Hello! I make entire EPs, with complete strangers, on occasion. I have rules for this operation. Here they are. 

We make 5 tracks, with a total run time of approximately half an hour. When it is finished, I will release the record on Bandcamp, for free, with no option to pay more.  I will also make them downloadable here. Participants are encouraged to do the same. You read correctly... no money for anyone... If for some reason we manage to encode the secret to immortality, or the true path to God, in an audio waveform... it is still FREE to all. I'll be asking collaborators for a square piece of art that they do not fear me mangling for the cover. These EPs have a design ethic consistent with all of my personal stuff, and will stay that way... with the initial input from the collaborators.

So far, I have mixed all the tracks, and mastered all of the EPs myself. This isn't a rule set in stone, though. It is just the way that it has worked so far. In fact, the plan with, Belial, is to trade starting and finishing , back and forth until the record is done. Perhaps we will arm wrestle for who masters it, when the 5 tracks are done. Anyway, the point is I will figure out how things work for each EP, with the collaborators, as we go.

Interested? Tell me. However, if you would want our record to sound like the music at an EDM festival... then you are expressing interest in working with the wrong person. You should only be interested, if you want to make music unlike the music you make on your own, and for the natural sharing of appreciators, that would occur when the music is shared. These are the reasons that I do it.

Bound for Destinations Unknown Collaborative Free EPs

Still Breathing Fire's contribution to @muterial 's "Off the Rails" open collaboration, which has spawned a "Bound for Destinations Unknown" EP. More to come...

Written, Arranged, Produced & Engineered by Rollo Carpenter & Mike Luv

RC- Field Recording, Filtering, Processing
ML- Generative Patching in VCV Rack, Edits, Sequencing, Mix

Original track: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails
A playlist of varied & wonderfully inventive renditions: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations

muterial & Still Breathing Fire: Silt (Off the Rails Rework)

A welcome song in celebration of the first day of Spring as if to say:

Hello to my dear old friend
I missed you waiting for winter to end
Now it is your time to begin
Yes, it is Springtime once again

Hope you enjoy! Blessings to all!

Synth pianos with echo, phaser, bass, acoustic guitar, and audio of a robin singing set to hip hop and Latin beats at a gentle 70 bpm.

Audio of robin singing recorded live in April 2023.

COVER ART: AI-generated image via the DaVinci app altered in Photoshop.
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Spring Arrival

Slacking

Follows on from my earlier track "Passion for the Beyond", though a little jazzier. Brass sounds from a VST (MIDI-triggered) instrument. Image: Gencraft.

Beyond Passion

Two Pieces for Orchestra (2024)

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Ain't Got Time For School

HUGE thank you to Tam Jennifer and Ken from K2 and the Three for putting this one together with me!

Contributions

Piano/Organ: J.J.Terrell
on.soundcloud.com/zMRZHupDxhFSYd676

Vocals/Lyrics/Mix (Audacity): Tam Jennifer
https://on.soundcloud.com/Tyc5G

Drums: K2 and the Three
on.soundcloud.com/xGewgZifWnxsEmZY7

Cover picture: Erin Jennifer
on.soundcloud.com/imA3NPDbnh667UtS9

Lyrics

What do I have to say
To make you stay
The world is turning now
Without me

Why do you have to keep
Just letting me retreat
This worldly learning is
So lonely

Take my hand, dear
Help me to stand, dear
It thaws my heart, just
To have you near

Cos times are changing, so fast
Can we find the energy to last
This price we paid was it worth the cost
Or will we feel that all is lost

On the horizon
Sunset or sunrise
Facing death, or saving lives
Losing our faith
Or finally arrive

You used to bring me
Coffee in the morning
You used to kiss me in the rain
I remember times so full of yearning
Oh will we ever feel that way again

Cos times are changing, so fast
Can we find the energy to last
This price we paid was it worth the cost
Or will we feel that all is lost

On the horizon
Sunset or sunrise
Facing death, or saving lives
Losing our faith
Or finally arrive

© Ben -Tam Jennifer Hastings, J.J. Terrell, Ken Karasek, 2024. All rights reserved.

Echoes Of Tomorrow (Tam-Jennifer, K2 and the 3, J.J. Terrell)

The Cacklettes: Lay

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The Antisocial Network

Written, arranged, produced, performed & engineered by Will Randall @modal_plane & Mike Luv

ML - Sequencing, Edits, Surf Guitar, Mix
WR- Modular & Drum Synthesis, Hardware Sequencing, Samples, Effects, Surf Not-Guitar

Modal Plane & Xixistix: Ahh...

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine,  @stuffamebobs & Mike Luv

SI - Sequencing
ML - Sequencing, Mix

Simon Irvine & Xixstix - Polysynthetic

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine & Mike Luv
SI - Sequencing, Guitars
ML - Sequencing, Mix, Mastering

Xixistix and Simon Irvine - Upright

Written, Arranged, Produced, Pefrormed & Engineered by Simon Irvine @stuffamebobs & Mike Luv

SI - Sequencing, Guitar
ML- Sequencing, Mix

Simon Irvine & Xixistix: Slowly Dying Inside

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine & Mike Luv
SI - Sequencing
ML - Sequencing, Mix, Mastering

In For A Penny

Xixistix and Simon Irvine - In For A Penny

guitar op.1 nº3

Genre Smashing Here
Cymatic Repair @still-breathing-fire

I pronounce it, Zixy-Sticks. It came from a nonsensical play on the name of the truly vile candy-dust-in-a-cardboard-tube, Pixy Sticks. Then again, there is meaning everywhere. 

Creative Friends @mangledmusic
& @unitedmusicfront

Ancient Childishness @mlshoneyworks

Modal Plane & Xixistix: Ahh...

Xixistix

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