News Update! August 3
So, it is official, Hyphen is out and for sale! Check out the album page for more information.
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Rhene July 7
One day, someone who’s opinion I respect said that he’d love to hear a whole album of Sparkles and Unicorns. Because I’m an accomodating sellout, I made this in response.
Much like this song, the title is meaningless but kind of pretty.
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Powertools July 4
It sounds like power tools. Creepy, creepy power tools. Kind of like a drill, I suppose, but if someone was torturing someone else with an electric drill in another room.
This is fully synthesized, no samples were molested in the creation of this track. Also, It’s a year and a half old. I need to not sit on tracks so long.
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Ode To Joy July 1
I very nearly made this a Braindouche! Hates It’s Listeners installment, but decided that it’s not really long enough to make anyone suffer sufficiently.
It is, however, that Ode To Joy, it is utterly terrible, and it’s a terrific example of the horrors that FL Studio allows otherwise well-meaning people to perpetrate upon music. Enjoy, suckers.
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Oh God It’s A Robot June 29
The only explanation I have for this title is that this track sounds very reminiscent of BBC Radiophonic Workshop music in their more textural, less composery-themey moods. That therefore clearly leads to thoughts of cheap BBC scifi shows, and their associated cheap costumes and FX.
I suppose that means I could have just as easily titled this track “Look, A Walking Cardboard Box”.
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Nothing Left To Take Away June 26
If you recall Vistas, and the abandoned project that spawned it, you pretty much have all the information you need to parse this piece of beautiful, digital New Age music.
Nothing Left To Take Away is, as a title, a statement on self-editing in digital music, and how there generally isn’t enough of it, and that there’s a habit among digital composers to try to cram 3 or 4 songs’ worth of ideas into one piece, and they shouldn’t. Even as an enthusiast of minimalism, I have the same problem.
The reason I bring it up? This tune needed a lot of scrubbing before it was ready for prime time. It was very crapped up. It is not now, and that is good.
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Hell Has A Power Grid June 23
So, what happened was, I moved 400 miles to a new city and a new state, and I had no internet.I now live in Buffalo, and I got internet yesterday.
Why you didn’t get a podcast yesterday? Because I’m a lazy bastard is why.
Hell Has A Power Grid is industrial and dark and creepy, and it sort of sounds like a warehouse that had, I don’t know, a lot of wiring and shit in it, right after some big freaking thing rampaged through and fucked shit up.
Also? Pure synthesis. I can’t tell you how much I love sample-free industrial.
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A False Sense of Security June 8
One of FL Studio’s strengths AND weaknesses is all of the different ways you are presented to export audio out of a project. It’s relatively straightforward to pull individual elements out of a mix, and it’s fairly simple to pull different drafts out of your project.
It’s also pretty easy to completely screw up your export before you close your project without saving, leaving you with a small audio file that has absolutely nothing to do with what you were trying to accomplish, forcing you to redo your project and release a vastly inferior second take.
Because its never as good the second time.
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They’re leaning on the one-way glass June 4
Heh, see what I did there?
It’s repetitive, it’s maddening, it stretches (dunno how that happened), and if you’re patient, you’ll see why I called it that.
Music To Go Crazy To(tm).
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Yettu May 26
To continue on the naming scheme, this is Yettu. Yettu is Malayalam for the number eight. I chose this name because it sounded pretty. (Also, I’m an irrationally big fan of Yatta.)
You may have noticed a meta-naming-scheme thing going on, whereas this and the three previous pieces are all numerical. It’s not spooky. The reason is because I dug up these four tracks from the depths of my hard drive, and they were called Dragged Sample 4, 6, 7, and 8. That’s all. That’s it. There’s no rhyme or reason to this. It’s all just an excuse to fill in fields so I can put ambient music I don’t even remember making on the internet.
Just listen.
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