Singer/guitarist for Love Button way back in the day. On my own I'm best known for Son of Strelka, but my music has also appeared on Welcome to Night Vale, Hypnospace Outlaw, the Frog Fractions 2 ARG, and a number of documentary films. Born in Arkansas and raised in Oklahoma, but from there went Florida-California-Texas-Australia-Japan-Germany-Japan (again). He/him.
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We are a group of people that run a Professional Pancake Art company called Dancakes. We aim to play party/social games together to bring us together but it might tear us apart. We will occasionally tell stories from our travels all over the world making goofy pancakes. Hopefully you listening is not a mistake, but if it is 'Mistakes Are Delicious'. Enjoy!
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Just messing around with some random short vocal snippets from a Youtube tutorial on Japanese grammar by Cure Dolly. Bass is Venus Theory's excellent foghorn sample library for Spitfire Labs.By Dan Warren
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Just a quick and dirty living room demo I recorded on my iPad of something I'm working on. Give me your credit cardsI wanna buy you a giftDown at the grocery storeI'll need a liftIt's too far for walkingAnd I've had a fewBut I wanna buy somethingReally special for youNo, I won't buy more than you'd allowI think I know you well enough by nowI heard …
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This is a bunch of instrumental music I made for a documentary called River Runner many years ago, just sort of stuffed together in one track.By Dan Warren
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I don't know why I made this either but here it is.By Dan Warren
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This is a track I did for the Frog Fractions 2 ARG, it was meant to be an artifact from the remains of the civilization of Bug Mars. It's a song of mourning in the last days of a dying civilization. Lyrics:There was no war, there was no victoryNo grand defeat to make some sense of theThings that we lost, things that we gave for freeBecause we never…
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Sometimes I like to just sit down and build a generative music machine that makes pretty noises. This was one of those days, and this is the result.By Dan Warren
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Just a little instrumental thing I bashed together while learning to use PlayboxBy Dan Warren
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This is the instrumental track for a song I have still never recorded. I wrote the song near the end of 2020. It's about reassuring yourself that the currently horrible world events are temporary. It was a sort of cross between optimism and intentional irony, and of course 2021 turned out to suck even worse. Maybe one day I'll record it, but for no…
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This is just a rough draft of a ridiculous thing I built from a Librivox audiobook of an old book called "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Hoy Fort. The chapters these samples were taken from were read by Matthew Shepherd.By Dan Warren
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Welp I set out to just make a nice little western thing and it ended up sounding way too much like Gorillaz. I swear it wasn't on purpose. Back to the drawing board.By Dan Warren
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Just a positive, relaxing, possibly slightly creepy message for youBy Dan Warren
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Just a quick little guide for self-hypnosis and acupuncture.By Dan Warren
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I'm tired of not understanding Japanese, so I made a machine to do it for me. It's just a sampler fed with random syllables from my Pimsleur Japanese lessons, with the two voices occasionally asking each other if they understand and forlornly responding that they don't.By Dan Warren
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This is a very old track, basically a found poem taken from a vocabulary building record from the 80s. It (in my mind) tells the story of a relationship that starts off strong but gets weird and creepy, and ends with them parting with no real lessons learned.By Dan Warren
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I was messing around in bitwig with a rhythmic pattern I learned from karnatic music and I think I accidentally made prog.Lyrics:bwoooop booop peeeoww weeeener neeeenerBy Dan Warren
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Last week I was playing around with sampling some sounds from an old data cassette as well as an XDR toneburst. I ended up using those sampler instruments to flesh out a bit of music I'd already been working on, and the end result sounds like a discarded and poorly weathered cassette of some old video game music.…
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Work In Progress - Nothing Never Lasts Forever
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This track is me sort of exploring the idea that quantum foam and the big bang imply that the universe absolutely cannot tolerate the existence of true nothingness. There can be nothing, but not for long. Sort of encouraging, in a perverse way.Anyway it takes a long time to get started; the track began as sort of an experiment in building music out…
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This is just me playing with some sounds in Bitwig. The progression is fun because when it sounds like it's looping back to the beginning it's actually a step lower than it started out (hence the name). The other neat thing about this one is that the super funky electric piano bit that starts at 1:30 is just running the same chords through two diff…
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Everyone's Got a Vocoder Except For Me - Living Room Phone Recording
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This is a completely ridiculous little thing that I wrote many, many, MANY years ago that just suddenly came back to my mind the other day. For some reason the thing that brought it back to me was that I remembered playing it for Jon Mooneyham and him being incredulous that I had name-dropped Clarence Clemons. Anyway, it's a very stupid song and no…
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This is just a little thing where I was playing with odd time signatures and trying to follow along on my Wavedrum.By Dan Warren
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This is just a snippet of music I came up with years ago, completely forgot, and then stumbled across this morning while looking for something else. I don't know that I'll ever do anything more with it, but I do think it's kinda pretty.By Dan Warren
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You are walking through the woods when you stumble across a robot church group baptizing one of their own children in a stream. Two robot children are singing a song to mark the event.Includes a field recording by Nick Friedman.By Dan Warren
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Demo - Days Must Have Come And Gone (instrumental)
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Okay it's been way too damn long since I've uploaded anything so here's this. It's just an instrumental demo for a new take on an old song of mine.By Dan Warren
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Yet another ambient-ish track, but this one morphs into more of an actual song as it goes on.By Dan Warren
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Another drone track, this one just built with an acoustic guitar and a buttload of effects.By Dan Warren
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This is just me learning how to use the automation in Arturia Pigments, and throwing out some massive brraaaaaams in the process. This whole track is one chord, and the rest of it is just delays, reverbs, and distortions with a bunch of interacting automation.By Dan Warren
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Living room demo - Leave the Living to the Living
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Okay this is a demo of a short (or half finished, depending) track that sort of straddles the line between depressing metaphor and "oh maybe there are actual zombies in this song", which is a pretty funny concept to me. Very rough recording, just using my ipad mic in the kitchen the other morning.Lyrics:Some people die with their eyes openAnd just …
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This is an old demo for a song from about 2010 that I just never got around to polishing up. LyricsI only wanna be on your good sideBut I give too much awayTrying to make things right in all the wrong waysI only wanna be on the insidewherever you areStand and press my face against the barsI am an awkward silenceWaiting to be broken on your tongueI'…
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This is just a super-rough demo recorded on my phone, for a song currently (but not necessarily permanently) called "You'll Know". Mostly I recorded this so I wouldn't forget the lyrics I've come up with, but I also think the song is going in a really good direction so I wanted to share it.Lyrics (as of today):When the time has come for you, you'll…
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It’s quiet out hereLook for the sun, I can’t find it out hereAnd all that dumb shit that they told us about our manifest destinyIs gone and forgotten nowAnd sure, our goals are pureWhat good does that do out here? I’m not sureAnd looking back now at that comic book future we used to believe inSo foolish in hindsight, I seeWe’re only survival machin…
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Brittle fragment of a memoryStill and silent over centuriesWake, my love, and greet meWake, my love, and nevernever go againDo not forsake meLove, do not forsake meAwaken to meTake a breath nowHesitation is the enemyEvery instant is a victoryWake, my love, and greet meWake, my love, I swear itI swear it can beEverything you wantedEverything forever…
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Who are you now, when all your fear is stripped away?Who are you now?What do you remember from the day?What did you surrender to get away?Hey, are you all right? Are you going to be all right?You seem to have forgotten how to breathe, or lost the urge for quite a while.By Dan Warren
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Oh you temporary thingdeparting since the moment you arrivedyou know you can't survive this on your ownyou solitary thingnow reaching out in hopes that you will findthat another of your kind is reaching tooSome signal in the static peeking through;there's something out there looking out for youand hey, you know it might be trueYou ordinary thing,le…
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Will you lose it all because you're afraid to choose?Will you lose it all because you're afraid to choose?When the time has come to pick a side,will you simply refuse and say there's nothing you can do,when you know that it's not true?You defined yourself with things that you consumeWith your wine, your wealth, your car and your perfumeSo when some…
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I know your faceFrom some other placeBut this can’t be real, just can’t be realToo clean, too brightTo be quite rightThis can’t be real, this can’t be realI know, oh I knowBut then I see you now, a perfect point of lightSo small and yet so brightReaching out to comfort meWake up supermanDo what love demandsSeize eternityI sense you there In empty a…
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And so we hold tightto a lone mote of dust in the infinite nightstraining ourselves just to cling to the surfaceour singular purpose to stay side by sideand what does it meanthat they could have used fear or almost anythingbut love is lever they've chosen to move usto shape and improve usto keep our lives evergreen?Does that make us survival machin…
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I can't describeWhat I see in this lightWith my eyes wide openAlmost divineSo real and so rightSo loud, unspokenFalls on meSoftLike a frosty morningAnd blurs the outlineIt's too close to be seenLike the act of blinkingHard to defineIt's just a thing that you areWithout even thinkingYou'll always beWhat I needBe it sail or anchorI'd gladly fight so …
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Maybe we never made it homeMaybe we swerved across the center lineYou know that bridge we crossed that seemed to just go on forever?Maybe that’s what death was likeBut then if you and I are ghostsWe get to spend the afterlifeTwo drunken poltergeists that haunt this old decaying empireDancing every nightAnd we’ll be saved like flies in amberPerfect …
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I feel like I'm finally nearing the end of production on my album Evergreen; everything is recorded, and now it's just a question of final mixing and mastering. Here's a more or less final version of the song that started it all, Sail or Anchor. Fun fact: much of the percussion is recordings of Ann Druyan's brain waves from the Voyager golden recor…
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This is a very rough demo of a song I've been working on. I recorded it on my iPhone, playing the piano that I learned on as a child. It's in bad repair these days and sounds like it, but it has a special place in my heart.The song is about the aftermath of an alien abduction where a couple have had something installed in them that will record thei…
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This is not really meant to be a track per se, just demonstrating a proof of concept. This is essentially taking the idea behind Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting In A Room" and faking it by chaining the same reverb over and over again instead of repeated recordings in a real space. Then I'm basically turning those reverbs on and off rhythmically while …
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Okay this is a sad one. I wrote this song about four years ago when I was approaching the end of a postdoc fellowship and didn't yet have another job lined up, and was contemplating what to do if I wasn't able to continue my academic career. At the same time I was talking to my family back home about how my brother's health was failing, and the aby…
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In this episode we play The Very Interesting Game ( @The_Very_Interesting_Game ) this is probably one of the most fun games we have played so far. Hank asks the guys to bark like a dog in different accents. We are joined by Dancakes Artist Lee @goldberg337 who asks the others to debate on why or why not follow the rules is right and a whole bunch m…
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In this episode we play Answer the Internet, a game curated and created by Barstool Sports. This is a horrible game, it's got very tone deaf, bro-humor. Don't get me wrong we can take a joke and some of the cards we drew had some decent questions, but some questions were just offensive to be offensive. You be the judge. Listen now!…
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Hypnospace Outlaw OST vol. 3 is out, including a bunch of songs from me! They're also included in the new content update, which should be dropping on Steam and elsewhere today!This track is an alt-rock reworking of my song for the initial release, Satellite. https://jtholen.bandcamp.com/album/hypnospace-outlaw-ost-vol-3Lyrics:Back when we were both…
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In this episode we draw question cards from the Podecks deck and ask personal questions to one another. What does Dan admire most in his friends? What is one of Dana's biggest regrets? What will they ask the other hosts? It gets deep y'all. Listen now!
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In this episode we play Awkward Storyteller, a fun story telling game where one player is the storyteller and starts a sentence and then other players play "question" cards to give prompts to the storyteller to continue their story. It gets goofy as hell. What happened at Ben's family reunion? Why did Dana throw up on a bus? Why did Dan see in the …
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In this episode we play Dread...well at least our version of it. It's a role-playing game similar to D&D, but in this we each create a simple character and Dancakes assistant Jimmy @ultimatecompanion joins us as the GM, he has one hour to tell us a story as we play through and draw Jenga blocks to see if action we want to take happens. Who has the …
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In this episode we play Bad People, a game where we answer sometimes tame and sometimes risky questions. Who is the most likely to have a mail-order-bride? who would is least likely to succeed? who would charge the most as a prostitute. Listen to the episode now to find out!
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In this episode we play the 5 Second Rule, we are given obscene and goofy questions and have give 3 answers in 5 seconds. Which celebrities does Dan think swears the most? Can Dana name three beers? Can Hank name three love songs? and which actresses does Ben think are good in bed? Listen to the full episode now. Follow us @mistakespod…
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