yet another beat tape, slightly more polished and structured beats this time around. occasional bits of live instrumentation crop up too, almost some throwback Fin trip hop vibes as well.
released July 20, 2023.
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the debut for the Jaew project. genreless, lush, maximal, melancholy, glitchy, ethereal, hazy IDM, with flashes of house, lofi, folk, classical, and everything else.
released June 30, 2023.
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another lofi beat tape following in the style of "hermit". produced from around June to September 2022, and mixed live to cassette on September 14th, 2022.
released November 4, 2022.
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the sequel to 2021's Mind's Eye Megamixxx, which was rereleased on this release. a Halloween themed DJ mix / mashup / plunderphonic album of Memphis rap, ghettotech, dark ambient, and more.
released October 31, 2022.
sample heavy funky house and nu disco.
released June 10, 2022.
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a beat tape of raw, hazy, dreamy, and glitchy lofi beats. i was playing a lot of Yume Nikki at the time, i think that's reflected in the sound.
released April 15, 2022.
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piece two of Form Constant.
released April 9, 2022.
a short collection of lost vaporwave tracks inspired by dead malls. all songs are live takes, dubbed in the summer of 2019.
released March 21, 2022.
(archived)
piece one of Form Constant, an unfinished series of footwork EPs.
released March 9, 2022.
a beat tape of swampy, muggy, and glitchy beats, collecting beats made prior to and following the release of "sun fangs, vol. 1", and loosies i made for Soundcloud.
released March 4, 2022.
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mini LP of dark, gothic cloud trap bangers, with plunderphonic sampling and slight IDM influence.
released February 10, 2022.
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the debut Elm Maxell full length. a journey across myriad instrumental hip hop styles, from lofi, to trip hop, to wonky, and more. featuring the vocal talents of Lord Ra, Benny Troung, and Ezra, the Remote Viewer.
released February 6, 2022.
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a collection of mostly bootleg remixes and flips. the title speaks for itself.
released December 20, 2021.
the swan song of the Fin project. ambient downtempo beats from the months following Näherin, with emphasis on repetition and warmth. released via Kicker Records, a sublabel of Hip Dozer. the track "circles & triangles" made its way into Spotify's editoral lofi playlist, garnering close to one million streams.
released November 30, 2021.
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clicky microhouse beats informed by old school clicks and cuts.
i went in trying to emulate stuff like Farben, Neina, and Marc Leclair, but past the first track, it came out way more poppy and melodic. a weird mix of clicks and cuts and indietronica? i like this one a lot, especially the last track. probably will remaster it soonish.
released July 9, 2021.
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the last in the trilogy of Fin outtakes and loosies. scratchy beats from around December 2018 to November 2020, mostly made with hardware and tapes.
a lot of samples and ideas ended up reused in Näherin. for the nerds, everything but tracks 7 and 8 (which were Ableton and an MPD-32) were done with an MPC-2000, an SP-303, a Microkorg, a tape deck, a Fostex 4 track, a crappy Mackie mixer, a crappy Behringer delay pedal, and a couple of toy Yamaha keyboards.
features leftovers from the December and Maze Beats sessions
released July 9, 2021.
three indie glitch/old school IDM tunes inspired by rust belt depression.
released January 24, 2021.
(archived)
the second Fin full length. the culmination of the trip hop informed Fin sound.
i went into this record trying to make the best "Fin" album i could, and i think i succeeded, which is why this was the final proper Fin full length. weird new age and jazz fusion samples, fat drum breaks, repetitve structures... yeah. the culmination of a long obsession with old school trip hop and instrumental hip hop from labels like Project Mooncircle, Mo' Wax, and Ninja Tune. a necessary album to move on from that obsession, which i'm glad i eventually got over.
released November 5, 2020.
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diving deeper into the dark trip hop sound, with a bigger focus on live instrumentation rather than samples.
released September 4, 2020.
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woodsy acoustic guitar beats.
the first project i recorded and produced after moving from Ohio to North Carolina. not my favorite thing i've ever made, but it was a good reflection of where i was at, after moving from a depressing rust belt town full of shitty people to the state i was born in, living in an old house in the middle of nowhere surrounded by really beautiful nature. tracks 1 and 6 are still pretty cute.
released September 4, 2020.
(archived)
bouncy, bubbly indie microhouse beats, with a hint of melancholy. emotionally informed by the graphic novels Our Dreams At Dusk and Bloom.
released September 4, 2020.
sunny deep house, with some broken beat influence.
released August 15, 2020.
laptop lofi beats i made during quarantine and a move from Ohio to North Carolina.
released May 12, 2020.
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the debut Kaepora Gaebora EP. equal influence from classic deep house and modern lofi house.
released February 10, 2020.
the first steps toward developing the style i'd figure out further on Näherin, heavily informed by old school downtempo and trip hop.
released January 3, 2020.
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my first serious attempts at making ambient. guitar loops straight out the Line 6 Spider IV, and some excursions into laptop drone and piano composition.
released November 18, 2019.
(archived)
the second in the trilogy of lofi beat tapes released as Fin. all MPC-2000 and SP-303, recorded to tape, and the beginnings of my misinformed crusade against programmed drums and love affair with stiff drum breaks.
released November 4, 2019.
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the first in the Fin beat tape trilogy. just some boom bap beats made in the laptop and recorded to cassette, mostly released to share where i was at musically with an old teacher.
released January 3, 2019.
my debut album, and first serious music project. laptop beats obviously informed by Dilla. the results of 14 year old me obsessing over the vinyl i could dig out of the Goodwill in Petersburg, VA, and the SP-404 my drum teacher lent me. this album was later used in almost its entirety as the basis for 5 Pc Spicy W/ A Biscuit and Lemonade by Hoodie Hilltop.
released October 17, 2018.
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