25 songs for 25 years :)

these 25 tracks were made anywhere from 2020 to 2025.
i always enjoyed listening to them as private tracks on here, but i never felt like they could be released.
i've finally decided to share a good chunk of those songs in honor of my 25th birthday.
also, there's a good bit more where this came from. and, yes, i'll drop those at some point too :)

thank you for your support
i hope to start dropping a bit more consistently, despite life being rather busy

i also want to thank all of my family and friends (especially make family not friends lol) for everything they've done to support me over the years.
big shoutout to james gorczyca for giving me the courage to drop something like this, as i never thought any of these tracks would see the light of day.
ultimately, i wouldn't be where i am if it weren't for listeners like you, so i'm forever grateful for you as well.

once again, thank you all very much. i couldn't have done this without you.

cheers,
eric checks <3

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there is no bright side

imma trap queen i gotta gock in my rawri 
all dolled up i be looked like a barbie 
me and my besties the baddest at the party 
my wallet won't fold, bread too thick, like banh mi x2

i don't care about my ego on the d low 
t-girl emo my eyes CeeLo every time that i be puffin green 
only pull up with my besties 
all the rest these bitches suck my testes 
you cunts festy don't try test me coz i dont like to be mean

with these wings up on my eyes i could jus fly right thru the sky 
i got 13 reasons why i could tell you im not that guy 
im so high im seeing shapes, im both oven baked and fried  
wake up and she gave me top at the top of the morning then i irish goodbye 
you can't make my beats or pay my fees, i know i'm 1 of 1 
you can't slay like me im blazing trees until i see the sun
cunts that ain't my team, they hate my team, i think they be my sons 
if u ain't smndif then suck my dick u must be dumb

imma trap queen i gotta gock in my rawri 
all dolled up i be looked like a barbie 
me and my besties the baddest at the party 
my wallet won't fold, bread too thick, like banh mi x2

TRAP QUEEN

EXHALE WITH KILLVEIN

runaway (@fiftyzeros)

mixing and mastering: @ZYROM

🤍lyrics🤍

i saw your light
oh youre the sky
we can fly
just like kites

love induced euphoria
thinking of you in my bed
sober euphoria
pray you never ever leave my head 

i saw your smile
right then i melted 
we became one
were not done yet
were not done yet
were not done yet

id wait for you on any street
you take me off of my own feet
and with you 
there is no defeat

id wait for you on any street
you take me off of my own feet
and with you 
there is no defeat

love induced euphoria
thinking of you in my bed
sober euphoria
pray you never ever leave my head 

love induced euphoria
thinking of you in my bed
sober euphoria
pray you never ever leave my head 

thinking of you in our bed

thinking…

euphoria

been having night terrors n reliving a lot in my head for the past few years. i had a few months break from them but they seem to be back. made this song instead of sleeping

i relive it all in my head

Buy on Bandcamp!

Magick Monkey

Track 3 off of my upcoming tape “Trickery for the Ears”

Pre-Save here: https://vyd.co/TrickeryForTheEars

www.jamesgorczyca.net

Knight's Tour

Seduced by the Moon

Altar of Alteration

Title:
Earth

1: "Earth", 05:02 (00:00)
2: "Parting", 06:22, (05:02)
3: "Trees", 05:28, (11:24)
4, "Insects", 1:35, (16:52)
5, "Visitor", 04:23, (18:27)
End (22.50)

Dates:
01-Nov-2025 (inception), 01-Nov-2025 (finalised), 04-Nov-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund
Music Video by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/earth

Description:
After recording "Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition" (Ref. [1]), I had to have a wind down session just jamming out, or was it going more hyper -- you be the judge.

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 were recorded DAWless on the Granie, feeding it the Soma Lyra 8. Granie is my granular synthesiser Ref. [2].

Track 1 used a definite tuning library, whereas for tracks 2, 3 and 4, it was all modified and improvised. The tuning is listed below, negative frequencies meant play backwards, these were the grain play-back frequencies, which may differ to the human perceived frequency.

Grain Bank 1 frequencies [Hz]:
1: -1.635
2: 0.265
3: 0.985
4: 1.465
5: 2.165
6: 2.865
7: 4.165
8: 12.465

Grain Bank 2 frequencies [Hz]:
1:14.
2: 3.
3: 13.
4: 20.
5: 25.
6: 32
7: 28.
8: -2.4

Grain Bank 3 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 3
2: 14
3: 17
4: 22
5: 23
6: 25
7: 41
8: 47

Grain Bank 4 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 117
2: 122
3: 125
4: 129
5: 131
6: 136
7: 141
8: 40

The tuning was determined one grain bank at a time, all by ear, ensuring each new bank's ith note worked well with the next bank's ith note.

For track 5, I was curious what the tuning of track 1 would sound like with a fixed discrete tuning instrument, so took the raw track 1 tuning and put it into Ableton Live, an exact replica of tuning but with no granular synthesis human perceived tuning corrections. Some selective octave reduction was also used, this tuning is shown below:

ID, Bank, Local, FreqRatio, Cents
0, 0, 0, 1.000, 0c
1, 0, 1, 0.162, -3150c
2, 0, 2, 0.602, -877c
3, 0, 3, 0.896, -190c
4, 0, 4, 1.324, 486c
5, 0, 5, 1.752, 971c
6, 0, 6, 2.547, 1619c
7, 0, 7, 7.624, 3517c
8, 1, 0, 1.070, 118c
9, 1, 1, 0.229, -2549c
10, 1, 2, 0.994, -11c
11, 1, 3, 1.529, 735c
12, 1, 4, 1.911, 1121c
13, 1, 5, 2.446, 1549c
14, 1, 6, 2.141, 1318c
15, 1, 7, 0.183, -2936c
16, 2, 0, 1.835, 1051c
17, 2, 1, 8.563, 3718c
18, 2, 2, 10.398, 4054c
19, 2, 3, 13.456, 4500c
20, 2, 4, 14.067, 4577c
21, 2, 5, 15.291, 4721c
22, 2, 6, 25.076, 5578c
23, 2, 7, 28.746, 5814c
24, 3, 0, 1.118, 193c
25, 3, 1, 1.166, 266c
26, 3, 2, 1.195, 308c
27, 3, 3, 1.233, 362c
28, 3, 4, 1.252, 389c
29, 3, 5, 1.300, 454c
30, 3, 6, 1.347, 516c
31, 3, 7, 0.382, -1665c

I used a bell instrument, ok, this is weird, the tuning, not the instrument, but it worked, 8 notes for each of the Granie banks, strung together into 32 notes and just stuck with only using those 32 notes. I realised I needed a timing track, so picked a drum set and set the Push2 midi controller into 1/16th repeat note mode and improvised some drums into a 21 bar section. Improvised on the Bells track into 18 bars. Put the percussion and bells into looped playback and improvised on the Lyra 8 -- one take, improvised tuning oh ya.

This was all done in the session view of Live, then bounced into the arrangement view ready to play back and do the mastering by putting in volume swells for interest.

You can hear the whole album on my YouTube channel at:
https://youtu.be/Dd1BKzmb1hU

References:
[1]	Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition, Link: https://youtu.be/5HTL0VaQpvI
[2]	Granie, Granular synthesiser by Norman Freund, purchase at: https://normanfreund.gumroad.com/l/granie


Trees

"MAKE FAMILY NOT FRIENDS"
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Seduced by the Moon

JAMES GORCZYCA

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