I've been obsessed with this song since it came out. Masterfully written...beautifully produced...perfect performance from FKA twigs... I feel like it's this generation's "Nothing Compares 2 U". Had to cover it immediately.
You can download it here with the usual login: http://www.suturesound.com/daily/good-to-love.zip
Enjoy! Hoping to be able to update you soon on what I'm up t...
2016-02-23 01:42:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Here are the videos I've put up since my last post here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopZI_911CE
I made a beat from some really mundane beginnings before doing more work on the grocery store commercial and then going out for beers with some good friends.
Well, it's been an eventful week.
I started in LA, though I quickly ended up in Chicago to work on a restaurant commercial I'm doing the music for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAcxROXa7ns
Around Chicago, and in my hotel, I shot a music video for one of my favorite songs from Pintxos
...
Hey everyone! A third week of daily videos - yesss.
Here's the rundown:
Lizards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU5idr0TTc8
A viewer sent me some awesome lizard sounds, I made some awesome lizard beats.
Once More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUCKeMNv...
2016-02-03 12:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Can't believe we've started the third week of daily videos! Hope you've been enjoying them. For me the highlight from this past week was finally getting the music video for "Never Look Back" done.
If you haven't caught up yet here's what came out:
Song Challenge: Air Conditioner
In which we explore how a constant drone of noise actually contains a lot of musical information.
Hey everyone! Week 1 of daily videos is done! 'Damian', embedded here, is probably my favorite of all the pieces, but I'll link the ones I haven't yet posted to Patreon here for you to check out:
This GoPro takes a beating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzU_UqPWcYQ
In which I find the rhythm for a wonky track in a unique way.
Shaker Shootout...
2016-01-21 02:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A song from a dream and a special connection with Bowie.
You can download "To Stardust" at http://www.suturesound.com/daily/ using the login info provided in yesterday's post.
Thanks for everyone who sent some feedback about the daily videos. I've decided I won't post everything here, just particularly special ones. I will also post a weekly roundup, and that will be the only thing that I charg...
2016-01-14 22:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
I've decided to start posting videos DAILY, as I've been really excited about a lot of music I want to get out there, and doing a lot of thinking about what YouTube means to me. I want to play with a format that lets me share music more often, as well as more of my life and the behind the scenes of what it's like to be creating music non-stop.
I haven't figured out what this will mean for Patreon yet. I will still post the occasional straight up music video...
2016-01-14 03:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It's back again this year, with all new artists! (Sorry, Taylor Swift!)
Hope you enjoy the medley. I'm going to have a late night release-day chat (for us Eastern Time Zone people anyway) - 11pm tonight. I'll send out the link to $5+ patrons when we're live.
I've created 3 pieces of music based around Star Wars!
Watch the first two challenges here, and check out the music video for a Star Wars rap I did with NoneLikeJoshua here.
I'm actually not completely finished making the light saber track, so I'll send a message with downloads of all of this music in the next f...
2015-12-17 22:30:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back with more Bach! This time, played using only underwear. Yep.
Hope you enjoy the video. Would love if you would share this one...I'm weirdly proud of having done such a weird thing.
Click here if you want to download the music.
Release-day chat will be happening at 10PM EST - link coming to $5+ patrons in a bit.
Thanks for supporting and I will talk to you again...
2015-12-08 02:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you are probably familiar with Bach's "Air on the G String" - one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, which I've now covered using that ubiquitous air horn sound effect. Hope you enjoy!
Featuring the inimitable Berkeley Pickell as Bach.
I'...
Hi!
I never do Double On Genre as regularly as I want, in part because I like fitting the songs onto albums. (If you haven't downloaded the EP this is from yet, by the way, voila. On it I'm combining trap with various other influences and I'm pretty excited about the results.)
For $5+ patrons I'll be having release-day chat at 8:30PM EST today - you'll get the link when we're live...
2015-11-23 23:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Decided to make this a free post as it's a shorter video, but I hope it gets you in the holiday spirit! I composed a little piece using bells, and accompanied it with the sounds of gift wrapping.
Also definitely take the opportunity to enter to win a pair of really nice headphones! Just share this video on Facebook or Twitter with the hashtag #giftofsound and tag Sony Canada. (@sony_canada)
Hey everyone,
New EP for you!
This was a collaboration with my friend Brent - we actually produced most of the material here a few years ago but only recently attended to the final details. Genre-wise it's a blend of all our favorite parts of rock, hip-hop, and electronic music.
We'll be releasing this for free next week but I wanted to send you guys an early copy now!
Couldn't help it.
Download attached!
2015-11-06 00:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Here's my attempt at incorporating every movie title from the James Bond series into a rap verse. Hope you enjoy!
You can download the mp3 here. This is from an upcoming hip-hop album I'm working on called Pintxos, so look forward to that.
xo
Andrew
2015-11-01 17:26:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! Rob Scallon is staying with me right now, and I guested on his channel playing double bass on this spooky choose-your-own-adventure video!
This isn't a paid post, just hope you enjoy it for Halloween. :)
Download the music here.
Hey everyone - you're getting this video a day early!
As it says in the video description, I wrote "We Are One" a few years ago, at a time when my news feed seemed filled with tragic stories of suicides, shootings, bullying, racism, sexual assault... I hoped that I could say something to encourage anyone who had been hurt by someone else, to let people know that it is GOOD to be themselves, and celebrate both the diversity and oneness of humankind at the same time.
This song wa...
2015-10-28 01:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
I think I've just released my best clone video yet - watch five of me play a song about road tripping from the inside of a car! (Using a few sounds from the car too!)
The track is an exclusive download for you here.
Hope you enjoy! And I will actually be back with another new song and video later this week. :)
2015-10-26 16:48:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Here's a cover of my favorite Backstreet Boys song, a lil throwback for Halloween this year. This is from my upcoming EP "★★★★★" which I'll be sending you an early copy of in the next few days.
Unfortunately it's crazy busy around here with Buffer Festival coming up this weekend so I can't do a release-day chat but I'll schedule a makeup one soon!
Hope you enjoy, and thanks as always for your support.
-A
2015-10-23 03:48:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
I have a new song and video out today called "$" (pronounced "money") from an EP I hope to put out this month called ★★★★★ (pronounced "five stars").
The song tackles a lot of the tension in the relationship between art and money, and the music video is a big shiny glitch fest. Hope you dig.
I covered one of my favorite Harry and the Potters songs for an upcoming compilation celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Harry Potter Alliance. Hope you dig!
Download here.
Hey everyone,
Thought I'd share a rough copy of a song I've had kicking around for a couple years that I'm finally getting ready for release.
I'm looking for people to be in the music video, so if you or anyone you know are interested and will be in Toronto on October 13, please send me a message! We're just going to be filming simple, short "video portraits" of people from all walks of life, so you wouldn't have to do much more than look into the camera for a moment. This...
"Nothing Was Your Fault" from Cosmos started with a simple drum beat (which it still opens with, in exactly the same form it had when I first put it down). As I started to play with adding chords though I gave myself the challenge of trying to come up with more unusual progressions. This led to a lot of modulation and eventually the decision that it should never rest in one key for more than three chords in a row. There was a lot of back and forth between coming up with the melodies ...
2015-09-23 21:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post
A video from the freshly released Cosmos album!
These were a couple of favorite verses I'd ever done even as I was writing it. I started the beat almost two years ago, while I was volunteering in Hawaii and getting into steel drum music. (Fun fact: The steel drum sample is from a high school band covering Jason Mraz.)
I filmed the video in Los Angeles at this wild photographer street crawl that some friends invited me to. But Some of the overlay effects are actually f...
2015-09-16 20:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Cosmos will be coming your way in a day or two. I'm having a last-minute debate about this one synth part in a song and once I settle on that it's all good to go. In the meantime though I've put up one of my favorite cuts on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/andrewismusic/shadow-1
Hope it gets you excited for this album. Sonically I th...
2015-09-12 08:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! I've been on a bit of a break from posting videos since Can't Feel My Face - I'm wrapping up my new album Cosmos which you should have in a few days!
In the meantime, thought I would share my latest blog post here, as I talk about what studio tools are essential to me and I know a lot of you are music makers yourselves: http://andrewismusic.com/blog/2015/9/7/home-st...
The Weeknd has been one of my favorite new artists of the last few years and I'm glad I finally found an interesting way to cover him. "Can't Feel My Face" is an awesome song, full of great vocal parts and with one of the funkiest bass lines the mainstream has seen in years - and I couldn't resist the challenge of trying to recreate it at my dentist's office.
Some interesting tidbits:
+ The kick drum is just one thump on the dentist chair, but to get a nice full snare/clap sound I ...
Y'all know I love space.
This song was commissioned by my patrons TMRO for their show about space exploration - https://www.youtube.com/user/TMRO - though we've since gone a different direction with their theme. Currently the ESA is holding a music competition though, so I thought I might as well polish this up and submit it!
Like my Comet album, it is based around a sample of the ESA's recording o...