really weird one. the middle part goes into 3/4 time for some reason. i like the melodies though, it sounds like a pop punk song.

Smarty McFly - Flight 714

from the track a week phase. tbh i don't remember writing this one, but it's kinda cool

Smarty McFly - Fracture

track a week - i decided to experiment with future bass chords, but still making dark trap. i think it's kind of a cool sound

Smarty McFly - Paralysis

This will be the 100th track in my playlist of originals - I've got 124 files in my "Final Bounces" folder, but some of those are stems or alternate mixes, etc. - so I'm going to consider this my 100th finished original track, which is a cool milestone. I don't remember who said this (maybe Jauz?), but I remember some successful producer say something to the effect of "Don't worry, because the first 100 or so songs you make are going to suck."

This project file was created 4 years ago, which kind of blows my mind. I felt a little depressed and a little frustrated when I realized how old the project file was - and, to be honest, when I realized this was my 100th track. I started playing with Ableton 12 years ago, and sometimes I feel like I just haven't made much progress.

I've been turning all of this over in my head the past couple weeks, and the more I think about it, the more I realize that this project - the project of learning to produce music - feels like a microcosm of my lifelong struggle with perfectionism. Which I guess might not be that surprising or profound, but it certainly feels meaningful to me.

I've only finished 100 songs in 12 years - 8 songs a year, give or take - because I'm afraid to ever call anything finished, worried that if I upload it now, I'll regret it later or be embarrassed of it. This isn't a new revelation; I've been aware of my tendency towards perfectionism for most of life, but awareness hasn't saved me from it.

This 100-song milestone feels like a bit of a turning point though:

First of all, it's one of my favorite tracks I've ever written, and I'm so excited to finally call it finished.

Second, as I was getting ready to post this track, I had the instinct to play it on just ONE more set of speakers and make just ONE more batch of mixing tweaks - but I didn't. I've listened to this render a couples times already, and I like how it sounds, and now I'm uploading it. Done. Here's to finishing lots more songs.

(Side note: This track has been named "Demons" forever - I was going to change it to something about "secret weapons" to reference the vocal, but after writing this, I decided that Demons is a more fitting title).

D3MONS

Crankdat - Whiplash (ft. SOFI)

tried some new sound design stuff in this one. i was originally gonna upload a clip every week and a finished song every month this year, but i decided that was dumb. art happens when it happens. i think i've gotten good enough / confident enough to know when the song still needs work and when i'm just tweaking stuff out of perfectionism. 

shifting my mindset to think of myself as serving the song that already exists and helping it express itself, rather than thinking of myself as "creating" something. idk if that really makes sense when i type it out, but it makes sense in my head :)

art is by @ben_mort on insta

CORPOCYDE

i tried so hard to tell you
about how i lost my mind
something i don't know to do
but now i know i'll have to try

4 u
4 u
im gonna change it all, change it
4 u
4 u
im gonna leave it all behind it's true
4 u
4 u
im gonna take my time and see it through
4 u
4 u
im gonna change it all, change it just 4 u

Hold On (Slowed)

Hey, I’m not okay, I know I shouldn’t download, but I couldn’t lie that I got blinded by the light in your eyes so I’m dead and in my bed, I know my brain turned so cold tonight, I will lie inside your hand and feel it change who I am

Infect my program with you, can’t you see, won’t stop haunting me, erase me, so I’m infected by you but I know what to do, turn my cheek, head to the next scene, erase me

Hey, I’m okay, your glow, it's in my keyboard but I wouldn’t lie about the little fight that’s in my mind, now I’m dead and in my bed, you know, it turned my brain cold tonight, I will lie right here in your hand feeling it changing up who I am, infect my program

Can’t you see, I’ll try to get to the next screen, erase me, so I’m infected by you but I know what to do, turn my cheek but it won’t stop haunting me, erase me

eraser

Tripzy Leary: outlaw, bass slinger, intergalactic fugitive. The galaxy calls him the Most Wanted ET — not for what he’s stolen, but for the frequencies he unleashes.

With the alien horses now under his protection in the 51st State, every drop of bass rattles the Federation’s grip a little looser. Wanted posters plaster across dimensions, but the legend only grows.

This isn’t just another bounty — it’s a warning: mess with the herd, and the bass will bury you.

MOST WANTED ET

LIKE IT, JUST LIKE THAT! FREE TO DOWNLOAD!!!!!!!!!!!

BLVCK CROWZ

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BLVCK CROWZ - LIKE THAT (FREE DOWNLOAD!!!)

a (mostly) complete record of my journey trying to get gud at making music, since 2012. the only stuff i don't upload is stuff that will get me copyright strikes.

D3MONS

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