My new EP Subtleties is officially out today. This is the best of what I’ve made since finishing the Medicine EP, I definitely think you can feel the influence of the sun on these tracks in comparison to Medicine. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.
This is dope man, really nice variety. So glad I listened to this in the morning, it’s really overcast here right now and I just got a dose of sunlight.
The second track has a feel reminiscent of this “atmospheric drum and bass” cd that I used to bump on repeat back in the day. Thanks a lot for sharing the album. The cover art looks great also, even as a thumbnail the layout has a great use of perceived negative space and is appealing to the eyes.
As someone who lives in a place that’s grey and rainy 9 months of the year this is high praise!
Thank you! This is another gel plate piece, it’s a super fun medium that can do a lot of different things, been having a lot of fun getting to know it.
Congrats on the release, excited to give this a listen later 
Listening to this on repeat while correcting my students exams. Really nice release, great variety and I love the vibes! I will listen to it more carefully to catch all the Subtleties and report back. Congrats!
Obligatory bump for streaming availability. Now ready for all you spotify users.
Meant to respond yesterday, this was nice to hear, I really try to walk the line of having variety and cohesion on a release.
Anything to share about the making of it?
Well, this is the second ep I’ve made since selling my hardware and switching to an ITB workflow centered around a Push 2. When I got the Push back in December it has been a long time since I had actually made stuff inside Ableton, it’s taken a bit to get used to but I tend to like sorta shiney very digital synth sounds so it works for me in that regard. There are more presets on this release than I have used in the past, it feels a little weird if I sit and think about it, but I was in a mode where my focus was really on writing and I just wanted sounds to play with, so I picked them rather than making them, not every sound is a preset but there’s definitely a fair amount of em. I use the wavetable synth a lot, and most of my bread and butter type sounds come from the m4l synths Poli and Bass.
Random tidbit about my process, I often make music with movies on screen in the background, usually horror or sci-fi, By Dawn was called that because I was watching the Evil Dead remake.
I thought I’d use this as an excuse to bump this thread rather than post it elsewhere on the board.
I made a remix of a local Seattle rapper’s new track, original was on some very good boom-bap (my friend Third Eye Bling made the original beat), I definitely went in a different direction, hyped on how it came out.
The change up at 1:05 goes hard, the transition back at 1:32 is real smooth. Fits with the flow pretty well too. Don’t know what the original beat sounds like but I think this is fresh.
Thanks! I was pretty proud of how those change ups ended up playing out, that honestly took the longest, just tweaking those transitions until I was happy. I’ve only done beats to acapellas a couple times and I find it’s a hell of a lot harder to make it feel right than just making a beat that you think someone might want to rap on. I usually end up making the drums to the original track, then muting the original track and fleshing the rest out, otherwise I find it too hard to get the drums to work right with the flow.
Not saying there aren’t good rappers that write “generalized rhymes” but most good rappers write to elements of a specific beat. Most of it isn’t “eight mile writing in a notebook” kinda tropes. So when you remix a song that someone wrote to a specific beat, the nuance of the flow can be easily lost. I think you did a good job with however you went about adapting the drums because to me, I could hear the song having been written to this beat.
Thank you, that’s high praise! I definitely learned early on that rappers usually write specifically to a beat when I changed the drums on a beat in between my friend writing to it and showing up to my house to record his verses lol.