SCONES TO DIE FOR

Put out a five song EP of music made with Renoise, my new favorite DAW

I just switched to Renoise recently and love it. It's like the the un-DAW meant for musicians with ADHD. So straight forward (to me at least), uncluttered and geared to creativity. Why didn't I discover the beauty of trackers 20 years ago

Oregon easily the most IDM of the 50 states

I used to see them all the time in thrift stores, pawn shops and Craigslist around Oregon. Wish I'd gotten one. I think Plone used one on those first strummy chords you hear on "On My Bus" and others on their Warp album.

I'm jealous of all the majestic hair on display

Dankest Oregon night walking the dog

Where I live in Oregon there is weed everywhere. You see fields of it. You smell it. Dispensaries everywhere. Greenhouses. Tall fences, barbed wire enclosures. Legal grows. Illegal grows. Backyard plants. Trimmigrants and people who work full time at legal grows. Sketchy Russian gangsters. LOTS of guns. High per capita dreadlock count. Big water trucks, underground water tanks, specialty soil shops. They sell bongs at the little markets. Everyone I skate with is stoned, usually smoking at the skatepark. If I wanted a toke, an eighth, an ounce, a pound, edibles, cannabis butter - shoot I could probably get anything I want for free. The market is over saturated and a lot of people just give it away. That being said I don’t smoke at all. Not my thing.

This was my local skate shop back in the day in Santa Barbara, though I’d for the most part stopped paying attention to the world of skateboarding by the early ‘90s. I always sucked and skaters got ridiculously good by the early ‘90s A few of Church of Skatan’s/Shorty’s earlier videos had old friends (I guess more like associates since personally I didn’t like some of them haha) from high school. One guy who was a friend filmed many parts of those videos and was a DJ who worked at a local record store, and if I remember correctly an IDM fan. I started skating again a couple years ago and do it as much as I can since I fell in love with a local skatepark her Oregon. I’d never even skated in one before since for the most part they didn’t exist in the ‘80s. Skating transition is now one of my favorite things in life, though in my old age falling hurts REAL BAD haha. But pushing 50 and still doing it, so I’m gonna pat myself on the back. And this is a golden age right now. At least where I live - where there’s 12 skateparks within an hour’s drive and by far the majority of skaters are cool with each other. At least around here. Sorry - long post, reminiscing, too much coffee, Renoise break.

This looks so slick. It's beyond my imagination to be that organized. My studio is developing into a future episode of Hoarders. So cozy looking.

That is one pricey synth

MilkyTracker - a whole 1.6 mb of space on my hard drive. Renoise is in the future but for now I'm having fun with this

I was lusting for cheap analogs but I downloaded a free tracker program instead and now I've seen the light.

I haven’t been around in a minute. How do I get back to my user name Scones to Die For? Last time I used this one George W. Bush was president