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🎶 Beautiful people, so happy to share my new album with you, Let’s Synthwave & Chill. It's a relaxing blend of melodic chillstep with orchestral instruments.
Music usually takes us elsewhere and away from here, but this album is about being here, being chill with it, what it is for you! No words, just instrumentals. So it's perfect for working, hanging out, relaxing, and even focusing.
Do you like what you hear? Wanna support my music? It’s free, fast, and it makes a huge difference to me. Look to the top left for the White Rabbit. Ok next to the white rabbit, there's the FOLLOW button. Tap Follow and you done me solid, thank you! I'm holding my heart with you and I hope you feel it.
🐣 Easter Eggs - Y'all. All tracks are tuned to healing frequencies. There's a tiny bit of mathematical & creative challenge of how to create the sound waves for people who enjoy the benefits of sounds at vibrational frequencies. I hoped to see that they'd just have a positive effect on people. In this album, I tuned each track to ensure that the Root frequency of each song corresponds with a specific Universal restoration/healing frequency. For example, "Air" (01) is tuned to 285Hz, regarded for Healing Tissue and Energy Balancing. Let me know if you hear it or not, I want to know: contactthomas@unity303.com
revolution
Been writing music for 30+ years. But been writing music with AI assistance for 3+ months.
Never before was I able to write this amount of exceedingly amazing quality music, week after week, without cool-off periods, without much burnout. There is too much to talk about to describe, you wouldn't want to read all the boring details — and I have to keep it brief enough so you'd want to read this blog.
Namely, I get to stay *focused* on the goodo parts, the creative processes, rather than getting stuck on the many unnecessary trivially mundane tasks of music-making. (Unnecessarily boring tasks like re-recording until the perfect take, incessant changing software that breaks for no apparent reason (or because some other seemingly unrelated software changed), the joy of getting to move on from the neverending search for the 100% perfect sound, updating to latest software versions, there is no end to the et. ceteras). And even with all that aside there's still a lot of work that must be put in as a solo artist *with* the AI assistance, because AI churns out so much. And so instead of taking years and a team, it can be done solo in months. And also in a more focused period with a bit more of a focused vision.
Let's Synth & Chill captures me as best as I can describe. I really appreciate you taking the time to read this. Thanks for checking this all out.
🎧 My Mashups and Remixes (40+ Tracks)
Wow, it's insane looking back a discography spanning 25 years remixes, spanning so many EDM genres.
I began remixing back in the 2000s. I placed in college remix competitions with labels like Sony Music. Computers just were starting to get powerful enough to run multiple software synthesizers and vocoders. We used to have to get ridiculously lucky to find clean Acapella Vocals, until the late 2010's, when iZotope came out with the ultimate gamechanger: Vocal Stem Isolation. 0-Day-Acapellas! (Now in 2024, all the new DAW's do this now and we're all spoiled rotten, lol) But back then, every #NewMusicFriday, I'd listen to Spotify for the best song I'd never heard, and try to remix it. If I was lucky, I'd might have a release on the same day a song was officially radio released. (This is how I found Morgan Wallen and started mashing up Country with Chillstep, for example) Such magical days.
SONG V. REMIX | EMOTIONAL VS. AI
Once my marriage fell apart, and once I started to finally break out of the complete denial that it was even actually happening and start to face it, I started to be able to write about everything about the ways I felt.
Writing about this unparalleled devastational gutwrenching heartache was something I had started doing back in high school. I always though it was a pretty miraculous thing to be able to re-channel feelings of this kind of ugly/hurtful/painful/betraying/shameful into something that is somehow really pretty. Having grown up with trauma and so much denial and shame, I was in a place of unprocessed pain about things, and having no other means to process things, music was my safe haven, my rock, my sanctuary. And I'm still there now, I'm still processing, I'm still being deeply comforted by music.
The music I've been working on gives me a way to look at all the difficult dreams that have not come true that have not come true, that have been way to hard to face without totally just breaking down. They're a more familiar way of journaling to me, than actual journaling, and they offer me healing that I'm more familiar with. The remixing was fun, that nourished me creatively, but the lyric-writing, that gave me detail to the emotions with surgical precision and access to events. And with like the safety of the music comes this compassionate setting for me. Kind of like a swaddling of the child self that never fully got that? So now it was giving myself this safe haven to have real, authentic, difficult feelings to write about and be so deeply connected to this river of water that kept falling from the sky.
Youtube is cool and I enjoyed making lyrics videos but it does take a lot of time. And I'm not very good at using the Youtube (video) platform to access the fanbase of Synthwave-heads who loooove synthwave who are dying to listen to the kind of music I'm releasing, so I decided to move back over to Soundcloud (where I *have* been getting a lot of good success connecting with fans. And with the release of Synthwave&Chill, I've started to reshift concentration back to Soundcloud (where you know, people are looking for music, not videos to watch), and will probably update Youtube once a month (4-at-a-time). And will be updating Soundcloud regularly.
Thank you for reading. I don't often share so vulnerably like this on such a public space, so I am really am putting myself out here and putting myself at risk revealing myself as a target. I may take this down if this gets too much of the wrong kind of attention. I appreciate you taking special care of what I'm sharing with you.
Bit so far, this has been such a wonderful journey of healing and coming back to me. Thanks so much for baring witness to this voyage. I would love to hear from you. Reach out, email, fanmail, hatemail, whatever works. You probably have my email but if not, there's a general mailbox at contactthomas@unity303.com