The Music Production Club's Monthly Music Mission is a challenge to make a new song every month.
Each month we get materials, prompts, exercises, etc. to help jumpstart a new song.
Imagine finishing one song per month. That's 12 per year, a full album's worth!
A new album every year is a worthy goal for any artist!
Join the Music Production Club to participate: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

MPC Monthly Music Mission

crowd favorites from 2024 q3-4
©2024 alpha juno llc + jd torian

spotlight 202411

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Recorded acoustic guitar and dulcimer (in d) into the op1 tape loop with some other reverb. Then fed that thru the morphagene > mimeophon--looooong loop. Played bass over this. And then went outside and recorded some nice birds with computer mic. Had a nice fader jam. Fairly minimal processing.

am Birds Take 1

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20240818 take 1

I wake up really early, and the idea here was to try and soundtrack what my am's feel like. Got close!

Improv jammed a bunch of loops and samples collected over the past few of days along with 3 Ableton Move synths. Added an arp from an op1f, all fed thru and into the sp404 mkii. Resampled a couple times, and here is the result!  
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swu22_04

Point West _pass 1

lofi hiphop + synthwave demo
©2024 alpha juno llc + jd torian
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hiro_demo

My electronics are consumer grade,
Designed to keep you up and entertained, 
Compact disc, A to Z, VHS, laserdisc, DVD,
Betamax, Radio Shack,
Wanna see the future?
Let me take you back…

Let’s keep it digital and be discreet,
Quantize and synchronize our clocks to meet, 
CD-ROM, floppy disk,
What’s your alias?
Mine’s ‘Nyquist’
Press play, record at the same time, 
Let it roll and then rewind. 

All this emotion, 
Electrons in motion,
Let it take you for a ride,
Let’s get closer to the speed of light,
And be my…

Game Boy,
Promise me that you’re not gonna Walkman, 
This could be the Genesis of something real,
Using all my cheat codes so my heart can feel,
So tell me…

Game Boy,
Promise me that you’re not gonna Pacman, 
Leave me at the checkout feeling obsolete,
Will you find me in your memory?

I’ll be your message to the great beyond,
That golden record spinning all night long,
Electroplated, calculated, and dated,
I play a universal song.

Game Boy!

Monthly Music Mission for July. Used only the Brian Funk Cassette Synth pack for all instrument sounds, and for the theme of "On the Go" I produced the track only using my performance laptop. Got a glitchy vibe early on so rolled with it.

MMM July - Walktop

A Safe Journey

This was a fun Monthly Music Mission that turned out pretty difficult to pull off. I used only Brian Funk's COINOP pack and used only native Ableton effects. Working within these limitations was pretty rough, mainly because I was not very familiar with the tools as full-fledged Arturia addict... But I'm pretty pleased with the outcome.

MMM August - Checkpoint

Seeing you brings my head down,
Are you lost inside your final dream?
We don't know how to get out,
I don't know how to be. 

Being angry won't bring you back,
It won't give us one more day,
It's the knife that cuts into the past,
My only escape. 

Final Dream

Austin, TX-based electronica artist.
Minimal, chill, downtempo tech-house with 80's feel. Plus some other stuff. 
I play live! DM for details.

Point West _pass 1

JD Torian