Best Strelka Podcasts (2024)

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I Know The Internet By Heart 2:16

16d ago2:16

2:16

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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I Know You Well Enough - Demo 3:28

5M ago3:28

3:28

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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River Runner Full Score 40:44

8M ago40:44

40:44

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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Windows 2095 9:30

10M ago9:30

9:30

I don't know why I made this either but here it is.By Dan Warren

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Dirge Decay 4:39

10M ago4:39

4:39

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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Touching Grass 15:06

1+ y ago15:06

15:06

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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What Have You Done 2:23

2y ago2:23

2:23

Just a little instrumental thing I bashed together while learning to use PlayboxBy Dan Warren

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Things Will Be Better Next Year 3:21

2y ago3:21

3:21

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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Beef 3:46

2y ago3:46

3:46

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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Accidental Gorillaz 0:45

2y ago0:45

0:45

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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All Is Good 5:07

2+ y ago5:07

5:07

Just a positive, relaxing, possibly slightly creepy message for youBy Dan Warren

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Introduction To Home Acupuncture 8:11

2+ y ago8:11

8:11

Just a quick little guide for self-hypnosis and acupuncture.By Dan Warren

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Wakarimasen 2:32

2+ y ago2:32

2:32

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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It Always Happens 1:29

2+ y ago1:29

1:29

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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Sargasso 5:13

2+ y ago5:13

5:13

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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Spaghetti Code 4:09

2+ y ago4:09

4:09

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 11:14

3y ago11:14

11:14

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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The Step Down - Instrumental 4:55

3y ago4:55

4:55

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 1:18

3y ago1:18

1:18

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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Formula Seventeen 0:48

3y ago0:48

0:48

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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Untitled Piano Fragment 1:23

3y ago1:23

1:23

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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Robot Baptism 2:02

3y ago2:02

2:02

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) 2:55

3y ago2:55

2:55

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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Leviathan Junior 11:21

3+ y ago11:21

11:21

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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Acoustichoral 4:11

3+ y ago4:11

4:11

Another drone track, this one just built with an acoustic guitar and a buttload of effects.By Dan Warren

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Whale Dropper 6:00

3+ y ago6:00

6:00

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 1:40

3+ y ago1:40

1:40

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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Wannabe 3:31

3+ y ago3:31

3:31

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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Rough living room demo: You'll Know 3:09

3+ y ago3:09

3:09

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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Survival Machines Reprise 2:10

3+ y ago2:10

2:10

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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Sail Or Anchor 5:21

3+ y ago5:21

5:21

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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Evergreen 4:31

3+ y ago4:31

4:31

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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This Can't Be Real 4:20

3+ y ago4:20

4:20

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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Wake My Love 3:18

3+ y ago3:18

3:18

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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You Did Your Best 4:49

3+ y ago4:49

4:49

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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Oh You Temporary Thing 3:14

3+ y ago3:14

3:14

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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Who Are You Now 2:31

3+ y ago2:31

2:31

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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Survival Machines 3:57

3+ y ago3:57

3:57

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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Sail or Anchor 5:18

4y ago5:18

5:18

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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Pale Orange City Lights - Noisy Piano Demo 2:44

4y ago2:44

2:44

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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Room Experiment 0:17

4y ago0:17

0:17

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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How Long Can You Keep This Going? 3:50

4y ago3:50

3:50

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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Satellite Electrica 3:52

4y ago3:52

3:52

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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John Cage's 4'33" in the style of Postmodern Jukebox 4:33

4+ y ago4:33

4:33

Everybody loves a good swing cover of a modern song, right?By Dan Warren

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Attenborough's Monsters 1:20

4+ y ago1:20

1:20

I decided to see whether I could use the R package "googleLanguageR" to use Google's API for speech-to-text and automate my sampling process for my spoken word fuckery. Answer: very yes. This is just me playing around for a few minutes with clips from Attenborough's "Life Stories".By Dan Warren

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Wake My Love 3:33

4+ y ago3:33

3:33

Here's a draft of a song for Evergreen. Musically it started as an exercise in writing nonfunctional harmony. I've probably pulled this one apart and put it back together more than any other song I've made in recent memory, and I'm still not entirely sure I'm satisfied with it.Lyrics:Brittle fragment of a memoryStill and silent over centuriesWake, …

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Survival Machines Reprise 2:08

4+ y ago2:08

2:08

By Dan Warren

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With Tanja Manners: Wretched Beast (rough mix) 4:07

5y ago4:07

4:07

Here's a new take on my song Wretched Beast, with some lovely harmonies provided by Tanja Manners. It still needs a bit of mixing work, but I'm going to be traveling for a while and decided to go ahead and post the rough track because it's darn pretty.By Dan Warren

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Rough Sketch: I Will Recognize You 2:26

5y ago2:26

2:26

This is just a quick sketch of a song that's still only half-written. I basically sat down to record this just to make sure I wouldn't forget the vocal arrangement I'd thought of, but I ended up liking the way it came out enough to share it.Lyrics:The next time we see each other we will know this dance by heartand we'll do it in that instant, no ma…

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Come Closer 2:58

5y ago2:58

2:58

Just a weird little song I came up with as an experiment. I actually had the idea for the weird vocal sound first and wrote the song around it, and I think it worked out surprisingly well for having been written from the top down like that. The percussion is mostly one of Sound Dust's chaos engine thingies, and that lovely synth in the chorus is Sa…

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