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Approaching Nirvana

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Merch Update & Vinyl Poll

Water bottles have been shipped. Please check your messages (Patreon or Discord) or email for tracking numbers. So now it's time to move forward with the next merch run - Spring / Summer 2023!

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March 22 - Cloud 9

During my session this week, I tried out a bunch of different ideas. I focused mainly on writing melodies, but this one chord progression I tried at the end had some promise. I wanted to write some...

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March 15 - Vexation (and some piano ideas)

Welp, sometimes a blank slate yields a really unique idea but other times the session lacks direction. This idea seems like the latter. I like both of the piano ideas that I wrote (you can hear the...

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March Merch Update!

Water Bottles are shipping out over the next week or 2. I'll be sending everyone tracking numbers via DM, Patreon Message, or email - whichever I've had responses from you before. So make sure to c...

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March 8 - Exaltation

This week I started out with some piano ideas, chose one, and ran with it. I settled on an intense progressive house direction and wrote the intro/build/drop you hear in this version.

I think...

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New Release - My Goodbye

This is the 1st official release of 2023. I originally wrote this back in October 2021 and it went th...

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New Release - Forever in Time

This is the 2nd release of 2023 and it's a future chill/chillstep song. I originally wrote this last summer and it's been on my list to return to since. This song is really has a chill and warm atm...

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Feb 22 - Enchantment

I'm making progress off stream on the February songs you voted for so yesterday I wrote something new. This idea developed from the failure of another and I'm really happy with how turned out. It's...

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Spring/Summer 2023 Patreon Merch Poll

As the bottles are shipping out to you, I want to get your thoughts on the next Patreon Merch item, so we can start the process ASAP. Some pretty cool things in there - vote below!

Also, if y...

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Feb 15 - The Other Day

This week, I polled Twitch chat for a genre and we went with Liquid DnB. It's been awhile since I've purposely written some DnB, so it was fun to return to. After a drum beat, I wrote some chords a...

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Ant Man Theme Remix

I never thought that Ant Man would make for good movies, but here I am looking forward to Quantumania this week. The original theme is super unique and was really fun to put into an EDM format.

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Feb 8 - The View From Here

This week, I worked on a catchy piano melody and paired it with some chill house vibes. I wrote a few of those ideas on stream, then picked one and ran with it.

Although it's very basic, I li...

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February Music Poll

Time for another poll! Which song do you want me to try and finish this month?

The follow up sessions on the project may or may not be streamed on Twitch - it will depend on what kind of sess...

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Waterbottles are here!

The laser-engraved S'well water bottles have landed! I've just received them this week and I'll be starting the process of shipping them out to you ASAP. I'll be reaching out over the next few days...

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Feb 1 - Precious Time / Outland Journey

Most sessions I have a plan going in, but sometimes starting with a complete blank slate produces a really promising idea. That's what happened 2023-02-02 16:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post

New Release - Driftwood

Time for the first release of 2023 - Driftwood! This song was originally written last September and a...

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Jan 25 - What's to Come

Since I finished the production on Driftwood over the weekend, I wrote something new this week. I jus...

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Spring 2023 Merch Ideas

Hi Everyone!

I've received confirmation that the custom engraved S'well bottles are in production and will ship to me soon. Once I have them, I'll start shipping them out to you myself. Expec...

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Jan 18 - Driftwood (Session 2)

This month I'm focusing on finishing the song you voted for - Driftwood. I originally wrote this back in...

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Jan 11 - What Life Can Be

This week's idea is pretty solid. I started out making some atmosphere for inspiration (you can hear it in the intro) and then messed around on the piano until I found something promising. Once I g...

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Patreon in 2023

I hope you had a great holiday and the new year is treating you well!

Because of your support in 2022, I was able to release 2023-01-11 15:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post

January Music Poll

My focus for the 1st half of 2023 is to finish as many in-progress projects as possible. So we're going to switch up polls for a bit. I've chosen 4 projects of a similar genre/vibe that are on my l...

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2022 WIP Recap Mix

It's that time again to ring in the new year! Last year's recap mix was well received, so I put together another recap of the last year's ideas.

The 2 hours of music in this mix are the ideas...

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January 4 - Don't Give Up

This week's idea developed a lot differently than anticipated, but I really like where it went. It's been awhile since I wrote some Drum and Bass and although I didn't start the session wanting to ...

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Dec 28 - Just Drive

This week I wanted to really hone in on the drive and motivation vibe of an idea. I started out with some heavy inspiration from "Stop" - a song I wrote awhile back that I think has a big driving f...

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2022 Christmas Minimix, Jingle Bells Remix, & Happy Holidays!!

This year I put together a minimix for Christmas! The video is live over on YouTube but you can download the mix here.

I also repurposed some of the Blocking the Sky Redux assets to put toget...

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Dec 21 - Broken Sunset

More darker themes this week! It was also my first time recording guitar on stream and it went... okay haha. I want to evolve my sound moving forward and 2022-12-22 15:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Dec 14 - I'm Your Friend

This week's idea is a bit different. I wanted to keep with the driving/motivational vibe and write something darker. I started off the idea with some melodic techno vibes at a slower bpm and ran wi...

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New Release - Kalm

I originally wrote this song in January and was on the fence about finishing this one all year. I like...

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Dec 7 - Less is More

This month we're writing motivational/driving/persevering songs and while this fits in that category, it's definitely on the lighter/uplifting side. My starting point for this song was melodic dubs...

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