This is the longest I've spent making a song for any one project.

Dragonfruit

After practicing making some kick and drum sounds, I made this little tune using some new techniques I learned. Not an album song, but a fun listen. Enjoy!

Wrong Wire

I've been in a creative rut lately and felt like putting something out on this platform might be a way to feel progress. Enjoy!

Jurassic

Recursive Wave

I don't usually this type of music but I've been listening to some dub techno mixes on YouTube and got "inspired."

Brain Bath

I Gotta Feeling (Paraprism Bootleg)

Taking a break from the album to finish school and learn some new mixing and arranging techniques. I couldn't not share this experiment here, I love it.

Orca

Pothos

This was supposed to be on the album but I canned it due to my frustration with trying to finish it. Coming back to it after several months, I realize it’s not as bad as I thought- so here it is for you to enjoy. A slightly different version may end up on the album after all.

There are some cool details in this one-

The clav-like sound in the intro comes from the Lowrey LSM-1, a pop synth module that became the Kawaii PHm when Kawaii bought Lowrey in 1988. 

The clap sound is a re-processed version of the clap I created for my remix of Justice’s Heavy Metal.

The awesome funk guitar comes from a friend who is an excellent player; I am super lucky to have access to that kind of sound. We recorded his Strat DI; his strings are quite old, which contributes to that spanky, dry sound on top of his wonderful playing.

My favorite thing about the track is the type of subtle flanger sound on the hats, paired with the frequency range they occupy- which was a stylistic discovery that I have adopted since.

Unfortunately, the arrangement is a bit weak on this one, but I like it anyway. Thanks for listening!

Trilobyte

Coral

Good exercise in finishing a track through a short period of time.

Equipment used for sounds:

Alesis 3630
Roland JV1080 (VST)
Roland Alpha Juno 1
TAL U-No-LX
EHX Electric Mistress

The bassline is made with the TAL U-No-LX (patch is the bass from Daft Punk's "Voyager"- you can find a guide online) through Ableton's overdrive, and then ran through the Electric Mistress on filter matrix mode to give it the sheen (you could get the same result with Ableton's delay under 30 ms. This is layered with the transient from the kick drum in Justice's "Genesis" to bring transient information to the otherwise flat waveform generated by all of the distortion.

The synth "keys" lead sound is made with the TAL-U-No-LX. It is a saw wave with a short amplitude envelope to make it sound clicky. Then it is ran through a phaser plugin at maximum depth. The rest is of the sound is really down to the midi- short, almost imperceptible notes add a lot of rhythm. The Blue Cat chorus finds itself into my mixing process often to widen sounds while keeping a timbre that I like. 

There is a clavichord sound layered underneath recorded directly from the Alpha Juno 1 with no processing besides putting it in time because I am a terrible keyboard player. It isn't noticeable, but it adds a nice mid range to an otherwise tinny sound.

The hats and some filler sounds/instruments are from the Roland JV1080 plugin, which is a fantastic sound source. 

The whole mix is ran through the Alesis 3630, which gives it that pumping effect. Without the compression, the kick drum is quite loud and the mix sounds blown out. The exact settings are hard to discern because the knob labels are not precise, but my guess is: 5:1 ratio, 0.3 ms Attack, and 300 ms release. The threshold is heavily dependent on the volume balance of your "mix" to begin with, but I was getting around 5dB of gain reduction. 

I know Gastropods are snails and that the picture is of an ammonite- Gastropod sounds cooler.

Gastropod

It's been a while but I am still working on new music. Here is something that came together quickly.

Medusa

Gasoline

This is my first album, and it is primarily electronic music. All instruments, songs and melodies were either played, produced, or written by me.

GENESIS

This is a remix of one of my favorite deadmau5 songs- My Pet Coelacanth. It is currently a work in progress.

deadmau5 - My Pet Coelacanth [Remix]

Venus (Version 1)

Synthesis(Final Edit)

stupid beat thing

Gum Gum

As of writing this, I think this is the best thing that I've ever made. I would love to hear what you think of it too!

Maui

Respite

Another all-night music fest results in this unintentional ode to one of my favorite video games, and favorite communities. please enjoy it!

Generator

The piano at the beginning is a sample from Alan Parsons Project, however I can't remember which song.
Enjoy!

Focus

Just a quick little aggressive thing that I had lying around and embellished today. I dont make as much aggressive music anymore, but this one is quite cool. The main synth actually comes from the Twisted Electrons MEGA fm, its a very cool synthesizer that uses the sound chips of the Sega Genesis as FM synthesis chips.

Megadrive

Currently working on an album, this song is a good reflection of how it will sound, and what elements. Think of this song like an egg that contains the yolk of this project. The songs I am going to make will have much more detail, and some type of lyrical component. 
Cheers and happy dancing!

Oogenesis [Original Ver.]

This is an original song I created using the Vocoder style of Daft Punk. Recording it took a bit of finagling, but I am happy with the end product. One of my favorite things about the style is the subtle vibrato, it really humanizes the "robot" sounding voice. Daft Punk have been one of my biggest musical inspirations and some of the first electronic music I was ever into was from the Discovery album. Enjoy!

Dancing

Holo Sapiens


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