That basic drum part coupled with the Eleanor Rigby-like narrative of an estranged married couple struggling to connect after years of ignoring one another led to the song “Reason and Rhyme” and its opening image of a woman talking to her flowers for hours.
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EP: Requiescat In Pace (2021)
Second release for 2021: synthwave and synthpop with an undercurrent of grief and desperation.
Album: Omnia in Omnibus (2021)
Omnia in Omnibus, a Latin phrase for “All in all,” is 6 tracks of synthpop, synthwave, and downtempo ethnotronica.
How Music Saved Me from the Behavioral Anhedonia of the 2020 Pandemic
By focusing on music I could take my attention away from the virus ravaging the land. And I could create something tangible and beautiful, and stop feeling sorry for myself and the world.
Is There Locrian Synthwave? Well, Now There Is.
Putting together a synthwave tune using Locrian is harder than it first seemed.
On New Tools, New Sounds, and Enough Synthwave Tunes to Release an Album
At the start of the year, I thought the Acid42 project was dead. Turns out all I needed was a new set of sonic tools.
Album: Renovatio (2020)
Consider this your quarantine soundtrack. It collects the last 3 years’ worth of ethnotronic worldbeat chillout tracks from my archives. Free download.
Recording a Cover of Ang Huling El Bimbo is Cathartic
“Ang Huling El Bimbo (A42 Cover)” is my cover version and homage to the hit 1996 song by the Philippine rock band Eraserheads. It turns what was originally a pop/rock ballad filled with nostalgia and puppy love into a more bouncy hip-hop infused version with a dash of IDM and downtempo electronics.
Track: Positive Babinski Reflex
“Positive Babinski Reflex” is a jazzy, synth-driven tune resurrected from limbo by turning it from a quite typical house track into something more organic and funky.
Remixing Kylie Minogue’s “Breathe” with Thomas Dolby’s “Windpower”
I built out this Kylie Minogue remix a few years back using Reason and Studio One and it remains one of my favorite remixes because the arrangement came so easily, and the final mix is exactly what I was imagining in my head.