shy kids

today marks ten years since we released our very first album, Lofty! in some ways it feels like an eternity since then, and in other ways like no time has passed at all. here are some memories from back then. there were so many important people who supported us and helped us bring this record to life in the studio, on the page, and on the stage. these are a few we’d like to shout out: greg francis 🫂🎥🎶 @juliajuliajuliajulia_ 📸 @choirchoirchoir 🎶 @misternobu 🫂 @brendanjcanning 🫂 @kintoaki 🎶 @simonlukasewich 🎶 fantavious fritz 🎥 @marcobaldonado 📸 @nhaight 🎥 @taylortorr 🎥 @free 📸🎥 @daniellefinest 📋 @themostnickever 📋 @brendanmccarney 📋 @wreckhouse 🎶 and 4 the final shot: @youcantsleephere 📸

we made this video over 10 years ago ourselves. it took 9 months of animation. it was intense but well worth it we felt https://youtu.be/hrlEdNh8W8I

we uploaded most of our back catalogue to @Wavlake have a listen here to “Lofty” released in 2015: https://wavlake.com/album/cb0682b0-bec1-44ba-a6e1-f2605b5…

charge us up? 📝 7950d608…

The Reminder - by Fiest. gotta be one of the best albums ever. damn

excited to announce that anyone can now listen to our album ‘a gathering of batteries’ and recycle, earn, or donate sats: https://www.agatheringofbatteries.com our intention with this project is to explore new ways of connecting bitcoin to music. we’ve charged up the battery to start, but theoretically this project could live on indefinitely, funded by the public, moving value from listener to listener. a big thanks to the team at @Wavlake , who are entirely responsible for bringing this half baked idea to fruition. if nothing else, hopefully this experiment inspires others to try something new. this music was inspired in part by going down the bitcoin rabbit hole, and the recognition of the shifting undercurrents of our world today. enjoy.

we’re doing another round of our v4v battery project before potentially shipping to a wider audience - just message in this thread and we’ll whitelist your npub to try it out. www.agatheringofbatteries.com listen to our new album and earn sats while doing it - recycle them back into the battery for others to do the same or withdraw and add them to your stack. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 📝 6c578bcc…

stoked to share this project with you all, excited to hear what you think so far 🤙 📝 17513cf0…

we are trying out a v4v experiment with our new album + bitcoin. comment below to try it out soon ⚡️ 📝 a2e09b91…

y’all aren’t ready for this

⚡️album is now fully charged⚡️ listen on @Wavlake https://wavlake.com/album/a288e5da-b935-4e7e-a474-64a40a1…

we’re releasing an album tomorrow. two + years in the making. here is a little bit of backstory behind it

soon ⬇️ 📝 b862c7c5…

emit some light grow brighter grow brighter connect electric wires get lighter 📝 fc56df39…

Been playing around with AI music generation, it’s really kind of interesting. In a roundabout way, it could actually make music “more human” again, depending on how it’s used. If you look back at the last couple decades… so many producers default to using MIDI, which makes music really quantized, linear—where every drum hit and instrument is the exactly on beat, on a literal digital “grid”. It’s like making music on a spreadsheet. The most extreme example being EDM or something… which feels super computery and inorganic. In contrast, I can get an AI to make a drum beat that is more like J Dilla—it’s rough around the edges, makes little ‘mistakes’ because the AI recognizes the imperfections that a human player delivers. But sometimes that’s what actually makes something unique. It is sensitive enough to pick up on the human subtleties that make music great. Just a thought, curious to see where it goes from here.

our new single somewhere you want to be is up on @wavlake . This one is definitely inspired by Bitcoin in some ways. Dreaming a different world more aligned with the natural flow of things. Listen here: https://wavlake.com/album/930ac3e1-4d21-451c-b628-34b4edc…

new single dropping tomorrow ⚡️

Soon! 📝 69df1340…

Looking forward to our @Fountain takeover Thursday evening. Tune in 23:00 UTC! 📝 748fe8e9…

pura vida 🤙