- The More Music I Make, the Less I Want to Be a Musician
- The $200 title: The $200 Groovebox That Saved Me From Vegas
- TSA Approved Dawless Tactical Assault Rig
- The Most Prolific Unpopular Musician in the World
- I Canât Remember My Password But I Can Identify Peter Gabriel Cassettes By Smell
- The Perfect MPC is the One You Have?
- The MPC Is a Solid-A$$ Production Music Machine
- System Agnosticism
- The Whole Musical World Exists Where?
- Yes the MPC Will Dub Techno?
- The MPC Is Not a DAW, as it Turns Out
- The Synth Bed Survives The Engine
- When Itâs Easy It's Just That: EASY
- You Donât Apply for the Bass Job
- iPod Shuffle Test: Would You Die to This Song?
- You Probably Already Have It
- Random, But Not Really (Or: Chill Music That Actually Does Something)
- When It Gets Easy, Donât Get Cute
- Can We Please Retire the âPlay the Whole Albumâ Show
- I Am Going to Manufacture Demand (Or Get Called Out Trying)
- I Booked Myself to Nowheresville (And Itâs Working)
- Store Your Sh*& on Craigslist
- Revisionist History and 80's Records
- Before the DX7 Broke It All
- The Last Man Standing Wins
- Palatable Dead, Perfect Night
- I Thought I Missed a Day and Briefly Became a Terrible Person
- A Rhythm Hook Is the Baller Hook
- Did I Choose Right or Just Choose First?
- Community Is a Sales Funnel But Also Maybe ok
- Donât Let AI Run You
- Go Figure This Shit Out Immediately
- Am I Gonna Show This to Somebody or Not?
- Youâre Either AI Wet or Youâre Not
- Someone Planted Two Agaves. Now I Have 100 Songs
- a Tuesday #2? post it anyway
- what will the world call it?
- The Same Set, Deeper
- Booking Music Without Being Annoying
- music is not by the book
- Writing a Sing-Song by Accident
- The Vince Clarke Dream Perfected
- For Real Tho?
- Cigarette Granny
- Sit On It
- Time is Music
- you will not get your finisher medallion if you do not enter the race
- which is the day job-night job!?
- Always with the Wrong Album
- Kids and Songs are the Worst
- Why are You DJ?
- What Kind of Idiot Doesnât Care About the Drums in Electronic Music?
- Thank God No One Cares (but only sometimes)
- Am I the laziest electronica producer on the internet?
- Making My Catalogue Actually Visible (Or Why Iâm Done Selling Meat Pies in Texas)
- Ghosts of What Used to Work, But Did They
- Musical Bubbles Burst Daily
- Be Digestible at 5 Miles an Hour
- The Mackie 1202 Is a Magic Machine
- What If You Just Wrote the Same Song Over and Over?
- Say What You Do
- Why Drag Your Shit Around Town?
- DJ Swiss Army Knife
- nailed part 2
- what is it called when all the trees are connected underground
- Nailing the Electronic Live Set
- All you have to do is Believe on New Set Gig Day
- When You Donât Feel Like Making Music
- You Need to Shelve Your Art Right Now
- Trust the Work, Not the Air
- Tuning the Computer?
- Safety First?
- Pivoting a DJ Set in Real Time
- the world is still what you want it to be
- More Capability Does Not Equal a Better Set
- A Live Set I Can Work for Years and Years
- Grassroots vs. Spotify Numbers
- Energy Waves Not Songs
- Just a Watch and a Push
- Release Day and the 500 Person Room
- Stop Talking to Yourself and Just Make the Set
- Dub Electronica Explorations
- How I Got My Moose #2
- Set the Gig So You Figure Your Garbage Out
- Optimizing is total BS. Play More
- How I Got My Moose #1
- You Only Get Two (Apparently)
- Frogger Is a Documentary
- LinkedIn Is a Haunted House and the Robot Wants to Coach You
- LinkedIn Is a Horrible Place
- Hard Pockets
- Just Happy to Be There
- Last Night on the OP-1
- Clock Direction and (not) Losing My Mind
- on being horrible at synths
- now
- I Have Everything (Why Am I Shopping?)
- Putting the Music Aside, Mercifuly
- You Need a Gig
- 64 Mg of Regrets
- Table Beats mkI
- A Good Day at BLK Vinyl
- Let Things Be One Thing
- Control, Distribution, and One Person
- Buy Low, Jam High
- Working It Out Without Buying Anything
- What I Actually Recorded
- 31 Tracks. 31 Days. Jamuary Was a Success.
- Donât Sell the Good Stuff: The Mopho Stays
- The Cassette Dream
- Day 28 Field Report: Fatigue, Templates, and Not Getting Cute
- Donât Let âRelease Brainâ Steal Your Writing Session
- Day 26: Donât Trip Over the Finish Line
- Why Iâm Taking the $150 DJ Gig
- The Cactus CafĂŠ Test: Student Engineers, One More Mixer, and Why Being Helpful Wins
- Service-Minded Musicians Have a Better Time
- Are Backing Tracks Cheating? Only If Youâre full of sh!&
- Reading the Iliad Like Iâm Shopping for Gear
- No Business, No Problems (Bring on the Problems)
- Cool at 54? Make the Work Anyway
- The Studio Tour Nobody Asked For (But Youâre Getting Anyway)
- The OP-1 Lie I Tell Myself (and Why Itâs Fine)
- December Was the Listening. January Is the Writing.
- You Donât Know What Youâre Doing Until About Day Seven
- The OP-1 Field: From Toy Vibes to Creative Commitment
- Meditation Apps Shouldnât Keep Score
- Oh Sh*t, Itâs Jamuary: Commit to Tape
- Shakedown Street, Whiskey River, and a Packed Mean-Eyed Cat
- Weir-The Handsome One
- Itâs Not a C Until I Say Itâs a C
- Gear Slavery!
- The Pre-Dawn Machine + Trust the Process
- Sitting There Like a Boob (aka The Zone)
- Showing Up (Thatâs the Whole Point Today)
- The OP-1 Field Kit Is the Unsung Hero
- When Your Own Song Puts You to Sleep
- New Yearâs Eve Resort-Bar Gig (and the Battery Rig Saves the Day, Again)
- Day 2: Sequence-by-Sequence (and the Crash That Doesnât Matter)
- Obligatory Obligatory: Best-Laid Plans (OP-1 Field to the Rescue)
- Lofi Girl Synthwave Is Candy (And Iâm Fine With That)
- Forced Learning, or: Welcome to the Museum of Unfinished MPC Loops
- Run the Tests or You Wonât Make It
- AM Black and White
- a.m. Freakout Template Check
- Where Does the Music Go?
- January: One Track a Day, Again
- Songwriting Semester: Two Singles
- The Ed Friedland Method
- My Beginning Is the Country Blues
- The opposite of this blog
- Digital Hygiene on the MPC Key 37
- Doing Less, Doing Better
- Understanding Dylan, Finally
- Daily Music Paradox
- How the Sausage Gets Made
- What Iâm Up To at 6 AM
- Someday Strange â Demo Review
- Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, and Everything That Sticks
- As Human As Possible: Discovering Electronica in the Woods
- Home Portability
- Plug-in Season
- The Cost of Selling Gear (Twice)
- Listening to the World
- Walk Like You Are Late Going Somewhere
- I Am the Walrus en Mono
- Lunch, Process, and Not Needing the Like
- Problem Solving and the Unknown
- Won Holiday Demo Review
- The Compliment List
- A Reminder About Writing vs. Sound-Chasing
- Where the Performance Starts (and Stops)
- Stubbs Gig Review
- Last Tailgate Set of the Season
- Cold Coffee, Again
- Cold Coffee
- everyday music every day
- Getting Weird After 20 Days
- Buying Gear vs. Making Actual Music
- Yacht Club DJ Set
- A Diary Made of Sound
- Template Thoughts and the Synthwave Project
- Space Blues
- Editorâs Note on Numbering
- Sometimes Itâs Easy
- Why Not a Reggae Bob Dylan Cover Record?
- Using the Wrong Tools on Purpose
- Music to Read By
- Why Not
- On Appropriation and the Stones
- DJ Set Recap 20251107
- One Week In
- Listening Is Making Music
- Demo Review â Get Ahead (Demo)
- Be Your Own Media
- Demo Reviewâ Keeping Secrets (Demo)
- Learning a Lot of Songs
- Some Notes on My Latest SoundCloud Demo
- Musical Thru Lines
- Creating Without Caringâor Karen-ing
- Low-Effort Nights on the MPC
- Roland Aria System-1 Synthesizer Revisited, Revisited
- Roland Aria System-1 Synthesizer Revisited
- Return to Form
- Solo Show Prep and Gear
- My Solo Return!
- musical innovation
- Guitars are Stupid
- Musical Nostalgia
- The Imprinted Song
- comparing your music to other music even though you're not supposed to but you really are supposed to sometimes
- The Hump
- Song a Day #1
- Agenda Alert!
- Piano + Keys: Month 1
- 20240530 Jam
- Memo City M is (finally) up on Apple Music
- Exploring Ambience and Electronica: Inspiration from William Orbit
- Hello World, and what is this?