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Ditchfield Plus
A few months ago I spent a week in Ditchfield UK producing a friends album. We stayed in an ancient blacksmiths cottage, surrounded by layers and layers of Historical Sediment. Old beams, the stone garden wall, a sainsburys bag, bookshelves with faded penguin paperbacks...like a geological cocoon of Britishness. If i'm being honest, this was the first time I've really enjoyed being in the ...
TURF CLUB LIVE ALONE AND COLD
Hello hello from the frozen shore of Lake Eerie in the pre-holiday deep freeze. It's soup day. I'm making soup. Today it's Borscht. The yard is blanketed w snow and three different species of squirrel are waging a constant, baffling war for territory or maybe just digging up each others food stashes, squeaking and tearing across the powerlines and fences. None of my business really! I&...
Back From UK
I cracked the code on having a nice time in Britain. The trick is simple: stay in a small town in the countryside, spend some time outside and have a fire every night. Easy. Also helps if you're making a great record with your friends. Bonus if one of your friends makes delicious Kurdish food. I've got a wintery soundscape diary cooking up to share with everyone in the next few days and a ...
AMA TIME
Hello and Greetings Friends! Asked and Answered plus some commentary on NYC elections and what I'm cooking up next year. 🎃👻🎃✌️ Halloween Is All Month LongDB
SOUND KAPITAL AMA
Ask me anything in the comments! Video up in a few days 🖤
SOUND KAPITAL: NO FEELING
Here it is gang, the last song on the album, last notes the band would record. Discussed: breakin up, the limits of touring as a sustainable lifestyle, NOISE, regrets/no regrets.At the end I get into some personal news and where I want to take this next. I'd like to finish the series with an AMA so ASK QUESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS. Moving forward I'd like to do this with another album: Plague...
Summer Of The Pig
Years of Lard, Years of Lead Paint, BurgerReich, Years of Whatever continue apace. As I write this there are two confirmed ex-Iraq war vet shootings in the space of 24 hours. One in North Carolina by a man who was diagnosed w schizophrenia after being shot in the head in Iraq during a "friendly fire incident". He spent the last decade suing the VA and self publishing a book that described ...
SOUND KAPITAL: CHEAP MUSIC
The most "ROCK" song on the album, an ode to doing it low cost. Discussed: thee Olde Jamme Space, rocking, FM drum crunch, the endless workflow labyrinth of DAWs , the limits of the human voice and the 4 track tape machine.Music: 4 hour NES 8-bit Mix Hope everyone is good. I'm headed to Palm Springs for ONE day and then I'll be back rounding up the album series with No Feelings and...
Atlas Systemic: The 9/10 Tapes
Found something on the internet...https://archive.org/details/atlas-systematic-warfield-91001
CLE EP 1
In between writing songs I've been working a lot on NOISE and SOUND COLLAGE for soundtracks lately. It's been nice to flip from wailing on the guitar and howling to quieter, meditative work. I've been recording the sounds of my new neighborhood, walking around looking - i'm sure - like a maniac trying capture the late summer ambience here by the Lake. Listening to these "non mu...
SOUND KAPITAL: REPATRIATED
The latest episode of our ongoing series on Sound Kapital. Discussed: ghost cities, EBM basslines, the 909, media bias, factory work, alternate futures. There's some light barking due to the arrival of the hated mailman. I mention starting a series of shorter episodes covering our contemporary Years of Lead situation. Lmk if anyone would enjoy this....Recommendations:Fanshen: Documentary of R...
Sound Kapital Returns
Hey folks! After a wedding in rural Quebec and a terrible sinus head cold thing I’ll be back tomorrow with more Sound Kapital breakdown and a little EP of dark ambient NOISE to usher in Fall aka Spooky Season aka time to play The Mash. Hope everyone is doing good and getting their sweaters outXO DB
SOUND KAPITAL: WHAT ABOUT US
Have and Have Nots, class consciousness in Mile End 02-09, weird reverbs, making one thing out of two things, real estate in Cowichan Lake, The GrokeIntro clip is from a govt film about the dust bowlBackground music: Italo megamixFurther reading: Savage and tender book by (Wolf Parade fan!) Brian Goldstone "There Is No Place For US". Examines the lives of Americans pushed into homelessness...
Back From The Lake
If you follow me on Instagram, you might know that I've been at the Lake. A Great Lake. Lake Michigan. 10/10 Lake, I had no idea you could get an Ocean Experience this far inland. Did I get horribly sunburnt? Yes. Did I see a mushroom colony the size of a medicine ball? Yes. Anyway! I'm back, I'll have the What About Us episode up tomorrow and a few more things before we roll into Sept...
Sound Kapital: Audio Only
Hello! Someone (Derek) suggested I upload audio of all the SK episodes so...I did it! Audio is attached to each ep as an attachment! XO DB
SOUND KAPITAL: Serve The People
Here it is...the longest one yet. Topics discussed: the PLA, risky touring, the limits of change, civil war, bass, dancehall, friendship.Hope everyone is doing well. I'm back up and running with a new almost fully operational studio. Cleveland...what can I say? What a town. Been doing a lot of yardwork and grilling. Should have another one of these up soon and some new music as well.2007 foota...
Searching For You
More demos from the new one. Shaping up to be a spooky guitar album.
Landed In Cleveland
Made it. Moved in. I’m gonna take a few days to set up and then it’s back to the video series. New song tomorrow. Tim, I owe you a reply! Hope everyone’s doing good. Can’t wait to wail on guitar in the garage XO DB
SOUND KAPITAL: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
It's HOT. My brain is COOKED. Here's a rambling one about Memory and Memories.Discussed: Stephen King, chillwave, Kids (MGMT), Herrenvolk 50s, the Tyranny of the Boomer Memory Machine, BASS, Graggle Simpson (REMEMBER HIM)Music: an AWFUL AI generated greatest hits of the 60s video i found on youtube, slowed down and run through an old tape deck
SOUND KAPITAL: BURY ME STANDING
Part 5 of our ongoing series. Discussed: Cleveland, pulse width modulation, Pizza Hut in Bucharest, A Brief History of Romania, rich peoples children don't want to work anymore, "the Lusty Gypsy", keepin on keepin on.The intro is from the film Latcho Drom. The song details the many many crimes of Nikolai Ceaucescu. The background music is from the incomparable Taraf De Haidouks
SOUND KAPITAL: DAMAGE
Part 4 of the ongoing series. The first bit covers how we wrote and recorded the song, the second (LONG) part goes into American Force Projection, imperialism, "red tagging" and How To Wreck A Country With One Simple Trick. I think this is the most thematically heavy episode of the series. Also: I am interrupted by a lawnmower. I promise they wont be all this Serious.ALSO: I've got TWO...
SOUND KAPITAL: WHEN I GET BACK
Song number one! Sidechaining, jet lag, Ubisoft, I realize I was depressed when I wrote this song. *additional music: Flowers of Evil SoundSong number one! Sidechaining, jet lag, Ubisoft, I realize I was depressed when I wrote this song.*additional music: Flowers of Evil Soundtrack by Susan CianiXO
SOUND KAPITAL: GEAR
Here it is. 40 minutes on GEAR (and the recording process). Don't say you weren't warned! Bonus soundtrack of every single demo preset on thHere it is. 40 minutes on GEAR (and the recording process). Don't say you weren't warned! Bonus soundtrack of every single demo preset on the Korg Electribe EMX1. Happy Sunday ❤️
SOUND KAPITAL INTRO
Here we go! Episode 1 of 10 is up. It's long! Episode 2 (GEAR) will be up on Monday. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend...
Video Series 1
Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of Wolf Parade's EXPO 86. Maria C (who some of you know), encouraged me to do a few videos breaking down a handful of songs on the album. I've been gunshy about front facing video on socials. Maybe from podcasting for 5 years? Maybe from associating that format with psychos bellowing at their cameras as they sit in a Tim Hortons parking lot in Peterboroug...
Jaguar Demo
Hello friends! Here's an inside look on some writing I've been doing for the next solo album. It seems like I'm making a spooky ROCK album. I don't really plan these things, they just sort of happen and the universe is bending me towards BASS DRUMS GUITAR. I've been experimenting with a bunch of different tunings and really enjoying just shredding. The mighty Sam Brown is on ...
ROCK THE MACHINE
Here's a rough mix of a song I recorded with Sam in advance of the upcoming Irish tour. I love this song...one of my favorite contemporary "folk" tunes...originally written and recorded by Lisa O'Neil back in 2018...lyrics hit even harder here in 2025. More in the next week...have been writing and recording a lot since I got back from the Wolf Parade tour. AND! As always...anyone ...
Basement Mindset
Testing out the new Columbus Basement Studio HQ with a new version of a song I've been working on for a while. Bass, drums (courtesy Sam), guitar. Back 2 Basics. Hope everyone is doing good. Excited to share more basement jams ❤️
Olde Christmas
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Halloween Spooktacular MEGA MIX 2
GREETINGS GHOULS. For your consideration: a bubbling cauldron of GRAVEST hits and sinister jams for this blessed Halloween. Tracklist posting tomorrow...enjoy.......(Post pumpkins in comments)🎃☠️👻👹🎃 Dan Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-eckner
