Lunar: "of, determined by, or resembling the moon."

I am so happy to finally have this out. This project is meant to be listened to start to finish, as one whole piece. It is definitely more of a listening experience rather than to be played at shows. The inspiration for this E.P came after being at a show where the artist playing had an eclipse as one of his visuals. I immediately had the name and concept for the project, but no songs. I have been working on this for a quite some time and this truly has been one of the hardest things I have ever done. Music does not come easy to me at all. Having no music production or theory background, I pretty much knew nothing when I began this project (very little knowledge of Ableton). I would tinker and tinker make small progress or generate an idea, then step away, learn something new via reading or YouTube then come back and try to apply what I learned. This was a bit of a double edged sword because as the project progressed and got bigger I would learn technical parts of production and then have to go back to all the songs and apply what I just learned which was time consuming. During all this time there would be months where I wouldn't work on anything, in fact I did close to zero work on this project in 2020 or any music production for that matter. I can't count the amount of times I got stuck or almost gave up on it. I knew what I wanted it to be, sound, and feel like and I struggled so much through the mixing phase to achieve what I wanted. The project lingering as long as it did was definitely not good for my progress, productivity on other music, or creativity. I reached a point where I finally liked the songs and that made it even harder to release them when I knew they didn't sound even close to how I wanted them to. There still are things that probably aren't "right" but this is about the best I can do at this time. For so long I have wanted to make my own music, and I wanted this first piece to be all mine in everyway. After all this time I am proud that this turned out the way it did, thankful for all I learned, happy its over, and so excited to move on. My approach to making music has developed and changed so much throughout this process and I can't wait to share more music in the future. Thank you all so much for listening, hope that you enjoy.

Mastered by Torin @ Ascended Mastering

Lunar

Barriers: Anything used or acting to block someone from going somewhere or from doing something, or to block something from happening. 

This EP is my second release as Reference_312 - I felt like there was a lot of progress made with this project. The ideas came together quicker and easier, There was effective use of different (new to me) production techniques. Being able to look back on my past EP and implement what I learned during and since then, was cool to see. There was also a lot of new, eye/ear opening concepts and techniques that I learned during this production process. I am looking forward to continue building on those and progressing my knowledge and skillset. All in all I am pretty happy with how these turned out and have more tracks in progress that will be coming soon.  Thank you for the support!

Mastered by Torin Goodnight @ https://ascendedmastering.com

Album Artwork by @Reference_312

Barriers

Solar: Relating to or determined by the sun.

I want to say thank you to everyone who has listened, supported, shared, and been a part of my project Solar. I have no words to describe how grateful I am for all of the kindness, love, and encouragement and to have been provided such a beautiful space to write this project in. Last weekend marked the completion of a 5 year idea. Between the initial spark of concept, through the writing and releasing of Lunar, and onto the writing and releasing of Solar. The amount of progression, growth, and change is wild. (I.E it took 2 years to write Lunar, Solar took less than 2 months.) To say that I am relieved that this idea is completed would be an understatement. The amount of roadblocks, struggles, stress, and lack of free time made me question if it would be completed in time for the Eclipse. I sacrificed so much for this project and literally drug it out to the absolute last moment. (Shout out to Torin @ Ascended Mastering for his patience and for knocking these out so close to the deadline) To wrap the project up by having the unforeseen opportunity to play Solar in its entirety during the Eclipse, with most of my closest friends, in the desert where I grew up, on one of the most beautiful sound systems in the country was beyond perfect and something I will never forget. Thankful to have shared that moment with those of you who were there. (Shoutout to Unify Mountain Soundz for making that a reality). A little unsure where everything heads from here, but looking forward to exploring more of and honing the techniques I learned during this project. In the meantime there will be some other things launching on November 8th! 

Mastered by Torin @ Ascended Mastering

Solar

Regolith: "Unconsolidated residual or transported material that overlies the solid rock on the moon, earth, or a planet.

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Regolith

Aphelion: "The point in the orbit of the moon, a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is furthest from the sun."

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Aphelion

Nodes: "The intersection of the orbit plane of some celestial body, such as the Moon, a planet, or comet, with the plane of the ecliptic (the apparent path of the Sun among the stars) as projected on the celestial sphere."

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Nodes

Umbra: "The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse."

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Umbra

Lunation: "The period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month."

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Lunation

Recording of my set at Remix Audio Bar in Santa Fe, NM on 12/30/2022. This unexpected closeout to the year was the highest level of progression that I have achieved with my music so far. Having not played since River of Souls Festival, I wanted this set to not only show that progress but also to really reflect the feelings of where I currently am in life. This set is as close to an example of the sounds, styles, sonics, textures, and vibes that I am trying to achieve as Reference_312. Gratitude to Remix Audio Bar for giving me the space to play at such a cool venue and to be able to stream my set on Twitch and Mixcloud. Grateful to have had the opportunity to share some tunes and hit a few musical milestones to end 2022.


1.	Waking Up from The Dream (Intro Version) – Reference_312
2.	2,829 Kilometers To You – a.zero
3.	Circles (miish Remix) – Post Malone
4.	Lost (Chill Out Mix) – Sunlounger, Zara
5.	These Words That I Can’t Get Out – Genes
6.	Polymer – Aleph
7.	Get To You (Mersiv Remix) – Supertask x Saint Sinner
8.	Lohka – KTrek
9.	6AM (Original Mix) – Of The Trees
10.	Going Insane – Sippy
11.	Entropy – Ark Patrol
12.	Lucid Derma – Vyhara
13.	Souls In Motion – Funkstatik
14.	Big Guns – ION
15.	All The Things She Said - pexØt x BVXSEEK
16.	Amore – hiræth
17.	Body [feat. Luna Aura] - Lick
18.	In The End – TEARZ
19.	Catch You (K Theory Remix) – Kill Paris
20.	Movin – Segno
21.	Drift Away – Pretty Lights
22.	Charade (Soulular Remix) – Supersillyus
23.	Regolith – Reference_312
24.	Passenger (Mike Shinoda Remix) – Deftones
25.	Tears – DATURA
26.	Carter (V.1) – Reference_312
27.	Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Charles Calvet Remix) – Green Day
28.	My Life (Original Mix) – Tame Impala x ZHU
29.	Nodes – Reference_312

Other than those belonging to Reference_312 , I do not own the rights to these songs

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Reference_312 @ Remix Audio Bar - 2022

Lunation (Derek Chase Remix)

Excited to finally get to share this one. Friend and supporter Derek Chase put a really cool spin on this track. Be sure to check out his other music and remixes.
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Lunation (Derek Chase Remix)

Recording of my set from Day 2 of Lumen Theory 1.0 in Albuquerque, NM. A 3 day Audio Visual Experience with Visuals curated to pair with the music. 

Track List
1. Adam - Ishome
2. Reality Shift - Phluxx
3. Bloom - Dozier
4. Umbra - Reference_312
5. Beautiful (Original Mix) - Spoken Bird, Shrines
6. Eco (CloZee Remix) - Axel Thesleff
7. Winter's Coming - Phluxx
8. 321 - Phluxx
9. Umbrella (Skeler Remix) - Skeler
10. I'm God (areal redo) - Clams Casino
11. Guardian - Froscity
12. Past - capshun
13. Find A Way feat. Yaarrohs - Dimond Saints
14. Depth Charge - Flume
15. R You Ok - Aryay
16. FACED (Original Mix) - Electric Mantis
17. Figured You Out - CharlestheFirst
18. Plasm (Part B) - Yahtzel
19. Seconds - Ghost Loft
20. Pleasantries (Original Mix) - Ark Patrol
21. Nothing Is Forever - Aether & Phaeleh
22. So Fine - Silo
23. Dark As The Sky - Pretty Lights
24. Sorus (Original Mix) - Tipper
25. Forest G - Okiro
26. Committed - ATYYA
27. Gravity - Jameson Oak
28. Steamboat (AESOP Rock Remix) - Grimace Federation
29. Cross Me - LEViT∆TE
30. Flying Away (LumenTheoryMix) - Reference_312

Other than those belonging to Reference_312 , I do not own the rights to these songs

Lumen Theory 1.0 - Day 2 - Downtempo

The majority of this track was created with samples from iPhone recordings I took my of cousins kid playing with his toy drum set. I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could make a track only using the recordings I took, Version 1 was written that afternoon. The different voices that can be heard is my family talking in the background. I was content with how the first version sounded and the chill vibe it had but wanted to add a little extra for the release version. This was also the first track that I was able to rough master on my own then play out in a live setting.

Final Mastering done by Torin Goodnight @ https://ascendedmastering.com

Album Artwork by @Reference_312

Barriers E.P

Carter

For the most part Top Floor was a track that I had completed almost two years ago. It was the first track that I wrote after releasing Lunar in 2021. After bringing the project back up I made a few changes to the mix and removed some elements from certain places until I felt like I was happy with it. One of the main focuses for me on this track was to create and preserve as much depth as possible given my current skillset. Really allowing all of the elements to be heard in their space and move trough their places in the stereo field as intended.  Glad to finally have this one out.

Mastered by Torin Goodnight @ https://ascendedmastering.com

Top Floor

The original idea of this track was created in about 2minutes as part of a challenge lesson. From idea to completion, This is the quickest I have ever finished a track. Continuing to use resampled vocals and hip hop / trap style drums while experimenting with higher energy leads, heavier subs and multiple basses as I move deeper towards/into the Wave genre production styles.

Mastered by Torin Goodnight @ https://ascendedmastering.com

Album Artwork by @Reference_312

Radio Emission: Refers to radio waves that are naturally produced by the Sun, primarily from the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere called the chromosphere and corona. The Sun produces radio emissions through four known mechanisms, each of which operates primarily by converting the energy of moving electrons into electromagnetic radiation.

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Radio Emission

Alpha Particle: A type of radiation alongside beta particles, gamma rays, and neutrons. Helium nuclei emitted during radioactive decays of alpha unstable nuclei leave the Sun in solar wind.

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Alpha Particle

Luminosity: The rate at which a star or other object emits electromagnetic radiation.

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Luminosity

Occultation: The blockage of light by the intervention of another object; the Moon can occult (block) the light from the Sun.

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Occultation

Solar Flare: An intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. Flares are our solar system’s largest explosive events

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Solar Flare

Set 4 @ Get It Gathering for Jeffery's Birthday. A bunch of my favorite songs from the past and present. There are a few hiccups here and there, but overall very satisfied with how these all turned out. I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave any feedback. 
I also would like to give a special shoutout to Cody Cummins for being the life of the party and making sure the volume was never to low, maybe you can sponsor our next Gathering?

Track List:

1.	Lightyears Apart (feat. Sam Goodman, Jordan Polovina & DJ Fundo) – Michal Menert
2.	U Already Know – Keys N Krates 
3.	Edge of Infinity (Minnesota Remix) – League of Legends
4.	Dirty South – Diamond Cuts
5.	Reach Higher – Paul Basic & Pretty Lights
6.	Brass Knuckles ft. Dominic Lalli (RPM Remix)
7.	Abduction March (ft. Angrous of Watch City) – Blue Future
8.	Cosmos – Perkulator
9.	Running Up That Hill – Chromatics
10.	Undisputed – Archnemesis
11.	Distant Perspective – Manic Focus
12.	Tick Of The Clock (Visiones’s The Stroke Of Midnight Remix) – Chromatics
13.	In The Air Tonight (Sunsquabi Remix) – Phil Collins
14.	Don’t Matter – Doge Party
15.	Rooster – Alice In Chains
16.	Blinded (Original Mix) – Kosta, Fytch, & Theo Hoarau
17.	Shells (Original Mix) – RL Grime
18.	Bye Bye Groove – Arise Wise
19.	Jsyk – soupandreas
20.	At Night – Drew Id
21.	Cali Remix – RPM & Late Night Radio
22.	Better Than Ive Ever Been – GRiZ
23.	No Use Pretending (Unlimited Aspect Remix) – Krooked Drivers
24.	Wayfaring Stranger  (Electro Mix) – Pretty Lights ft. LeAnn Rimes & Dr.Ralph Stanley
25.	Next To Me – Griffin Stoller
26.	Some Minds ft. Andrew Wyatt (Original Mix) – Flume
27.	Sirens Over Paris – Fytch
28.	Forever We Delve (feat Tayler Bledsoe) – Lucid Vision
29.	Photomaton (feat Elodie Wildstars) – Jabberwocky
30.	Bassically – Tei Shi

I do not own rights to all of these songs.



Ostlay - Chase - 2016

Set 1 @ Get It Gathering for Jeffery's Birthday. A bunch of my favorite songs from the past and present. There are a few hiccups here and there, but overall very satisfied with how these all turned out. I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave any feedback. 
I also would like to give a special shoutout to Cody Cummins for being the life of the party and making sure the volume was never to low, maybe you can sponsor our next Gathering

Track List:

1.	Californication (Gamper & Dadoni Remix) – Red Hot Chili Peppers
2.	Better (Jason Burns Remix) – vox
3.	Seeya (feat. Colleen D’Agostino) – Deadmau5
4.	Terrors In My Head – Deadmau5
5.	Hold On (Sub Focus Remix) (Dusty Bits Bootleg) – Rusko
6.	Ecstasy (ARMNHMR & DATHAN Flip) – ATB
7.	Turn The Volume Up (DMNDZ & Subtronikz Remix) - N.E.R.A.K & Demirra
8.	Too Young For Tragedy (DJ Green Lantern Remix) – GRiZ
9.	4 Strings – Take Me Away (RXN RMX) 
10.	Raw – Minnesota
11.	I Remember (Caspa Remix) – Kaskade & Deadmau5
12.	Vitals – Patrick Reza
13.	She Was – Dabin
14.	Slither (VibeSquaD Remix) – Psymbionic
15.	One Thing ft Cristina Soto (Of The Trees Remix) - Psymbionic
16.	Sake Bomb – Manic Focus & Wick-it The Instigator
17.	You Notice Me – Bass Physics
18.	Lose My Mind – Diamond Cuts
19.	Blunt Groovin’ (Fractal Sky Remix) – Kinetik Force
20.	Lucid Dream (Goosebumpz Remix) – Birds of Paradise
21.	Working For It (Nomero Remix) – ZHU, Skrillex, & THEY
22.	Corporate Demons feat. Luxas – Gramatik
23.	With You – Veorra
24.	Distant Perspective – Manic Focus 

I Do not own rights to all of these songs

PLUS+1 - Chase - 2016

Substance

1. SANCTITY – Lower Spectrum
2. Iced Tea – Ellery Gordon x Huts
3. Opportunity Cost – G-Eazy
4. Low Low – Megan Hamilton 
5. Time + Space (feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani) Thievery Corporation
6. Know Us (feat. Love & Light) – Love & Light x Jillian Ann
7. Leave Me – Grant Walker 
8. Broken Strings – Tek-One 
9. Be Easy (VIP Mix) – Zooly
10. Thunder in Paradise (Club Mix) – Beam vs Cyrus 
11. Till The AM – TroyBoi
12. Red Sands – Avae 
13. Calypso (Original Mix) – Excision & Datsik 
14. Many Men (Wish Death) – 50 Cent
15. New Beginnings (Original Mix) – Ill-Esha
16. Questions – Modl
17. Cocoa Hooves – Glass Animals 
18. Addicted – J.M.S.N
19. Del Karmen – LWKY
20.“Vibe Walk” (Break Science Remix) – Kendrick Lamar vs Tycho
21. Watching The Sky – Blue Future
22. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Just A Gent Remix) – Tears For Fears
23. Extra Fly – ProJect Aspect 
24. New Mexico – TheBusiness.
25. Drop The Game (CloZee Remix) – Flume & Chet Faker
26. Some Minds feat. Andrew Wyatt (Original Mix) – Flume 
27. Humid – BOATS
28. Capricious – Crooked Colours 
29. Consume – Nadasound
30. Thin Air – CharlestheFirst
31. Cold Sweat – Guggenz x Artifakts
32. True Friends – Ageless
33. It’s All Gone – UNFOLD_Music
34. Dreams (Original Mix) – Nero x Zhu 
35. Suicide (Wheathin Remix) – Midnight To Manaco
36. Tempus Illusio – Gramatik
37. Chocolates (ft. Dirty MF) – VibeSquaD
38. Quick Musical Doodles – Two Feet 

I Don Not Own Rights To These Songs

Cover Artwork By: Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Exhibit Seattle Art Museum
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Substance - Chase - 2018

A Remix I've been working on for a while, Let me know what you think, Hope You Enjoy.

Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (Chase Remix)

Recording from my set on the Main Stage at One Vibration 2019. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported and to everyone who made such an amazing festival possible. Big ups to all the other artists and performers who killed it all weekend. A huge shout out to Alex Ruiz Art http://www.conceptmonster.net for the dope t-shirt.    

Tracklist 
1.S Y N T H E T I K (Original Mix) - 1788-L, Slooze
2.Phoenix - Varien
3.SChi$m - T0.OI
4.High School Art Class Vs Block Rockin Beats (Chase One Vibe Mashup) - Pretty Lights x The Chemical Brothers
5.See About It - Krooked Drivers
6.Defying Gravity (Original Mix) - Gramatik
7.Quite Lovely - FunkStatik
8.Wall Fuck x Never Be Like You (Arizon Remix) - Flume
9.Silvia (Feat. Jordan Humphrey) (Meilo Remix) - Louis Vivet
10.Hard Time (Big Gigantic Remix) - Seinabo Sey
11.Gust of Wind (Autograf Remix) - Pharrell Williams/Daft Punk
12.Working For It (Original Mix) - Skrillex, ZHU, THEY. 
13.Imperium (Verbana Remix) - Madeon
14.Left Hand Free (Lido Remix) (Chase One Vibe Edit) - alt-J
15.F O R C E / I M P U L S E (Original Mix) - 1788-L
16.Decompression Phase 4 - Dysphemic 
17.Chasin Galaxies (Original Mix) - Griz
18.Strange Hours (Aesop Rock Remix) - Grimace Federation
19.Snow Cave - Fractal Sky
20.Crawl Outta Love (Kloud Remix) - Illenium
21.Eon Break (Sad Meal Remix) - Virtual Self
22.Angel Voices (Dead Shy Remix) - Virtual Self
23.Touched - What So Not
24.DIA - Artifakts
25.You Know Nothing - CharlestheFirst 
26.Big Bang(er) (Clozee Remix) - Dubvirus
27. Live With Me (Ageless Remix) - Massive Attack
28. Space Scholar Synthesis - Manic Focus
29.High End - Dalton Richmond
30.Wonderwall (Arcando & Lux Holm Remix) - Oasis
31.Ain’t No Sunshine (feat. Andy Cooper) - Jenaux
32.Lights (Original Mix) - Dan Farber
33.Higher Ground (Lets Be Friends Re-Amp) - TNGHT
34.Get Hot feat. Noclu (G Jones Remix) - Chee
35.Potions (Deliverance Mix) - Pu$ci.fEr
36.Mirrored - Sixis
37.Neverland (feat. Khary) (Memba Remix) - Mazde
38.Bloom - Dozier
39.Adrift In Hilbert Space - Ott.
40.Stay feat Yaarrohs - Dimond Saints
41. In Pieces - CharlestheFirst
42. Money Ain’t a ThanG (Original Mix) - Manic Focus
43.The Great Divide (Seven Lions Remix) - Velvetine 

I Do Not Own The Rights To These Songs

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” -A.Huxley

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