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🎶 Not your usual chill music. Not your usual electronic music, either.
My new album, Let’s Synthwave & Chill is something else. It’s chillstep at heart, with uplifting nostalgic synths and cinematic orchestral moments — but there’s more.
Music usually takes us away, to elsewhere. But this album's about being here, right where we are, and embracing the present. Music that’s pleasant, easy, and effortless to listen to. No words. All instrumentals. Just sound that carries you where you're at.
Even if you don’t usually listen to this kind of music, trust me — you might be surprised how much you like it.
▶️ It's free, hit play now and see where it takes you.
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CONTENT CREATORS:
Need music for your podcast/film/stream? All my music is NO-COPYRIGHT-STRIKE. (non-profits, personal projects, and non-commercial purposes.) Just you gotta read the legally binding music license agreements in my dropbox folder where all my mp3s are, I'm trusting y'all here, pls don't be that person that ruins it for everybody: https://tinyurl.com/303-nocopyright
MY RE-EVOLUTION / AI REVOLUTION
I've been writing music for 30+ years. But writing music with an AI assistant for the last half year.
I was never able to release an original song every week before. Even releasing a *remix* every week was pushing my creative limits 10 years ago. But since 6 months ago, week after week, without cool-off periods, with minimal burnout. I work 40+ hours/week on creating music so there are far too many boring details that I won't bore you with. Here are the highlights.
Namely, I get to stay *focused* on being a creative musical director and emotional human feeling part of what would otherwise require 1) many work-for-hire musicians; or 2) many years of solo work; or (most likely) 3) I'd never even start nor believe I could get it done.
I used to get stuck on unnecessarily trivial mundane tasks of music-making. Not just like re-recording until the perfect take, but areas that are just technology holding us back, like software updates causing entire projects to break but now ChatGPT helps me trouble-shoot everything so I'm not longer daunted, chatGPT now helps me learn new software on the fly so it's pleasant and not absolutely maddening. When there is Writer's Block, I can describe exactly what I'm going for with very specific detail because sometimes its very hard to sculpt sounds even though you know exactly what it sounds like in your head, "between main melody riffs add happy squarewave taps as pentatonic crossrhymic 16th notes. softening echoing tape delay fx." At this point, the musicianship is, however, more like a DJ having to select between 100 vinyls, but even finer control by influencing how the vinyls sound by tweaking that prompt dynamically. It's a really magical experience, it's absolutely revolutional and it is absolutely a completely new artform that will have a lot of haters for a while. (But remember when we used to say DJ's weren't 'real' musicians? LOL. Now like the highest paid musicians wearing diapers on stage, oceans of adoring fans, jumping in unison, hands high, chanting their names. We've come a long way, baby. 🤣) Alright, I hope I've made some sense here.
Let's Synthwave & Chill captures me at one of my best points of who I've always dreamed to be as instrumental musician, as unity303. I really appreciate you taking the time to read this. Thanks for checking this all out.
🎧 My Mashups and Remixes (40+ Tracks)
Wow, it's insane looking back a discography spanning 25 years remixes, spanning so many EDM genres.
I began remixing back in the 2000s. I placed in college remix competitions with labels like Sony Music. Computers just were starting to get powerful enough to run multiple software synthesizers and vocoders. We used to have to get ridiculously lucky to find clean Acapella Vocals, until the late 2010's, when iZotope came out with the ultimate gamechanger: Vocal Stem Isolation. 0-Day-Acapellas! (Now in 2024, all the new DAW's do this now and we're all spoiled rotten, lol) But back then, every #NewMusicFriday, I'd listen to Spotify for the best song I'd never heard, and try to remix it. If I was lucky, I'd might have a release on the same day a song was officially radio released. (This is how I found Morgan Wallen and started mashing up Country with Chillstep, for example) Such magical days.
🎧 My Originals: #NewMusicMonday (28+ Songs)
Once my marriage fell apart, and once I started to finally break out of the complete denial that it was even actually happening and start to face it, I started to be able to write about everything about the ways I felt.
Writing about this unparalleled devastational gutwrenching heartache was something I had started doing back in high school. I always though it was a pretty miraculous thing to be able to re-channel feelings of this kind of ugly/hurtful/painful/betraying/shameful into something that is somehow really pretty. Having grown up with trauma and so much denial and shame, I was in a place of unprocessed pain about things, and having no other means to process things, music was my safe haven, my rock, my sanctuary. And I'm still there now, I'm still processing, I'm still being deeply comforted by music.
The music I've been working on gives me a way to look at all the difficult dreams that have not come true that have not come true, that have been way to hard to face without totally just breaking down. They're a more familiar way of journaling to me, than actual journaling, and they offer me healing that I'm more familiar with. The remixing was fun, that nourished me creatively, but the lyric-writing, that gave me detail to the emotions with surgical precision and access to events. And with like the safety of the music comes this compassionate setting for me. Kind of like a swaddling of the child self that never fully got that? So now it was giving myself this safe haven to have real, authentic, difficult feelings to write about and be so deeply connected to this river of water that kept falling from the sky.
Youtube is cool and I enjoyed making lyrics videos but it does take a lot of time. And I'm not very good at using the Youtube (video) platform to access the fanbase of Synthwave-heads who loooove synthwave who are dying to listen to the kind of music I'm releasing, so I decided to move back over to Soundcloud (where I *have* been getting a lot of good success connecting with fans. And with the release of Synthwave&Chill, I've started to reshift concentration back to Soundcloud (where you know, people are looking for music, not videos to watch), and will probably update Youtube once a month (4-at-a-time). And will be updating Soundcloud regularly.
Thank you for reading. I don't often share so vulnerably like this on such a public space, so I am really am putting myself out here and putting myself at risk revealing myself as a target. I may take this down if this gets too much of the wrong kind of attention. I appreciate you taking special care of what I'm sharing with you.
Bit so far, this has been such a wonderful journey of healing and coming back to me. Thanks so much for baring witness to this voyage. I would love to hear from you. Reach out, email, fanmail, hatemail, whatever works. You probably have my email but if not, there's a general mailbox at contactthomas@unity303.com