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NOSEBLEED

Ravepunk Bootleg of Sabotage by The Beastie Boys.

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Sabotage (Magna Bootleg)

The Edit of Divide I did for the awesome guys at Dennation / Devolver Digital for Hotline Miami 2.

EDIT: Now on streaming services: https://open.spotify.com/album/6plFBv3vrfpn8RhK6vnW2x?si=_lUW_PmnSjuCdxGu7LSBUg

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Divide (Miami Edit)[NOW ON STREAMING]

SKRILLEX
DAMIAN MARLEY
JR. GONG
THE RAGGAMUFFIN 
RAGGA TWINS

SKRILLEX WAS A MASSIVE INFLUENCE ON ME IN MY TEENAGE YEARS. FROM THE FIRST TIME I HEARD MY NAME IS SKRILLEX I WAS HOOKED, AS MANY OF YOU I’M SURE CAN RELATE TO. IN THE YEARS PRECEDING HIS DEBUT ALBUM “RECESS” HE FLIRTED HEAVILY WITH RAGGA VOCALS AND SAMPLES. SOMETHING I THINK WAS NEW TO MANY PEOPLE, BUT HAS DEEP HISTORY IN DANCE MUSIC THAT I THINK HE WAS JUST DUSTING OFF TO GIVE TO US AGAIN. AND I THINK USING A MARLEY, RAGGA ROYALTY, WAS A VERY VALIDATING CHOICE, ESPECIALLY IN 2014.

THE ONLY OTHER RAGGA VOCALISTS WITH AS MUCH FINESSE AND POWER AS THE MARLEY FAMILY IN MY OPINION ARE THE ALWAYS AMAZING — RAGGA TWINS.

MC’S WHOSE EARLY 1990’S SINGLES MADE THEM CONNOISSEUR GO-TOS AND PIVOTAL FIGURES IN THE EARLY UK RAVE AND JUNGLE SCENE — AS PITCHFORK WOULD SAY.

INCORPORATING A SAMPLE FROM THE RAGGA TWINS’ 1991 RELEASE “SPLIFFHEAD” PROVIDES A FUN CONTRAST TO DAMIAN MARLEY’S VOCALS. TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN WHEN IT COMES TO RAGGA VOCALS.

DUBSTEP PROVIDES AN INTERESTING AND WORTHWHILE PAIRING TO DAMIAN MARLEY’S VOCAL STYLE, BUT I WANTED TO BRING IT BACK TO WHAT RAGGA VOCALS WERE FIRST LAYED OVER WHEN IT CAME TO DANCE MUSIC. HEAVY BREAKS AND REESE BASS. VERY 90’S. LAYERED IN WITH WHAT IM CALLING MY “AC REESE” AS I THINK IT SOUNDS LIKE A BROKEN AIR CONDITIONER, AND SOME ACID BLASTS HERE AND THERE, I THINK 150 BPM STARTS TO FEEL SLOW.

ON A SIDE NOTE, I CAN’T CONFIRM BUT I’M RELATIVELY CONFIDENT THAT SKRILLEX HAS SAMPLED RAGGA TWINS AS FAR BACK AS “CAT RATS”. BRINGING THE CONNECTION FULL CIRCLE TO WHEN I FIRST DISCOVERED SKRILLEX’S MUSIC, A VERY DIFFERENT TIME.

ALSO HERE I HAVE INCORPORATED A SAMPLE OF HOHNER’S REMIX OF JAYDEE’S “PLASTIC DREAMS” A RECENTLY DISCOVERED REMIX FOR ME. RELEASED IN 1997 BUT PRODUCED IN 1992, THE THUNDEROUS OPENING STILL SOUNDS LIKE NOTHING I’VE EVER HEARD IN DANCE MUSIC. I HAD TO HAVE IT. COULD YOU IMAGINE SITTING ON A TRACK FOR 5 YEARS NOW? NEVER.

ANOTHER SIDE NOTE. AFTER USING IT IN THIS REMIX, I MADE THE MENTAL CONNECTION THAT THE PRODIGY HAVE ALSO SAMPLED IT IN “MEDUSA’S PATH”, ANY CONNECTION TO THE PRODIGY I CAN INSERT MYSELF INTO, I WILL TAKE.

I WANTED THIS REMIX TO FEEL OLD AND DUSTY, BUT I THINK ITS SOMETHING THAT MAY STILL WORK IN 2019.

Make It Bun Dem (Magna Remix)

Skrillex & Damian Marley - Make It Bun Dem (Magna Remix)

TERRORIZE
UNDERGROUND
DANCEHALL MEETS CLUB KID
CHEEZEBALL 2000’s VIBE

IF I CAN BE COMPLETELY HONEST (I TRY TO BE MOST TIMES) THIS TRACK IS PRETTY MUCH A REMIX OF A 1992 TRACK BY TERRORIZE CALLED “IT’S JUST A FEELING”. IT’S BEEN A STAPLE OF MINE SINCE I BOUGHT THE RECORD AT A SHOP CALLED PROFOND MUSIC AND ART HERE IN PHILADELPHIA. I JUST LIKED THE COVER, THE SHOP HAS SINCE SHUT DOWN.

I’VE RECREATED THE REESE BASSLINE FROM THE 1992 ORIGINAL AND ATTEMPTED TO MODERNIZE IT IN A WAY THAT WASN’T TOO CHEEZY. I THINK I’VE SUCCEEDED IN SOME WAY. IT BECOMES A SIMPLE TRAP BEAT FOR A LITTLE, BUT IT DOESN’T REST ON THAT TOO LONG, WHICH I LIKE.

SPEAKING OF CHEEZE, THERE ARE MANY LITTLE INTERWEAVING VOCAL SAMPLES LAYERED THROUGHOUT THE TUNE, SAMPLED FROM TWO DIFFERENT SONGS, A BEATS INTERNATIONAL TUNE CALLED “BLAME IT ON THE BASSLINE” AND A KLUBBHEADS SONG CALLED “BIG BASS BOMB”. BOTH OF THESE SONGS ARE INCREDIBLY CHEEZY, AND THE LATTER IS SOME KIND OF A CAPITALIZATION ON THE EARLY 2000’S RAVE RENAISSANCE. “BLAME IT ON THE BASSLINE’S” VOCALS ARE SOME KIND OF RIFFING ON HOW EASY IT WAS TO MAKE A DANCE HIT. I WOULDN’T TAKE ANYTHING ELSE FROM NORMAN COOK, THE SONGS PRODUCER. A VERY TONGUE IN CHEEK NOD TO AN ISSUE WE STILL FACE IN MUSIC TODAY.

MY ATTEMPT HERE WAS TO TAKE SOMETHING INHERENTLY COMMERCIAL AND TRITE, AND DRAG IT BACK, KICKING AND SCREAMING INTO THE UNDERGROUND.

THROUGHOUT THE TRACK THERE ARE BLASTS OF RAGGA AND DANCEHALL VOCALS, AND I’M TRYING TO DRAG THEM INTO A MORE MODERN SETTING BY WARPING AND TWISTING THEM IN FAMILIAR JUNGLE WAYS.

OVERALL THIS TUNE IS AN ODE TO EARLY 90’S JUNGLE MUSIC, AND HOW EASY IT CAN BE RECONTEXTUALIZED IN A MODERN WAY. I HOPE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD THE ORIGINAL TERRORIZE TUNE OR I FEAR MINE MAY BE A LITTLE BORING, BUT IF I HAD TO GUESS YOU HAVEN’T, AND YOU SHOULD.

JUNGLE Massiv

RAIN
HIGH SCHOOL
FRIENDS
SUMMER

RAIN IS SOMETHING FUNNY. IT CAN BE INVITED, OR DESPISED DEPENDING ON YOUR EXACT SITUATION. IN THE MIDDLE OF A HOT SUMMER DAY, RAIN CAN BE AMONG THE MOST ACCEPTED THINGS. A SMALL REPRIEVE IN THE MIDDLE OF SWELTERING HEAT.

A LOT OF MY SUMMERS IN HIGH SCHOOL WERE SPENT OUTSIDE AT THE POOL, WHERE I’D SWIM EVEN IN THE RAIN, AS IT WAS ONLY GOING TO END TOO SOON. THE ORIGINAL OF THIS SONG REMINDS ME HEAVILY OF HIGH SCHOOL. I HAD STARTED MAKING MUSIC MY FRESHMAN YEAR AND ONE OF THE FIRST FRIENDS I HAD EVER MADE BECAUSE OF MUSIC WAS HUGO LECLERCQ. I FIRST HEARD FINALE IN THOSE YEARS.

THIS SONG ALWAYS TO ME HAD A DEFIANT YOUTHFUL FEEL, MUCH LIKE SWIMMING THROUGH THE RAIN BECAUSE YOU WERE 16 AND COULD DO ANYTHING.

I THINK A LOT OF THINGS IN MUSIC CAN SOUND EARTHY AND NATURAL IF WE LET THEM BLEND INTO EACH OTHER, AND WE DON’T TRY TO HARD TO SEPARATE THEM AND MAKE THEM TOO CLINICAL. THE MAIN VOCAL HOOK OF THIS TUNE HAS BEEN AUTO-TUNED AND HARD PANNED IN THE INTRO SO IT CAN SOUND A LITTLE SHIMMERY, LIKE RAINDROPS FALLING INTO YOUR HEADPHONES. THE DEEP REESE BASS IS EARTHY AND BOOMY, LIKE A THUNDERSTORM ABOUT TO HEAD OVER THE HILLS INTO YOUR TOWN. ALL INTENTIONAL. THERE IS DELIBERATE BITCRUSHING OF THE VOCALS AS THEY FADE AWAY LIKE A RAINSTORM PETERING OUT AT 7 PM ON A JULY AFTERNOON, JUST AS IT STARTS TO GET DARK.

I’VE TAKEN SOME OTHER “MAGNA” TROPES AND APPLIED THEM HERE AS WELL, RAVE STABS FROM SOME TUNE MADE LONG AGO, PITCHED WILDLY TO BECOME A NEW TOP-LINE, WHICH I THEN ECHO WITH A TRIANGLE BLAST ACID LEAD REMINISCENT OF FAT OF THE LAND ERA PRODIGY. THERE’S ALSO AN UNINTELLIGIBLE RAP VOCAL IN THE BUILDS FROM A VERY LONG FORGOTTEN 90’S RAP B-SIDE FROM THE 740 BOYZ.

THIS SONG IS DEEPLY MEANINGFUL TO ME, IT WAS PART OF MY FORMATIVE YEARS, AND NOW, AFTER I THINK I’VE MORE FOUND MYSELF, I MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO SOME SMALL PART OF IT JUSTICE.

THIS PART OF MY LIFE FEELS LIKE THE RAIN IS JUST STARTING TO END, AND IVE GOT MANY MORE MONTHS OF SUMMER LEFT TO DO WHATEVER I LIKE.

Madeon - Finale (Magna Remix)

DECONSTRUCTIVISM
ZEN
ANASTHASIA
PLUTONIA

THIS SONG STARTED AS AN ATTEMPT TO FIND THE SAMPLE TO T99’S SEMINAL 1991 WORK “ANASTHASIA”. IT FEATURES MANY WELL KNOWN BREAKS AND SAMPLED BITS, BUT THE STAR OF THE SHOW IS A CHOIR SNIPPET THATS BEEN COMPRESSED TO ALL HELL AND MANIPULATED TO SOUND LIKE ITS COMING STRAIGHT FOR YOU FROM THE DEPTHS BELOW. 

EVENTUALLY, I HAPPENED TO FIND IT. IT’S AVAILABLE ON A LATE 80’S RECORDING OF CARL ORFF’S “CARMINA BURANA”. I TOOK THIS SAMPLE, AND CREATED A SERUM WAVETABLE WITH IT, WHICH IS WHAT YOU HEAR AS THE LEAD SYNTH IN THIS TUNE. I THINK IT FUCKING ROCKS. MY MAIN GOAL LATELY HAS BEEN TO DECONSTRUCT CLASSICAL RAVE TUNES I LOVE INTO THEIR EXACT PARTS, TRYING TO REARRANGE AND MANIPULATE THEM INTO SOMETHING NEW THAT I MIGHT LOVE EVEN MORE.

THIS TUNE IS ALL ENERGY. I’VE PAIRED THE RAUCOUS MAIN HOOK WITH SOME Y2K ERA ACID BLASTS AND ALL IS BOOKENDED WITH AN AMAZING VOCAL I DUG UP FROM CEEJAY’S “A LITTLE LOVE”, WHICH MAY BE THE CHEESIEST LATE 80’S SONG I’VE EVER HEARD. BUT I’M ALL ABOUT RECONTEXTUALIZATION. 

SPEAKING OF THAT, YOU MAY NOTICE, I’VE USED THE MELODY FROM “TUBULAR BELLS” IN THE INTRO AND VERSES. I HADN’T REALIZED I HAD UNTIL LATE IN THE PROCESS, BECAUSE I’VE USED A SAMPLE FROM INSTANT ZEN’S 1994 RELEASE “PLUTONIA” FOR THOSE MELODIES, BUT THEY SEEM TO HAVE RIPPED IT OFF FROM TUBULAR BELLS WELL BEFORE I COULD HAVE THE IDEA. 

ON A SIDE NOTE: I LOVE THAT THE TWO MAIN MUSICAL SAMPLES IN THIS TUNE ARE TUNES CALLED “PLUTONIA” AND “ANASTHASIA”, WOULD MAKE A GOOD T SHIRT. 

THIS MAY BE MY FAVORITE “DANCE FLOOR” TUNE I’VE EVER MADE, THERE ARE NO ENERGY BREAKS, NO SIDE EXPLORATIONS, JUST BEATS AND LOUDNESS. I THINK IT DOES IT’S JOB WELL, AND I HOPE YOU LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I DO.

GET BACK

SINISTER

NAPSTER
COMPRESSION
BORROWED NOSTALGIA

I NEVER REALLY USED NAPSTER OR FILE-SHARING SERVICES GROWING UP. I GUESS I FOUND MYSELF RELATIVELY PRIVILEGED TO HAVE PARENTS THAT WOULD SHELL OUT A FEW DOLLARS TO HELP ME BUY MUSIC I WANTED TO HEAR. THAT BEING SAID, I THINK MY MUSICAL BOUNDARIES WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPANDED MUCH EARLIER IF I WAS ADVENTUROUS ENOUGH TO EXPLORE THE INFINITE HALLS OF LOW BITRATE MP3’s AT A YOUNG AGE. THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT THAT LOW QUALITY “FLOATY-NESS” THAT LOSSY COMPRESSION HAS THAT MAKES ME INFINITELY NOSTALGIC FOR A METHOD OF LISTENING AND EXPLORING NEW MUSIC THAT I NEVER EVEN GOT TO EXPERIENCE.

“SINISTER” IS WHAT I IMAGINE 10 YEAR OLD ME WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED FINDING ONLINE IF I HAD DOWNLOADED NAPSTER. VAGUELY TRANCE, EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE, AND WAY TOO CRUNCHY AS TO HAVE BEEN PASSED FROM COMPUTER TO COMPUTER AND RECOMPRESSED A THOUSAND TIMES. 

TO ACHIEVE THIS EFFECT, I’VE RENDERED THE LEAD OUT AT MANY DIFFERENT STAGES OF LOSSY COMPRESSION AND LAYERED THEM ALL BACK IN AT DIFFERENT VOLUMES, SOMETHING I ECHO THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EP. I FIGURE, AS LONG AS YOU CAN HEAR THE BASS LINE, WHO LISTENS TO THE LEAD ANYWAY?

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Sinister

SINISTER

SAY YOU WILL

LOVE
CHANGE
DRUM AND BASS

THIS SONG STARTED WRITING ITSELF IN 2018 AS AN 80BPM SAMPLE CHOP THING THAT WASN’T VERY GOOD AND WAS TRYING VERY VERY HARD TO BE SOME KIND OF HAIR METAL BALLAD. SOMETHING REMARKABLE HAPPENED THOUGH IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT PROJECT. THE SAMPLES WHEN CHOPPED UP TOGETHER STARTED MAKING LITTLE SENTENCES. I LOVE WHEN THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN.

A LONG TIME AGO I BOUGHT A MICROPHONE THAT I HAD NO INTENTION OF USING, BUT HERE I WAS SINGING THESE GHOST SENTENCES OVER TOP THE SAMPLES JUST TO SEE IF I COULD MAKE IT SOUND DECENT AND INTENTIONAL.

IT SAT THERE FOR A YEAR OR SO, I WAS REMARKABLY PUT OFF BY HOW BORING A BALLAD COULD BE, BUT SOMETIMES WHEN YOU COME BACK TO THINGS YOU SEE THEM IN A NEW LIGHT. 

I FIGURED MY CHEEZE-BALL EQUIVALENT TO AN 80’s POWER BALLAD WOULD BE THOSE SUPER SELF-INDULGENT DRUM AND BASS SONGS WITH WAY TOO MUCH INTRO AND OUTRO AND CHEESY LYRICS ABOUT LIFE THAT NOBODY IS EVEN GOING TO HEAR WHEN IT’S BEING PLAYED AT 1000 DB IN SOME BASEMENT. SO I TRIED TO MAKE THAT, AND I THINK I DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB.

THANK YOU TO JIMMY JAM AND TERRY LEWIS FOR MAKING A BALLAD THAT BECAME ANOTHER ONE.

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SAY YOU WILL

MOON GAZER

ANTHEMS
 FEEDBACK
HARDSTYLE

THIS IS THE OLDEST TUNE OF THE BUNCH.

I STARTED THIS ONE WHEN I WAS ORIGINALLY DIVING HEADFIRST INTO ~2002’s ERA TRANCE AND HAPPY HARDCORE. I ABSOLUTELY HATED THESE GENRES WHEN I FIRST WAS GETTING INTO DANCE MUSIC, AND I WAS GLAD I COULD RETURN TO THEM WITH A MORE OPEN MIND.

I FOUND THAT RETURNING TO THIS BORROWED NOSTALGIA, THERE WERE MANY SONGS THAT PORTRAYED IMMENSE DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY, AND I’M NOT REALLY ABOUT EITHER OF THOSE THINGS.

SO I TOOK WHAT I COULD FROM SOME OF THOSE TUNES AND THEN MADE A WEIRD HARDSTYLE / DUBSTEP TUNE OUT OF THEM. I FIGURED IT WAS THE MOST I COULD DO TO STAY TRUE TO THE LENSES I ORIGINALLY VIEWED THE GENRES I WAS NOW RESEARCHING SO THOROUGHLY. 

WEIRD FACT, I’M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHERE THE ORIGINAL VOCAL IS FROM, IT WAS PART OF SOME 90’S ACAPELLA PACK THAT I DOWNLOAD FROM SOME FORUM A LONG LONG TIME AGO. I’VE WARPED AND TWISTED IT SO MUCH HERE THAT I DON’T THINK IT’S GOING TO BE IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE TO ANYONE, BUT THAT’S JUST WHAT I LIKE TO DO WHEN I CAN’T TRACK EVERYTHING DOWN TO IT’S SOURCE. (IF YOU ARE THE OWNER OF THE ORIGINAL, PLEASE DON’T SUE ME, -thx)

I REALLY LIKED THE AUDIO WHIPLASH THAT THIS ONE HAS TO IT, AND I HOPE YOU DO TOO. IT’S GOT A LOT OF MY TROPES IN IT, BUT I THINK THEY ARE ORGANIZED IN A NEW, FUN WAY. WHO KNOWS HOW LONG I CAN KEEP IT INTERESTING?

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Moon Gazer

~~~2JOURS~~~
BREAKS
 MIX 
REFINEMENT

THIS TUNE STARTED AS AN EXCUSE FOR ME TO ENGINEER THE BEST VERSION OF AN AMEN BREAK I COULD. I FOUND A FLAC OF THE ORIGINAL VINYL ONLINE AND PITCHED AND CORRECTED IT MYSELF. I WAS EXTREMELY TIRED OF USING THE LOW BITRATE ONES FROM SAMPLE PACKS AND FIGURED I COULD DO IT BETTER.

THOSE LOW BITRATE ONES I WAS USING GOT ME THINKING THOUGH, AND I WANTED TO SEE IF I COULD FIND SOME GREAT BREAKS THAT I HADN’T HEARD BEFORE. I WOUND UP AT THE END OF A LONG INTERNET WORMHOLE WITH A HUGE COLLECTION OF RECORDED RAVE TAPES THAT HAD BEEN DIGITIZED FOR LEGACY’S SAKE. SAFE TO SAY, MY SAMPLE PACKS HAVE GOTTEN MUCH BIGGER. THESE ARE WHERE ALL THE MC VOICES, THAT ARE PLACED ALL OVER THE EP, COME FROM.

I HAD HAD A FEW OF THE SONGS THAT ENDED UP ON THIS EP DONE AT THAT POINT AND IT INSPIRED ME TO GO BACK IN AND TURN THEM INTO SOMETHING THAT FELT LIKE IT COULD BE PLACED ON A RAVE TAPE FROM THE LATE 90’S. DIGITALLY PLACING MYSELF IN A PLACE AND TIME THAT I NEVER WAS. I KNOW, ITS TERRIBLY DISINGENUOUS. 

I WAS LISTENING TO THOSE RAVE TAPES WHEN SOME KIND OF WHITE LABEL VERSION OF “L’AMOUR TOUJOURS” CAME ON DURING A SET. THE LEAD IN THIS SONG IS ME TRYING TO CONVEY THE EMOTIONS THE DANCERS MUST HAVE FELT IN A MORE MODERN WAY, WHILE STAYING TRUE TO THE FEELINGS OF THE ORIGINAL. IT MUST HAVE BEEN MIND BLOWING.

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~~~2jours~~~

RISE UP

RASTA 
LOUDNESS 
ROCK AND ROLL

SOMETIMES YOU JUST WANT TO MAKE A FACE MELTER. SOMETIMES I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE KIND OF DONE WITH FACE MELTERS THOUGH. I’M NOT. NOTHING WORKS BETTER THAN FINDING AN OLD RAGGA SAMPLE AND FLIPPING IT IN A MODERN WAY. 

THERE’S NOTHING I LOVE MORE THAN THE STRIKING DICHOTOMY BETWEEN A LO-FI, TERRIBLE QUALITY SAMPLE INTO KALIDOSCOPIC, FREQUENCY SHIFTED LEADS OVER RATTLING 808’s

THERE’S SOMETHING VERY STRIKING TO ME ABOUT EXTREMELY SIMPLE ROCK SONGS LIKE “WE WILL ROCK YOU” BY QUEEN OR “STRUTTER” BY KISS. NO-FUSS, NO-NONSENSE RIFFS, WITH LIKE 5 NOTES TO SHARE IN THE ENTIRE SONG. SOMEHOW THE MOST STRIKING MUSIC CAN BE MOST SIMPLE TO ME, AND THAT’S SOMETHING I’M TRYING TO ACHIEVE HERE. THE DROP IS JUST, LIKE, ONE NOTE OVER AND OVER. THAT’S STILL MUSIC RIGHT?

THERE’S A LITTLE SAMPLE OF ANOTHER SIMPLE ROCK SONG I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IN THIS SONG, BUT UNFORTUNATELY I CAN’T SAY WHAT IT IS OR I’LL ABSOLUTELY BE SUED BEFORE YOU’RE DONE LISTENING TO IT.

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RISE UP

NOBODY LIKE YOU

GARAGE
 BURIAL
 RNB

SOMETIMES A BALLAD IS THE PERFECT WAY TO END SOMETHING.
GARAGE MUSIC WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE AT FIRST I DIDN’T QUITE GET IT. BUT, THEN I HEARD BURIAL, AND I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW HE’S MORE A CLASSIC UK DUBSTEP GUY TO MOST PEOPLE BUT COME ON A LOT OF THAT MUSIC IS GARAGE AND YOU CAN’T ARGUE THAT.

SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE CLINKY DRUMS AND BUBBLY KICKS AND WONKY MELODIES GET ME AND IF IT’S A PARTICULARLY RAINY DAY I LIKE TO PRETEND DOWNTOWN PHILLY IS LONDON AND PLAY SOME GARAGE MUSIC LOUD AND JUST GET IN MY FEELINGS A LITTLE BIT.

BURIAL SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF “I DON’T REALLY KNOW HOW TO MAKE MUSIC” IN AN INTERVIEW ONCE, AND EVEN THOUGH HE DOES A REMARKABLE JOB WHILE HE PLAYS TO HIS STRENGTHS, I ALWAYS WONDER. THIS TUNE IS KIND OF A FACSIMILE OF WHAT I THINK A PROPER 2002 BURIAL TUNE WOULD SOUND LIKE IF IT WAS PLACED DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CRAIG DAVID ERA. I DON’T THINK I GOT EVEN CLOSE, BUT IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME TO INCLUDE.

THE SONG ISN’T ABOUT ANYONE SPECIFIC, BUT I THINK IT’S ABOUT MUSIC ITSELF. AND, I WANTED TO MAKE SOMETHING BY ME THAT I COULD PUT ON DURING A RAINY PHILADELPHIA DAY AND PLAY PRETEND FOR A WHILE.

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Nobody Like You

Some kind of glitchy / weirdly funky track that I made for the 24 Hour EP. Re-worked it a bit, and now it's a free download for you all to enjoy!

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