MOTU Trim

Red Hill Danger Zone

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. In past years, I’ve had “requests” come from friends to try different styles or write about specific topics. One of the most successful of these was 202’s Spicy Bee. I never guarantee that I’ll actually take the request – Song-A-Day is already stressful enough on its own without having to satisfy an audience, and inspiration isn’t always a predictable thing. I do, however, try my best to at least give   it a try. This year, the request was “do … Continue reading

Red Hill Zone

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. As the Pythons would say, “and now for something completely different.” If you listen to the month’s playback in sequence, the appearance of this song directly after the thunder of Mare Marginus fades out is like getting in the car in the morning and having the radio at full blast because you forgot you’d lost most of your hearing at the concert the night before. While I don’t remember the exact impetus to do this style of track, I strongly … Continue reading

Sea Pap (Derek Greenberg Cover)

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. Another Song-A-Day, another cover. I’ve written about my love/hate relationship with cover day before, so let’s just assume I rehashed it all. Most years, I struggle to pick something and then deal with all sorts of self-inflicted angst about covering a song that I know the original artist will hear. 2024 did give me a lot of possibilities, though. When I looked back at my notes, I had nine different songs written down as cover options. Surprisingly, Sea Pap wasn’t … Continue reading

We Use Power

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. Back to the land of ambient techno and another chance to open that bag of tricks I’ve been wanting to try. Earlier in the month, I went all in on an Orb-style track with The Match Went Out, and had really been enjoying listening to it when the opportunity presented itself. I wanted to revisit that genre, though not necessarily in exactly the same way. One of my favorite sources for public domain audio and video1Well, in theory. Some of … Continue reading

Yar’s Revenge

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 overreach exhibited by XLN when they released “Life” – the plugin that I used for the main rhythmic pattern in this track. XLN also makes … Continue reading