RPM
Challenge.

It was fun, this year was the most challenging for me in terms of the RPM_I was very busy and songs weren't flowing like in previous years. Still, I'm really glad I stuck with it and I got some lovely recordings! I want to learn how to record myself better, and each RPM I make I learn something. I wrote my first full length song in French for this album!

Two Steps is a 4-song EP made by 4 bluegrassy folksy gals in St. John's, Newfoundland who love to play acoustic music together. It was a live-off-the-floor recording. Our journey as The Sooky Couch Girls started in June of 2023 and we have been primarily playing music together as a source of joy and femme camaraderie!

I started this cleannoise act 3 years ago, because I hated the aesthetics of gorenoise, provoking to rpovoke, so I counter with cleannoise and now every february I make a new album

I started writing all songs on piano this time

Fake Nickel's punk record. Train/England themed.

Josh Shaheen and Guy Capecelatro are neighbors in Kittery, ME. Combining idiosyncratic loops with storied lyricism.

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Tracks that are not quite on point for my upcoming Album

This is my tenth RPM challenge record. I made it by myself, in my studio apartment. My focus this year was incorporating new and varied timbres into what's usually a pretty sterile math rock sound.

I ended up making four more Post Black/ Black Gazey songs. I am fairly happy with them. I got to use my new Korg Minilogue XD

A beautiful process, making sounds to travel in your own microcosm. Then invite other people under the sun. A snapshot of my country today. Maybe...

I made five sonata for toy piano and electyronics and a soundscape for spoken word.

Just on our iPhones

started with bass lines and drum beats and worked my way through the forms, writing words along the way, then tracking tracking tracking. Ash my vocalist came in and knocked out the vox in 3 hours, mastering took a day, and BAM!

A collection of songs playing with guitars and electronica.

Layers of bass guitar, synth and other instruments. Words & whispers.

We wanted to work on collaboration and breaking out of our normal approach to recording music.

the contents of my brain the past month, in the form of ambient/drone/electronic weirdness. meditations on depression, winter, loss, recurring dreams, and the inevitable return of spring. guitar, flute, volca drum, lots of pedals and some weird adapters.

Piano. Variations on a theme of losing and finding.

For the second time in a row, I made an unthemed album

As someone who tends to be a little experimental with their music, I just wanted to cut loose and write some short, simple, sometimes-silly-sometimes-not songs. Didn't want to think to hard about production, and I'm actually quite proud of how it turned out! Fun record to make

I wrote a Country record for my grandfather, Don Johnson. The lyrics I wrote from stories he has told me over the years. He will be 83 years old next week, and this is my gift to him.

This is my 18th RPM Challenge, and I'm honestly in a low effort mode for music. I truly phoned it in this year. All of this is poorly recorded crappy improv. But, hey, I did it.

This year I just tried to enjoy myself. I came up with some completely new tunes but having re-read the RPM rules and learnt that it is permissible to 'complete work you started before February', I decided it would give me an excuse to raid all those unfinished projects with catchy hooks that never quite went anywhere. The result is that 5 of my songs come in at under three and a half minutes, hence my EP is a bit more poppy than usual.

I made this ep and I’m pretty proud of it.

I revived my perpetually ill-advised daily song project Groove of the Day for this leap month because I love to experience pain. Also the project needed a 10 year anniversary and the RPM version wanted a 5 year reunion- it is a mess and not quite done yet while uploading this but hopefully Elling won't yell at me. I love my disaster baby because how else would any of this exists?

The False Bringer is a clone-guy who is upset that their Master is going crazy and undervalues the rest of his creations.

Did the 10 song album. Seems at least somewhat better quality than past years. Used basic GarageBand.

koala sampler got me inspired to make music again

I miss being a kid

the best i could do in a few sessions

Flibbertigibbet is children's music for immature growed-ups. It's poop pop. It's fever dreams of playtime (so you can't go back to daycare until 48h after the fever breaks). It's music to get you kicked out of the brithday party.

I had planned to make 29 unconnected songs for this year's RPM but seasonal depression got me in the ass so I took the best few demos I had recorded on my phone and finished them in a single day.

I've been recording solo guitar improvisations for over 20 years, mostly for my own enjoyment. Over time, I have found this to be most rewarding, and I wanted to share some of my pieces.

It's an exercise in songwriting. Something I'm always working on. There's a bit of homespun production but I mostly stripped it back. Some songwriting influences who shine through on this one are Andrew Fagan, Martin Newell and Patti Smith.

This album was a simple idea: Test my new DAWless setup by filling a 90 minute cassette with any kind of sound I could fathom. That's exactly what I did, for better or worse. It's a mixed bag in terms of styles, but the baseline is extremely experimental.

Name a mood. We've got a violent song about it.

New musical "gossage". almost all written and recorded at the same spot, in front of the same small woodstove. A Jotul that fits only small pieces of wood, as you can see on the cover.,

This track is the result of a very sweaty, hypercaffeinated jam recording in a very smelly dungeon in Wellington. Almost straight after the recording, half of the duo moved to Canada. We've been diligently sharing our music and feelings ever since. This track is special because it symbolises the undying bromance between two hippos and the promise of future music and feelings.

Recorded in St. John's and Minneapolis!

What started out as a hopeful five-song EP distilled down to one original song simply titled "Everything is Fragile." It's been a rough winter.

An album of original video game music in need of a video game to be paired with.

I'd written a few songs with this band and theme in mind over the past few months, but I really wanted to make this record where I get some heavy slow riffs and sing about my gender identity. It's been great to use RPM to finally complete this goal!

It's not very good this year. Sorry.

This is a record 20+ years in the making - we had to get over DAW differences, and find a way to work together over distance and with competing priorities!

All over the map!