Eleven down, out of twenty-five? (Katric Transfer took two sessions, as expected.)

The gaps are basically due to Crete trips :sob: those mess with both my voice and my mindset.

This next set is pitches straight down the middle, I ought to crush those. The last sets get into some curveball and slider territory.

…and a little video about it.

Bought a house on short notice, moved to Crete for three weeks to take care of Dad, learning a new job and a big, unexpected project landed on my desk… whew. Creative time, and the positive mindset effects of it, took a big hit. But I’m finding my footing again:

• I’ve started on the last four Dharmic Beams raw tracks for DB2. Each one requires different drum programming / synth / bass guitar approaches, which is part of the fun
• We have a strong run of Dat Fury Radio shows coming up, featuring Softcore Syndicate, Stik Figa, remst8, and Van Ripper x Galactifader
• I believe I have vocal mics set up for a tonnnnn of recording for Jam My Wave and Let’s Drift (~3+ albums’ worth of material in total!), and practice is going alright. My voice feels good and I’m daring to hope I might even be able to tackle two songs in some sessions

Here’s the punch list for vocals.

Hi, Jake Willems!

Amber Mark, “Pretty Idea” (2025) – Swirling vintage and cutting edge R&B together like chocolate and peanut butter, Amber’s streak of deserving to be mainstream-huge continues

Deru, “rhythm tapes” (2025) – Bangers that simply cannot be counted; I don’t know what combination of polyrhythms, generative sequencing, and just weirdness caused this, but I love it

De La Soul, “Cabin In The Sky” (2025) – A transmission from the heart of a better world we could be living in, if we got it together. Classic and futuristic at once

Deftones, “private music” (2025) – Some called it “their best since (whatever),” but I just call it superlative. There’s an immediacy and experimental edge that maybe wasn’t on “Gore” or “Ohms” (great records!), but ultimately it’s just that no one else goes this hard in this way

Stik Figa, “A Small Fortune” w DJ Sean P (2025) – In which Stik advances his mission to make saying the realest things possible sound as cool as possible. A gentleman, a scholar, a lover, a survivor

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While the podcast is going well, one of the downsides is that I write even less than I used to on the site. That means that there’s less to refer back to, and I semi-frequently refer back! The site map is incredibly useful for figuring out what we were up to five, or ten, or (gasp) twenty years ago.

So here’s what I’m up to now, for my own future reference:

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