9:25 am - Uploading my Human Consciousness to the Meme Page (Radio Edit) (2025)
Uploading my Human Consciousness to the Meme Page (Radio Edit) is a song I made for the Illustrated compilation by the Webcore Multimedia Productions label. Illustrated is an ongoing project where we all make our own musical interpretation of the release's cover art. For me, the pixelated effects in the art inspired me to experiment with chiptune/digital fusion music as well as my love for distorting and bitcrushing my voice in my electronic releases. The song itself was inspired by a form of existential rage and depersonalisation I experienced once after working a long and late shift at my job and not feeling like myself when my colleauges interact with me. All my sound design inspiration came from the wrong places, like the American Idol GBA game and the US national anthem performed by a computer.
dillakash - ocean factory (9:25 am Remix) (2025)
My friend dillakash asked me if I wanted to do a remix of his song ocean factory. Sharing our mutual love for video game soundtracks, I gave this song every kind of abstract interpretation I had for an ocean factory! My favourite way to describe this song is as The soundtrack for an apocryphal Nintendo Wii shovelware game from 2008 that was pulled from the shelves after several news reports surfaced about children dislocating their shoulders trying to make it out of the tutorial level.
I had a lot of fun working on this remix!
doktorb - (miss)connection (9:25 am Remix) (2023)
doktorb is an experimental sound artist and musician from Australia who was doing a compilation album of his soundcloud releases through Pause & Reflect Music, a label ran by our mutual friend, he asked me if I was interested in doing a remix of one of his songs, to which I enthusiastically picked his song (miss)connection!
What I love about doktorb is how he creatively destructs all the soundwaves he comes across on the internet from memes, tiktoks, music, and other media, and creates these trippy sonic expriences, which I honoured through implementing some of my own favourite niche memes in the remix; Stick Figures on Crack, Azumanga Daioh, Falco's "Hands off my prey!" taunt from Super Smash Bros Brawl, Microsoft Sam's inability to pronounce "soi", and the infamous "iridocyclitis" spelling bee Vine!
9:25 am - IExplore.exe has stopper working forever (2022)
Okay, hold up! There's some lore to this specific song I love sharing sharing because it's such a surreal moment in my life!
One night, I was browsing through Facebook when I came across a post that Internet Explorer was shutting down after 27 years, joining the infamous 27 club, and I jokingly wrote this sentinental tweet about how Internet Explorer used to be an important highlight of my childhood (which it was as the internet has influenced me in many ways!) I posted this tweet, then went to bed:
I woke up the next morning to a notification that my tweet had been published in a newspaper from India, thinking that this was gonna be a funny neat little 15 minutes of fame easter egg.... oh how I was wrong!
As I go on with my day, I receive an email from a news reporter who saw my tweet and asked if I was interested in doing an interview...for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL!!!
This made me one of the least rich people ever to appear on there, as Internet Explorer spokesperson:
My friend who runs the Australian Sunset Grid label was inspired to do a compilation album dedicated to Internet Explorer after hearing the news, for which I made a goodbye song for Internet Explorer called IExplorer.exe has stopped working forever:
Definitely one of my all-time favourite songs I've ever made! Sampling Serial Experiments Lain, Bill Gates' cameo in Fairly OddParents, The IT Crowd, Mega Man Battle Network, Windows XP sounds (which I also made custom synthesizers out of), and the classic dial-up internet tone, I've made this electronic rhapsody of sounds and emotions as I say my final goodbyes to the beloved internet browser that changed my life in so many ways!
9:25 am - It Is No Longer Safe To Turn Off Your Computer (2022)
My friend David who runs the Civic Duty Records label asked if I wanted to make a track for the charity compilation release Mistranslationwave Vol. 2: Subversion, the proceeds getting donated to Marin County/San Francisco Food Bank.
For this release, I made the track It Is No Longer Safe To Turn Off Your Computer.
The title referencing the classic "It's now safe to turn off your computer" message from Windows 95, this song is one chaotic orchestra created from arpeggiated Windows error sound effects procesed through synth samplers! This song also contains vocoded sounds I have made in my sleep, recorded by my sleep tracking app for a nice sonic texture to the chaos.
This was the first time I participated in a compilation album release. VA:10 Records used to release community organised compilation releases in which the proceeds get donated to charity! In this case, the proceeds would be donated to Direct Energy, a charity that helped power children's hospitals.
The release's genre was solartrap; a portmanteau of vaportrap and solarpunk. Solarpunk is a genre/movement that envisions nature and technology thriving in harmony to build a sustainable future!
For my track Urbanistic Ritual, I combined both nature and technology sonically by mixing recordings of me making tribal chants and playing on a Surinamese djembe drum, to tribal samples and trap drums in the rhythm of a futuristic tribe partaking in the ritual of building the world of tomorrow!
The compilation was released through the Finnish label Cityman Productions, and later on a dual disk CD by VA:10 Records themselves, making it the first ever physical released I've been featured on.
compilation releases / remixes
