Hello folks it's been a while. The important update is that I made an EP in a month from my couch. is it electro house? industrial? synthpop? some unholy combination of the three? I don't know but I think it is a new genre called couchcore. Feel free to check it out :)

dantealexander.bandcamp.com

I had wanted to do rhythm game music rankings for a while but I am encountering 2 issues:
1) I want to rank some games that are still actively being updated so I'm inevitably going to miss songs

Spotify, of COURSE I want more of the suspiciously untailored album and podcast recs (I don't know if they are promotional, but if they are, please stop adding advertisements to a paid service whose main selling point is "there are no ads") just straight up on my home page, unavoidable

I love rhythm games because as a musician they produce a) the illusion of being good at video games and b) the illusion of a musical performance being something that can be perfected, that has a finite end to it where it can't get any better

I took a bunch of tracks I love and I'm gonna transcribe them to get better at arranging and composing.

I sorted them into "maximalist electronic", "minimalist electronic", "rock arrangements" (includes amplified jazz), and "orchestral and acoustic arrangements"

I've been struggling with one of the covers on my album for a while BUT I finally hit a breakthrough listening to some 70s electronic :3 I was already super drawn to more analogue, imperfect sounds for this cover, so I'm going to lean into it even more.

I am arranging a lot of cover songs right now and have figured out my solution to not being able to compete with extremely talented singers and drummers which is: aggressive vocoding in one case, and making a drum kit out of gun sounds in another! It'll work out!

pet peeve: the biggest music recommendation sites that use critic reviews don't actually credit the reviewers?
metacritic, aoty etc just cite the publication.
so i grabbed the author data myself & made a script that recommends me albums based on the compatibility of my opinions with the reviewer's!

When your favourite band reunites and casually just drops the album of the year in late February. 2024 is a good year ❤️