Rebound: Initial by Brady Matteson
Another dive into the vaults, this time digging up some the tracks I can still listen to off of an early collection of demos I titled Rebound.
I wrote most of these on a shitty Casio keyboard I took home with me from my father's old rehearsal space (don't know where it is). The speakers were blown out, some keys didn't work, many of the preset synth sounds that came with it were godawful. I was working with literally just that on the entire project, but it disciplined me to get better at playing keys and introduced me to the world of messing with synths, no matter how shitty they are. The following weeks I just dove into trying to write anything at all to see where my heart lies as a songwriter. The result is... well, not great! I would record off an old first-gen iPad and every song was the same length because I literally didn't know you could extend your recording time in GarageBand. I knew nothing about how to record anything and would just wing it in the first or second take, accuracy or skill be damned.
There's moments of cool ideas and I like the lo-fi vibes of it but it is very amateurish, which is why I'm charging a dollar for it. I think it's a very interesting peek into the VERY earliest recordings I've ever made that can be described as "ambient," this is stuff I literally wrote as a NIN-obsessed teenager. I don't know, it's not bad, not good, just an interesting little stash of songs I wanted to show my progress as an artist with.
Anyhoo. Love.
