Still away from home, back in London now for a family wedding, so many events, very tired but it has been a wonderful time.  Had a project file I started back in November and never finished, that saved a ton of time for this week and was able to finish up that project, quite happy with how it turned out.  Thanks for listening everyone, should be back to normal for next week.

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Mini Freak and Push 3 this time around. Was able to take some time off to spend with family so managed to actually sit down for a few hours and knock this one out. 150BPM, and hard as heck to tame but I think I managed. More a test of sound design then song craft but I'll take it. I think this track ends the summer of breaks, no idea what September will bring...

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Another very busy week. There were some big lows and some big highs. Some tough moments. Some uncomfortable truths. Some happy learnings. All is well that ends well!

One highlight of this week was a weekend trip down to Hobart to visit my brother, his wife, and their daughter. My niece is growing up so quickly! She's talking more and more and she can clearly understand things now! She demands to be picked up and held upside down and her favourite word is "more". It was also very lovely to get some one on one time with my brother over dinner - something that we don't get to do very often. It was a brief trip but every second was worthwhile and I like to think I made it count.

This week's track was written in an hour on Sunday afternoon, and recorded with a room mic (nice to be away from the computer for a bit longer). Lyrics are inspired by a passage in the novel I'm reading at the moment. Guitar in DADEF#C# tuning.

place your earring in my hand

it feels cold to the touch

though I long for something warm

I don't ask for much

looking back you will see love

a straight line through the mess

change where you are looking from

and you'll settle for much less

fools rush in

dying to save

fools rush in

and some will call them brave

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In the past few week I haven't composed anything I'd like to release as its own thing. But this weekly beats thing is so damn dope. Just the fact that I can put something together in two short session? I can fricken ride a bicycle! It is amazing. This is something I sure was not able to do a few years back. This is the original internet. I love this. I love ya! :)

No drugs were consumed during writing of this blurb.

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Another quick little "analog 4 but in ableton" jam.

Fun!

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Quick one in my hotel room before I head out on my last backpacking trip of the season!

Used a sample of a chord loop I played a while back and threw some stuff on top.

It’s not super exciting, but proud of myself for sticking with making something instead of just blowing it off this week!

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And as the mind is one single part of a man, and remains fixed in a certain place, as the ears and eyes are, and the other organs of sense, whatsoever govern life ; and as the hand, and the eye or nose, when detached from us, cannot, separately of themselves, have sensation or even existence, for, when cut off, they are in a short time wasted with putrefaction ; so the mind cannot, of it-self, exist without the body and the man himself, which body seems to be, as it were, its vessel, or whatsoever else you would imagine to be more closely united with it, since it adheres to the body by connexion.

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Feeling good with this one. Optimism in the air it seems!

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Experimenting a bit this week incorporating human voices.

Proud to be a Canadian this week.

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