HOUNDTRACK

A frantic sprint for survival across an extraterrestrial hellscape.

With this song I wanted to experiment with darker sounds, drawing on influences from UK garage as well as experimental bass music. At this point in my career I was obsessed with putting fills in every little space, so expect to hear lots of sound design-centric madness. 

This is the ninth song on my album Last Chance At Life. Each song is part of a larger story in which three friends leave a ravaged Earth behind in search of a new planet. 

On 'Havoc' the crew flings themselves past burning rocks to make their way to a garden. The hope is that the plants found in the garden can provide them with precious carbon to power their battery packs. Time is of the essence -- their survival hinges upon whatever happens next. 

To read the full story, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album has its own artwork created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering.

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Last Chance At Life

Havoc

An escape from death on a foreign planet while running through a collapsing cave. 

Blueout and I met on Discord and bonded over a shared love for granular synthesis and fucked up sound design. He's an Italy-based producer and I live in California so our collaboration was fully internet-driven. We sent each other the Ableton project back and forth, mangling each other's additions and sharing new sonic experiments along the way. 

This is the seventh song on my album Last Chance At Life. Each song is part of a larger story in which three friends leave a ravaged Earth behind in search of a new planet. 

On 'Recharged' the crew runs through a cave they're exploring, dodging stalactites that fall from above. Soon the cave’s walls began collapsing around them and they must sprint for their survival. 

To read the full story, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album has its own artwork created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering.

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Recharged (feat. Blueout)

A sonic walk through a cave on an unfamiliar planet. 

I wrote this song having been inspired by experimental bass musicians like Tsuruda and Thook. In particular, I love how both artists use a combination of space, simplicity, and distortion in their instrumental storytelling. I also find beauty in sharply contrasted sections of melodic vs. atonal elements. Add in some dub vocal samples and we're in business. 

You'll find the first half to be a more sparse stroll, whereas the second half has a rushed timewarp feel. 

This is the sixth song on my album Last Chance At Life. Each song is part of a larger story in which three friends leave a ravaged Earth behind in search of a new planet. 

On 'Requiem' one of the members of the crew, Omar, stumbles across the remains of his grandfather while exploring through a cave. Omar's grandfather had mysteriously vanished years before after claiming to have discovered a new planet. 

No one in his family had ever really believed in his mission besides Omar, so the discovery of his bones was both redeeming and heart-wrenching. 

To read the full story, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album has its own artwork created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering.

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Requiem

From the moment Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque met in 1907 during a studio visit, the two became fast friends. Over the next 7 years they experimented with new painting techniques, resulting in the formation of the Cubist movement. Braque is quoted as saying, “We were like mountain-climbers roped together.” They worked closely together to push the other's boundaries and create a bold new artistic vision. 

B-Dos and I met on Discord in 2018 and quickly fell into chatting everyday, sharing demo ideas, tampering with Ableton, and making memes. A digital Braque meets Picasso. 

B-Dos's sound design is a force to reckon with. I remember the first time I heard his song 'Goodbye' it felt like my mind was a scratched CD skipping around inside the Walkman of my consciousness. He does unspeakable things to synthesizers with every release, each time helping take electronic music to terrifying new heights. 

For 'Frontier' we worked together to make a genre-bender, equal parts music and exploration. I don't think I could re-make half of the sounds in this song again if I spent the rest of my life on it. This release landed us on Spotify's 'Creamy' playlist alongside other electronic music experimenters. 

This is the fifth song on my album Last Chance At Life. Each song is part of a larger story in which three friends leave a ravaged Earth behind in search of a new planet. 

On 'Frontier' the crew ventures through caves on their new planet in search of carbon-based materials to sustain their future. To read the full story, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album has its own artwork created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering.

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Frontier (feat. B-Dos)

One of my favorite things to do is resample old songs I've made and turn them into something new. For Uncharted, I took my old track 'Silent Petals' and threw it in my custom granulator in Ableton. I mangled it like crazy, then picked out my favorite fragments --  a patchwork quilt of music. 

What resulted was something that reminded me of a Clams Casino type piece. Clams was one of the producers who first inspired me to get in the music game back when I was in college. His mysterious sound unlocked an urge inside me to explore the unknown. 

This is the fourth song on my album Last Chance At Life. Each song is part of a larger story in which three friends leave a ravaged Earth behind in search of a new planet. 

On 'Uncharted' our heroes land on their new planet after years of preparation. Listen as they depart their ship and step foot on the uncharted terrain. To read the full story, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album has its own artwork created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering.

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Uncharted

Further trials in meshing experimental electronic elements with a more classic dance music sound.

The first half of this song is my attempt at fusing the sounds of two of my favorite producers, Thook and Flume. It's got Thook's telltale growl with Flume's metallic synths. 

The second half goes into more uncharted territory with my own sound design techniques. Most of the sounds in that chorus are manipulated samples of my vocals. I like to pitch the vocals up, then mangle with them in a custom granular synthesizer I made called the 'Granuhounder.' 

Most mornings I start off by drinking a cup of coffee and messing with the Granuhounder. I'll record myself tweaking the parameters for about 30 minutes, then go back and pick out my favorite parts which become the foundation for the song. 

This is the third song on my album Last Chance At Life. Each song is part of a larger story in which three friends leave a ravaged Earth behind in search of a new planet. 

On 'Weightless' the crew finds themselves floating in their homemade space craft through an asteroid field. To read the full story, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album has its own artwork created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering.

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Weightless

During the first year of the pandemic I drove myself absolutely insane experimenting with new sounds and production techniques. My two main areas of interest, granular synthesis and stereo field manipulation, are on display here. 

Around the halfway point of the song you'll hear my vocals come in. This was an intensely creative period of my life -- if you had lived near me you would've likely seen me twirling around my apartment by myself shirtless as I clutched the microphone. By the end of the song you'll hear my makeshift choir made by layering about 5 recordings of myself singing a triumphant tune. 

This is the second song on my album Last Chance At Life. Each song is part of a larger story in which three friends leave a ravaged Earth behind in search of a new planet. After building a rocket ship out of old car parts found in a junkyard (which can be seen on the song's artwork), our heroes successfully launch their homemade ship into space. This song depicts that triumph. To read the full story, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album has its own artwork created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering.

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Hyperspace

When I started making this song, I could feel memories from my childhood seeping out. In my mind I was playing around the street I grew up on. The street is a “cul de sac” in Santa Barbara, CA, a type of street with no outlet – just a little road with houses lining it and a circle at the end for cars to turn around. 

My brother, friends, and I would skateboard, scooter, and ride bikes up and down the street. We had lemonade stands at the bottom of it and each year at Halloween hundreds of kids would come up to trick-or-treat. 

I was lucky enough to be able to finish working on this song back in my childhood home on that cul de sac. Take a moment to reflect on some of the simpler times as you listen. 

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Cul de Sac

After hearing Flume's 'Hi This Is Flume' mixtape I felt a huge rush of inspiration which led me deep down the granular synthesis rabbit hole. Scorched Earth is a result of that experimentation. 

A few other musicians inspired this song like Blake Skowron and his textural sound design, Tek Genesis's aggression and genre-bending, and the comforting vibes of Laxcity (which you'll hear after the first drop). 

Scorched Earth is track 1 from my 10 song concept album Last Chance At Life.

Each song on the Last Chance At Life album is coupled with its own piece of 3D art created by Leonardo Silva (@itwasleo on socials) and mastered by Lukas Turza of Snap Mastering. 

My manager, Steve, and I also wrote a story to pair with the album. To read it, go here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

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Scorched Earth

'Homesick' was inspired by my first year off at college during which I was incredibly lonely. 

I felt quite isolated for a variety of reasons; too much weed smoking, my girlfriend at the time living 100 miles away, and my resistance to making new friends. 

I missed my home, my family, and my way of life. 

Luckily things are better now but I still reflect on those times quite often.

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Nostalgialways

Homesick

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Last Chance At Life is my 10 song concept album produced during a flurry of creative energy in lockdown. 

Earth is being ravaged by humans' destruction. Dystopian distress compels a ragtag crew of a biochemist, an aerospace engineer, and an artist to launch into space in search of a new planet to sustain human life.

You can read the full story here: https://www.houndtrack.com/last-chance-at-life

songs that live in my head rent-free

blake skowron

wrote this track with harris after a few sessions together. 

'rare' was first uploaded on august 7, 2018.

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Rare (feat. Harris Cole)

Kiefer

*First-ever Kiefer NFT
*Cover art by Chris Hund

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Kickinit Alone

Most Beautiful Grl

Three Oscillators

A soundtrack to your dreams. Sit back, relax and get some sleep <3

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Is This A Dream?

camoufly

"Pristine sampling and vocal chopping are among camoufly’s strengths, and the execution in ‘Told U So’ is further proof." – Steph Contant, FUXWITHIT

Say I told u so.

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