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The new year started with a bit of luck for me. I found a Tascam Portastudio 424 for a really good price (not even half of what they usually go for). The seller was very cool and he even gave me a cassette with his dope acidjazz multitrack recordings.  

I've always been on the look out for the Portastudio 424, because of its 3 different tape speeds, the per-track eq's and it's ability to play cassette loops easily. And of course its awesome early 90s mpc-like looks 🙂, it just feels right like an instrument. 

The first thing I did was this piano / synth session. I messed so many things up while recording, but when I set it to slowest speed and pitched it up a bit to move it into a totally different tuning, something was happening. After bouncing it like 3 times, sometimes on normal speed, sometimes on slow speed, always adding new live layers of different synths, every recording added new tape artefacts, you hear dropouts, distortions, resonances, the pitched down hiss and the saturation, mushing everything together in a nice way, resulting in this nostalgic lofi lullaby sound.

I used Radical Piano and my own presets of Maia Synth and Scenic from the Reason Rack Plugin.
Post production with EQ8, Waves F6 Dynamic EQ, a soft glue compressor and Ozone Limiter.

Remood - Porta (Tascam Portastudio 424 Session)

This is the first single from my upcoming album Desvio (Out 20 June 2025).

"There's no harmony in the universe"
“Desvío” is an organic yet high-energy bass/beats/electronica track with synth-jazz roots. It opens with soulful chords and a fragile E-piano lick, then twists unexpectedly into a bass-heavy drop with playfully swirling synth arps. Just like its name suggests (“detour” in Spanish), the track constantly shifts moods and directions. Inspired by different genres it's finding its own sonic path at the end. 

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Desvio [Out Now]

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"We Just" is a melancholic modern trip-hop track. It tells a story about unclear endings, drifting apart, reconnecting - a story about things that are just... you know?

Its ebb-and-flow structure starts with its fragile main motif before opening up into a break-driven hook filled with vocal fragments, a jazzy piano line and cellos. Midway, it gently returns to its dreamy electronica state - reflecting - before opening up again for its finale.


We Just [Out Now]

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We all have our little tricks up our sleeves. "Little Tricks" is a forward-moving and warm track, blending synth-jazz surrealism with organic broken beats. It opens with a fragile intro that feels like it's made of fractured metal — scattered and abstract — before a catchy Prophet-inspired bassline begins picking up the pieces. Fragments of 90s RnB vocals, acoustic-modeled strings, and playful e-piano weave through, gently unfolding the track’s buried tension and emotion.



Little Tricks

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Little Tricks [OUT NOW]


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“Desvio,” which is Spanish for detour, is more than just the name of this album. It’s a perfect example of a concept that (unwillingly) manifested itself in reality. It’s about getting tangled up in all kinds of obstacles along the way (both personal and external) forcing you to take one detour or another from the planned path.

At its core, Desvio is about beauty and brokenness — and the beauty within brokenness — a contrast I’ve always been drawn to. It’s hard to pin down into a single genre, but you’ll hear distinct influences from a modern trip-hop interpretation, various bass-driven styles, broken beats, jazz keys, synth-heavy and ambient experiments, collage-like sampled elements and even fragments of long-forgotten R&B vocals — merging into an emotional, fractured and somewhat overloaded mixture of electronica and trip-hop.

Most of the song ideas and creative choices came together relatively quickly in December '21 and early '22, with the initial goal of making a quick, kind of weird but heartfelt album while I was already working on another album. Yeah, right...

Fast forward to now: it took me three years and several months-long breaks in between to finally finish the tracks in a way I’m happy with. I was never satisfied with the sound, the delivery, the over-all production of my initial ideas. Something always felt fundamentally off. Picked the wrong drum elements, played the wrong combination of instruments. What I’ve learned: while putting down ideas quickly is a good way to actually finish tracks, it’s even more important to learn how to feel and make the RIGHT choices early on in the process.

Rather than releasing it in an unsatisfying, compromised form or turning back and giving up I saw these obstacles as challenges to overcome. This album had to be finished, not become another half-started project like its predecessor. So I pulled through until I was finally happy with it. In the end, that harder path helped me grow as an artist. At least that’s what I hope.

Enjoy my Desvio LP while maybe taking your own detours in life, we're all pathfinders in some way.

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A New World

Likely Not

Coasts

I O I

Wires Or Scars

Minutes

Marbles

Blue Field

Stuck With Her

It's Christmas Time, so here's a free tune for all of you - for the naughty AND nice :) "Gravitate" is a very personal track for me. Have fun!

Remood - Gravitate [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Remood - All Hail

Thanks for you overwhelming feedback! This tune is now free to download, have a nice and happy new year!

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Remood - Celesta [FREE DOWNLOAD]

This is one of 3 new Drum&Bass Tunes which I created for the 20th anniversary of Dead Metropolis Recordings. It has been a nice journey back to my dnb roots combining it with new vibes. Hope you're feeling it.
The compilation can be bought here (pay what you want): https://deadmetropolis.bandcamp.com/album/20-years-dead-metropolis-the-compilation-pt-2-2005-2018

Remood - Split Apart (20 Years Dead Metropolis) OUT NOW!

OUT NOW! MY NEW ALBUM "DESVIO"
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