Welcome to the World is a song near and dear to my heart. Clear back in 2019, I found out I was going to be a dad, and I was so overwhelmed with so many emotions. This song is more or less a story without words to me. 

A couple questions I've had about this song:

Q: Why isn't there a lead in the first drop(s)?
A: I played around with so many leads in this song, and nothing sounded good, so I opted to write it in the style of hymnal chorus, with the goal of the bass and soprano ends of the chords more or less functioning as counter melodies to each other. I'm pretty happy with the result, and if you don't like it, well, that's ok. It's just how I feel best represents the emotions I felt with this song.

Q: Why didn't you try to add vocals?
A: Because 1) I've tried and failed, and the words just do not come close to capturing the emotions of what I've felt. I might release an edit in the future with vocals, but I'd rather the original be exactly as I have come to love this song; and 2) my vocal range is absolute trash and I have no skills in singing, nor the money to hire someone else to sing for me haha.

Welcome to the World

Real quick: This isn't the final version. I literally pumped out this song in 6 days to make it available in time for the Best of LMMS Vol. 3.

I figured I'd write a little bit about the song. I wrote this during a period of my life where I was going through some heavy anxiety and depression. I did my best to hide it from everyone, but nonetheless, it was still there. During that time, all I could do was play piano. I wrote this song to distract myself, and the finished product was a bright theme that danced with hope while still hinting at the pain I felt. But that hope was light in a dark place, and it kept me going. Eventually I came back a year later and produced it to become this song. The title Lux comes from a Latin word for light, and it seemed more fitting to leave it as a hybrid of acoustic and electronic elements versus trying to find lyrics for it.

Lux composed, adapted, arranged, performed, produced, and mixed by Jacoby Davis

All production (excluding piano tracks) done using LMMS v.1.1.3
Piano performed live. Recorded and produced using Garageband for iOS
Mixed using Audacity
Mastered through LANDR
Final recording finished 11.09.2015

Artwork designed and drawn by Jacoby Davis.
Artwork digitally produced using GIMP v2.8 by Jacoby Davis
Artwork uses elements of an original pencil sketch by Jacoby Davis entitled Arbol 2 © 2015 Jacoby Davis

Lux ℗© 2015 Jacoby Davis
Track Artwork © 2015 Jacoby Davis

This track is featured as the fifteenth track in the Best of LMMS Compilation Vol. 3, which can be found here:
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Lux (Best of LMMS Vol. 3 / Original Mix)

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✏️ Lyrics
When we had that feeling
The stars were our ceiling
Past the edge of town 
Cause we had nothin' else to do

Dreaming in full color
Loving like no other
No wasted days when I was wasting them with you

I was wasting them when you were
Showing me, showing me, showing me
Fake love that I couldn’t see, couldn’t see wasn’t true

Left me with these memories, memories, memories
Now I’m missing somebody I knew
And I know that it wasn’t you
Why’d you have to fool me like that

Cut me, in two
And tell me that you love me
Keep me, guessing
And whisper that you want me so bad 

Got me thinking, that we could last forever
I believed, now you’re gone
Why’d you have to fool me like that

Fool me like that 

Going round in circles, tripping over hurdles
Looking for the answer in the spots we used to go to
Now it’s all blown over, every breath is colder
Look over my shoulder, now I see what I fell into

I was wasting them when you were
Showing me, showing me, showing me
Fake love that I couldn’t see, couldn’t see wasn’t true

Cut me, in two
And tell me that you love me
Keep me, guessing
And whisper that you want me so bad 

Cut me, in two
And tell me that you love me
Keep me, guessing
And whisper that you want me so bad

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Amygdala Mix

@woods_alive and myself are proud to present our most recent collaboration, Start Again, as our combined entry to Best of LMMS 7.

Start Again came to be from me asking Woods if he had any dead projects I could dabble with. You know, the whole two heads are better than one yada yada. Well, I'm inclined to think that old adage is still true today, given this track was the result. It's been a couple years of back and forth in the making, but here it is. We hope you enjoy, and good luck to all the other entrants to BoL7!

https://clyp.it/c/start-again

Start Again

Here is my set at Ultra, I noticed the ones floating around the internet started early and ended early so I re recorded the last part and edited it in. Good times! Can't wait til next year :)

Live @ Ultra, OWSLA stage 03-16-13

Soundrop distribution coming soon to all major platforms.

Proud to release this finally! It was a beast of a project and eventually, I reached a point where if I tried to make it better, it only got worse. That being said, I'm happy with the results of this multi-genre track and I hope you all love it too!

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Garden of the Ancient

Now on all major platforms via Soundrop!

This song was originally intended to be a 42-second interlude titled "Waiting 'til the End". Eventually it turned into what it is now, as I explored new ideas and a more intimate style than most of the other stuff I've been working on. As  joke, I decided that "Waiting 'til the End" was the teaser for the final title, "The End."

Hope you like it as much as I do!

The End

Finally, I am happy to release the VIP Edit I've been working on for my Best of LMMS Vol. 7 collaboration with @punch. The VIP revisits improv. sessions which occurred long before Punch and I ever started communicating about collaborating. 

Hope y'all enjoy it!

The original can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/punch/start-again

Start Again (Woods Alive Sessions Edit)

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