Endless Blue

Feeling sick but powered through it to get this done today. This one ended up a Moby style jam. Nothing too fancy, just fun stuff. Love that Film Octaves on my Juno-G.

Took a few weeks off due to some scheduling and health stuff, but back with a bit of an oddball beat. Not convinced that the verse and chorus go all that well together, but it's what I ended up with, and figured I should just see it through. Verse beat and bass line came first, and I dig that open string hit.

Our latest single, a song about saying goodbye because you have to. ▶ Links : https://links.endlessblue.com/@beautiful-season

Wrote this one killing time right before I hopped on an Uber to the airport on Friday. Just plinking around on the piano as usual. Sunday rolled around and I still hadn't really started, but this one was definitely going in the lo-fi bets direction, so how hard could it possibly be? Yeah, 1.75 hours, LFG.

As usual, just dinking around and found something that reminded me of Metroid. Decided to follow the thread and chase it down, but where I was looping wasn't on a 4/4 grid... So rather than force it I rolled with a 7/4 time signature that gives the whole track a lopsided unsettling feel, which is Metroid all the way down.

Started this one early in the week while preset surfing on the AstroLab, but as usual ended up being a photo finish on Sunday. Went with a really simple progression/structure and chased the production and builds instead. Baritone and bass and wurli oh my. About eleventy billion vocal melodies running through my head for this one.

I don't even have much to say about the process in this one, maybe more about the anti-process. I wanted to make sure I didn't have any loops running through the entire song (something I feel I've been suffering from lately), so I purposefully removed them when it felt right. Got pretty far on the verse vibes, then created a chorus. Wasn't big enough, so the baritone guitar came to save the day. Really getting into mics and using physical amps. And needed that angel chorus at the end to close it out.

Ahhhh first non-Jamuary Weekly Beat... Got to work on this one over several sessions. Grew organically from the main melody, especially the chorus chords. Still following the Jamuary thought of playing everything live, except for one of the string layers that I MIDIed in. Last thing on the track was the bassline, which is kind of odd for my process.

Wrapping it up with a slow build lofi track. Made the main piano melody slowly disappear in the track.

Rolled with big beat drums and a few synth lines. Live bass line worked well here. Second to last!

Got rolling with this one after finding a cool 808 bass sound and a matching cool drum loop. Built from there bada bing bada boom.

Pretty simple one, banged it out in less than two hours. Hit the jackpot on the beat, wrote the verse chord progression in my head, followed the rabbit down the hole.

Home stretch, and it's getting gritty. Had to bang this one out with just a little time. Basic, a little loopy, but made it work.

Did a little something minimal, mostly because it took a while to get this one rolling... A lot of automation to make it move.

A little angry stuff. Broke out the 7-string.

Tired. Just wanted to make something pretty today.

Was a bit pressed for time on this one, so just rolled with a groove and some sounds with just in/out arrangement. Not the usual level of polish.

Busted out the baritone for the first time in 2026. Made a concerted effort to do the chorus arrangement a little different than I usually do (no pads).

Concept jam, everything through a microphone! I struggled with looping for this one and ended up burning a ton of time, so it ended up pretty light on the arrangement side. Lots of dub delay tho.

Improv piano with some pads. The trick was making it slowly evolve.

Decided to play with vocoders and ended up with a pretty ridiculous track. Copping from a lot of influences here from all over the map...

Another straight up trip hop track. Stuck with the same progression through the entire song, but got it changed up enough to be interesting.

Another one that is pretty well arranged but I didn't have time to finish the instrumentation or production. Like the progression on this one, dig the fact that it has a pre-chorus.

Well, didn't get a chance to finish this one. Guitar based, got some good chords.

Another fun one, this one pretty much wrote itself musically. Most of the time was spent on arrangement, and got pretty intricate for a jam.

Had a bit of a melody. Aimed the mic at the piano and just played.

Had a lot of fun with this one. Wrote the intro first, then scrounged around for the right beat to match the vibe of the verse. Ended up with some real subby bass and 808 kicks to layer, and the rest was just goofing about with presets. Too lazy to actually mic the guitar today, just DI into Amplitube.

Had a blip of inspiration for the bass line, found a beat to match it. Turned into a cool track.

A few tracks of improv, a lot of reverb, and a bit of automation

Went in a really crazy direction with this one, and it turned into kind of an alt country cyberpunk track. Used the arpeggio as a soundbed to form the chords, then recorded the guitar to a click track. Stuck with just a single drum kit but got really intricate in the programming, pretty proud of the results.

Just a jam, a bit of instrumental hip-hop. First 2026 jam with a bridge!

Started with a cool sounding patch and built out a little synthwave jam. Has a weird 12-bar adjacent vibe in the chord progression.

Bit of a quickie, kept it to a chill downtempo track that uses drum fills to continue progression and movement.

A little chill track, hanging out with some of my favorite sounds

A little synthwave / chillwave adjacent jam. Played with the idea of having just a single loop but using the reversed loop as the verse

Been leaning pretty hard on my AstroLab 37 for inspiration. Digging through the eleventy billion presets in Analog Lab looking for the good stuff leads to tracks it seems. This one was pretty straightforward. Had to play "find the chords" again for the chorus and ended up doing some pretty interesting inversions to keep it interesting.

A bit quicker today, under 2 hours. Bass line was where it started with drums shortly after. A lot of time spent on the chorus chord progression, though, as the bass worked but I couldn't quite figure out which chords were implied by it...

Bass line and beat rattling around in my head today. Found a killer electric piano sound and laid down the melody. Built around that. A bit faster today, got it wrapped in a little over 2 hours

Pretty standard classic trip hop jam. A little rusty so this one took me over 2.5 hours -- gotta lock in if I'm gonna make it...

Our classic track performed live. From our "Live from the Garage" audio/video album, out May 2, 2025. ▶ Links : https://links.endlessblue.com/@live-from-the-garage

Sweet Jane (Live Version) by Endless Blue

This one has Amanda, our second singer for our first album, on lead

A little Johnny Cash / Sting cover. The live version is quite a bit different than our studio version with the introduction of the baritone guitar to really deepen the tone and vibes.

This was originally written for a (of all things) revolutionary war period piece soundtrack. Laura improved over the top of the guitar part and I sliced it up and arranged it. Added samples and other instruments later to fill out the full song.

A little Lou Reed done in our signature style...

Chill layered track using only guitars

This was a fun Monthly Music Mission that turned out pretty difficult to pull off. I used only Brian Funk's COINOP pack and used only native Ableton effects. Working within these limitations was pretty rough, mainly because I was not very familiar with the tools as full-fledged Arturia addict... But I'm pretty pleased with the outcome.

Silent All These Years (Tori Amos Cover) by Endless Blue

This is a pretty old track I pulled out of storage and updated. Gist of it was pretty well written, but gave it a stronger chorus and a bit more structure.

Monthly Music Mission for July. Used only the Brian Funk Cassette Synth pack for all instrument sounds, and for the theme of "On the Go" I produced the track only using my performance laptop. Got a glitchy vibe early on so rolled with it.