harmonic minor 4 against 3? Must be a cry for help.

Image: 

"...fly witch, fly..." by dhammza is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

unreleased

witches

Wistful ambient, but with a driving rhythm.

Image based on:

"Climate Impacts to Arctic Coasts" by U.S. Geological Survey is marked with CC PDM 1.0

of days past

A weird atavistic track that sounds like a theme song to a 60s gunfighter movie.

Image based on: https://www.flickr.com/photos/62501682@N00/26052233862

Reflective

Created with Korg Volca FM, Music 1010 Lemondrop, and Roland JD-08.  Sequenced with Korg SQ-64.

Fanfare Fiction

A leitmotif of drowsy contentment.

Nymphes, Crave, 808 samples (via Sitala), Bloos (vst), MonoFury (vst), Odin 2 (vst)

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/tzX-O2fvvHQ

Abyss

Downtempo analog synth mediation.

Volca Drum, Nymphes, Typhon, Crave.

Flat Response

A stump through the woods without pleasure or malice.

Nymphes, Behringer Pro-800, Hydrasynth

Laslo

Regimes come and regimes go, but Moscow is forever.

Made with Dreadbox Nymphes, Behringer Pro-800, ASM Hydrasynth, and various VSTs.

Late Autumn In Moscow

A downtempo mediation of the future promise of Lasers.

Audio clips from Lasers Unlimited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoiZZJ2epkw

Instruments: JX-08, JD-08, TR-6s

Directed Energy

A driving beat from a decaying mall.

Made with a Roland SE-02, a Behringer Pro-800, and a Dreadbox Nymphes (and various drum samples).

Tribal

Enter a realm of conjecture and shadow.

Words from: Consciousness and the limits of Science - Boundaries of the Knowable

Moonshadow

Every sound on this track was made with the Dreadbox Nymphes, an incredible tiny synth.

Turnpike Tryst

This is a chord sequence I keep coming back to.  This started as a DAWless jam, but then got out of hand.

Featuring: OpSix; TR-6s; SE-02; JX-08; Hydrasynth; Pro-800; Nymphes; my playing my Telecaster

Shown the Dorian

This one is a little different from typical synthwave.  Think The Carpenters met Mr. Bungle.

See the video here: https://youtu.be/jZuonqFiOuQ

The Walking Man

The air in the underground bunker was close, as was to be expected.   However, the subject matter discussed by the representatives of the two warring factions raised tensions in the room to suffocating levels.  

Trust But Verify

A bouncy tune from Jamuary2025.  Listen to it along with its friends on the album Revolt on Antares, available now on Bandcamp.

https://taskboymusic.bandcamp.com/album/revolt-on-antares-the-best-of-jamuary-2025

Meats and Potatoes

Another track from Jamuary2025.   This was recorded live, using only four synths: Lemondrop, TR-6s, Nymphes, and MicroMonsta 2.  

Album available here: https://taskboymusic.bandcamp.com/album/revolt-on-antares-the-best-of-jamuary-2025

Europaean Shores

From Day 25 of Jamuary 2025, this bouncy tune was recorded live like all the tracks from this project.  Hope you like it as much as I do.

Available on the LP Revolt on Antares, available on Bandcamp: https://taskboymusic.bandcamp.com/album/revolt-on-antares-the-best-of-jamuary-2025

Have Raygun Will Travel

Empty Mall

A pulsing rhythm to match the rapid tattoo of combat.  Equipment used: Crave, Grind, SE-06, Typhon.  What's notable is that the Crave's LFO is used as a sub-oscillator in this jam.

Grind Time

Growing up is hard to do.  In retrospect, it is a wonder any of us made it.  This 7/4 tune was written and recorded in the early 2000s when Sound Blaster audio cards were the hotness.  It represents one of my earliest attempts at working with synths not as organs but as instruments in their own right. 

Plug Nickle

A narrative, downtempo piece about finding out you are more than your job.

Get the higher resolution version on Bandcamp.  See the Buy Link for details.

A New Genesis

Samples from GarageBand assembled in a persistent order.

Image from https://search.openverse.engineering/photos/e21090c8-7776-4c8e-952c-4744465c49a8

Miles Before We Sleep

Astrofire

Beat Feet

Ambient mediations in G

Image based on https://www.flickr.com/photos/99884310@N00/2354534814

Eventide

A songlet in which I discover that a humble telecaster can stay tuned at C#.

Find Me

At a Child's Desk

So catchy, you'll wish you never heard it.

Beef

A minor chord vamp that got out of control.

blue-eyed-funk

In which I rap with the kids in their own crazy internet lingo! What's wrong with my pantsuit?

Spoken tracks pinched from youtube

* OhMrRabbit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLTNoMpHpk
* GiantPinkPirateships: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLhJIL7mdVY

Asmr

Minor 9 jazz chords set off by dialog from a ridiculous 40s industrial on safety.

Image based on: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92723847@N00/94911214

get a good grip before you start

Bespoke music for mass-produced times.

Taskboy Music is a decades old project in which the struggles to translate ineffable moods into rhythm, melody, and harmony using the tools of the day are documented.

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