Song Challenges

Made for the Hugo Moroux & Ben Levin Song Challenge

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My submission for Hugo Moroux and Ben Levin's July song challenge. I thought about what it means to for music to be considered "fast" and decided that it's not all about tempo.

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Running Up That Hill (Alexx Artificial Remix FT. Sumika)

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Cute Vomit V2.5

P4l1ndr0m3 V2 (Free The Poor Thief/Iwanttosurvive)

The Time Clock (ft Stealthmouse)

This is my submission to Hugo Moroux's December 2022 song challenge, Flower Form.

The flower is the birth of my second son
The bud is the skills that I needed to get any of this done at all
The thorn is that if I make a sound he wakes up

So I just got him to do the vocals.

Picked them up with the built in mic on my laptop while I rocked him because I accidentally let him get too tired.

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Orange Fox

Polygon V3

Mason Imitate Collab V2

This month's challenge was to use only one instrument. So I went with my old casio CK-500. Sampled the drums, a little bit of the radio, and a creepy tape from Chick Fillet that I forgot was in there. I didn't use the synthesizer because I feel like I'm already is pushing what is acceptable by finding a way to make jungle DnB with a dubstep break.

The growl is made from radio static.

CK500

I thought about choosing something something from when I started getting into good music in high school like Portishead or Coheed or something that shows of the roots of what I do now like Tera Melos or ... early Coheed. BUt then I was like nah f*** it, do what you were listening to when you were 12. Also, I have never ever in my entire life done a cover that wasn't some kind of reimagining so this was cool, taught me a lot about mixing. And boy do I love Jerry Fin's work.

Blink 182 - Aliens Exist (Alexx Artificial cover ft. Michael Alexander Galvez) v7

Overdrive

My entry in Hugo Moroux/Ben Levin song challenge for December. This month was to make a pop song heavy.

I started by removing the vocal with AI and transcribing it with a synth to get the notes and rhythm. This makes reharmonization much easier, although this time I spent most of the song in either the original chord or it's relative minor. ALTHOUGH I did move everything up a half step into C major so I wouldn't so incredibly confused reading music with that many sharps. After that I  took it measure by measure making each one into something I thought was cool, with the overall goal of turning it into a mid-tempo cyberpunk darksynth banger... this didn't work, I had to push the tempo back up or it was too long. I even had to cut a chorus off, original song was actually kind of long and I don't have the attention span for it lol

Also that’s bass not an eight string

I Wanna Stay At That House Boi (Cyberpunk Edgerunners REMIX)

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My proof that acoustic guitars don't work in space. Inspired by Aliens vs Predator (2000) for PC and every space scene in every movie and also Voyager for one bar. 

Recorded with a tascam sitting on a pillow on my couch. Samples are the  BBC Symphony Orchestra which was definitely acoustic when it was sampled. Drums are ableton packs of acoustic kits so HMU if you wanna drum on this.

Acoustic Challenge space vibe 120bpm bad ending R2

I mostly upload different mixes so It’s easier to listen on different systems as I learn.

Comment with advice, it really helps me out.