Oaks dropped their new Like A Poem EP today, including an exclusive Orbr remix!
This was my first remix job, and I’m insanely grateful to the lovely members of Oaks for providing this awesome opportunity. Thank you Jim & Erica!
You can also get the remix at my Bandcamp, SoundCloud, or YouTube channels.
Rock on! ❤️
Orbr’s debut follow-up Scorpion Cruiser is now live!
You can stream the whole song at Orbr’s Bandcamp or SoundCloud pages, or check it out on Spotify and other platforms here.
Get lost in the darkwave jungle!
Orbr’s debut single Circuit City is now live! Click here for the distro stuff, or stream on YouTube, SoundCloud, or Bandcamp. And don’t forget to visit Orbr’s homepage for more goodies.
Blastoff!
In 1998 I recorded a song called Jeweler’s Dive. It was one of only a few jazz-inspired drum and bass tracks I made during my loungy, loungy period of the late ’90s. An edited version enjoyed a mini-celebrity on Terminal Beats, a compilation released by indie jungle Chicago outfit Forte Recordings. (Old school ruffians will remember Midwest legends 3D and Snuggles.)
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Around the year 1997 I graduated from my awkward ’90s electronica phase and started producing truly polished, professional sounding dance music.
Between 1997 and 2004 I recorded tracks for a few national record labels, and even heard a few of my own songs on internet radio stations and once, unbelievably, in a department store!
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They say that anything worth doing is worth doing badly. This has been 100% true for my efforts in electronic music.
Here are some highlights from my wobblier days as a dance music producer, from about 1993 to 1997. (Back then I was recording under the name Wix.)
My first exposure to Lone was the refreshing and delightful (if slightly half-baked) Emerald Fantasy Tracks from 2010. Like so many of my electronic albums, I have absolutely no idea how I stumbled upon it. I’m so glad I did. Galaxy Garden, his follow up collaboration with Machinedrum, made it into my top 20 favorite albums of all time. I’ve been a devoted fan ever since.
Welcome to part two of Hardcore Math User’s liquid funk history lesson!
Picking up where Faze One left off, Faze Two ups the tempo and brings a stronger funk aesthetic to the table while maintaining that shimmering watery vibe perfected by late ’90s melodic drum & bass.
