A collection of all the ambient tracks I've ever made for Jamuary.

Jamuary Jambient

Songs with a bit more polish than my Jamuary stuff. Some are stand-alone projects, others started life as a Jamuary track and ended up getting revisited.

Singles

Jamuary 2025

wavestate, monologue, volca fm, circuit tracks

Jamuary 15 22 - Foundering

I've been stuck out of town for a few weeks, but remembered to bring my deluge. This is a little ambient track I've been fiddling worth for a few days and I decided it was worth recording (directly on the deluge) and uploading.

Caught

Deluge, wavestate

Got my wavestate hooked back up, so a little more involved track today. The "drops" are a sample of a kalimba I got for christmas, which is how this track got started. Never entirely sure where I'm going to end up on these things...

Jamuary 02 23 - Stalactites

deluge, monologue, boss vo-1 vocoder

I was making my afternoon coffee at work when "mental health day" hit me as a fun hook for a cheesy synth pop song...

writing lyrics and singing (even thru a vocoder) are not my usual M.O., so this was a fun stretch for me.

My silly lyrics:

Sleeping in
Until ten

Slippers, robe
Airplane mode

Mental health day
It's a mental health day

Comfy clothes
Netflix shows

Bubble bath
Take a nap

Mental health day
It's a mental health day

Don't call
My phone
Leave me
Alone

I need
Self care
I won't
Be in today

Jamuary 04 23 - Mental Health Day

Gear: Deluge, Zoia

Found the sample of stuff being dropped and crashed around and everything just sort of flowed from there. We'll see if I still like it in a day or two.

Jamuary 03 24 - Cacio E Pepe

Gear: Deluge, Wavestate, Zoia

Seemed like a good day for a live ambient jam. No sequencing, just me furiously switching midi channels on my keyboard trying to keep the vibe going

Jamuary 05 24 - In The Canopy

Gear: Deluge, zoia

Always happy when I put together a solid house track!

Jamuary 07 24 - Vector Meson

Gear: Deluge, zoia

Fun little doodle in phrygian mode

Jamuary 09 24 - Twice A Day

Gear: Wavestate, Zoia, Deluge

Running the wavestate through the "loop forest" patch on the zoia, with the deluge providing just enough bass to keep things on track. I might be addicted to the shakuhachi patch on the wavestate, it sounds so nice...

Jamuary 14 24 - Dispel

Gear: Deluge, Monologue, Boss vocoder

Since my desk is already a complete disaster area, I decided what the hell, I'll go ahead and dig out my mic and vocoder and really make a mess.

Jamuary 20 24 - Low Earth Orbit

Gear: Deluge, Wavestate, Zoia

Started out in a totally different direction, wound up here. I was just noodling a bit to figure out what sounds and textures I wanted to put together, and as I played I realized I had a nice ambient piece on my hands, so I recorded that instead.

May have gone overboard with the clicky, blippy percussion, but I'm not sure such a thing is possible

Jamuary 24 24 - Processing

Gear: Deluge, Zoia

Trying to get myself more comfortable with vocals. Also trying to get better at making things with the zoia, so the main pad is a 4-voice subtractive synth I built on it. Needs work, but overall I'm pleased with the sound.

Something about 7/8 time apparently puts me in a wistful mood, I always end up making these pad-heavy minor key songs with it.

Jamuary 27 24 - Outgoing

Gear: Deluge, zoia

That sound you hear is Cuckoo's Dark Star FM patch for the zoia, which ended up driving this whole thing. The track feels a bit bare to me, but I *really* like it (we'll see how I feel tomorrow, haha) and will probably revisit it once I've recovered from the madness of Jamuary.

Jamuary 28 24 - Rectifier

Originally a one-day jam from Jamuary 2024, it's been lightly tweaked, cleaned up, re-recorded, and mastered for your listening pleasure.

Vector Meson

Another track that started life in Jamuary 2024, I changed the arrangement a bit, added a little more chaos, and re-recorded.

Servo

Another Jamuary 2024 track that I decided to clean up a bit. One of my favorite tracks for sheer fun!

Low Earth Orbit

deluge, zoia, monologue

I caught myself wondering if I could make a D&B-ish track in 5/4. Sometimes these ideas won't go away.

On Time Off Guard

Saturday Soba

Broke out my old 5-string ibanez today, just for the joy of feeling it in my hands

Unwound Round

Up late, playing my electric bass thru the zoia. Hit record because I was enjoying what was coming out.

No sequencers, all live

Moon Bass

Still playing around with running my bass through the zoia.

Falling Apart

The output of a journey into jazz chords that looped in on itself and eventually spat me out at Cmaj.

Pocket Dimension

Gear: Wavestate, Deluge

What better way to start off an uncertain year than with an uneasy sound, right? I've been messing around with the whole tone scale, which gives things this ambiguous feel.

Bleat

Jamuary 01 25 - Bleat

Long Tail

Jamuary 02 25 - Long Tail

The truth is that we all knew, deep in the darkest corners of our hearts, that the automaton could not slumber forever. We soothed ourselves with the easy lie that  its awakening was forever in the future. But on this awful day, that lie has crumbled, and the inexorable truth has descended upon us.

Inexorable

Jamuary 03 25 - Inexorable

I especially like this track because I put together that main patch from scratch. I feel like I’ve been leaning into more ominous sounds and themes so far this year, and this is a nice little break from that.

Riffle

Jamuary 04 25 - Riffle

Gear: Deluge, Zoia

Loaded up a kit with dozens and dozens of samples of clicks and blips and mangled it through the zoia. This produced a liquidy sound that conjured an image of swimming in an ocean full of debris (aka the ocean). Recorded a few vocal samples to go along with it, and here we are, in the incredible world of tomorrow.

Jamuary 05 25 - The Future is Now

Back on my warble-y nonsense, haha. The sort of metallic open-and-close sound is another patch I put together from scratch with a couple of wavetables.

Jamuary 06 25 - Siren's Beat

Put together the bassline, then sort of stuggled to do anything with it. Eventually decided on doing it as a spoken word piece, which I like much more than I thought I would.

Jamuary 07 25 - Hell

Gear: deluge

Just a quick ambient jam today. As the dynamics in this one worked their way down, it had me thinking of the increasing calm inherent in the heat death of the universe. It was a peaceful thought in the moment, so the name seemed appropriate.

Paul Griffin

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