Reinvent Ourselves [3:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (30)

Reinvent Ourselves actually started lyrically from two different scraps of writings that I had.

The first part, I was obviously in a really dark mood and started framing an almost dystopian kind of situation. I guess the idea of a police state or a warlike situation was in my mind at the time. I wasn’t really quite sure where to take it after the first couple of lines, however, and just left it the way it was in my notepad to revisit at some other time.

The second part of the song was drastically different, focusing on brighter days. The idea of escaping from an unhappy situation and “getting away” to someplace nicer and more enjoyable.

When Beavis, Jeremy and I got together the following Sunday, Jeremy had written the base music production for us to work from and I noticed how drastically the music changed as it progressed, especially with the introduction of the deep bass line about halfway through. Beavis laid down some sweet guitar to bootstrap a lot of the sound together in a tighter fashion and I started playing around with using some of these lyrics and noticed that the two scripts actually went together in a story-like fashion so I went with it.

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 Digital Storm [3:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (22)

Here’s one that I pieced together during multiple lunch breaks at work.  

It’s hard to find time to make music these days, so I try to take full advantage of my lunch by recording little parts here and there.  

Most of the music was made with the Garageband preset beats and sounds, but I also layered some stuff with my Synth.  

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 Promise [4:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (22)

Working on some of the ideas for our most recent project has required a lot of focus on very dark progressions a lot of really heavy sounds. So, just as a light diversion, I wanted to write something a brighter and more lighthearted.

To be honest, I didn’t really start with any idea in particular. I’ve been listening to a lot of Faunt’s work lately and am enamored with their “video game”-style production sounds. I love how lighthearted everything sounds, even though their lyrical content may be focusing on some intense subject matter. It makes listening to a sad song a happy experience.

So basically, that’s where I started and I just played around the most lighthearted sounds I could find in my collection and just assembled them together in a fun way.

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 Thugs [1:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (19)

Over the last couple of weeks, things have been incredibly busy for us as we’ve just been getting over all the obligations life throws at us in the new year. Because of this, getting together to play in a simultaneously collaborative environment has been difficult. So, instead, we’ve been producing material individually. In as many cases as possible, we’re working on doing some asynchronous projects where we can each record aspects individually and then pass it along to the next person.

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