MEAT! :: Free Music Podcast
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This track is a result of a improvised jam session with Anthony Shawn and myself (Jeremy Scott). We jammed for a couple hours one night in the new studio and recorded some cool sounds. This one is a pretty simple little groove with a cool bass line. The MEAT! of the song is about 1:50 into it.
In the past, we’ve recorded tracks in layers, starting with the beat and then adding synthesizers sounds on top. A couple of these tracks I’m talking about are Concrete and Fruity. Fruity being one of my favorite out of the two. So, we are revisiting this experiment with Anthony Shawn and myself, and calling the project Old Jessup, but this time, we’re coming up with this stuff live. Stay tuned for more of Old Jessup.
06.9.09Open House :: Free Music Podcast
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A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I watched Jeff Tweedy’s DVD, Sunken Treasure. I marveled at Tweedy’s ability to play songs that felt concise and complete with a great deal of open space and loose structures. He also has a great penchant for writing songs that explore interesting subjects but feel very relaxed at the same time.
After watching the DVD, I started playing around with some song ideas to work on something more relaxed in feel as well. Open House was the result of this little solo jamming session.
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Your Island :: Free Music Podcast
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Summer is here and we wanted to kick it off with some dub reggae.
Dub and reggae music has always been a strong influence on me personally. Most particularly it’s influenced my bass playing. I learned the importance of laying down a solid groove line from dub music. Additionally, when I produce I often work with a layered approach and like to use dub-style delays regularly.
Lyrically, Your Island focuses on the need to occasionally step back and take a look at your life to see if you are living in a way that satisfies you. To me, it’s an incredibly important thing to make sure I’m living my life in a way that both makes me happy and that I’m living in a way that helps the people around me. Thankfully, right now, I feel that my life fulfills these requirements and I hope to keep it that way.
I hope everyone enjoys this one as much as we enjoyed writing it.
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Dave Jones :: Free Music Podcast
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We’re sorry about the late posting today. There was a flood in downtown Baltimore this morning and it totally changed the day around.
Here’s this week’s song, Dave Jones. A couple weekends ago, Dave Jones came down to jam with us. He’s been up several times to play music in the past but I’m not sure that we’ve had workable recordings of those sessions. On this particular piece, Dave played saxophone and created a haunting mood with it. Often, it sounds as if the sax is crying out from some unseen location off in the distance. It’s easily one of my favorites in feel and texture.
Primarily, you’ll hear the interplay here between Jeremy’s keys and Dave’s sax work.
Sedate in mood and with a bit of fog covering everything, this song feels so cinematic in nature.
It reminds me of some of my favorite film soundtracks.
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Digital Storm :: Free Music Podcast
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Here’s one that I pieced together during multiple lunch breaks at work. Â
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. Â
Most of the music was made with the Garageband preset beats and sounds, but I also layered some stuff with my Synth. Â
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To The Water :: Free Music Podcast
I think we hit a milestone with this one. The time signature in this beat is unlike anything we’ve done before. The extra added storm effects in the end go right along with the lyrics and thundering drums.
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Digital Camouflage :: Free Music Podcast
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Lazy Sun Melts :: Free Music Podcast
Lazy Sun Melts is a trippy, shimmery work. There’s no real direction. There’s no purpose. It’s like a sonic representation of lazy.
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Rising of the Sax
This is a short mellow piece featuring saxaphone. The sax gradually takes the music into an abstract composition that dissolves in the end.
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Statistical Energy
Here’s my first experiment with GarageBand. Â I added some distortion to the rhodes and some nice chorus to the guitar. Â The drum effects also added some crispness to the snare and some fullness to the kick drum. Then, I added several synth pads over top of everything to even out the sound.
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