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Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. More Lo-Fi! I have to admit that there’s something a bit addictive/attractive with making these. A lot of the pressure in creating a “real” track1As if that were actually a thing. “Real” in this context is some stupid ideal that lives in my brain and roughly means “difficult and following some possibly obsolete ruleset while … Continue reading
Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. I don’t have a ton to say about this one. I think it was probably started with me intending to do a Lo-Fi track, and it certainly fits the formula for one, but it seems a little too… sweet? Nice? Neither of those fit, because I’ve heard Lo-Fi that would warrant those terms. Maybe it’s … Continue reading
Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. This is actually my second time writing this post. The first ended up being a 2,000 word rant examination of the problems I had with the massive legal overreach1and enshittification resulting thereof via forced online interaction to use the product and mandatory participation in allowing my content to by used by them for training an … Continue reading
Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. Two days before I wrote this, another participant asked if anyone had ever written something that they were pretty sure had been written already by somebody else. This was my response: I’m sure I have… most of the time when I’m sure I’ve stolen something (e.g., Raggedy Man‘s hook earlier this week) and I go … Continue reading
Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. I’m not sure what this style / genre would have been called back in the 80s, but these days it’s called Synthwave. This is as “stereotypical” a synthwave track as I can think of, yet it’s absolutely true to an actual 80s track by Jan Hammer or Giorgio Moroder. The arrangement is simple, as is … Continue reading