check it out! https://daryldee.bandcamp.com/album/subwoofer-1 a little fruit salad of dnb/bass music tunes and ideas :>

it's bandcamp friday, so any money you spend on bandcamp goes 100% to the artists (minus a small payment processor cut 😒😒😒 we all know how that's been going lately)

but yeah, subwoofer is a collection of dnb and bass music ideas that i've been wanting to try. i hope to someday merge the punk rock and electronic stuff into something industrial, but for now this is my way of fleshing out ideas in the production space and having fun with making electronic music again. :> i am already working on SUBWOOFER 2 which i hope to be more polished and invested in committing to those ideas as songs.

the album also features https://ryangreenblue.bandcamp.com/ helping a bit on production

and don't forget to https://yellat.money/ !!! protect queer, lgbt, furry, kinky, hard-working artists who are being unjustly cut out of all sorts of online platforms! keep calling and emailing (KINDLY) to have no say in what we use our money for!

stay birdy my friends 🐦

since i'm going to try and more regularly put out songs here, i felt like i wanted to split off my drawings into their own thing, so...here! wasojaki is a brand-new account with not much on it, but i'm going to try and migrate everything over there. i'm always very particular about the people i follow on furaffinity so if you're down for music AND art then follow both, i guess. no shame if you migrate over or ignore it! i'm still just gonna be doing music-related stuff

toodles 🖤🐦

hey y'all, thanks for following me (hopefully for the music? no shame if not)

to keep it quick, i'm going to upload a lot of electronic experiments as they come out. i'm trying to make conventional dance tunes, and i'm having a lot of fun doing it!

i guess finally uploading stuff is a change to my previous uploading habits of...nothing much with the occasional pencil sketch of daryl and burnaby, but yknow. that's it's own thing.

more context about me yaay

these days i'm living in a place where i can't work on rock tunes, and i feel suffocated to take out the guitar and sing. it's not that i don't mind letting my voice be heard by my upstairs neighbours, it's just that i don't get a whole lot of continuous silence where i can record vocals and guitars in peace. it also disrupts the flow and has been killing my creative drive, so that's been kind of bust. i've mostly been waiting until i move out to somewhere more condusive to make those kinds of songs, as the library isn't quite the place for me to do songwriting either. in the meantime i've been focusing on my job, living my life, and otherwise honing more my electronic production skills.

so back to the uploads: what i've been uploading lately has mostly been about EDM. i'm trying to make good-enough sounding EDM with more conventional dance beats, just to see what i can do within that realm. my hope is to make fun tunes that could be spun at a party that tap into the nostalgia i have for old adventure games, edutainment games, silly looney tunes-type media, and things that i just think are underexplored in terms of audible and visual aesthetics. i'm talking kid pix deluxe paint 3, pajama sam, spy fox, putt putt goes to the moon, old flash games/sites for your favourite nicktoons, homestar runner, the good stuff from the good old days. my ambition tells me to make a multimedia disc release, but the practical side of myself says to start with just experimenting with sound design and go from there.

my plan is to eventually release a series of mini-albums containing the dance-y ideas i've come up with. stuff that feels more lived-in by virtue of my experience at dances, rather than the previous electronic music i was making as daryl dee where it even having a coherent bassline was kind of an accident.

since this stuff is not the rock album i was going to put out as daryl dee (that'd be "hindsight") i've been curious if i should get a new bandcamp url, or make it a daryl dee alias under the same bandcamp page? or maybe it's all going back under goodnightgirl.bandcamp.com ... but then it depends entirely on how vulgar or sexual i want to be in these songs. i'm leaning towards no, and that might be the defining reason why it sticks under goodnightgirl and not daryldee.

it feels like it's been years since I've really considered FL Studio as my go-to tool for music production, but this past week i've spent tens of hours in FL Studio for sound design. so that's been fun.

i only think this way because so much of daryldee's purpose for me was an invitation to just make art and not be anxious about the reception. not in a popularity sense, but just so i can write about PG13 or mature type subjects without feeling like i have to be cautious of what i show to my family, coworkers, et cetera. i think the longer i try to stave off writing about my sense of gender identity, sexuality, what i want on in intimate sense, the more it's going to slip into goodnightgirl's songs. it's been almost a decade since high school and i think i can bear making something that's not all-ages or even conventional for the average listener.

i still keep my two aliases, mostly because i'm attached to daryl dee as a character and the rocker-attitude in songwriting. i think having him as an alias frames the aesthetics and context of the songs in favour of their contents: rash thinking, sexual drive, cute boy, and ongoing crushes. i'm keeping that for the forseeable future. i guess it's then a question of if i'm going to write about these things in these electronic songs at all, since i've enjoyed them being either instrumental or potentially as a vehicle for the next earnest goodnight girl album.

these smaller experimental albums i want to be more or less inspired by the freeflowing format of brockhampton's saturation albums. they come as a series of results from experimentation and collaboration, including some bangers and some experiments that tie them together. more in the "it's loose but there's a distinct level of quality per-album", and knowing that the longer i spend on the process and reflect on what worked, the better the next one can be. i only anticipate making 2, but we'll see how far things go. i'm trying to cut even less than usual, and only ever re-work stuff to sound better than to give up on an idea because it's not executed the way i want to. i'm trying to make each song something appropriately danceable and with a good beat to vibe/jump around to. a lot of it has been simplifying what i'm doing to hit those dancefloor highs that come from just having a good beat and a very expressive bass sound. hence, i want to call the series of albums SUBWOOFER. cause like, it's furry bass music! of course i'm gonna call it SUBWOOFER!

i was hoping that this year i would try to make "daryl dee" a band, but i've already done a lot this year in terms of really branching out to do more. i'm gonna try performing a bit more solo first and see how that goes for my own format. but in any case i think i've found like a good set of "reasonings" as to why i'm splitting off these electronic sounds from daryl's name, even though he was responsible for them before? i dunno. i could also just embrace what's worked so well about the sound in the past on top of the new stuff, and just really not care about variety within an alias name. it's complicated, and i bet some of what i've written in this journal will turn out to be different than how i actually end up organizing my own releases.

anyways, i make promises to nobody about what i'm going to release because i'm already behind on the promises i make to myself 😎 so just sit tight, i guess. be a cool bird.

been working on a punk rock album, this is the title track to the new album "hindsight" https://daryldee.bandcamp.com/album.....ndsight-single if you buy it today, bandcamp doesn't take a cut of the fees!

rambling thought: i think there are so many amazing artists on this site, but i find i have such a specific way i like to follow artists. don't take it personally!

i like artists who don't post too much so i can infrequently check in on the site and be greeted to a handful of pictures. not feel like i have to trudge through a lot of submissions.

i like seeing occasional NSFW, but if i'm seeking NSFW i'm generally going to go searching tags or for known galleries. i keep NSFW on but i prefer if what i'm seeing in my submission feed is mostly SFW.

if furaffinity had the ability to only see NSFW entries, and not both, or just SFW, i'd definitely follow way more NSFW artists. NSFW viewing is such a different mindset for me that i find is really spoiled by seeing someone put their heart into a SFW piece that makes me think depely. the vibe has to be right for the moment. and i find i much prefer what SFW art on fa gives me more than anything.

i also love furry musicians and occasional posts to go along with SFW viewing is definitely my preferred setup. i don't think i'm really in the mood for any music with NSFW. in fact, beyond tagging actually explicit content appropriately in music, so nobody's surprised, i don't see why music and art is put into the same NSFW stream. just doesn't feel like the same context at all for "consuming" all those submissions at once.

i used to feel bad about leaving 100s of submissions behind. eventually i got through them all, eyeballing the thumbnails and deciding if i wanted to give them all a closer look or not. made me feel a bit bad, but having a clear submission feed feels so good.

i wonder, does anyone else feel this way about who they choose to follow? how they look at anything on furaffinity?

i've worked on this album for 7 years and it's finally out: https://daryldee.bandcamp.com/album.....-to-me-burnaby

it's a concept album about how love can't save you from yourself

thanks for reading 🐦🖤

It's a collection of cool instrumentals that have been brewing in my hard drive since the end of 2019 that I've been excited to share with y'all. Give it a listen!

Bandcamp: https://daryldee.bandcamp.com/album/twigs-n-things
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/daryldee/set.....twigs-n-things
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsbqWkBAeN4&list=PLjtmlwhMVUW8r1sVFIyWCeHiO5SeNIluH

Check it out! https://goodnightgirl.bandcamp.com/

It's an album made using an analog drummachine and a cool effects pedal. It's under my other music alias "Goodnight Girl" and it's the first thing I've released this year on Bandcamp.

Today I listened to 2 interesting albums.

BONEHENGE is a punk/ska comedy group about Dinosaurs.
Earlier this month they released L.A. Excavation - https://bonehengeband.bandcamp.com/.....l-a-excavation
I'm impressed by the musicianship of everyone involved, it surprised me that this group has 6 members (there's accordion in here!) all contributing fairly equally on every track. The vocalist is expressive and a bit quirky at how rough he sounds (reminds me of Bad Religion's vocalist whom I'm not a big fan of) but damn if these guys don't know how to make good use of pitch bends, awkward melodies in stuff like the instrumental bits of T-Sex, they just performed it all really well, and the recording is pretty crisp too.

The comedy bits are really silly but I'm glad that the whole album is done in this somewhat-painfully self-aware voice/feeling. (at least that's how I hear it) After having been exposed to the sound of this album long enough, I was onboard with its writing style and quick humour. I do wonder if I'll ever fall down this path with my writing style as I'm trying to stop writing about global politics in my music and turn to much more blunt, exciting, silly, sexual, gay lyrics in my own punk songs.

As good as it sounds, save a few strained/stressed notes and unresolved dissonant notes, the whole concept of this album sounds like some joke thrown together over a lot of alchohol and putting down some money on a recording studio before the alchohol wore off. Thankfully, these guys are all talented musicians, but I worry if we'll ever see another album from these guys, or if they'll branch out to make songs that are a little less about dinosaurs? I can very easily see this become a one-hit wonder band that disappears off the face of the earth after the release of this album, so that's where I'm worried. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the laughs, I just wish the writing/punky-pace could go in far different directions, sometimes.

Dragonthunder is an orchestral producer from brazil, who recently released An Exploration Tale - https://dragonthunder.bandcamp.com/.....ploration-tale

I stuck with this album the whole way through. I was impressed by a lot of the dynamics, attention to detail in melodies, and ample use of diverse percussion (timpani always gets forgotton I swear) but unfortunately I think produced orchestral music is probably my least favourite grouping of music. I've played in too many ensembles and I've been to too many live performances that I'll always find stuff like Dragonthunder's music to feel uncanny. It's pretty good, but so much of the crescendos to silence, super-loud crash cymbals, iv IV I V progressions and steady pacing makes me feel like I'm watching a trailer for a well-produced movie. Y'know, it's good! And cliches/tropes aren't always supposed to be bad things, they're familiar landing points for listeners, but it really does not resonate well with me. I gave their bandcamp a follow regardless because I'm interested to see what else they may come out with, as I saw "metal" as one of the chosen artist tags on their bandcamp page, and I wonder how they'll possibly incorporate those elements into orchestral music like this, if at all.

That's all I've got for today, these listening review/critiques are not really intended for a larger audience, they're mostly to help remind myself of certain albums that I take my time to listen to, in hopes of finding the next Ashley Ninelives or Tenkitsune or something. Thanks for reading if you made it this far!