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December Music Poll

This month let's switch it up & vote for the emotion & tone of a song as opposed to the genre. Options below - vote, vote, vote!

Thanks as always and I'll see you on stream tomorrow!<...

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New Remix - We Three Kings

It's time for the holidays and that means another Christmas remix! Last year was Carol of the Bells an...

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Nov 30 - What's Above

This is the last idea for melodic dubstep/chillstep & cinematic/orchestral and during the 1st half of the writing session, I was really vibing with the it. But as the session progressed, I like...

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New Release - Lonely Shadows

Time for some more deep house! This song was originally written in 2020 and it went through many iterations. I'm happy with how it turned out - a dark, but chill piano-based deep house instrumental...

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Nov 23 - Northstar

This is my first session from my home studio after my trip to Europe & some charity work last week. I continued with the chillstep/dubstep/orchestral vibes and wrote some chillstep and I like h...

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Nov 16 - Lexington

This week I'm out of town for some charity work with Mindcrack & Extra Life. I made some time in between my commitments to write an idea and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

While...

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Hoodies have shipped!!

I just received word that hoodies have (finally) shipped!

Domestic US shipments should be arriving soon but international shipments may take some time. Let me know here or on...

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New Release - Away (Instrumental)

I'm not including as many instrumentals and extended mixes on albums these days because it clutters things up, so I wanted to make this one available for free since I always get questions about it!...

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Nov 10 - Bittersweet Departure

This week I only really had time to write some music on my flight back from Paris and I wanted to write something that summed up what I was feeling about my trip to Europe. It was an amazing experi...

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New Release - In The Shallows

I hope you are doing well and still enjoying the new album! For the last few years, I've been involved with the Love Tropics charity event and today I have a surprise release - In the Shallows.

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Nov 2 - Medici

This week, I didn't have much time to sit down and write an idea, but I was able to put something quick together one morning in Florence. This one has some orchestral influences again and I envisio...

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Oct 26 - The Climb

For the next month and a half, I'll be focusing on Melodic Dubstep, Chillstep, and Hybrid Orchestral/Electro...

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Oct 19 - Clearings

I had a short session today to get an idea put together before I hop on a flight. Lo and behold, it came together nicely! I'm not really sure what this is, but it's pretty cool. It feels floaty and...

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Blocking the Sky Redux - Patreon Release

Firstly - thank you for supporting me here on Patreon! I would not be still here creating and writing music without your support and all the support here on Patreon makes albums like this possible....

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Oct/Nov Genre Poll

As most of you know, I'm headed to Europe for the next 3-4 weeks. While I'm away, I'll still be writing some ideas and I'll continue the WIP posts here every week. So on that note - what types of s...

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Oct 12 - Midnight Chase

This week I tried writing something darker. I didn't expect to write a Halloween song, but the spook needed to be heard haha.

This is a cool idea and a nice change of pace but I don't think i...

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Oct 5 - Falling Leaves

Whelp - I totally forgot to post a poll last weekend with all my album prep work, so this week I continued with some chill stuff. This one turned out different than I expected, but I think I like i...

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New Release - Dream to Forget

Last week on stream I announced a followup album to Blocking the Sky & this is the first single! Written in the style of Dream to Remember, this song (and album) is an homage to the style I was...

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Top Gun Theme Remix

I feel the need, the need for speed...

Yeah - I know I'm pretty late to the party here, but I just saw Top Gun Maverick last week and the soundtrack was phenomenal. The original movie didn't ...

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Sept 28 - Beyond the Threshold

For the last idea this month I wanted to switch up genres and I ended up going the melodic dubstep route. During the middle of my session yesterday, I wasn't feeling the idea much - but it came tog...

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Fall 2022 Merch Run!

The hoodies are finally in production and I should have some news & specifics on that front soon! Thank you for being patient with me - I've learned a lot and the next apparel run should be a l...

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Sept 21 - Effervescence

This week, I set out with the intention of writing something a bit sadder and more "emotional" (whatever that means, haha). It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I think it turned out pretty goo...

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New Release - More

Annnnd I'm back with another chill, deep house song! This time around it's a bit darker, but it still has some really chill vibes. 2022-09-16 13:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Sept 14 - I Don't Believe

This week's session was a bit of a rough one - I wrote several ideas and wasn't really vibing with much until the very end. After some rough arrangement and extra layers I ended up with what you he...

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New Release - Headwinds

Now that I've gotten the drum and bass out of my system, it's time for a melodic, piano, deep(ish) house song that's a continuation of the chill vibes. This song was originally written last May and...

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Sept 7 - Driftwood

This month I'm writing some Melodic / Emotional / Sad / Reflective song ideas. For this week's session I wanted to start off with piano and just let the music dictate the type of song. The result i...

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September Music Poll

It's been awhile since we've done an emotion/tone poll for the month and as I'm finishing up another larger project this month, I'm not entirely sure what genres I want to focus on moving forward. ...

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Aug 31 - Wavering Hope

For the last idea this month, I wanted to switch up the type of progressive house a bit. I started out with a bunch of chord progressions and chose the one I thought was the most unique. After some...

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Aug 24 - Coming Up For Air

Before stream this week, a melody popped into my head so while I was prepping, I got a basic version into the project. It's not often that this happens, so I ran with it on stream and I really like...

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Aug 17 - Reaching

This week I'm back with another progressive house idea and I'm much happier with the result of this week's session. This idea certainly isn't as complete as 2022-08-18 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post