I won't lie. I had to push myself to get something done. This is right around the time I typically burn out and I was just not feeling it this week. Work is taking up a lot more time and I'm on the road a LOT. But I'm glad I made time, even if it was like a couple hours ago and the song is little more than a simple pattern. And it's kinda long for what it is. But it is what it is. And it's uploaded.

Also, I got a compression module I've wanted for a long time so I can sidechain in my rack and I'm about to make it everyone's problem. Everything will pump from now on and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

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tomorrow on February 24th, agent dale cooper enters the town of twin peaks for the first time and discovers the body of laura palmer. it will forever be one of my favorite television shows, it always puts the fire back in my heart when I watch it. these next few songs are a love letter to it. the first one is for laura palmer, sometimes I cry when I think about you. 

rest in peace david <3

i recorded a few chords similar to the opening credits on the rhodes and went from there. rest in peace angelo badalamenti, a big part of the magic was always with you <3 



my time got cut short this week, I had so many ideas for what to do here and only got to do a few of them. I had an out of hours deployment I had to be a part of Sunday night that really took the final hours away from me too. Ended up cutting nearly 3 minutes of the track, but I think the arrangement is still okay <3 wish I had time to actually mix and master this bitch too.



lyrics:


i wanna be wrong

we both know i'm not

i'll run for my life

like i'm tryna get caught

give me all of the risk

i got nothing to gain

i just watch it play out

and pray for something to change

i'd talk to god

but he won't talk back

it's like he's dodging my calls

i'm just facing the facts

i'm just watching the flames

i'm just caught in the glow

it just keeps building up

til i want to fucking explode







there's only one way out

there's only one way out

there's only one way out

there's only one way out

thank u to my friend Max for playing coop in the outro <3

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Let's do some trashy rock. I cut this one closer than usual.

It all started last week when I found this tiny little amp at a thrift store.

First Act is best known for the cheap combo kits found at department stores. Not exactly great pieces of kit. But, I'm always on the look out for new sounds. Also, Dave Grohl mentioned that one of his secret weapons on The Color and the Shape was a little plastic Marshall belt amp. Sure, let's try it. Didn't have a power supply, but I probably had one in my Box o' Bricks at home.

Get home, my power supply that's close enough is two volts low. Oh well, it'll just underpowered it and maybe make it break up more. Let's try it. Plug in the Epi SG.

IT SOUNDS AMAZING. OK, I guess we're making a track with this silly little thing. All guitar tones are miked with a condenser and only added effects are compression and reverb. Only DI instrument is the bass, and no MIDI!

Since I was going to be miking an amp, I thought it would be a good opportunity to try live drums as well. I have a drum kit. It is not a good one. But that's OK, I'm not a good drummer. Logic beat matching to the rescue. Due to the trashy nature of the song thus far, I give it a working name of Trashy.

The rest of the track took shape via text with my wife. I send her the first mix:

Wife: "That is delightfully filthy."

Me: "Needs some equally filthy lyrics. Maybe trashy is actually the title :D 'Sweet and maybe a little trashy'"

Wife: "Sweet in the streets but trashy in the sheets"

Me: "Ooooo"

Wife: "I kinda wanna sing that"

So here we are. I wrote up the words later that day and threw down a placeholder that night. She made some edits and sang it at 3pm on a Sunday after a weekend away. We both decided that "trashy" is a bit demeaning, so "filthy" and "Nasty" it is :)

Done...oh wait, it's 5:10 and I have to make cover art!

› Lyrics‹ Lyrics

My woman

So sweet

Frills and lace

From her head to her feet

But later

At home

Know what I want

When I get her alone

Sweet in the streets

But filthy in the sheets

Nasty

So nasty

She’s smilin'

I’m knowing

With how she looks

There’s a lot she isn’t showin

She’s wanting

I’m needing

Wont’ be long

Till I start with the pleadin'

Sweet in the streets

But filthy in the sheets

Nasty

So nasty

Nasty

So nasty

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Sketched on M8. Added bass with MPC. Arranged and mixed in Ableton.

Included the sound of a bird I heard today pitched down -28 semitones. Just sounds like a guy whistling but it's nice to have a guest appearance.

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Continuing the tradition of hectic percussion and using more extreme FM presets, decided to really devote some time to building out a few OPL3 4-OP patches. Really started cooking and then got close to the deadline so had to stop right when I was building up a new section.

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Another week of thinking about making some music, then not getting around to it until the weekend. Thinking about it is good though. Thinking about any creative pursuit is positive and inspiring. It beats doom-scrolling, as we probably all know. Nice to look forward to a new adventure in creating something each week.

A little ironic that when I finally sit down to make music on Saturday that instead of working on one of the ideas I thought about all week, I see a random sticky note and follow that to make whatever comes to me in the moment. All the thinking probably helps open the creative mind to capture whatever new ideas show up.

The sticky note on my desk said: Bauhaus Dub She's in Parties.That seemed like a fun place to start, so that's where I started. Part of me wanted to make a remix / edit of that song, to maybe use in a DJ set or something, but not for a WB song. So I pulled a few samples, chopped and edited to be something different. Mostly used bass sound, then just had fun adding and adding, mostly Ableton sounds playing on the Push, sampling some more ... then adding more, and more. Too much?

Hard to stop adding more and flip into editor mode. The process was a good reminder that I'm a maximalist and I like the creation phase. I like the edit phase too, but with all the sound I end up creating, it can be hard to edit down. I find it's best when I can let something sit for a week or two and come back and edit. That's hard to do with WB. I may try to do the rotating weeks again. Create the piles of sound one week, then edit it after it's settled for a while.

I enjoyed making this and listening to it (at least today). So that's good. We'll see how it sounds tomorrow. I look forward to maybe doing another edit after a few days or weeks.

Always great hearing everyone's music here. Provides a lot if inspiration. So, thanks for that!

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Probably not gonna be the last one this year.

Started the week with no plans and barely any time. Friends came to stay for a few days, so I took a recording I made of myself practicing breakbeats and a guitar riff and chopped it up a little while everyone else was already asleep. Sadly I didn't get anything exciting done with the initial idea, and I'm again very sparse on the transistions and ear candy - but it's something, and there's something new in here: first bit of live drum recording I did for Weeklybeats!

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You might ask yourself "Whatever happened to the childhood dreams!".

Well, sometimes they take their time to mature and then express themselfes in the form of lyrics for a musical collaboration. Dream on!

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renoise; sort of generative; should be looking into pattnrs https://pattrns.renoise.com/

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I’ve become really set on my next album being a culmination of samples entirely sourced from my friends. My weird chronic issues really flare when I talk with people, so I can go a long time without socializing. This idea of stealing my friend’s voices to make music with has been cathartic for me. In its own weird way, it feels like I’m still getting to hang out with each of them as I write.

When I first got to college, I was in an Intro to Music Industry class. We all had to assign nicknames to ourselves. Mo’ Money was the name of the guy who provided me this rap sample after I asked him for some stuff. We don’t have a deep history, but we each respect each other a lot.

Anyways, I made this ass shaker out of Mo’ Money’s voice.

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