A bunch of emotional hardcore tracks carefully unearthed, selected, and curated with my fleshy fingers, ears, and eyes.

Featuring Endive, Far Apart, Jejune, District 17, Dandeleon, Old Hearts Club, Waltz, Julia and Stratego.

secret crush

Manchmal singt ein Lied nicht laut.
Es wartet.
Zwischen Atem und Kälte,
zwischen Erinnerung und Licht.

„Beinahe Winter, Beinahe Licht“ erzählt von diesem Zwischenraum -
wenn Stille nicht leer,
sondern voller Möglichkeit ist.
Wenn etwas in uns noch friert,
aber nicht mehr ganz.

Eine fragile Stimme, leises Klavier,
ferne Streicher wie warmer Atem im Schnee.
Kein großes Finale.
Nur ein Gefühl, das langsam aufgeht -
wie ein Licht, das nicht gesehen,
sondern gespürt wird.

Vielleicht klingt Hoffnung so,
wenn sie noch flüstert.

Beinahe Winter, Beinahe Licht

The year was 2020 and I think it may be needless to say that the world as we knew it had been put on hold. We couldn’t go out because we were picking up our food outside of restaurants wearing masks, standing 6 feet apart to enter the grocery store, and we certainly weren’t going to concerts or having people over to our houses to hang out, or in my case, record music.

I used this downtime to go through old unfinished tracks and projects that lived on my hard drives that were never properly finished. In that collection, I found tracks from Dreams Lead West from 2013. We recorded all of these songs while I still lived in Sidney, NE, but the band broke up before we could finish them.

Fortunately, the only thing that was really missing were the drums and vocals. This seemed like a pretty simple fix, considering I had a full drum kit, mic’d and ready to go in my basement. As a band, we had discussed releasing our songs as instrumental anyway, so it was  and easy dilema to settler. I mic’d up the drums and laid down the drum tracks.

Recording, mixing, and mastering is a pretty solid way to spend your time isolated from the outside world during a global pandemic. This album is a testament to that time. “Theta” by Dreams Lead West is an instrumental story told through the mind of a traveler navigating this challenging chapter of life.

The artwork displays that journey, beginning in the neck of the person in the image and moving through each track as outlined by each “chamber” of the mind.

“Never Knew” is the final track from the album. 

We thank George McMillian for this amazing artwork, check him out here
https://www.georgemcmillian.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

Buy Album
https://music.apple.com/us/album/theta/1535279351

Follow Dreams Lead West
https://www.facebook.com/dreamsleadwest

Theta

Never Knew

Never Knew by Dreams Lead West (2020)

The year was 2020 and I think it may be needless to say that the world as we knew it had been put on hold. We couldn’t go out because we were picking up our food outside of restaurants wearing masks, standing 6 feet apart to enter the grocery store, and we certainly weren’t going to concerts or having people over to our houses to hang out, or in my case, record music.

I used this downtime to go through old unfinished tracks and projects that lived on my hard drives that were never properly finished. In that collection, I found tracks from Dreams Lead West from 2013. We recorded all of these songs while I still lived in Sidney, NE, but the band broke up before we could finish them.

Fortunately, the only thing that was really missing were the drums and vocals. This seemed like a pretty simple fix, considering I had a full drum kit, mic’d and ready to go in my basement. As a band, we had discussed releasing our songs as instrumental anyway, so it was  and easy dilema to settler. I mic’d up the drums and laid down the drum tracks.

Recording, mixing, and mastering is a pretty solid way to spend your time isolated from the outside world during a global pandemic. This album is a testament to that time. “Theta” by Dreams Lead West is an instrumental story told through the mind of a traveler navigating this challenging chapter of life.

The artwork displays that journey, beginning in the neck of the person in the image and moving through each track as outlined by each “chamber” of the mind.

“The Bridge” is the slow easy track from the album. 

We thank George McMillian for this amazing artwork, check him out here
https://www.georgemcmillian.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

I produced a music video for this track as well, you can view it here
https://youtu.be/1Sug-PaWldQ?si=4UNdPi33ksPpT7S9

Buy Album
https://music.apple.com/us/album/theta/1535279351

Follow Dreams Lead West
https://www.facebook.com/dreamsleadwest

The Bridge

The Bridge by Dreams Lead West (2020)

Duskgazer

Auguries of Innocence Demo

Last dj mix

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood
-----------Image:  From Ivana Zivic’s “Dream of Freedom” series.-------------

Track list and start times:
00:00  Atticus Ross – Outland (from ‘The Book Of Eli’)
02:58  Edø Pisto Sømi – 3 State Steady
09:40  Jon Porras – Achlys
15:45  Juri Seppä &Tuomas Wäinölä – First Fight (from ‘Sisu’)
20:22  Alessandro Barbanera – Morning Voices (Pink Dawn Rising)
26:30  Stephen Christopher Stamper – There
31:00  The Lifted Index – Dormant Ghosts of Spent Attention
36:12  Xqui – Impotus (Heavy Cloud Remix)
41:44  ausgesuchtestenohren – Ambiguity is a form of resistance
50:15  Barton & Priscilla McLean – Archangels
57:58  Juri Seppä &Tuomas Wäinölä – Mimosa's Speech (from ‘Sisu’)
1:00:56  Thme – Ombre
1:06:10  Jonathan Fitoussi – Totale eclipse
1:12:36  Hessien – Velcro Arms
1:17:02  Delia Derbyshire – Whirring Menace
1:19:14  Stan_Magendanz – soundscapery_07
1:22:45  Jon Porras – Ceremony Stone
1:29:42  terry mullet – net of the night (naviarhaiku620)
1:33:42  Porn Sword Tobacco – A1
1:39:20  Aultone – By far (excerpt)
1:42:02  Gareth Davis & Scanner – Figurative Language
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Eclectic current – The illusion of freedom

A track I made with an open verse slot available.

THV - So Brave [Open Verse] (Prod. DJSnappBakk) 140bpm G#

Honey-Sweet

I am a multimedia producer in River Falls, Wisconsin with 20 years’ experience. I specialize in audio production— music, podcasts, broadcast, and sound design. I also offer video editing and media digitization. I welcome all genres and project types. If you would like more information about me or my services, you can contact me at https://linktr.ee/razortoeproductions

My music blends post-rock, electronica, and hip-hop.
But above all, I truly love jazz.
Recorded alone, in a quiet bedroom.
Now it's yours.

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

Music and vinyl collector.
Painful and pleasant experimental ambient electronic & industrial sounds.

New tracks tagged #Postrock