Endless Blue

Lacked inspiration for a few weeks there, but found it in a game I have been playing recently. Music is terrible -- too ambient and lacking any personality that fits with the gameplay. So I decided to start writing an alternate soundtrack, and this is the first track.

Feeling sick but powered through it to get this done today. This one ended up a Moby style jam. Nothing too fancy, just fun stuff. Love that Film Octaves on my Juno-G.

Took a few weeks off due to some scheduling and health stuff, but back with a bit of an oddball beat. Not convinced that the verse and chorus go all that well together, but it's what I ended up with, and figured I should just see it through. Verse beat and bass line came first, and I dig that open string hit.

Our latest single, a song about saying goodbye because you have to. ▶ Links : https://links.endlessblue.com/@beautiful-season

Wrote this one killing time right before I hopped on an Uber to the airport on Friday. Just plinking around on the piano as usual. Sunday rolled around and I still hadn't really started, but this one was definitely going in the lo-fi bets direction, so how hard could it possibly be? Yeah, 1.75 hours, LFG.

As usual, just dinking around and found something that reminded me of Metroid. Decided to follow the thread and chase it down, but where I was looping wasn't on a 4/4 grid... So rather than force it I rolled with a 7/4 time signature that gives the whole track a lopsided unsettling feel, which is Metroid all the way down.

Started this one early in the week while preset surfing on the AstroLab, but as usual ended up being a photo finish on Sunday. Went with a really simple progression/structure and chased the production and builds instead. Baritone and bass and wurli oh my. About eleventy billion vocal melodies running through my head for this one.

I don't even have much to say about the process in this one, maybe more about the anti-process. I wanted to make sure I didn't have any loops running through the entire song (something I feel I've been suffering from lately), so I purposefully removed them when it felt right. Got pretty far on the verse vibes, then created a chorus. Wasn't big enough, so the baritone guitar came to save the day. R...

Ahhhh first non-Jamuary Weekly Beat... Got to work on this one over several sessions. Grew organically from the main melody, especially the chorus chords. Still following the Jamuary thought of playing everything live, except for one of the string layers that I MIDIed in. Last thing on the track was the bassline, which is kind of odd for my process.

Wrapping it up with a slow build lofi track. Made the main piano melody slowly disappear in the track.

Rolled with big beat drums and a few synth lines. Live bass line worked well here. Second to last!

Got rolling with this one after finding a cool 808 bass sound and a matching cool drum loop. Built from there bada bing bada boom.

Pretty simple one, banged it out in less than two hours. Hit the jackpot on the beat, wrote the verse chord progression in my head, followed the rabbit down the hole.

Home stretch, and it's getting gritty. Had to bang this one out with just a little time. Basic, a little loopy, but made it work.

Did a little something minimal, mostly because it took a while to get this one rolling... A lot of automation to make it move.

A little angry stuff. Broke out the 7-string.

Tired. Just wanted to make something pretty today.

Was a bit pressed for time on this one, so just rolled with a groove and some sounds with just in/out arrangement. Not the usual level of polish.

Busted out the baritone for the first time in 2026. Made a concerted effort to do the chorus arrangement a little different than I usually do (no pads).

Concept jam, everything through a microphone! I struggled with looping for this one and ended up burning a ton of time, so it ended up pretty light on the arrangement side. Lots of dub delay tho.

Improv piano with some pads. The trick was making it slowly evolve.

Decided to play with vocoders and ended up with a pretty ridiculous track. Copping from a lot of influences here from all over the map...

Another straight up trip hop track. Stuck with the same progression through the entire song, but got it changed up enough to be interesting.

Another one that is pretty well arranged but I didn't have time to finish the instrumentation or production. Like the progression on this one, dig the fact that it has a pre-chorus.

Well, didn't get a chance to finish this one. Guitar based, got some good chords.