MINDSCAPE

        May 3rd of 2021 was the first time I released anything real into the wild. Before that, it was just shitty SoundCloud demos that I would spend all afternoon making before realizing they were garbage–then releasing them anyways. I would argue that day is one of the most important days of my life, right up there with February 3rd 2006 and September 9th 2022. I don’t know what I’d be doing without music, and the DAVE projects and others have taken up such a large part of my life that I can’t even begin to imagine where I’d be without them, or the other bands I take part in. But now DAVE is coming to a close, the pentology complete. I will still make music, obviously, but for at least the next four years, I don’t think there will be any more DAVE coming from me I would like to take the time to go through every single person I know who has made a large impact on me and my music, as a way to say thanks, I suppose. Obviously, there is no way I could ever repay ...

This one took a while. Excuses for this are plentiful, at least in my head–the regular ‘creative burnout’ and ‘anxiety’ and ‘stress’ bullshit–but who even cares? I didn’t have as many ideas for this one, hence the eight tracks (real DAVE ones, anyway) instead of nine, and I think it’s because I’ve been making DAVE stuff as my primary project for four years at this point, and because daVe was probably my best album and it’s hard to follow up. However, I tried my best, and I have a lot to say about each song. Probably–I haven’t written those parts yet. 2006 Honda Civic Probably my favorite electronic track I’ve ever made, right next to (and made around a similar time) as Heartbeat of the Trees. The title is taken from the SpongeBob AI series, the one where Patrick says “2006 Honda Civic.” A lot of effort goes into naming these songs, I’ll have you know.  It was my attempt at making a jungle type DnB track, but since I don’t have the technical know-how to do something like that, I jus...