Hello! I make entire EPs, with complete strangers, on occasion. I have rules for this operation. Here they are. 

We make 5 tracks, with a total run time of approximately half an hour. When it is finished, I will release the record on Bandcamp, for free, with no option to pay more.  I will also make them downloadable here. Participants are encouraged to do the same. You read correctly... no money for anyone... If for some reason we manage to encode the secret to immortality, or the true path to God, in an audio waveform... it is still FREE to all. I'll be asking collaborators for a square piece of art that they do not fear me mangling for the cover. These EPs have a design ethic consistent with all of my personal stuff, and will stay that way... with the initial input from the collaborators.

So far, I have mixed all the tracks, and mastered all of the EPs myself. This isn't a rule set in stone, though. It is just the way that it has worked so far. In fact, the plan with, Belial, is to trade starting and finishing , back and forth until the record is done. Perhaps we will arm wrestle for who masters it, when the 5 tracks are done. Anyway, the point is I will figure out how things work for each EP, with the collaborators, as we go.

Interested? Tell me. However, if you would want our record to sound like the music at an EDM festival... then you are expressing interest in working with the wrong person. You should only be interested, if you want to make music unlike the music you make on your own, and for the natural sharing of appreciators, that would occur when the music is shared. These are the reasons that I do it.

Bound for Destinations Unknown Collaborative Free EPs

Still Breathing Fire's contribution to @muterial 's "Off the Rails" open collaboration, which has spawned a "Bound for Destinations Unknown" EP. More to come...

Written, Arranged, Produced & Engineered by Rollo Carpenter & Mike Luv

RC- Field Recording, Filtering, Processing
ML- Generative Patching in VCV Rack, Edits, Sequencing, Mix

Original track: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails
A playlist of varied & wonderfully inventive renditions: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations

muterial & Still Breathing Fire: Silt (Off the Rails Rework)

"Northern Lights" (Edit: Mastered with iZotope Ozone on September 25, 2023)

A little tune where I had in mind the beauty of the North where my heart will always be.

The instruments used: 
- EP layer: Yamaha Montage 8 synthesizer (Yamaha TX816 Electric Piano sound), Keyscape (LA Custom Rhodes Suitcase 80s, Roland MKS-20/E. Piano 2, Roland JD-800/Crystal Rhodes)
- Piano: Keyscape LA Custom C7 Grand Piano (Yamaha C7) 
- Drums: Native Instruments Abbey Road 70s Drummer, with some layered Linndrum sounds (snare, toms)
- Guitar: Native Instruments Electric Sunburst
- Bass: Native Instruments Prime Bass Session Bassist
- Lead sounds: Arturia DX7 V/VHS Flute & VHS Strings, Arturia Prophet-5 V
- Brass and synth sounds: Yamaha Montage (TX816 Horns & Filter Synth)

Northern Lights

Gigantes

16 bit stereo WAV format
44.1 kHz sampling rate

street repairs in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)

recorded on 2023/05/23

using a Zoom H4n

Heavy Machinery 04

The Screaming Seamen

The end of the road is not the finishing post, but when you have nothing left but the city streets, you may well find you!
Got to thank Mikey B & Muffy for there contribution to the making of this track

Nothing Left, but this City Street.

From the album "Cairn" (2024)
Watch the music video:  https://vimeo.com/915812584

Lyrics:

Forest Giants

On and on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on
I'm on my way
I'm on my way

Hey loner
Come over
To my forest
It's getting warmer
Stay hidden
Forbidden
It's written on the wind

On and on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on
On
I'm on my way
I'm on my way

ISRC:
uscgj2449650

Forest Giants

Blue

This song is mainly based on the great tune from the demo scene group on amiga called
Wild Copper, from the demo called Wild Copper's Megalo Demos.

RELEASED JULY 1988 on the AMIGA computer

The song: Bodykiss by Bug Vindicator
ALSO KNOWN AS
Laurent
Location: France

BODYKISS

Good Morning

Written, Arranged, Produced, Performed & Engineered by Kyle Trujillo (@sunshine-girl-8) & Mike Luv

ML - Sequencing
KT - Sequencing, Electro Voodoo, Mix

Annoy Vibrations

Sunshine Girl & Still Breathing Fire: Destabilize

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine,  @stuffamebobs & Mike Luv

SI - Sequencing
ML - Sequencing, Mix

Simon Irvine & Xixstix - Polysynthetic

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine & Mike Luv
SI - Sequencing, Guitars
ML - Sequencing, Mix, Mastering

Xixistix and Simon Irvine - Upright

Written, Arranged, Produced, Pefrormed & Engineered by Simon Irvine @stuffamebobs & Mike Luv

SI - Sequencing, Guitar
ML- Sequencing, Mix

Simon Irvine & Xixistix: Slowly Dying Inside

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine & Mike Luv
SI - Sequencing
ML - Sequencing, Mix, Mastering

In For A Penny

Xixistix and Simon Irvine - In For A Penny

Freestyle M.C By IPG1, @ipg1
Keyboards By Jamie Rhind, @jamie-rhind
Other Instruments By Martin Reed. https://soundcloud.com/its-tophonicus
Produced By Martin Reed, IPG1 & Jamie Rhind.

Mysteries of the blim groove 110 BPM ....
Collab with Martin Reed

This is a new year —-the outlook is fair
 Start a brand new chapter I killed it last year 
A force to be reckon with ——this much is clear 
Writing futures not histories a real pioneer 
yo ——-it’s IPG1——— I’m still off the chain 
turn up the music ——- this ——-the heat I maintain 

*******for Part 2 ***Freestyle—-not written

OK here we go ——set it off like a boss
I—-Paid the price ——-paid the cost—-there’s —no love loss
Call it what you want ——but ——call it—-pure pleasure 
——skillzzz gained——- from every bar —- every measure 
treasure the moments —the performance—the key
I deliver it right ——-Come on vibe with me 
————it’s an—-emcees delight ——when I lock it down —-
I lock it down tight——-Slamming bars ——like it’s Devine right
authorized to excite—-Sight beyond sight
and I keep it cool ———-like my name was frostbite 

Caught up in the same struggle —-on the daily 
one common interest in mind ——who’s gonna pay me 
——Let’s take some time —-to acknowledge each other
because it’s the same struggle——only change is the weather
different rule —-same game —-we’re all ——in it together
We Position ourselves ——with the things we’ve earned 
And the knowledge ——we’ve collected ——from the lessons learned

my space of existence ———is-in the mix 
Acknowledge—-the persistence ——a hip-hop fix
Real sounds—— real memories—-why resist
so profound ———in harmony ——as I transmit
different vibes —— and melodies —do exist 
But I’m the source—- and the remedy ——you must admit
——worded ——-artistry —as—-I transmit
doing —-what comes naturally——so I just spit

Mysteries Of The Blim Part 3

Cymatic Repair Here
Genre Smashing @xixistix

I started this project to create ambient works isolated from the mostly, rhythm oriented tracks of my other instrumental project. Xixistix could not do without the space, but here, we can have it in spades with a good deal less slap. If that is your taste or mood... well here you go.

Creative Friends @rumourtone
& @unitedmusicfront

Ancient Childishness @mlshoneyworks

Genre Smashing Here
Cymatic Repair @still-breathing-fire

I pronounce it, Zixy-Sticks. It came from a nonsensical play on the name of the truly vile candy-dust-in-a-cardboard-tube, Pixy Sticks. Then again, there is meaning everywhere. 

Creative Friends @mangledmusic
& @unitedmusicfront

Ancient Childishness @mlshoneyworks

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