Episode 178 - Downtempo Drive Time

Episode 181: Dub Engines and Acid Skies

Episode 181 is the first one from the rebuilt room. I spent the day moving furniture, hauling the Mac Studio back downstairs, setting the keyboards and the edrums and the mics back where they belong, putting the whole studio back together after letting it sit fallow. And the moment it was standing again, I couldn't not play. This one got made in the small hours, composed and mixed and bounced while the rest of the house slept. It opens in psytrance, all forward propulsion and acid hypnosis, until a rumbling spaceship cuts across the middle of it, low-end pressure that bends the whole thing somewhere stranger. From there it goes weird: psydub and dub techno, cavernous delay, bass you feel more than hear, everything dissolving into echo and space. Then it lands somewhere you don't expect, a high-tempo chill out, fast underneath but easy on top, the kind of comedown that keeps moving. You can hear the room in it: a space that was packed away and breathing again. After a month of silence, this is the sound of the gear warming back up and the hands remembering what they were for. Living Room Music, literally, from a living room that just became a studio again.

Episode 180: Afrobeat Drift / Hardwell Return

This week’s episode of Living Room Music began earlier than expected. Morning pages turned into system architecture, which turned into opening Logic Pro X and chasing whatever sounds felt alive in the moment. Starting inside Apple’s new Afrobeat sound pack, the journey unfolded into warmer downtempo passages before accelerating into festival-scale energy, distorted textures, dubstep pressure, and Drum & Bass momentum. There are traces of Hardwell-style dynamics throughout this mix — tension, release, impact — but the set never stays in one place for too long. Rhythms dissolve into atmosphere, atmosphere collapses back into motion, and eventually the whole thing fades into something quieter and more reflective. This is driving music. Coding music. Late-night city lights through rain on the windshield music. Music for rebuilding systems in your head while the bassline keeps moving underneath everything else. Episode 180 is less about genre and more about momentum through changing emotional states. Start to finish, it follows the shape of a morning that accidentally became a journey.

Episode 179: Mystical Journey

Diving through the crates to pull out samples, I came across as bunch of interesting sonic backdrops to layer into the journey through a drifting meander through the Deep House sonic palette.

Episode 178 - Downtempo Drive Time

I always imagine my podcast is best listened to in a car going somewhere.

Episode 177: We Are Not Alone

I have been thinking about space a lot lately, and especially since the Artemis II rocket took off, but for years. I have also been thinking about philosophies about the many potential universes which are out there. So this week's episode, I present some psychedelic sounds which feel very spacey to me.