David Z. a.k.a. @BlackMarketBrains and I previously collaborated on one other track that I have posted to my page (After the Bomb), and a handful of tracks that he has posted to his page (3 different remixes of a work in progress from me called Metallic, and a response to my open collab, Social Fabric)...

I'm happy to share this new one that I developed based on an open collab of his called Doc Avalanche Goes BeatBeatBeat! https://soundcloud.com/blackmarketbrains/doc-avalanche-goes-beatbeatbeat-open-collab

I love the original title but chose to simplify it a little bit. 

Hopefully more to come from the two of us!

Avalanche of Beats - w/ Black Market Brains

This is a simple quirky little beat that I really liked the sound of, so decided to post it as an open collab after I'd already connected with both Enigma Curry and Stonerjazz to make a couple alternate mixes -- you can check them out here...

PLAYLIST: https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/windswept-collabs

If you'd like to adapt the stems for yourself, you can download them all here. Just let me know if you make something with them and I'll add them to the running playlist. Cheers!

STEMS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ArXRfRVPHxiqQ6E48mHVr9CUPX9_a5YA?usp=sharing

Windswept - OPEN COLLAB!

This is the second Windswept mix I've released. This one is in collaboration with STONERJAZZ @user-911083679 

Check out the other mixes here, including the original stripped down version which I'm posting as an open collab. It is a simple quirky little beat that I really liked the sound of. 

PLAYLIST: https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/windswept-collabs

If you'd like to adapt the stems for yourself, you can download them all here. Just let me know if you make something with them and I'll add them to the running playlist. Cheers!

STEMS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ArXRfRVPHxiqQ6E48mHVr9CUPX9_a5YA?usp=sharing

Windswept - Stoner Tea Mix

The Texas Tea duo is back for another genre bending collaboration!

@texmex-shaman and I have been making tunes together for going on a couple of years now - check out our full playlist to date: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/texas-tea-sea

On this one, I made the electro beat and sent to Stephen. He added all the guitar parts as well as some really cool sound effects during the outro. Always a blast to put these together.

Overflow (a Texas Tea production) - w/ TexMex Shaman

Shattered Concentration

Another super fun collab with my good friend @texmex-shaman !!

Hope you enjoy it, has a bit more of a major key mood going on this time.

And check out the Texas Tea playlist here: soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/texas-tea-sea

Static Glow (a Texas Tea production) - w/ TexMex Shaman

This is my first ever collaboration with @AWITW (A Walk in the Woods) a.k.a. Nico from France. He has been kind enough to feature a couple of my songs on his record label @goldenforestrecords, but we never worked together until now.

I sent him a very chilled out hip hoppy kind of beat and he evolved it into this awesome IDM jam. Thanks for checking it out!

Two Brains - w/ AWITW

Harsh Landscape

Another really fun collab with the legendary @TexMex-Shaman!

I'll often sketch out music ideas and compose midi melodies on the ipad as a first step, but took a different approach and constructed this one entirely in Ableton Live which I have been transitioning more of my process to lately.

After building the foundation I sent it to Stephen and he added some suuuper creative guitar parts that really build the atmosphere and take it to a whole other level. Very happy how this came out, hope you'll enjoy it!

Primeval (a Texas Tea production) - w/ TexMex Shaman

Here is me and @enigmacurry 's latest creation!

I sent him a pretty simple song based on 4 stems and he he transfigured it into this awesome jazzy abstract piece.

Miasma - w/ Enigma Curry

I've been doing so many collabs that it seems almost rare to put out a solo track! Here is one that I thought works pretty well on its own... thanks for checking it out.

Deep Focus

My second collaboration with the fantastic Eclectic Collective. Thank you for this awesome experience, Josh, Ken, Stephen, JJ, and Tez!

Cast of characters:
Tea R. Sea @tea_are_sea -- Terry – Synthesizers, beats, composition
Llanpsych–@llanpsych –Tez– Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Top T Classic
 electric wah guitar, mix, and production
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- Yamaha Genos 2 electric piano, tambourine, and triangle
K2 and the Three [and the Four] -- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1– Custom five-string fretless bass

This song started as a basic, yet melodically very strong composition by Terry involving him playing a synthesizer over a beat he created. He first shared it with Stephen, as they are regular collaborators in their project, Texas Tea, which are worth checking out on both of their pages, as well. Stephen then turned it over the the Eclectic Collective to work our magic on it.
  Josh was first up to the plate with this one, adding his deep, five string fretless bass to Terry's rudimentary beat. Ken was next up, however, adding the driving drum beat you hear, for which he used Terry's beat as a template and augmented a full kit sound to it. Stephen followed Ken, adding his striking wah guitar part to the whole thing. Tez was up soon after with his searing guitar soloing towards the end. Last, but certainly not least, JJ added the soulful electric piano you hear giving it a funk throughout, as well as the tambourine and the cool triange dings. 
  Now that it was in the bag, we decided to ask Stephen to produce and mix it for us, which he did in his typical expert fashion, as well as the doing the mastering, too.
  This is our holiday offering to all our fans, friends, colleagues, and peers. While it's not particularly a holiday song, it's a good display of where we are musically, and shows some of the flavor we want to add in the new year. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it. Happy holidays to you, and many happy returns!

Tree Tops - w/ Eclectic Collective

When I posted the other piece in this series "Alterations (B)", I had forgotten to mention how this piece between me and @enigmacurry was more of an iterative creative process than usual. He sent me a short loop which I modified and added a bunch of layered melodic phrases to, and then sent back to him. He then produced the final versions of both mix A and mix B

This was a fun experiment for us, and I was so happy with both versions, that I had to share both of them with you all.

Alterations (A) - w/ Enigma Curry

Once again @enigmacurry turns around something amazing based on a short little beat I sent his way. Initially he made a 7.5 minute version that sounded completely different (which I'll post at another point), then he requested the stems, went back to the drawing board and produced this epic 9.5-minute beast of a remix. It really sparked my imagination - hope it works for you too!

Alterations (B) - w/ Enigma  Curry

A Future Absence

Cleansing Rain

Endless fun working with @TexMex-Shaman on these "Texas Tea" songs and wow this is possibly one of my favorites of the 14(!) songs we've done to date. Check out the full playlist here: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/texas-tea-sea

We're considering doing a wider release of our favorite tracks on Spotify etc. soon, maybe BandCamp as well. Stay tuned and I hope you enjoy this epic high-energy genre fusion!

The Texas Tea Industrial Bluegrass Experience

This is maybe the first track I've ever released to SC featuring me playing guitar! Picking it back up a bit after a long break... I'm continuing to explore Ableton Live and it's inspiring me to think outside of my normal creative patterns.

Above the Noise

Waves Of Memory

Another fun one with my longtime collaborator @enigmacurry !

Chicken & Waffles - w/ Enigma Curry

This is a remix of STONERJAZZ's (@user-911083679) open collaboration, A Strong Cupa Joe. The original song is no longer available on his SoundCloud page, but you can give it a listen on his BandCamp where it is featured on the album 'Half-Life'. 

Jeff had already included that trippy repeating synthy thing going on throughout the background. I added the melodic thread that evolves throughout, the chords that chime in here and there, and the experimental sound collage at the end. I've had this one ready to go for a bit, and figured it would be fun to release this week, along with our new Smoking Trout song, Assimilation, as kind of like a fun little B-side to that track. Thanks for listening friends!

 	
A STRONG CUPPA JOE
Theres a funny looking little spot on the early morning floor
it wasn't there yesterday or the day before
contemplated quietly with a coffee
it's a door made of mist
it's the middle of a kiss
it's a line in a poem
A bone and a stone and a Belt
The abyss on tthe edge
With Steps to the Sun
while dreams still fresh dance just out of reach
Fresh from the bed, angry and Red
it's a welt and a strong cuppa joe
that sits on the table
while the cat and the kitten hiss and cavort
as the darkness expires, while the coals from those fires still glow

Strong Cupa Joe (The Cupa Tea Mix)

This is my third collaboration with the great E.P. Beats!
@lala-land-361191160

I've had this as a work in progress for a while and I love the production touches and additional drums that he added to the final version here.

Unread Passage (w/ E.P. Beats)

Hey all, I thought this fun experimental piece still felt minimal with open spaces ready for further development. So I'm sharing it out as an open collab and hoping others will be interested in taking up the challenge!

It's a bit of a weird one, but please feel free to use as many or as few elements as you would like. Here is a link to the stems:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1THt60PCv9tYi2b6fxKciQcs-7ykBEf2b?usp=sharing

For inspiration, check out the totally different direction that E.P. Beats @lala-land-361191160 took with it on his crazy-cool phonk remix!
https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/orange-mound/s-aIKH4o6kwzw?si=0ac79d337bea4ab5bb8dbca92ab28058&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

If anyone else makes their own mix I'll start a running playlist and link it here.

Sunset Circus (Open Collaboration!)

The Smoking Trout usually sticks to sprawling concept albums but this one-off piece kind of just came together. I came up with a beat and melody that I felt was weird enough to share with Jeff (STONERJAZZ @user-911083679). He added the the creative vocal track as well as a cloned reflection of my combined instrumental tracks that added some interesting texture. (Stephen @texmex-shaman) helped us knit everything together with the killer whimsical guitar part through the middle, connecting the two verses. 

Lyrics by STONERJAZZ

Always get a little sentimental
in the middle of the conversation
when i think about all the options offered
during the assimalation

when the level of concern
and the nature of the consternation
for the mundane and the useless
made it difficult to accept or advocate the privilege
and the worship of the lucky landing of the crooked Cowboys

Though sentimental in its nature
its making meditations incomplete
and decisions Faulty
just distractions while we fiddle in the middle of another Crisis
in the simulation
and the monkeys say "Good good Real good yum yum yum yum
now we're gonna get some Yeah"

Assimilation (The Smoking Trout: TRC, STONERJAZZ & TexMex Shaman)

Another collaboration with E.P Beats @lala-land-361191160, the second in 2 weeks! I'm happy to have this third response to my 'Windswept' Open Collab. Listen to the other two and check out the original track here: https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/windswept-collabs

If you are inspired, maybe you'll consider taking up the challenge and adding your own version. 

Windswept - the E.P. Beats Mix!

For the first time in a long while, @scilentsymphony joined me and @enigmacurry on a collaboration. The three of us have been making music together, on and off, for 5 years now mainly through the @extemporaneous-collab project. It was tons of fun to get the band back together for this creative excursion!

Wanderluge

It’s a Vision

Loving this fantastic mix by E.P. Beats @lala-land-361191160 inspired by my open collaboration Sunset Circus:
https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sunset-circus/s-rnuoGFhMeW7?si=fea086403f0748e2984de76344e93938&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Cover photo is by Thomas R Machnitzki (CC BY-SA 3.0)

ORANGE MOUND - E.P. Beats' Phonk Remix of Sunset Circus

Me and Stephen @texmex-shaman decided to keep exploring this heavier, industrial kind of direction on our latest one here. He created some amazingly weird noises with the guitar! Blows my mind...

Smash and Grab - A Texas Tea Production

Dependable Crab

On this page you'll find music from me as well as the collaborative SoundCloud band, The Smoking Trout.

Genre influences include electronic, downtempo, lofi, experimental, rock, blues, indie, prog, post rock, ambient, synthwave, trip hop, and hip hop. I make tracks primarily with Cubasis and Korg Gadget (iOS); Ableton Live; Korg and Moog softsynths, Volca Drum, Minilogue XD, Arturia Microfreak, Arturia Pigments, and the FabFilter Pro suite of effects and production tools.

My sound has been inspired by Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, DJ Shadow, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, M83, Godspeed you Black Emperor!, Mogwai, Pink Floyd, Animal Collective, Nicolas Jaar, Dirty Projectors, Massive Attack, Björk, Dan the Automator, Del, the Gorillaz, Reggie Watts, Ween, Neon Indian, Tycho, Ott, Shpongle, Danger Mouse, Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo, Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Modest Mouse, Tool, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Hendrix, the Books, and too many others to list here.

Hope you will check out some of my collaborators:

@user-911083679 - STONERJAZZ
@user-455619833 - Uziel
@texmex-shaman
@sonic-textures
@grevusanjl
@enigmacurry
@mralchemy
@blackmarketbrains
@dough-factory
@winkandwoo
@jerome-hearn-994307260
@dubman-9
@archmageband2
@tot-beat
@ipg1
@zed4209819
@lala-land-361191160 - E.P. Beats
@llanpsych
@ruizzoidman21centurions
@Ladyofire
@josh-clary-1 Entheogenic Psychonaught
@themysteriousdecibel 
@k2andthe3
@cerulean_ascent
@nic_nic_nic
@nadiaselvaggi
@chefboyextreme
@scilentsymphony
@azealotrous
@noxpox13 
@pablomoretti
@prof-oddfellow - Neons Gone a Mad
GMO / Green Mercurial Owl 

Thanks so much for stopping by and listening!

Tea R. Sea

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