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Endless Blue
by Endless Blue
Endless Blue, a trip-hop and downtempo fusion duo, was formed in 2003 by Minneapolis-based musicians Nick Mitchell and Laura Hillman Mitchell. Endless Blue's music blends sultry and soulful melodies with vintage synths, jazz-filled bass lines, bluesy guitar riffs, and lo-fi beats.Over the last 20 years Endless Blue has collaborated with numerous musicians and has recorded 13 albums and EPs with a combination of original tracks and covers in Endless Blue's signature style. Listeners can expect song themes tackling everything from relationships, identity, loss, and mental health.
Episodes
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Weekly Beats #41 - Liura
Inspiration struck today, so I hammered this one out. Used only instruments from a new sound bank I got that were the cause of the inspiration.
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Weekly Beats #12 - Stones
Missed last week, got too busy with the new album. Just went with four instruments for this one and used automation and effects to create motion. The big wall'o'noise is thanks to Valhalla Supermassive and knob twiddling on it throughout the whole track. Needed to dial it back a bit at the end to...
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Weekly Beats #34 - Van Heaven
Ah, this one actually started pretty early in the week and was able to steep properly. Banged out the main riff and drums into the general structure, then it was all filling in the blanks, with a little trip to "Butt Rock" territory. Most fun I've had on a weekly beat in a long time!
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Weekly Beats #32 - Slowly
Fell behind on my weekly beats posting! This one popped out of playing around with my new guitar and mic rig. Used one of my preferred reverbs (Line6 Particle Verb) on the guitars and played those parts. Built out the arrangement, filled in percussion and fingerdrums. Ended up with a sort of...
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Weekly Beats #31 - Bits of Foam
Literally sat down and banged out the chorus chords right away, rolled with it. Verse is a little odd, not sure if it'll survive, same with the bridge. Still with the no MIDI for instruments thing. Didn't get overly intricate with my first track back.
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Weekly Beats #30 - Please Clap
Finally back with some Weekly Beats! Missed the cutoff for the official site by like 2 minutes, decided to post here instead. Picked up a guitar, came up with the main riff. Built it out from there, including the addition of some mandolin!
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Weekly Beats #22 - Firmarlite
Lacked inspiration for a few weeks there, but found it in a game I have been playing recently. Music is terrible -- too ambient and lacking any personality that fits with the gameplay. So I decided to start writing an alternate soundtrack, and this is the first track.
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Weekly Beats #18 - Twice Broken
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.
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Weekly Beats #16 - Generation Lead
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…
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Beautiful Season
Our latest single, a song about saying goodbye because you have to. ▶ Links : https://links.endlessblue.com/@beautiful-season
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Weekly Beats #13 - Early Just To Wait
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...
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Weekly Beats #10 - Ridley
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...
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Weekly Beats #8 - Other Ideas
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...
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Weekly Beats #7 - So Very Late
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…
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Weekly Beats #6 - Golden
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...
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Day 31 - Seeya
Wrapping it up with a slow build lofi track. Made the main piano melody slowly disappear in the track.
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Day 30 - Steam
Rolled with big beat drums and a few synth lines. Live bass line worked well here. Second to last!
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Day 29 - Sternly Worded Letter
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.
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Day 28 - Open Mic
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.
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Day 27 - Grind
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.
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Day 26 - Little BB
Did a little something minimal, mostly because it took a while to get this one rolling... A lot of automation to make it move.
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Day 25 - Justified
A little angry stuff. Broke out the 7-string.
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Day 24 - Alex
Tired. Just wanted to make something pretty today.
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Day 23 - Pressed Tofu
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.
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Day 22 - Radicalized
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).
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Day 21 - Mikey
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.
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Day 20 - Impatience
Improv piano with some pads. The trick was making it slowly evolve.
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Day 19 - Pink and Blue
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...
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Day 18 - Forget Full
Another straight up trip hop track. Stuck with the same progression through the entire song, but got it changed up enough to be interesting.
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Day 17 - Firepit
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.
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Day 16 - Busted Out
Well, didn't get a chance to finish this one. Guitar based, got some good chords.
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Day 15 - Last Day
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.
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Day 14 - Smaller
Had a bit of a melody. Aimed the mic at the piano and just played.
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Day 13 - Lucky Dog
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...
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Day 12 - Surly Pause
Had a blip of inspiration for the bass line, found a beat to match it. Turned into a cool track.
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Day 11 - Slow Roll Sunshine
A few tracks of improv, a lot of reverb, and a bit of automation
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Day 10 - Marshall
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...
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Day 9 - Responding
Just a jam, a bit of instrumental hip-hop. First 2026 jam with a bridge!
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Day 8 - Waterfall
Started with a cool sounding patch and built out a little synthwave jam. Has a weird 12-bar adjacent vibe in the chord progression.
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Day 7 - Truly Tapped
Bit of a quickie, kept it to a chill downtempo track that uses drum fills to continue progression and movement.
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Day 6 - All the Flames
A little chill track, hanging out with some of my favorite sounds
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Day 5 - Stacking
A little synthwave / chillwave adjacent jam. Played with the idea of having just a single loop but using the reversed loop as the verse
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Day 4 - Third String
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...
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Day 3 - Lights Down
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...
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Day 2 - Naptime
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
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Day 1 - Feng Shui
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...
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The Feeling (Live Version)
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
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Sweet Jane (Live Version)
Sweet Jane (Live Version) by Endless Blue
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Taciturn
This one has Amanda, our second singer for our first album, on lead
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I Hung My Head (Live Version)
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.
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Endless Blue, a trip-hop and downtempo fusion duo, was formed in 2003 by Minneapolis-based musicians Nick Mitchell and Laura Hillman Mitchell. Endless Blue's music blends sultry and soulful melodies with vintage synths, jazz-filled bass lines, bluesy guitar riffs, and lo-fi beats.Over the last 20 years Endless Blue has collaborated with numerous musicians and has recorded 13 albums and EPs with a combination of original tracks and covers in Endless Blue's signature style. Listeners can expect song themes tackling everything from relationships, identity, loss, and mental health.
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