Stripsonic Sunday
fun, pretty, abstract, ambient, meditative, motivational musics and the occasional acid house flashback
Woke up yesterday morning and knew it was over. It started in mid-May, but really kicked in June 14 when I went to Sphere for Dead & Company. I wish it was purely a case of heat, which can be avoided. Extreme lows it atmospheric pressure can’t be avoided. That’s when body mass expands, tissue presses against bones, nerves set off an alarm and become inflamed, and we’re back in a cycle with no relief until the mercury rises above 29.7 inches of pressure.
Mid-May was also when I started releasing music to mainstream music platforms. It was a way to get completely immersed in sound and lose awareness of physical discomfort when I was done with deadlines for the week, or was too tired to move but still actively thinking. “In Walked Harold Budd” is the latest, which I got into a little detail about a week ago.
I just recorded, mixed, mastered, uploaded and soft promoted around the clock for about a month, then dropped a gear. It was one of those inspirational periods you don’t want to let go of even though you know it has to end. Now there’s a process of making sound palettes, exploring, revisiting, editing, posting to Soundcloud and getting feedback on Reddit. The top three tracks from the past 30 days are below:
There’s a unifying stylistic thread emerging, whether ambient or beat driven. Palette demos are the sounds that will go into a final mix, with some tweaks. A lot of mistakes become watermarks that demonstrate the tracks are made by a human instead of AI.
Another single, “Midnight Melancholia,” will be out Tuesday, July 22. The next album, Welcome to Fabulous Transylvegas, will be released in August. It will segue from upbeat fun, pretty music to abstract beats to ambient over the course of nine tracks. The follow-ups will be a more thematically recorded cycles of meditation and motivation music, ambient tracks and the occasional acid house flashback set to Giorgio Moroder riddims.
There are a lot of sonic projects under construction and in rotation for progress. Now that there’s a catalog of early, recent and new work on the platforms more time will be taken with the music and horizons expandeds a little further every session. And I’m just soft marketing, but your follows, subscribes, likes or algorithm-triggering single streams are much appreciated. Links to Big Three platforms are below, and you can always go to Soundcloud, where most of your favorite artists have some kind of presence and stream for free. for works in progress.