Decided to finish this project I found on my desktop.

2019.05.10 jam 94.21 bpm.mp39.9mb
thawkins5 years ago

I am surprised that it sounds how it does. I hated it yesterday. :)

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Finishing up this year by absolutely totally cheating and building a Pure Data patch that shoots generative MIDI sequences at my Roland XV-5080. I did not have time at all to mix and work on this more, so here you have a quite "raw" version of it.

Thanks to everyone who has listened, liked and commented. I hope you have a nice year end holidays time and that next year will be even better than this one!

2019.12.25 90bpm generative pd.mp332.3mb

Got one of those Yamaha drum pads and it turns out they are very nice for banging in rhythm parts.

2019.12.21 120bpm dub techno.mp310.3mb

A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut

2019.12.11 65bpm dreampop jam.mp35.0mb

This started off as a Volca Sample jam where I just layered 4 different kicks...

... this ended up as me trying to mix the damn kicks and bass so that all of this thing does not choke on itself.

2019.12.05 90bpm jam.mp36.8mb

Uploading the full mixtape of last week's "restauration" project. Hope you enjoy the trip!

Not sure what style this is supposed to be.

2016.07.18 90bpm disco kraut v2.mp320.4mb

Another old one found on the desktop. It continues for a long time after that part, but I did not have time yesterday to finish the rest. Besides, it would spoil the suprise too. :)

2016.07.18 90bpm disco kraut v2 pt1.mp33.7mb

I re-did a thing from 2011.

2019.11.17 2011.02.24 remake.mp36.0mb

Found this in another unfinished project. There are a lot of unfinished projects...

2018.06.23 midi jam pt1.mp35.3mb

Continuing work on finishing the old project from 2 years ago. I must have re-done the bass 6-7 times and I am still not happy about it. No more time this week to mess around, so uploading it now.

2017.04.21 thundercat kraut level 3.mp310.7mb

I "finished" an old project this week because I am trying to get used to my new monitors by mostly mixing and listening to things.
This is kind of hiphop or something I don't know. The song itself does not make a lot of sense (or maybe I just spent too much time on it and now I can't see the point).

2017.04.21 thundercat kraut level 2.mp37.0mb

I did not have time to properly finish this one, but here you go.

2019.10.18 90bpm jam piano.mp34.3mb

Some loops I got out of the arpeggiator on the Akai MPK Mini. Spent more time on mixing this than I should have - time will tell if I hate it in the coming weeks or not.

2019.10.01 120bpm arp jam.mp38.4mb

For this week I have a live set (with all the warts and cringy mistakes left in - I did adjust the gain on 2 tracks but nothing else) that I performed yesterday.

Also in high definition glory here: https://www.mixcloud.com/trenthawkins/20190928-live-set-krautrock-psychedelic/

2019.09.28 hg3 120 110 90 bpm set.mp354.9mb

This was sitting on my desktop, waiting to be finished. All sounds from Roland XV 5080. Hope you enjoy the trip. :)

2019.05.19 jam 5080 2.mp314.4mb

I tried to make sense of an old recording of a jam session I had. Could have done better, but ran out of time. :(

2018.11.10 120bpm hardware jam.mp33.8mb

Finally got monitors again. :)

2019.09.05 120bpm kraut jam.mp312.2mb

I messed around with some pianos. Tried to keep it simple today and totally ran out of time cutting and mixing (as always). Hope you enjoy this weird vaporwave trip.

2019.09.01 85bpm vaporwave jam.mp316.2mb

Inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFz6mzV-EWw (ignore the memes, the music is good) and italo disco I guess. That's what came out of my gear as I finally got around to setting it up.

2019.08.25 italo 90bpm.mp38.2mb

I got lucky and had some time to polish up an old project and this time I took my time with the mix and structure to try and make a "real" song. It ended up being sort of like a melange of 2, because I am not very good at letting go and finishing stuff up early.

I think this could be a lot better, but I was basically working off an already recorded jam without access to the hardware I recorded all the sounds off of, which meant some doubling-transposing and lots of EQs.

Let's see if I hate it a few months from now.. :)

2018.06.23 (25v2) midi jam template.mp314.9mb

Early this week because my laptop goes in for repairs tomorrow. I feel the mix was a bit rushed and maybe a bit too busy with too many elements. However, this time I felt I almost got a real song structure in there (if you squint a lot).

2019.08.07 90bpm krautrock jam.mp310.7mb

Weekly Music 2019

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