[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Calm & Steady series no. 163

created: 2021/10/13

Picture CREDIT:
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The theme song to our new season of The Adventure Zone, titled Ethersea -- which starts today! 

https://www.themcelroy.family/2021/5/6/22421588/the-adventure-zone-ethersea-prologue-i-our-wasted-world

Heavily, extremely, deeply inspired by "Clare de Lune" by Claude Debussy. Obviously.

The Adventure Zone: Ethersea Theme

Zeitgeist-Nicolas Rada - Aurora Remix - 124 Bpm DOLBY/LANDR Master

Nachtzon

Goenavund

Song Info:
Remastered and ready for action!
I unironically and unapologetically LOVE Letterkenny. I had to make this little homage of some of their classic lines, with two others from another Canadian gem thrown in! Thank you Jared Keeso and Jacob Tierney for this incredible show.

If you haven't seen it yet, it alone is reason enough to subscribe to Crave or Hulu!

I don't own the rights to any of the vocals, and the melody line is, of course, the Canadian National Anthem.

IP and copyright may belong to:
    Crave
    Hulu
    New Metric Media
    Bell Media
    WildBrain Studios
    Play Fun Games Pictures

Album Info:
Last week on vacation, I was talking with my (much more talented) musician friend about the things I was learning in Ableton. Being that there are so many plugins, AI helpers, looping clips, etc. out there, I said "Heck, it would be dead-simple to make an entire 'meh' quality album in a week"

So, I decided to do it. I bridged two weekends, but worked full hours on my regular job, so I think it balanced out.

On the drive home from vacation, my family and I wrote down over 40 musical genres. I then narrowed it down to 20, assigned numbers to them, and rolled two twenty sided dice. The results: Lo-Fi Chiptunes. Great excuse to buy the software synth I've been looking at for a while!

I got just over 31 minutes done, so 9 minutes shy of my goal. Still, I'm fairly happy with these songs! A lot more work could have been done, but I learned a lot.

Shoutout to Rory Given, the *incredibly* generous and *super talented* individual who gifted me a copy of Ableton! Follow him here:
https://soundcloud.com/rorygiven

O How Are You Now, Canada? (explicit lyrics)

Song Info:
I came up with the chord changes on my own, but relied heavily on loops to make this song.

Album Info:
Last week on vacation, I was talking with my (much more talented) musician friend about the things I was learning in Ableton. Being that there are so many plugins, AI helpers, looping clips, etc. out there, I said "Heck, it would be dead-simple to make an entire 'meh' quality album in a week"

So, I decided to do it. I bridged two weekends, but worked full hours on my regular job, so I think it balanced out.

On the drive home from vacation, my family and I wrote down over 40 musical genres. I then narrowed it down to 20, assigned numbers to them, and rolled two twenty sided dice. The results: Lo-Fi Chiptunes. Great excuse to buy the software synth I've been looking at for a while!

I got just over 31 minutes done, so 9 minutes shy of my goal. Still, I'm fairly happy with these songs! A lot more work could have been done, but I learned a lot.

Shoutout to Rory Given, the *incredibly* generous and *super talented* individual who gifted me a copy of Ableton! Follow him here:
https://soundcloud.com/rorygiven

Air On A Sweaty Hand

VERTIGO

Some months now into my music production journey, and I have slid into the Dunning-Kruger Valley of Despair. I am increasingly aware of how little I know about all of this. I haven't posted anything for months, unable to satisfy the new standards I hope to achieve. This track doesn't either, but here it is.

Nimbus Signal

Distant Moons

loving the 80's vibes in recent movies and TV shows, so I wanted to build a track that has that same energy. 

Johnny Cyberhands

Yuno - Someone out of town mix 
私はあなたのために周辺の心を持っていたらいいのに.

First trap beat after getting out of the loop making hole.  Trying to figure out this mixing/mastering game!

Trippy Plucks

https://www.beatport.com/release/toyoshima/3500142

Shabboo Harper - Tokyo Ujigami (Original Mix) | Snipped

Finale

Levin Dalton Riday Lacas - Finale

2025_06_01_AmbiJz

The Chipmunks play Tom Petty on a 16 speed turntable

Refugee

The Adventure Zone: Amnesty Theme

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
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This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Air On A Sweaty Hand

DJ_TMC

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