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Approaching Nirvana

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Dec 1 - Downtempo/Chill/Lofi

Hey everyone! If you're in the US, I hope you had a great holiday weekend and if you're not, I hope you picked up something awesome and cheap for Black Friday!

This week... I forgot to post t...

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Nov 24 - Carol of the Bells Remix V2

Hey Everyone & Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US!

Yesterday was the final session on the Christmas remix and I made some good progress. I wrote the drop, did some basic sound d...

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New Release - Separate Ways

Hey everyone - I'm really excited to finally share this song with you! It's a song about moving on and moving forward. Alex Holmes is on the vocal again and she's done another amazing job! I've put...

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Free Release - Fable

Surprise, it's a FREE song! I wrote this for the community Extra Life charity event that is currently happening right now!! (Nov 20).

It's a fantasy/cinematic influenced EDM song that tells a...

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Nov 17 - Carol of the Bells Remix

Hey everyone! I hope your week is going well :)

I'm working on a Christmas Remix this week. Over on the Discord, we had a vote and the Twitch Subs & Patrons voted on "Carol of the Bells" ...

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Nov 9 - Stellar (Downtempo Orchestral)

Hey Everyone!

This week, I'm out of town Wed-Sun for the Mindcrack Marathon Charity event so this week's stream was yesterday and it worked out pretty well! I started off the stream just want...

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Nov 4 - Plucky House

This month, I'm writing my choice of genres (as voted by you), so I'm just going to go with what I am feeling each wee...

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November Genre Poll

New month, new genre! What do you want to see me write? Vote below & I'll see you on stream Wednesday!

- Andrew

PS - I'm also leaning towards doing a Christmas remix during one of t...

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Annual Memberships Enabled!

Hey everyone! As mentioned in my update post on Friday, I'm enabling annual memberships. If you'd like to switch to an...

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2021 Patreon Update & Adjustments to Benefits!

Hey everyone!

Today I'm announcing exciting adjustments to the Patreon tiers - I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'm making these changes with the goal of consolidating some o...

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Oct 27 - My Goodbye (Week 2)

This week, I continued the idea I wrote last week. The main focus ( View Post

New Release - Regrowth

I wrote another song for Love Tropics again this year and this is it! I've been writing a lot of piano-focused deep house songs this year so I chose that style and worked with the theme of regrowth...

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Oct 20 - My Goodbye (Melodic Dubstep)

Yesterday was another melodic dubstep stream and I started another song idea. I started  building out some foley percussion from field recordings & blended it with some proper dubstep drum...

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Oct 13 - Teardrops (Week 2)

Hey everyone! Yesterday was a followup stream on last week's song, Teardrops. I wrote the drop and arr...

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Oct 6 - Teardrops (Melodic Dubstep)

This month I'm switching it up and writing some Melodic Dubstep. I was only able to come up with a verse and build, but I really like this idea. I started off writing chords and then moved to drums...

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Sept 29 - Catharsis (Liquid DnB)

Yesterday was the final stream of September and I wrote something I really liked. After coming up with some okay chords/melody I built out some percussion and a few other layers. I wasn't satisfied...

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Sept 22 - Plucky DnB

Hey everyone,

Another week and another song! I came up with this idea after a few tries writing chord progressions and settling in on something I really liked. The pluck rhythm came to mind a...

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New Release - Like a Dream

Hey everyone!

This song was written on stream back in February. It's a piano-progressive house song in the style of "You," "Dream to Remember," and other similar songs. It's very evocative of...

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October Genre Poll

Hey everyone!

We still have 2 more streams in September, but October is going to be a new genre - what do you want to see me write? Vote below & I'll see you on stream tomorrow! View Post

Sept 15 - Astray (Liquid DnB)

Yesterday was the 2nd Ableton stream and I think it went really well! Ideas are coming really quickly in Ableton and ...

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Sept 8 - Glitters (Piano DnB)

Hey Everyone!

Yesterday was my first stream using Ableton and it went pretty well! I got Ableton 10 last year and it's been amazing for sketching out ideas. I haven't used it as much as I've ...

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Sept 2 - 5AM Rains (Liquid DnB)

Hey Everyone!

Yesterday was the first session for September. I'm writing Drum and Bass this month so I got started with some chords and a simple melody. I wrote 3 options and Twitch chat vote...

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September Poll

Hey everyone! 

I really want to write some DnB next month. How would you feel about me doing DnB next month and we're back to a full-on Patreon-voted genre for October?

Vote below ...

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Aug 25 - Prog Future Bounce House

Hey Everyone!

This week I wanted to write something a little more intense. I started out with a melody and  expanded it over 8 bars. I like the melody as it is now, but I think it needs ...

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Aug 18 - Dark Deep House

Hey everyone!

This week's song started off as a progressive house idea but during stream chat encouraged me to take it in a deep house direction and I'm really happy with how it developed. Th...

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Aug 11 - EDM Pop House

This week's song did not go well haha. I set out to write something darker, more upbeat, and a lot more intense but this is what came out. The session went well enough and I wrote ... something. Bu...

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New Release - Rise Again

It's finally here! I'm super pumped to share this song with you. I feel like this is one of the better (best?) songs I've written and it features some amazing vocals by Alex Holmes. MP3, 24-Bit Wav...

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Finished Demo - "Is This Real"

Hey everyone,

Finally finished this one! Well... outside of some small mix/master adjustments before a potential release. This song was originally written on stream last December and I'm real...

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August 4 - Expectations

This month I'm writing some intense/epic progressive/future house. The first idea I came up with yesterday has a lot of potential and developed really quickly throughout the stream. While each sect...

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August Genre Poll

Hey everyone - this month we're back to writing new ideas! What genre do you want to see me write? Vote below!

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