After years of including my own original music in my 256PiAlternate YTPs to various extents, The Return To Rio is the first (and probably last) YTP I've ever done to *only* include my own original music as its score. As such, I've compiled together this EP of all the various cues I put together as its official soundtrack. The video: youtu.be/MEGUjSD8-Rk
I kind of doubt I'm going to be doing a full original soundtrack to one of my own YTPs again since developing this in tandem with the video made the process of putting it all together that much more complicated (just another reason the video took over 2 years to come out!) but it's still something that's always been on my bucket list to do for years and it was quite a fun challenge for me regardless. Hope you enjoy!
Tracklisting: 0:00 (Set) 0:58 Selected Subtractions (Title Edit) 2:47 The Mayor's Flat 3:47 Smoke 5:26 Midnight Streets 6:45 In Particular, The Bitter Oranges... 7:30 The Michael Rosen Panic 8:48 Trucking Away 11:05 Snatch A Quick Breath 11:30 Templewalking 13:04 Up In The Air 14:52 Selected Subtractions (Ending Edit) 17:40 Z.O.N.R. (Radio Source)
Several tracks re-adapt melodies from my original-tune YTPMVs over the years such as "Mark My Words", "Viking Transport Wood", "Tim's Rhytims", "Plate in the Cupboard", and "Reading Pro". also the first half of the track "Templewalking" bases itself around the percussion patterns from Ghostface Playa's "Why Not" because it's for a YTP and the temptation for the meme reference was too hard to resist in the moment
After years of including my own original music in my 256PiAlternate YTPs to various extents, The Return To Rio is the first (and probably last) YTP I've ever done to *only* include my own original music as its score. As such, I've compiled together this EP of all the various cues I put together as its official soundtrack. The video: youtu.be/MEGUjSD8-Rk
I kind of doubt I'm going to be doing a full original soundtrack to one of my own YTPs again since developing this in tandem with the video made the process of putting it all together that much more complicated (just another reason the video took over 2 years to come out!) but it's still something that's always been on my bucket list to do for years and it was quite a fun challenge for me regardless. Hope you enjoy!
Tracklisting: 0:00 (Set) 0:58 Selected Subtractions (Title Edit) 2:47 The Mayor's Flat 3:47 Smoke 5:26 Midnight Streets 6:45 In Particular, The Bitter Oranges... 7:30 The Michael Rosen Panic 8:48 Trucking Away 11:05 Snatch A Quick Breath 11:30 Templewalking 13:04 Up In The Air 14:52 Selected Subtractions (Ending Edit) 17:40 Z.O.N.R. (Radio Source)
Several tracks re-adapt melodies from my original-tune YTPMVs over the years such as "Mark My Words", "Viking Transport Wood", "Tim's Rhytims", "Plate in the Cupboard", and "Reading Pro". also the first half of the track "Templewalking" bases itself around the percussion patterns from Ghostface Playa's "Why Not" because it's for a YTP and the temptation for the meme reference was too hard to resist in the momentAssisted Living (10.29.23)256PiMusic2023-10-29 | got some new music, think this is gonna be the last session of the year. a lot darker and more techno focused this time around
0:00 3866: assisted living 5:24 4057: from a distance 6:38 4058: concrete 9:36 4059: downwards 11:04 4090: business park 13:26 4130: private property A 17:11 4127: private property B 19:45 4306: upper management 22:33 4301: broadcasting 23:50 4297: I.S.P. 26:33 4285: unloading 28:46 4282: the natural path A 32:13 4286: the natural path B 34:33 4287: behind
(the last track is a cover of a song originally by ATB featuring Flanders)2 (9.8.23)256PiMusic2023-09-09 | more new music! bit more stylistic variety this time around, and a bit brighter & more organic with more present grooves & basslines too. (also this would've still just been called "2" even if this wasn't the second session of the year since it's named after the big "2" on that building I saw during a road trip 2 years ago. lot of twos lining up here I guess lol)
0:00 2 3:39 Nowhere 8:00 Unhealthy For Sensitive Groups 14:04 Geological Pattern A 15:02 Geological Pattern B 15:50 Geological Pattern C 16:48 Geological Pattern D 17:45 Geological Pattern E 18:46 Branch Line 22:42 Fine Particulate Matter 24:41 10 Ft. 6 In. 28:14 Under The Underpass (pt. 1) 30:32 Across The Underpass (pt. 2) 32:51 2 MoreHydrologic Outlook (7.4.23)256PiMusic2023-07-04 | been a little while since I've put out a session of new music, huh? here's some particularly moody stuff, some IDM, some dark ambient, etc. the tracks don't have titles, the entire session was put together in the same project file. hope you enjoy 0:00 id_01 2:32 id_02 6:16 id_03 9:12 id_04 11:52 id_05 14:48 id_06 17:28 id_07 20:40 id_08 21:44 id_09Parallelogram Season (8.6.21)256PiMusic2021-08-07 | Hey, I finally made some new music! Here's a thing I've had in the works on and off since the end of May, four 10+-minute long jams that all start out ambient and slowly veer off into something else, and each one based off one of the four seasons (inspired by these four oil paintings that my grandmother's had hanging up in her house as long as I can remember). A lot of Inside The Mainframe-style background music vibing type of stuff. I'd actually considered just releasing this session as-is on Bandcamp when I was done since I'm particularly proud of the way this one turned out, certainly much prouder than I was of any of the sessions I posted here last year, but decided to just keep it as a regular session here anyway since that was my original plan when I started work on it (also it wouldn't have felt right to me as a main album, an EP, or something under a side alias, and it obviously made no sense as a comp, didn't know how to classify it besides as a 256PiMusic session). Whatever, hope you enjoy!
0:00 Primavera 13:10 Verano (download: soundcloud.com/256-pi/verano) 30:54 Otono 42:40 InviernoCommentary on Noontide Side Attic Drifter256PiMusic2021-05-09 | Hey, finally doing a commentary on my latest album! Despite having been the product of a historically terrible year for humanity, it was the most fun I'd had making any collection of music since Spiral Out Of Control and the most personally fulfilling since then as well, and I've unsurprisingly got way too much to say about it.
0:00 Shooting Star 1:15 Aquamarine 4:35 (Rise) 5:39 Djibouti 9:28 Aerogel 14:10 Firework 18:01 (Set) 19:00 Bismuth 22:52 Puzzling 26:05 Light ScatterThe Subtractions of The Incompetent Skater (7.13.20)256PiMusic2020-07-13 | No set style for this one, just kinda did whatever I wanted to and it's kinda all over the place. Still had a lot of fun making it and am pretty happy with the way it turned out, so hope you enjoy it too!
0:00 Push Start To Next 3:15 Competitive Worm Charming 11:10 Do Not Toot It! (Firearm Oviparity) 12:36 Subtractions I: Magnetic Horizon 14:58 Subtractions II: Deep Suspense! 17:21 Subtractions III: Lambchop Mallets 21:08 Subtractions IV: Competency? 24:13 Subtractions V: Skate Zero 27:55 Real Life and Postcard Usesteps (5.20.20)256PiMusic2020-05-21 | Tried my hand at making something more freaky and experimental this time because hey that's a mood sometimes. I'd done plenty of one-off tracks kinda like this in various old sessions over the years but this might be the first time I'd specifically centered the whole session around this kind of stuff, it was pretty fun. Might've also been a little inspired by the recent Autechre deep-dives I'd done, though if this is comparable to anything of theirs it's at best diet Quaristice, but whatever.
0:00 step 1 1:20 step 2 4:49 step 3 6:57 step 5 8:43 step 8 11:48 step 13 15:53 step 21 16:56 step 95 21:49 step 303 23:54 step 858 28:30 step 4097Commentary on 044444256PiMusic2020-03-08 | Well, I did commentaries on all my other albums... I think it's about time to talk about that new one. And boy, do I have a lot to say about it.
Bandcamp: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/044444 iTunes: music.apple.com/us/album/044444/1472555275 Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2WMzJeFYfbdBBTD6ug0rnF YouTube (lyric video): youtube.com/watch?v=W_9CdbSO1DQ[OLD, REUPLOAD] Train In My Butt (feat. Sean) [7.12.10]256PiMusic2020-03-05 | Sean is my little brother and he was 7 years old when we did this together. (I was 14.) I made pretty much all the actual music, but he came up with the song titles and, um... "sang" on it? By that I mean I put him in front of a microphone and he did whatever the hell he wanted. Mostly lot of screaming. I'm not sure if this really needed to be preserved, but I uploaded it here in 2016 finding its insane cringiness to still be funny. May or may not be unlisting this later given it's monumentally embarrassing and I didn't really feel like giving this more attention, but I already had a track from here on my Fireflies2 comp and I didn't want a dead link on the Bandcamp page, so... idk, hopefully you guys still enjoy some of it or find it funny?
As for why this had to be reuploaded, on the original version of this session, the 9th track "Beatles, Sing Me A Song" just featured a lot of Beatles samples pitched way up so that they also sounded like Sean. We thought it was funny at the time, but UMG disagreed and just blocked the video worldwide. Honestly, not sure what I was thinking including it in the first place, but oh well.
0:00 I'm Thinking 3:11 Ninety Four Four Four 7:24 Me Water Bottle (Part 1) 10:16 Me Water Bottle (Part 2) 14:41 CUBS CUBS CUBS 15:41 Train In My Butt 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/train-in-my-butt 19:58 Ryqtfwscefhg Vfrhtdfhe 24:00 Galaxy Popcorn 26:11 It Will Be CalledTrilogy of Errors (2.24.20)256PiMusic2020-02-25 | First new music of the decade, whee! Bit more in my comfort zone this time, going back to basics with my traditional loop-based stuff, if you're a fan of my comp "The Debut Is To Of Of Is To And Is I" you'll like this. Three multi-part tracks, each separated into an intro and three subsections (which I made in order, making stuff up as I went along a la Bluetech's Holotrope), and all the titles auto-generated from a band name generator because they turned out some pretty cool-sounding names. (As such I don't know what Z.O.N.R. stands for, and Virus Fluke & The Piccolo does not actually feature a piccolo, just a flute, but whatever.) Hope you enjoy!
Tracklisting: 0:00 Z.O.N.R. (Intro) 1:50 Z.O.N.R. (Pt. 1: Venus Magenta) 7:08 Z.O.N.R. (Pt. 2: VR Critical) 9:50 Z.O.N.R. (Pt. 3: Snug of the Jaded) 15:12 Aluminum Sun (Intro) 16:00 Aluminum Sun (Pt. 1: Bitty Neptune) 20:28 Aluminum Sun (Pt. 2: Hyper Frontier) 24:19 Aluminum Sun (Pt. 3: Delayed Toggle 99) 30:09 Intercourse of the Traffic (Intro) 31:32 Intercourse of the Traffic (Pt. 1: Virus Fluke & The Piccolo) 34:44 Intercourse of the Traffic (Pt. 2: Carnage of the Polling Antibodies) 39:52 Intercourse of the Traffic (Pt. 3: Departed Frosted 381)Josh Langman - ZOMBIE RAP 2 (Official Instrumental)256PiMusic2019-10-26 | Watch Josh's video/rap here: youtube.com/watch?v=nJ2f-sit20o
So yes, I produced the instrumental to this thing. Of course Josh wrote the song, he basically gave me a rough map of how he wanted it to sound, a pdf of lyrics and the main chord progressions, and I put this together in FL Studio for him (adding a couple of my own melodic improvisations here and there). He did also edit it a tiny bit to fit the script better afterwards but whatever.
Basically the closest thing we've ever gotten to a 256Pi/NoiceDrinkz collab, I guess?Yew Nork Tissy (10.21.19)256PiMusic2019-10-21 | It's been a while since I've done a low-stakes session of music like this, huh? Made this in about 3 and a half days total, although the first track here is all the way back from May 2018, back when all I had done on 044444 was Autopilot and nothing else was even written or conceptualized. Not exactly my best work ever, mainly just a weird set of tracks that are kind of rock-ish and kind of jazz-ish and kind of drum-n-bass-ish and I don't know, they're just kind of weird. Maybe people who thought my new album was too straightforward or boring will like this? I dunno. But whatever, hope you all enjoy it!
Tracklisting: 0:00 Breaklyn Broodge 6:55 Stempire Pate 15:17 Pentral Sark 21:21 Plockarella Faza 25:15 Sand Grentral TastionFour Tet - Lush (256 Pi Remix/Mashup)256PiMusic2019-10-07 | Also on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/256-pi/four-tet-lush-256-pi-remixmashup
Basically something I put together in an afternoon in FL Studio for fun. Started out as a regular remix/cover of Four Tet's "Lush" but as I went on started to get mashed up with elements of other tracks of his, namely "Kool FM" (or a watered-down variation), "SW9 9SL", "My Angel Rocks Back And Forth", two seconds of "As Serious As Your Life", and also parts of Orbital's "Lush" thrown in there near the end for good measure (because of course). Hope you enjoy.256 Pi - 044444 (Full Album Stream & Lyric Video)256PiMusic2019-10-01 | The entire new 7th album, on YouTube, with continuous mix and lyrics onscreen. You can download or buy it here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/044444
0:00 Autopilot 4:47 Expand 10:06 Nightwalk 14:50 Drive? 18:45 Miles Per Hour (Ignition) 20:00 Miles Per Hour 30:21 Refill 33:01 Neverend
Common critique I saw of this album was that the vocoders I used throughout made it hard to understand what I was saying. So here's something to help remedy that. Also feel free to right click the video and pick "Loop" if you want to hear Neverend segue into Autopilot :)
Here's the driving footage I used: youtube.com/watch?v=X7Mv6yugq1cyoutube.com/watch?v=wF1Hqb2fjHYCommentary on Spiral Out of Control256PiMusic2019-08-16 | Got another album coming out this weekend, but before that, how about we talk about my previous one real quick? Well, maybe not "quick", but you know.
Digitized Replicas is a collection of FL Studio remakes of old album tracks. So, stuff that was previously made using loops & sample packs was transcribed into midi & synth sequences, which took a while and isn't quite like the originals. So hey, not entirely pointless, right? Whatever, it was a lot of fun to make.
Top Of The Comps meanwhile is just a collection of tracks from my Bandcamp exclusive compilations over the years, for all the other major platforms like Spotify and iTunes. This one is entirely pointless if you've already heard those comps, but if you haven't it makes a decent introduction to that stuff. Obviously not on Bandcamp because it has absolutely no reason to be there, but I suppose it serves something resembling a purpose.The Vindaloo Fetish Song (Midi Version)256PiMusic2018-02-12 | Something I did as a little time waster. Download here: dropbox.com/s/hcmvp7qgzifv4wq/The%20Vindaloo%20Fetish%20Song.mid?dl=0 The original: youtube.com/watch?v=UHCEzNhGW98 The visuals are from an old Game Maker tutorial that I spliced the truck into.Journey Through Time and Water: Volume 2 (feat. Johnny) [1.7.18]256PiMusic2018-01-17 | Now here's something I thought might never get the chance to surface. My brother and I hadn't properly gotten the chance to work on a music project together since the first volume of this series in 2013 youtube.com/watch?v=AlDylnzYLjA and it was really nice to be able to work on something with him again. Johnny also drew the artwork you see in the video, here's a full size version if you're interested: goo.gl/yUcyxN
Fun fact, some of these tracks date back to about 2 years ago when the two of us were working on a video game project that never got off the ground, but I later ended up including elements from the first track here in my own track "Spiral Out of Control" 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/spiral-out-of-control-5 so we half named this previously untitled demo after said track. As I said, I thought this stuff would never get the chance to surface.
Tracklisting: 0:00 The Last Spiral Orchestra 5:27 City Night Jive 8:52 Rackin' & Racin' 12:47 Shadow Cavern 16:58 Lunar Exploration 23:04 Guitar To The Sunset256 Pi 2-Hour Chill Mix (2008-2017)256PiMusic2017-12-10 | [DOWNLOAD LINKS IN DESCRIPTION] A 2-hour mix of some of my more chill material from over the past decade or so (downtempo, chillout, jazz, dub, nu-jazz, ambient, trip-hop, psychedelic, whatever other tags applicable), in case you want background music for studying or anything like that. I see people making unofficial videos of other people's music like this all the time, so I made one of my own music.
The not-exactly-anticipated sequel to A Night at Cumberland! As with that session I named these tracks after pictures I took, these taken in downtown Chicago rather than in some random parking lot/subway station. I do also think it is significantly better than the last session as well, spent more time on it and had more fun with it in general, so I hope you enjoy it :)
While attending college in downtown Chicago I've had to take the train downtown every day, and I often go to a station called "Cumberland" to park, and for whatever reason I think the parking lot and surrounding station look cool and I took several pictures of it on different days. And then I made some music and decided to name it after these pictures because why not. Hope you enjoy.
Tracklisting: 0:00 Freeway Lot (Intro) 1:31 Freeway Lot (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/freeway-lot) 4:27 View From The Stairwell... (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/sparkler-dusk-view-from-the-stairwell-clearance-63) 10:51 Walkway South (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/walkway-south-west) 17:39 Cobweb Corner 21:23 Don't Look Down 24:19 Vestibule Glass 29:39 Vestibule Center 32:43 Beneath The Stairwell... 33:39 Walkway Northeast 37:55 Park & Ride (Far) 39:07 Park & Ride (Near) 40:43 Freeway Lot (Reflection)Delight Over A Bad Throttle (4.2.17)256PiMusic2017-04-02 | [Downloads & Tracklisting In Description, READ IT PLEASE] I've been working on this session for over a month now, undoubtedly the longest I've worked on any individual session. As for why it took such a long time to make when most of these take like 3-4 days for me, well... basically, I made it as a fan soundtrack to Orbital's The Altogether DVD (of which the title is an anagram and the font I used in the video is from). Basically, you can sync the nine songs in this session to the nine music videos from that album. I think it worked out really well.
If any actual hydrotherapeuticians find this video, know that I have nothing against you or your trade and just thought this tweet would make a funny title for this collection of 5 random unrelated tracks I made over the first two months of this year.
0:00 Do You Know What You're Doing? (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/20-ounces-of-liquid-do-you-know-what-you-re-doing) 7:11 Asterisk (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/asterisk) 11:45 Factory Fresh 15:41 Stop Making Up Genres And Overdose Yourself (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/stop-making-up-genres-and-overdose-yourself) 21:59 Fuck HydrotherapeuticiansSophomoric Slump & Other Stuff Continuous Mix (2015-2016)256PiMusic2016-11-06 | [Tracklisting in Description] So, this was a thing I did for fun. It's a big continuous mix of 28 songs from the past 11 sessions (i.e. anything from 2015 or 2016). I included both some of my personal favorite songs from the past two years and some that I thought would work well for transitional purposes, so not everything from Sophomoric Slump is on here. And some of the 2016 songs are going to be on my next main album, though some won't. (Still working on that album btw, making sure it's the absolute best I can do and more than just a bunch of tracks you've heard before :D) So if you followed the past handful of music things from before then you'll probably like this more, but I hope you enjoy it anyways :)
0:00 The King's Crown [from The King's Crown] 3:33 Listen To The Headphones [from The Acid Machine] 10:12 Feel The Magnetic Field [from Metropolitan Movement] 14:49 Click Out Of Tab [from Every Pen Went Out Of Ink] 19:08 The Barge [from Every Pen Went Out Of Ink] 21:06 Logs Floating In The River [from Every Pen Went Out Of Ink] 25:09 The Highway of Dreams [from The Acid Machine] 28:41 Cyber Cafe [from Leaning Blind] 33:09 Ancient World History [from Untitled Comeback] 37:00 Falling All The Way Down [from The King's Crown] 42:11 Metropolis [from Metropolitan Movement] 46:59 The Art of Meh [from The Art of Meh] 50:19 Subway Ride [from Metropolitan Movement] 55:17 Wake Me Up When They Come [from Every Pen Went Out Of Ink] 58:28 Urban Legend [from Every Pen Went Out Of Ink] 1:01:40 Blue Head With Cowboy Hat [from Aaaaaaagh!] 1:05:24 Electric Elector [from Electric Elector] 1:10:16 From The Get-Go [from Electric Elector] 1:13:56 Live And Let Dance [from Aaaaaaagh!] 1:15:59 2/As/If (Instrumental) [from FREE SNACKS] 1:17:56 Fizz [from Untitled Comeback] 1:22:05 11 Cones [from The King's Crown] 1:26:35 Phantom [from Thrown Off The Gorge] 1:28:35 It's Go Time (Now) [from Thrown Off The Gorge] 1:31:59 Space Map [from The Acid Machine] 1:32:59 Go Ahead and Do It [from The Acid Machine] 1:36:35 Music in the Back Section [from Leaning Blind] 1:41:20 Tocatta & Huge in Ecstasy Major [from FREE SNACKS]
0:00 Metropolis (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/metropolis-2) 4:48 Feel The Magnetic Field (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/feel-the-magnetic-field-2) 9:36 Sparkly Pavement 10:52 Under The Bridge 14:43 Outside The Line Of Sight 17:16 The Missing Car 21:55 Subway Ride (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/subway-ride) 29:23 Elevators Up and Down 32:16 Top Floor 35:09 All The City LightsThrown Off The Gorge (7.6.16)256PiMusic2016-08-18 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] We have almost hit the end, there's only one more session to upload after this. After that I hope to put my main albums on iTunes and release remastered versions of the first three. In the meantime, this one isn't anything special, but I hope you enjoy it anyway :)
0:00 It's Go Time (Now) 4:58 Old Car 8:24 Calculator 11:36 Phantom 15:49 Condition Check (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/condition-check) 20:59 Touch Me And My Nose Will Fall Off 22:45 Thrown Off The Gorge (download: soundcloud.com/256-pi/thrown-off-the-gorge) 27:14 Return To A.A. River 30:57 E + E (Vindaloo Mix) [download: soundcloud.com/256-pi/e-e-vindaloo-mix]The Acid Machine (6.14.16)256PiMusic2016-08-15 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] This session is special in that I actually made it entirely in FL Studio, without using a single loop. It was a real challenge for me since I'd never made an entirely original session before and I'm particularly proud of it as a result :D
0:00 Electric Elector (Intro) 1:36 Electric Elector (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/electric-elector) 7:32 From The Get-Go (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-get-go-2) 14:16 Machine Rebirth 16:01 Logical Progression I 21:46 Logical Progression II 27:44 Second Oblivion 30:05 Forest Floor 34:38 You Won't Remember This 35:31 Rainbow Aqua Flight 41:50 Escher-Erlenmeyer Maze 49:47 Forest Floor (Epilogue)Fireflies2... (More Outtakes 2005-2015) Out Now!256PiMusic2016-08-09 | 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/fireflies2-more-outtakes-2005-2015Every Pen Went Out Of Ink (9.18.15)256PiMusic2016-08-08 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] Yep, we've reached the last session from 2015 and caught up to this year. The bad news is that now there's only 4 left to upload, but the good news is I'll be releasing a certain promised outtakes compilation soon too.
0:00 Wake Me Up When They Come 3:52 Urban Legend (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/urban-legend) 8:40 Pack Man 9:32 Click Out of Tab (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/click-out-of-tab) 14:49 The Barge 17:46 Logs Floating In The River 23:03 Roses Are Red, Violets Are Purple 28:42 Live Long and... 31:50 Music Made For Dancing 40:01 Every Pen Went Out Of Ink
Download the Sophomoric Slump album here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/sophomoric-slump-2015-compAaaaaaagh! (8.1.15)256PiMusic2016-08-04 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] Okay, as much as I rag on 2015 for being a mediocre year for my music (and this isn't exactly a fantastic one either tbh), I do admit this session has a great title.
0:00 The Sun Rises In The West 4:06 The Weather Doesn't Get Any Better 10:05 Scream 13:24 Live and Let Dance (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/live-and-let-dance) 17:45 Aaaaaaagh! 18:09 A. A. River 23:05 The Library 30:48 Resonate 32:44 Blue Head With Cowboy Hat
Download the full Sophomoric Slump album here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/sophomoric-slump-2015-compThe Kings Crown (7.30.15)256PiMusic2016-08-01 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] Despite the fact I only included one song from this session on the album I think it's actually pretty solid overall, kinda got some psychedelic thing going for it. Certainly felt like a big step up from a bunch of eh ones in a row.
0:00 The King's Crown (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/the-kings-crown) 3:33 Someone On The Cover 5:55 Hodge Podge Dodge 7:07 11 Cones 11:51 18-Second Emergency 12:10 When Earths Collide 16:08 Day in the Life Days 21:59 Falling All The Way Down
Download the full Sophomoric Slump album here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/sophomoric-slump-2015-compFREE SNACKS (4.2.15)256PiMusic2016-07-28 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] Yeah this one also isn't fantastic. I mean, it's better than the last one, but whatever. Computerized voices saying random words turned out not to be as funny as I thought it would be.
Download the Sophomoric Slump album here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/sophomoric-slump-2015-compThe Art of Meh (3.4.15)256PiMusic2016-07-25 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] Oof, this was not a good one. I guess it has some moments here and there but it's mostly just cheesy crap that makes me cringe and unmemorable filler. Still uploading for the sake of completion but I'm not proud of it.
Oh yeah almost forgot, check out the Sophomoric Slump album here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/sophomoric-slump-2015-compLeaning Blind (2.29.15)256PiMusic2016-07-21 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] This is about where I think things started to take a downturn for my 2015 stuff. I don't think it's terrible but it is kind of a joke (I have no idea what the title means for instance) and starting to show why I called the album Sophomoric Slump. Hope you enjoy regardless.
0:00 Leaning Blind 3:19 I Got Red 8:18 Cyber Cafe (download: 256pi.bandcamp.com/track/cyber-cafe) 13:07 Clap & Scratch 15:03 Squid 15:59 Music in the Back Section 23:12 Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Make sure to download the Sophomoric Slump album here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/sophomoric-slump-2015-compUntitled Comeback (2.23.15)256PiMusic2016-07-18 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] After I made basically no new music at all in 2014, I went into 2015 hoping to make up for lost time, and the result was Sophomoric Slump. This session is actually pretty good imo but later ones from 2015 I'm not quite as proud of. Hope you enjoy regardless.
Make sure to download the Sophomoric Slump compilation here: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/sophomoric-slump-2015-compIf Tomorrow Is A Ball, Can I Bounce It On The Driveway? (12.17.13)256PiMusic2016-07-14 | You can download ALL the music in this video right here: http://256pi.bandcamp.com/album/if-tomorrow-is-a-ball-can-i-bounce-it-on-the-driveway Basically this is here for the sake of completion, it's not technically a real session but the only 256 Pi album to not have any sessions go into it. Instead I just worked on the same selection of songs and fine-tuned them until I was totally happy with them. As such I'm quite proud of this one in particular. (Also, just fyi, this music has no relation to Hatsune Miku or nightcore or whatever. I was just looking for more artistic city wallpaper one day, found this, thought it looked cool and used it as the album cover. Didn't even know who Miku was at the time.) This is also either the best or the worst title I've ever come up with.
The song "Wrong Dimension" contains a sample from the orchestral version of "Dogstar" by Hybrid.Infinity Minus Two I (8.2.13)256PiMusic2016-07-07 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] So this is obviously the first part of a two part session that covers the bulk of the longer songs from the Inside The Mainframe album. The last track on here is kind of a joke tbh but never mind that.
And of course don't forget to download the full Inside The Mainframe album here: http://256pi.bandcamp.com/album/inside-the-mainframeBlue Sunshine (7.17.13)256PiMusic2016-07-04 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] We've made it into 2013, probably one of my better (albeit condensed) years of making music. Not much happened but what did happen I'm definitely happy with, thanks to both the 256 Pi albums released that year easily being my best so far.
And of course, make sure to download the full Inside The Mainframe album here: http://256pi.bandcamp.com/album/inside-the-mainframeJourney Through Time and Water: Volume 1 (feat. Johnny) [3.4.13]256PiMusic2016-06-30 | [Downloads & Tracklisting in Description] This was the last session my brother Johnny and I did together, so yeah as of uploading this there is no volume 2 (or volume 3 like we planned, lol). But unlike Sean, who has no interest in this stuff anymore, the possibility of new Johnny sessions is still open and we might finally get the sequels to this one out someday soon. (Just probably not this summer because he's working at a boy scout camp.)