Release Day: Limited LP
Every January, a small group of really kind of weirdly interconnected people get together on a Discord server, and we make a track a day the entire month.
I look forward to it all year, and a record usually comes out. This past January was no exception, but I lost track of time and never released the record. Until today. Right here
I called it Limited for no other reason than something popped up on my screen in my car, and I took a picture of it, and it looked kind of cool because I did a really bad job of taking the picture, and there you go. Instant art.
Had an unusually large group of things that I liked this past January.
I have a little mobile, battery-powered keyboard that I’ve carried around my house for years. Had the original one, and five or six years ago, got the second-generation one. Right before I started recording this, the company Teenage Engineering released a guitar amp model for it, so having already decided I was gonna do everything on that for January 2026, I incorporated guitar and bass, and it became a guitar record.
So every song except for maybe one or two was recorded generally between six and seven in the morning. I’d sit in my chair with my guitar, kind of noodle around, come up with an idea, and then go, making it up as I went.
It’s kind of backwards, because I do the drums and guitar and then do the bass, which typically you’d have drums, then bass.
Out of all the drum machines I’ve ever had, the one on this keyboard, it’s called the OP-1 Field, is my favorite drum machine. It’s sample-based. Sounds great.
Speaking of sound, the whole record’s kind of dank sounding, and that’s how it ended up.
I have like three or four ways that I can get a lot of instrumental music done, and this one can sound better. Maybe for the next round, I’ll really concentrate on trying to get the sounds right.
But overall, having a listen through this Friday morning, I’m really happy with it. I think it’s definitely one piece of work.
There’s mistakes, but there’s not mistakes.
None of the guitars or basses are on a grid. What that means is, in modern software, you can really correct and make sure that everything is quote-unquote perfect, but I would be of the opposite opinion that it’s imperfect if you perfect it.
So, it’s as it was.
Most of it’s played live, or all of the guitar and bass and the keys are played live. There’s some sequencing in there for the keyboards, but mostly, it’s tapped out in the early morning.
Kind of one small lamp on, and that’s the way it sounds.
It was a bit of a tough January for a couple reasons, but I think some real optimism came through here.
Very happy with it. Hope you listen. Hope you like it.