Snub Embryo

by Chris | Oct 1, 2023 | Music

This track was never supposed to be my second release… Bad Actors was. But I fell back in love with this beat in the middle of working with Dawningale on Bad Actors… so here we are. Most of you know that I started in music as a producer—not an emcee. I’ve always been a music-first artist and I think this track really shows that. The track was originally created on my beloved Synthstrom Deluge groovebox/synthesizer—all the way down to the arrangement. Then, I chopped it up and rearranged it and mastered with vocals in Logic Pro X. (Making ONE song from A-to-Z is a huge journey!) I’ve spoken before about how I codename all my songs using a random work generator… but since most of my music ends up being pretty abstract, the names often stick. That’s where this title comes from. I made the track artwork using a combination of Bing Image Creator and Pixelmator Pro. That was fun.

Get Processed (feat. Cat Rap & Kitty Nap)

by Chris | Jul 1, 2023 | Music

My first publicly-released single, ever. That’s why I’m so proud of this song… because I made it through the journey to get here. It means so much to me, and I hope you love it.

The music for this song was originally created on my Roland MC-101, and then chopped & rearranged in Logic Pro. The simple, bouncy groove really spoke to me, and I knew pretty quick that I would include it in my first album. But I didn’t know it would be my first single.

When I first sent this song in for mixing & mastering, the final chorus you hear did not exist at all—it took me some soul-searching before I decided I wasn’t happy with it. That was difficult because, honestly, I was TIRED at that point. The road to get there had been so long, and I felt like I just wanted to push it out the door and move on.

But I knew it needed to be better.

So I just kinda went back to the drawing board with the song. I took a step back to get a wider view. I gave myself that weirdly-necessary SPACE to forget about the song, and then remember it all over again.

That’s when the chorus groove came to me. And once it did, I pulled in Cat Rap & Kitty Nap (both my kids, 9 & 12 at the time), and they laid down their backing vocals in a single take. I liked the rough, DIY feel to it. I laid down my own final chorus vocal, and then the arrangement kinda just fell into place after that.

I learned SO much in the process of making this song. I’ll never forget it.