malandraj

WorkHard

AbJo

2 of 2 exclusive tracks from my upcoming release, "dance like no one else exists.", the original, raw, pre-mastered mixes (designed to hit the red immediately upon cue at the club, haha)...

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dance like no one else exists.

ennui.

LATASHÁ

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glo.up remix.

Teen Daze

The third in the Interior series.

Owner of this NFT will gain access to the "Interior Club VIP" discord.

About Translation: The final track on Interior, and rather than end with a turn towards more quiet, introspective tones (which is traditionally how I tend to end records), I wanted to end with a bit of a celebration. This song has gone through a number of different variations, but it wasn’t until I dropped in the microsamples and extended sax solo at the end that it really hit the mark.

This one does demand something from the listener though. The kick drum doesn’t even come in until the 3:30 mark. I do think people will be rewarded if they’re able to really live in the world of the song for the first half, until the big party comes in. The quiet parts of a song make the loud parts hit even harder, right?

To be honest, I wasn’t sure if this type of big, positive ending was the right fit for this record, but I’m really glad the folks at Cascine convinced me to not only keep it on the record, but have it wrap the whole experience up.

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Translation

LA EQUIS

Harrison and I met on twitter around Aug 2021 (damn, feels forever ago) we connected because of our similar experiences in web3. Harrison launched his social token $FIRST and has been building his community since 2019.

He heard my music, checked out my social token on Rally and we instantly clicked. We didn’t talk collaboration until shortly after but we had a good idea of what we wanted to bring to the world by combining our talents and experience to drop something special.

This is exactly how REAL came about. I had a rough demo of the song and I knew performance wise it was spot on. I scrapped some of my verse parts and made space for Harrison to come and do his thing. He killed it.

The music production on the OG demo was good but I knew it needed to be reworked. Sonically I wanted something cohesive that complemented are parts. I sent the a cappella to my collaborator in Argentina and he did an amazing job at recreating the music and increasing the production value it deserved. Melodically there is a lot subtleties and textures but everything is in its respective pocket, with something fresh appearing on every listen.

♾️

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Infinite by Xcelencia

REAL FT. HARRISON $FIRST - 02 ♾️

slenderbodies

written as part of the soraya era

im breathing in the daylight
never too slow
sink until the waistline
make it go

and i could spin around inside my head, love
i could

its louder than i would like
but bearably so
show me something
and i could spin around inside my head love

and i could spin around inside my head
i could

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spin

josh pan

this song is about finding that person that you feel perfectly in sync with.

when you're with them it feels like time slows down and nothing else matters.

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perfect

The final in the Interior series.

Owner of this NFT will gain access to the "Interior Club VIP" discord.

About Interior: Another one of the original demos from 2018, which was meant to be another exploration of looped modular sounds, with no real dancefloor aspirations. The thing that really changed that was Joel’s bass part. That part took it from this meandering, meditative, drifting tune, to one of the most dancefloor-ready songs on the whole record. This one’s also got this wild cyberpunk feel to me; I’ve described this record as “the kind of music the kids in Akira would have danced to at the clubs in Neo Tokyo”, and this tune most exemplifies that. There’s a “night music” feel going on here. The field recording at the end was taken outside of a club in LA. I was waiting for a car, and heard some people excitedly describing the night, and just had to capture it. It’s a special feeling, that’s finally starting to return. It also just sounds like LA to me: the neon-feel, the sound of cars passing, it all just makes me think of all the beautiful late night experiences I’ve had in that city.

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Interior

track 7 and the title of "dance like no one else exists", a short dance music project/EP I started working on in 2020.

this is unfinished, unmastered, in all its raw glory, a tap into the soundtrack playing in my mind when I wanna turn off the world and dance like no one else exists.

like the other three previous releases on-chain from the project, I'll send the whole EP in its entirety, plus versions that have not been released yet to the public.

when you need to, always remind yourself: you are born alone, and you'll die alone. so dance. dance like no one else exists...

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