Great production and mix.  I've returned to this track for some time.

roll

roll.

alwaze

This is my cover of Aaron Guidry's The Path, which was originally performed by the Ronald Reagan High School Marching Band for their 2021 competition season.  This cover is dedicated to the 2021 RRHS Band, its composers, directors, volunteers and families.  

I took the audio from Reagan Band's finals performances at Super Regionals and Grand Nationals, laid it on top of Aaron's original audio stems, mixed it, and then added my own interpretation on top of it all.  Additional instruments are guitars, bass and drums.

This project was initiated in November 2021 with permission of Aaron Guidry, taking five months to complete.  While I enjoyed putting my heavier spin on it, it was done in honor of the original arrangement and the students' performances.  They're the reason I pursued this project to begin with.

I hope listeners of my cover can hear how differently others can interpret music from the stands, compared to how its performers must focus all of their energy upon performing the music presented to them.  It's quite different.  My 20+ years of writing heavy music surely influenced how The Path hit me upon first-listen, but what shines-through is how demanding, unforgiving and apologetic it is.  I wanted to take it a step (or two) further.

What I would offer to younger listeners is that as a musician, you don't ever get to decide how others will be affected by what you create and perform.  That's why you must always write and play from the heart, never questioning the outcome.  You never know whose lives you'll affect, and what you'll get back from it.  That's the beauty of music.

Thank you again to Aaron and everyone who put this wonderful music and program together.  It arrived at a time in my life when I couldn't have needed it more.

The Reagan Collection

A Heavier Path

A Heavier Path (2021)

Without You

Moving On / featuring WASTEL4ND

why are all the songs i write lately inspired out of therapeutic necessity? is it because i keep falling for people and completely screwing up in the process of trying to get them to fall back?

yea i think it's that

anyway, yea. music! woo!

Remember This Feeling

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This was a show in Eugene, Oregon with my beloved Eugene fam, Birds of Paradise and our EuDream Funktion-One rig! Vibes were high and it was a dancy night, super fun :) Free download! 

CharlesTheFirst - The Mist (feat. CloZee)
Sunrise in the Mountains (Mindex Remix)
Mindex - In Search of Truth (Re-MindeX) (Mandala Affect edit)
truth - The Fact (Original Mix)
Hedflux - Equinosis (unreleased)
Pretty Lights - Looking For Love (But Not So Sure)
Hedflux - Sananga Seranade
The Squatch Expands Life (Grouch in Dub Remix) - ft Ganga Giri
Mandala Affect and David Dewey - Oracular
Mandala Affect - Upward Empryean
Whitebear x Tribone- Permutations
Whitebear - Pulling Teeth
ALIA & Imagika Om - Madre (Mandala Affect Remix Dub Version 2)
Mandala Affect - Inspiration Feat. Neil Kramer 
Heflux - Sacralicious
? 1 Funker
Hedflux - Brain Ambrosia
Halfred & Tryptich - Tall King
Mandala Affect and David Dewey - Butter Soup
SUN-MONX - Rokkit Snot

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Mandala Affect (aka Luke Mandala) Psybass set live in Eugene 3/23/18 (FREE D.L.)

1.  theme 0:00

2. stay yellow 1:34

3. crosswalk 3:26

4. dawn 5:17

5. pickpocket 6:52

6. underglow 9:04

7. statuesque 11:22

8. tripwire 12:43

9. clockwork 15:13

10. provider 16:23

11. live, from the rooftops 18:15

SPHEROID 04 - 02 - 20

Juan Arreguin

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