clear eyes

tomorrow i will have a surgery to fix my right hand. 

it is a little scary, but mostly exciting. 

i made every Catalog record I have minted so far through pain. 

soon i will be free of it. i hope it feels like this.

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falling     I     flying

this piece represents a breakthrough. i had been making a lot of things that sounded the same, and this felt different. i made it in an afternoon five months ago and have listened to it at least once a week since. i named it 'salvation' right after i made it, without thinking much about it. just felt right.

this is a seed for the next era of clear eyes. planted here, on catalog.

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salvation

i made this after spending four months unable to make music as the result of an injury to my hands. i want to believe that we all have the power to grow through hardships and come out stronger on the other side. this song is a representation of that hope.

clear eyes is the solo project of jeremy lloyd, the production half of platinum-selling duo Marian Hill.

©dreaming of flying

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growth

clear eyes on Catalog

Reo Cragun

I’m reclusive by nature but with so many things in store for 2022 it felt right to step out of my comfort zone and get some bars off. This marks my first Catalog record with so many more to come.

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Top of the Year (Go Mode)

This song was written while I was in a dark place. I was addicted to pain pills most of 2021 due to a major surgery, and "As I Should Be" was byproduct of that time.  

The collector will receive a handwritten journal entry describing the details of the song and a .wav file of the beat with vocal stems.

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Journal Entry 1

Excerpt 1: As I Should Be ft. clear eyes

music on catalog that feels like 
                                                               dreaming of flying

      a curated list by clear eyes

                                                                                         updated regularly

dreaming of flying

Glasstempo

1 / 1 digital demo
produced by Glasstempo
mixed + mastered by Joshua Eustis and Kristofer Crouch
special thanks to Melanie and Penelope

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Like It Was

Elliot Cole

As my world of live concerts, collaborations, and singing parties evaporated in 2020, like most musicians I had to turn inward. I started slowly building a studio in my home, and exploring what I could make alone. This radically changed my music and my imagination.

STROKE is my first electronic release on any platform.  All sounds come from a single Moog DFAM drum machine.

25% of proceeds will be donated to Musicambia to support music education in prisons.

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STROKE

Jon Waltz

(2019) 

I wanna say we made this in LA in 2018 but... not sure. 

What I am sure of is the fact that this song and the album that accompanied it was made at the crossroads for me. There were a lot of decisions I needed to make and whether I was going to do the work and really go for a career in music was one of them. 

"Payday" was made with no patience and with the last ounce of my faith. 

"Payday" was me coming to terms with the music industry and the dissonant feeling I felt towards it. 

"Payday" was me coming to the realization that this shit was gonna have to be me and my people busting our asses in order to be seen, heard, felt, and regardless of the outcome, nobody was gonna feel sorry or come to the rescue and it was up to us to figure it out... And in a strange way, it felt kind've empowering to know that.

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PAYDAY

Sullivann

Palisade is the final track off of Sullivann's debut EP Elements. Each song represents an element. Palisade represents earth.

Music & Lyrics by Sullivann
Produced by Elliot Cole
Mixed & Mastered by Chris Botta

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Elements

Palisade

slenderbodies

our genesis music nft comes from the fabulist era. this was one of the first songs written as we began the project, and was later left out for the sake of the narrative. it remains one of our favorites :)

i can spend it on my own

traveled to mojave
sun set slivers slow
favorable conditions 
faintest eerie glow
i can spend it on my own

oozing
streaking my mahogony
i just want to be a lone rider 
no drag alongs

ive been roaming for a long time
burning fires warm the stones
vision blurry from the mild light
shapes and figures in shadow

and
ive been here before
its something special 
spending time alone
and speaking to the 
monsters i held onto
held on from the past

signed up for the distance
trekking as i go
gathered my belongings
not much left to hold
i can carry it on my own

traveled to mojave
sun set slivers slow
favorable conditions 
faintest eerie glow
i can spend it on my own

send me down through the floor
i can be no more

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mojave

Grady

In 2017,  I was freshly out of being in a band and deciding where to start as a solo artist. I was working with a lot of producers to figure that out and had been making a lot of my favorite stuff with Melvv. One day while standing in the sunlight of his living room in Beverly Hills, he played me the warmest synth I'd ever heard in my entire life and ten minutes later Garden was pretty much done. 

A few months later it was time to decide which song to step out into the world with and everything in my heart told me Garden was that. Lyrically and energetically it just felt right. 

This is the first drop in my "relics" series, the collection of songs I put out over the first three years of my solo project. 

The winner of this auction will also receive a 1/1 vintage washed Garden sweatshirt.

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Grady - Garden ft. Melvv & Cuco

oshi

flew my brother out to LA for the holidays and finally convinced him to make music w/ me

this marks the beginning of his artist development

he is the future <3

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oshi + kazi - master chief

megiapa

Last November, I challenged myself to a personal "diddy-a-day" challenge. I made one beat a day for a week (with a break to celebrate Diwali <3). A Practice is the second single off my EP, diddies vol. 1, which is a collection of beats from those sessions. This track includes a bonus track titled '11.12'.

The winner of the auction will receive:
• A Practice + bonus wav. file
• A handmade, mini collage (painted, drawn, sketched, etc. by me)
• Stickers featuring original collage designs

"A Practice" is written, produced, arranged, and mixed by megiapa
Cover art by megiapa
Mastered by Zeroh

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diddies vol. 1

A Practice

Three Oscillators

This tune is the story of a three-eyed monster who just couldn't get enough of the funk.

This is one of my favourite tunes I have ever made. Owner of this gets a 1-on-1 call where I explain my creative process!

Artwork by Arundathi Manakkad (https://www.instagram.com/the.girl.from.the.sun/)

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Funkasaurus Rex

AbJo

The second in a series of releases of rare, bailé inspired remixes of my CHROMA project, the original is my most recent claim to fame, picked up by Apple for use in commercials for the last iteration of the Apple Watch. This is also another chance for whoever collects this one to receive the full CHROMA/BAILÉ project in full upon purchase.

Also, since I missed it last, BIG shoutout to my man Veej (@veeejzilla on IG/Twitter) for this dope artwork (also reworked by moi) and my man Andrew Galvan, my former manager and all around master connector of dots for helping me put this project together...

*Made on Reason ver. 10, May 2018, 44.1/24

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RoseBAILÉ

camoufly

"[Hello Darling] is actually a song to listen to hand in hand with your loved one, while you lie down on a terrace and watch the lazy clouds pass in the clear spring sky. Its sweet and fairy atmospheres simply cannot fail to please and these fat subs will satisfy even the hardest-hearted basshead." - Alessio Anesi, FUXWITHIT

A song about the biggest emotions you can find in simple things. This is "Hello Darling".

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APOTHEOSIS

hello darling

Song origins: June 22nd, 2019

I had just gotten back home from a visit to MAi Father’s house;  I hadn't seen him in over a year.

While playing MAi guitar, I recalled some advice he shared with me.

LYRiCS: 

why wait til it's your time?
some things won't work out right
Son, it's not waiting for you

God willing, I hope you're right
wanna see you live that life
hope it don't take it from you..

Completed: July 4th, 2021  (over 2 years later, I added a second verse and changed the second half of the production)

FATHER'S TUNE is the PROLOGUE to the music that follows it; a precursor to the storyline of the past 4 years of MAi life that created MAiWORLD.

Collector of this NFT receives: 

- 1/1 GOLD Physical Gameboy cartridge W/ FATHER’S TUNE artwork 
          -  Plays ‘MAiWORLD’, a playable Gameboy game designed around 
              the story of WORLD 1 (demo version)
          -  NFC inside cartridge to a secret link that adapts over time
- $MAI TOKEN(S)
          -  Airdropped to first collector 
- MAiWORLD bonus channel discord access
- Early access to future music 

SONG CREDITS:

ARTiST: MAi

ALL MUSIC WRiTTEN/COMPOSED/PERFORMED/ RECORDED/PRODUCED/MIXED BY: MAiWORLD

MASTERED BY: MiGHTY33

WELCOME TO MAiWORLD.

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PROLOGUE: FATHER'S TUNE

made in london, 2018

track 14 of the oshi archives vol. 1

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14 JERICHO

Maelstrom

This is the latest (and final) version of a song I've been working on for 5 years. It started as a techno track, with the main synth line and a kick drum, but I wasn't satisfied so I kept working on it year after year, reopening the project and adding one new element at a time. It started solidifying after an afternoon session in Jeremy Chatelain's living room in Paris a few years ago, but still didn't feel like it was where it needed to be. Then I received an offer to produce a track for a sex scene in the last season of HBO's Euphoria, and that's when I added the vocals, the ambient intro, some melodic elements, and took most of the drums out. It didn't make it to the final cut, but I still have a special connection to this song, which sounds like nothing else in my discography. 

This is an exclusive Catalog.works record - it isn't (and won't be) available anywhere else

(Photography by Marilyn Clark)

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Satori

HENO.

PTSD - "A CONDITION OF PERSISTENT MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL STRESS OCCURRING AS A RESULT OF INJURY OR SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL SHOCK, TYPICALLY INVOLVING DISTURBANCE OF SLEEP AND CONSTANT VIVID RECALL OF THE EXPERIENCE, WITH BLACK THIS OUT TO OTHERS AND TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD."

EVERY ASPECT OF THE DIGITAL WORLD IS MONITORED TO SOME DEGREE: PHONE RECORDS, FINANCIAL RECORDS, FACIAL RECOGNITION, ONLINE SEARCHES, BLACK THIS OUT, ANALYTICS, AND APPS. 

I FEEL MUCH SAFER OFFLINE AND OFF THE GRID, BUT I’M AN BLACK THIS OUT, I HAVE A LIFE THAT REQUIRES MAKING DIGITAL CHOICES TO IMPROVE MY REALITY. A REALITY THAT’S UNDER HYPERSURVILLENCE. 

I’M TIRED OF HYPERSURVILLENCE. 

MY EXPERIENCES WITH AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT MADE ME AWARE OF MY OVERALL STANDING IN SOCIETY. AT SIX YEARS-OLD I WAS RACIALLY PROFILED AND HANDCUFFED BECAUSE A POLICE OFFICER MISTOOK ME FOR A DRUG DEALER. AT EIGHT YEARS-OLD I SAW MY BROTHER GET SLAMMED ON TOP OF A POLICE CAR BY AN AGGRESSIVE OFFICER. 

I’M TIRED OF POLICE BRUTALITY. 

AMERICA LIED TO MY PARENTS WITH THEIR PROMISE OF AN “AMERICAN DREAM.” THERE’S NO LAND OF THE FREE WHEN YOU AREN’T THE SHADE OF CHALK.

THE INTERNET ISN’T A LAND, THOUGH, IT’S A LANDSCAPE. A DIGITAL WORLD. AND WEB3 IS THE FUTURE. 

PAY MY REPARATIONS IN ETH. 

("PTSD" IS A PART OF AN ONGOING SERIES EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF HYPERSURVEILLANCE ON THE BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS)

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PTSD [demo]

Teen Daze

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

About Still Wandering: A quick moment to catch your breath before the final two songs on the record. This song is another example of blending together ideas from three or four other demos, and collaging together whatever this is. It has this vaporwave, looped sample feel to it. Perfect for the rainy, neon world of this record.

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Still Wandering

Jamee Cornelia

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Testimony

Two Fingers

the first collaboration between muadeep & two fingers

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