Justin Strode – Megalomaniac

Megalomaniac is a solo album created as part of the Record Production Month Challenge in 2018. The idea was to record and release an album within the month of February, but I decided to take it a step farther and produce an entire album from the ground up, from writing right up to mastering. This was quite the challenge, and an incredibly rewarding (if not exhausting) experience in the end, with the opportunity to really…

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Demon Seeds – The Prologue

Demon Seeds is an outlet for more ambience based, cinematic soundscapes as opposed to conventional songs. Most pieces are experimental in nature, exploring the relationship between signals and their interactions with spaces both digitally and acoustically. The Prologue is a 13 minute one-track EP released in the summer of 2017. The production was minimalist in nature, using only a few synths, a piano, guitar, and a limited pallet of percussive elements. The idea was to…

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Justin Strode – Disaster Inverted

Disaster Inverted is one of my solo EPs, made over the course of the last two years (2014 – 15). I decided to do almost everything on this EP within the computer as an experiment to see just how capable my setup was at crafting entire tones in-the-box, so to speak. The guitars and bass were all done through Guitar Rig 5, drums were a combination of Addictive Drums and on-board sets from Ableton Live.…

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