation - Civil War, Disasterpeace - Hyperlight Drifter, John Williams - Disclosure Day,

Gear Used:

Gameboy Advanced SP

Tascam DR-40

Software Used:

Fors FMS 1.2.1 (need to update)

Izotope rx10 De-noise

Izotope Ozone 10

Beating the beats... Weekly. 4 hours of driving today. Made a thing after getting home from a long day. 20 minutes tinkering w/ FMS. Recorded jam with the one pattern. Didn't bother making it stereo. too busy. slop baby and that's ok. Picked up a new link cable and got an old SP back. Dual Gameboys hear I come... in the future.

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You would think with a three day weekend I would have time for weeklybeats??? Unfortunately I misjudged how much I thought I could achieve, and although I achieved a lot, I did not get as much music time as I wanted. So instead, I quickly whipped this up in an hour or so. Reasonably happy with how it all came together even if it is a bit uninspired.

This week has been busy, but lovely! A short work week always flies by. I had some lovely interactions with my colleagues that made me feel very much welcomed into the new job and reminded me just how far I have come with putting myself out there in social situations. I feel quite proud of that.

With my long weekend, I went on a social group ride, which despite cycling for a very long time, I had never actually done! Unsurprisingly, I had a blast, and met a few nice people too! I went for lunch with my old colleagues, which was really nice. It was fun to catch up and see how things are going there. (The problem I was unable to solve was outsourced to an expert contractor who has so far been unable to solve it in 2 months which does make me feel a little bit vindicated, but also it would be great if the problem was just solved!). I took down a tree that needed to come down in the courtyard, which was quite a rewarding experience. It was also sad to remove something that was beautiful, and to see all the insects that had been living in it come down too - it was quite a reflective gardening session. This process was made a lot easier by my new colleagues lending me gardening equipment and power tools which is VERY KIND! The cats are currently enjoying finding all the new sunny spots they can sit in too.

Saturday was for running, house inspections, and a haircut. It's always so nice to go and see my barber. It's always nice to feel crisp and clean with a nice haircut. He also appreciates how much I enjoy having a nice fresh haircut (and he always does such a good job). I am also in awe of the stories he tells about his life, outrageous and unfiltered. He has certainly lived a full life!

Today was for more running in the very very cold morning, followed by some warm coffee and sitting in the sun! I also had promised a friend who works in a kakigori store that I would stop by and try some which, although not wanting to leave the house again, I followed through on and I am very glad I did. She was delighted to see me, and I had such a fun time watching her prepare the ice with the shaving machine. I walked through the streets eating what felt like snow. It was sweet yet refreshing. I gazed at the buildings with wonder as if I was on holiday. As I was about to get on a tram, a man took his headphones out to tell me he really liked my (recently purchased) jersey, and he was a big fan of Canterbury Uglies, before returning to his phone call. A very fun interaction which left me grinning. I purchased the jersey because they are very popular in New Zealand, where mum is from. Dad has some which he now only wears in the garden, no doubt from mum's influences. I have always thought they were very cool, I loved the mismatched stripes, so now I have some of my own! I'm finding a lot of New Zealanders have fond memories of them!

Anyway, I digress! I need to go and make dinner before heading to the gym. I hope you are all doing well!

there's rain outside

these canvas walls

and I can see it all

your freckled skin

your weary eyes

but we are so alive

it's hell out there

that's nothing new

heaven is a thing we do

the dark grey skies

will fade to blue

heaven is a thing we do

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Intended to write something heavy but my ideas were very melodic. Feels like a bit of a mish mash of styles a bit to me. Some cool licks though I think.

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i missed last week :(

this week is some more generative noodling in ableton. i uploaded this without listening to it so whoever listens first is the first person ever to hear this particular version how exciting (i hope it didnt break)

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All sequenced on M8, swift master in reaper.

Started with the intro motif for Caves of Qud, an obsession for the past 2 years, though I swore off video games for the year when I started this challenge - major scale 7843 then I built around it and it's buried in there somewhere :D.  Family and I are on vacation this week - got a lot of this in on the plane.

As always thanks for all of the encouraging words over the past few weeks, I was in a gauntlet of brutal work, london one day, LA the next, now back to the east coast with literally no full 24 hour days at home.  I'll get back there soon enough, at least I got the loved ones with me.

Hope you are all having an amazing summer. :)

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