This Is the Road

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Find Melange’s streaming releases here: https://linktr.ee/melangemusic 

I’m a producer of musics electronic, IDM, ambient, soundtrack, shoegaze, and an occasional glam rocker. 23 ep out now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, Pandora, Tidal, and more!

My SoundCloud page for sharing some fire songs made with my beats! To find my full discography and other songs produced, mixed, written or even sung by me, check out my YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/AvidBeats) and main "Prod. By Avid Beats" playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXuy41kmJoAzeyUdUQVE_P_mjBbOC5IcY)

Contact me via my website for custom services, to buy beats, etc - www.avidbeats.com/custom-services

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Avid /ˈæv.ɪd/ - showing great enthusiasm for or interest in something.
 
Sam Gracie Tillbrook, from London, UK, known professionally as Avid Beats, is a versatile music producer and mixing engineer; singer/songwriter; instrumentalist; and video and podcast editor. His extensive catalogue includes hundreds of original works and collaborations with independent artists and producers from around the world.
 
From a young age, Sam has been captivated by sound. He was inspired to start making music in the summer of 2017, after listening to 2010s EDM and trap music, and wondering how it was made. He instantly felt addicted to the way music allowed him to express himself so freely. The name "Avid" perfectly describes his passion and love for music.
 
Each of Sam's projects tells a specific story. Something he finds when looking back on past creations is the way a piece of work can make him feel the same profound way he did when he made/wrote it. The opportunity to experiment is one of the things he finds most exciting about music and art in general. Sam's creative approach allows him to stay open to hearing and exploring new styles; and pushing boundaries, while retaining his distinctive sound. Sam's love of sound and audio has led him to create his own field recorded and sound designed samples, ranging from drum and percussion hits to melodic elements, which he uses in a multitude of his works. He has published tens of sample packs for producers over the course of a few years.
 
Discussing topics such as mental health, the environment and veganism, Sam's lyrics are authentic and from the heart. He writes many of them in nature, which is one of his biggest inspirations. He also loves to link his emotions and feelings to things that he sees and experiences while spending time in nature. Sam's connection with nature is not limited to music. Since 2023, he has been a key part of the campaign to save his local Park, Whitewebbs, as part of the Guardians of Whitewebbs campaign.
 
Sam is available for hire, offering a variety of production services. To every project, he brings his vibrant ideas; eclectic musical taste and knowledge; wide-ranging collaboration experiences; and his receptiveness to new styles of music; combined with a close attention to the artist’s vision.

Between the start of the covid-19 pandemics and the end of 2021, I fell victim to a creative fever that forced me to record thirteen instrumental songs that were buzzing inside my head at that time. Oh, almost forgot: I also became a dad. 

As you can listen, I should have spent more time learning how to record, mix and, most importantly, how to play the instruments, but the fever was strong, the uncertainty about whether or not I would still be here on earth next week was stronger, so I decided to materialize these musical ideas with my limited "musician/music producer" skills at the time anyway.

After a year or so I revisit these songs in an attempt to polish them through some basic mastering, to make them less hard to endure, and now something tells me that, between keeping it all a secret or making it public, the latter seems to be the way to go.

So here they are.  All songs composed, played and recorded by myself in my room using a multi-effects processor, a guitar, a bass, a keyboard, an e-drum kit, an audio interface and Audacity.

Electronic musician, and legacy biological lifeform, from the grey and dreary mists of England's medieval border-lands.

lofi oddities since 2018 -- collected ambient tracks remastered for Solemn Music for Practical People, out now and among many great artists at Atlantea Records on cd, digital and Bandcamp:

NOTICE: I DO NOT PAY FOR PROMOTION. EVER.

SPOTLIGHT: Sexagenarian Volume VI is now complete after the addition of its twelfth tarck, "where once...". Check out the other five (5!) volumes of Sexagenarian as well. 

BIO: I started writing songs in high school (1969-1973!) and I've pretty much never stopped. These are mostly solo recording projects (my brother, Fog City Fogey, contributes sometimes).  I don't do much self-promotion, not a fan of Repost Exchange etc, so all of you who find this page and like a song or two - you are truly appreciated!

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Erik Fredricks