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The fifth song on Bog Sorcery 1: If I’m Not There to Receive These Ideas, God Might Give Them to Prince and probably the one responsible for introducing me to all you fine people! It was after posting this one on r/triphop back in the Fall that Candlewax reached out to me to ask about doing a remix (which he did, and it’s a banger — I’ll post the link to that one in the chat). We became pals, and a few weeks later he invited me to set up this subreddit with him. A genuinely fortunate series of events!

The backbone of this piece is a bytebeat composition i’d written some months beforehand (cool and weird little genre, btw — worth checking out the r/bytebeat sub if you’re curious), warmed up with some vinyl sim, reverb and a slow low pass filter sweep. The main melodic element is what sounds like tubular bells, from an old 78 by a percussion ensemble that I’d found on archive.org. One of these days, I’ll write another tune like this, as Waxy’s been urging me to do.

About a week to go till Bog Sorcery II: One Lip to Earth & One Lip to Heaven drops, so it's shill time, pals. Here's a little promo reel I put together, featuring the album art that will soon be gracing the tapes! The angel and organ collage was made by a German artist named Maressa Axtmann to accompany a short story of the same name that I wrote a couple years ago, when it was published in the now-defunct online litmag, Cream Scene Carnival. (I've been trying to reach Maressa over any channels I could find for the past few months, and haven't been able to get in touch, so I'm hoping she's cool with me reusing her gorgeous art here.) The square kufic Arabic calligraphy is mine -- huge thanks to u/SaltmarshWitchcraft for patiently coaching me through that process! It's the title of the album in Arabic:

شفق وحدة للأرض و شفق وحدة للسماء

And of course, no pressure, but if anyone wants to help me shill this thing, I'd be very grateful, and will happily shill in return when needed. <3

Hello beautiful people

Today is the day to unleash this month's remixes.

Drop all your links of your remixes in the comments below

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I love making lofi beats and always welcome collaborators if anyone is interested. Cheers!

Another ditty from Bog Sorcery 1: If I’m Not There to Receive These Ideas, God Might Give Them to Prince. Like all the songs from that album, this was cooked up late one night on a slightly busted SP-404SX (the volume pot bit the dust, so I had to quickly short it out and lock it on max to keep going, adjusting the gain on individual samples to save my eardrums), using a bassline I'd previously recorded on my six string over a yamaha dx11 fm synth and a 5/4 beat I'd programmed on my rx11 drum machine (which made for some interesting challenges -- the SX can only sequence bars in 4/4, so I kept everything but the yamaha's drums unquantized). And like most songs on that album, the samples come from archive.org 's magnificent collection of 78s and cylinders (and old time radio dramas, of course!). (There's also a sample of a friend's high pitched "ah!" that I used, a snippet from a late night jam I'd recorded on my phone.)

This is also the second vid on the limited edition Bog Sorcery Show VHS tape, which contains both BS1 and the soon-to-drop Bog Sorcery II in full. Hope you enjoy!

Hi THC! I found this group recently and have been loving the quality fresh tracks coming out all the time! Hope to carve out some time for a sample challenge soon.

Also wanted to ask if anyone has had success working with a mixing engineer through SoundBetter or Fivvr. I am thinking about buying an iZotope suite and putting in the hours vs paying someone who already knows what they’re doing and writing more tunes.
Does everyone hear DIY or have you had any luck at a reasonable price?

I would like to work with someone genre specific and I’m somewhere between trip-hop and indie electronica.

Hey. I dropped my latest EP the other day. Hope you guys enjoy🙏.
Can also finally say I’ve uploaded this one to Bandcamp as well lmao

With just two weeks until Bog Sorcery II: One Lip to Earth & One Lip to Heaven drops, courtesy of the fine folks at Dungeon Radio, I figured it would be a good time to let the golden oldies from Bog Sorcery 1: If I’m Not There to Receive These Ideas, God Might Give Them to Prince make the rounds again. I put that album together over the course of a couple sleepless weeks at the end of November and beginning of December, last year, which means that it was already out in the world before this sub really got rolling, so it's likely that most of these songs are new to most of you here.

As a special treat for the real bog lovers out there (I like to imagine they're out there), I just finished putting together a double video album on VHS that I'm going to be selling when BS2 drops! It includes videos for all of the songs on both albums (18 music vids in total!), and runs about an hour and five minutes in length. The perfect entertainment for late nights, date nights, cozying up with your mate nights, peering through the curtains of fate nights, gay nights and straight nights, guarding the castle gate knights. Here's the first song from Bog Sorcery 1: If I’m Not There to Receive These Ideas, God Might Give Them to Prince, and the first video on the charming VHS tape that could soon be gracing your very own VCR: "Please Please Please", featuring the vocal stylings of my good buddy, Dan Gallant of the Fantods.

BS1 can be purchased for the new, low price of $0 (tips accepted) for the digital downloads, or 15 Canadian dollars for a beautiful purple, home-dubbed cassette (complete with extensive liner notes) from the Swamp Magic bandcamp page: https://swamp-magic.bandcamp.com/album/bog-sorcery-1-if-i-m-not-there-to-receive-these-ideas-god-might-give-them-to-prince