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HERMIT CRAB ROOMMATES

I recorded this song after I read an article on the recording of Gold Panda's new album Lucky Shiner. The song was almost completely recorded using an old casio ct-680, with the exception of the bass and snare drum and the vocal part. It was an attempt at some lo-fi recording, all the fuzz and cracks are left in on purpose to add texture.

Hermit Crab Roommates by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Official
File Under: Mountain Range
Duration: 3:19
Inspiration: Inspirado

MANIAC - GIVE IT UP (WOLVES REMIX)

I saw this remix (contest?) up on AP.net and thought I'd give it a shot. The song was kind of a wacky, but I had some good ideas for it. The big challenge was that the vocals really didn't match the style I was going for, so I just stripped out the two parts that I really liked and looped those. There was also a bunch of hoops and hollers in the song, and i took little pieces of those and made a pattern which kind of became the verse vocals. I'm particularly proud of the transition from the first chorus to the second verse, it came off pretty seamlessly which rarely happens with my songs.

The contest(?) required you submitting a youtube response video so here is my youtube video with some slightly different artwork. Make sure to check it out in HD as well as the link to the soundcloud version below.



Maniac - Give It Up (Wolves Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Semi-Official
File Under: Regurgitated Two
Duration: 4:01
Inspiration: Baths Live Show, Small Black, Gold Panda - You

Ice Cream Social - Beyond Time

I'm proud to announce the release of Ice Cream Socials New Album Beyond Time. It's another short one, but it's all awesome. Check it out...


ICE CREAM SOCIAL - BEYOND TIME
Beyond Time is a narrative set in the distant future, beginning with a cosmic conflict, leading into a peacefully unaware midnight metropolis and finally ending in its inevitable obliteration. The battle for our homeland is lost once and for all.

1 Into Forever
2 Collider
3 Reborn
4 Connected
5 Into Forever (Reprise)
6 Space Dust
7 Further Than
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Make sure to check out more of ice cream social's music on his soundcloud.

Weathered Music 2

Weathered Music 1

Wolves and his musical friends

Come check out me and all my musical friends this saturday.

PRECIPICE EP

Precipice EP
1.Architeuthis
2.Blue Flame
3.Earth Turtles
4.Zephyr
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Well it's my birthday today, but I decided to give you a gift instead of me getting one. I'm giving out my new EP Precipice for free.

I decided to do this EP because I was working on a new sound for my music, but it was going to be along time before I actually finished the full length so I decided to do a couple more songs specially for an EP to be released as a sort of precursor to the full length which is called Mountain Range which should come out some time next year. The sound on this album is a little bit more aggressive and straight forward then the stuff that's going to be on Mountain Range. It's kind of a perfect transition from the stuff I've been doing to the stuff I'm working on now (even though I didn't really mean it to be that way).

I was really influenced by a couple things while working on this EP. Most notably the musical stylings that appear on the new 65daysofstatic album, and the new Fuck Buttons Albums. That really heavy rhythmic sound with perfect synthisization. Another thing that really got me going on this album was I started to listened to a lot of 8-bit artists, particularily the band Starscream. Even though it may not jump out at you I tried to throw a little bit-y-ness into each song. And Lastly I started to really work with sampling, I used it mostly for vocals (because I can't really sing), but the good ole Lion, Roar! also helped me out on the song Architeuthis.

If you're still on the fence you can stream the song Earth Turtles over at my soundcloud:

Earth Turtles by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Official EP
Artwork: Photography: Tim Walker, Design & Layout: Glen Walker
Duration: 18:38
Inspiration: 65daysofstatic, Fuck Buttons, Holy Fuck, Starscream, Anamanaguchi, Gold Panda, Animal Collective, Gorillaz, Daft Punk and Butterfly Bones

THYME TRAVEL

The ep is a little behind schedule (mostly likely it'll be out next weekend), so I decided to release one of the tracks I've been working on for my next album. It's a lot different from what's on the ep, as well what I'm working for my full length. This is just some music I'm screwing around with in the meantime. It uses some samples from Simon and Garfunkel's song Scarborough Fair, and there is some original stuff in there. You can expect an album of about 8 or 9 tracks like this near the end of the year. I don't have a title for the album yet, but the temporary title I'm using is Weathered.

Thyme Travel by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Official/Bootleg
File Under: Weathered (working title)
Duration: 3:30
Inspiration: Gold Panda, Simon and Garfunkel, Piano Class

JOURNEY - DON'T STOP BELIEVING (WOLVES EDIT)

Did this a year ago for a DJ set, thought it might be worth posting.

Journey - Don't Stop Believing (Wolves Epic Midnight Train Edit) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Unofficial
File Under: DJ Edits
Duration: 4:51
Inspiration: Glee

ARCHITEUTHIS (epic drum mix) Featuring LION, ROAR!

Here is the first look at some of my new music. This is a version of one of the songs that's going to be on my EP, that's coming out in a couple weeks. The final version is going to have completely different drums and an overall different mix. The vocals are provided by the awesome Lion, ROAR!

Architeuthis f. Lion, Roar! (Epic Drum Mix) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Alternate Version
File Under: Precipice
Duration: 4:34
Inspiration: Fuck Buttons, Explosions in the Sky

LOCAL NATIVES - CAMERA TALK (WOLVES REMIX)

I was browsing Hype Machine the other day and saw a banner ad for Local Natives advertising that they had stems available for download. They had four songs to choose from, and instead of picking the one that I liked the best. I actually just picked the one that had been done the least amount of times, and it turned out it was the song Camera Talk (which actually hadn't been remixed at all at that point), so i decided to do that one. It turned out to be a great choice because it had an awesome strings part, and a really moody chorus.

Update: Check out the remix up on the official Local Natives Remix page HERE.

Local Natives - Camera Talk (Wolves Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Semi Official
File Under: Wolves Remixes Vol.4
Duration: 3:04
Inspiration: Oh No! Yoko - 90s Kids (Teen Daze Remix), Washed Out

OCARINA ORCHESTRA

I've been fooling around with this one for a while. This is sort of a sequel to my FFVIIM3G4M1X. It's a remix/mash-up of the soundtrack to the video game The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.

Ocarina Orchestra
1. part. 1 Kokiri Melody
2. part. 2 Lost Woods Lullaby
3. part. 3 Stormy Windmill Waltz
4. part. 4 Geruedo Valley Grind
5. part.5 Temple Of Time Tango
6. Ocarina Orchestra Full Mix

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Ocarina Orchestra by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Bootleg
File Under: Ocarina Orchestra
Duration: 22:16
Inspiration: Koji Kondo, Toro Y Moi, Ratatat, RAC

FISCHERSPOONER - INFIDELS OF THE WORLD UNITE (WOLVES REMIX)

So apparently I have the worst luck when it comes to remix contests. First it was the Kristen Wiig/Macgrubber one getting closed a week early, and now this. I just got an email saying that my remix for the Green Shoe Laces/Dim Mak remix contest got rejected. I'm not sure why, but as far as I can tell, it's because I live in California, and for some reason people in California can't enter. No idea why. Here's the remix any way.

Update: I resubmitted, and for some reason they excepted it this time. Go figure.

Fischerspooner - Infidels Of The World Unite (Wolves Lo-Fidels Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Contest (sorta)
File Under: Wolves Remixes Vol.4
Duration: 3:07
Inspiration: Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

Ice Cream Social - Fathoms + Remixage

I met Sam (Ice Cream Social) through our mutual friend Devin (Lion, Roar!). I started checking out his blog, and listening to the songs he posted as he made them. They caught my ear, but it wasn't until after I finally talked him into sending me his full album that I truly recognized his genius.

Fathoms is 13 minutes and 24 seconds of pure music magic. A fully realized instrumental concept album (which is no small feat). I offered my services as a designer and ended up doing the artwork for the album. I did the world map (above) and cover (below). Now check out the album:

Ice Cream Social - Fathoms
Fathoms is the soundtrack to an imaginary video game, paying tribute to side-scrolling platform games from the 16-bit era of SNES, Genesis and DOS with a modern spin.

1 Anthem
2 Galaxy
3 Factory
4 Jungle
5 City
6 Forest
7 Underwater
8 Cave
9 Boss
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*Bonus Shiz:
I also did a remix for the song jungle as well. Check that out here:
Ice Cream Social - Jungle (Wolves Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Official
File Under: Wolves Remixes Vol.4
Duration: 4:13
Inspiration: Toro Y Moi, RAC (nintendo vs. sega), Starscream

Wolves Remixes Vol.3

There isn't much to say here since I did a play by play on pretty much every track on this album. If you've been following the remixes as they come out this is still worth a look. About half the tracks have been re edited, and this also includes an extended version of the Passion Pit Sleepyhead remix.

This was a fun thing to produce, and I hope people enjoy it. Vol.4 is already in the works.

DOWNLOAD Wolves Remixes Vol.3

Status: Wolves 3rd set of remixes
Duration: 43:00
Inspiration: Daft Punk, Simian Mobile Disco, Slugabed, Nosaj Thing, Fuck Buttons, MSTRKRFT

THE NU WAVE - MY FAVORITE DRUG (WOLVES REMIX)

I stumbled across The Nu Wave one day while surfing ap.net's free music Friday. Their EP was a ton of fun. Every song was catchy as hell. I contacted them almost immediately and asked them if they were interested in me doing a remix for them. It turns out they were.

This was one of those remixes where after I finally got it to a good place I spent a good week or two tweaking to get it just right. The guitar was particularly hard to integrate, because so much of the remix is electronics, I just couldn't get it to jive with the rest of track, and none of my usual tricks were working. Finally I just sat and listened to the guitar track by itself for a while. I found one part in particular really caught my interest. In the end I only used about 2 seconds of the whole guitar clip, and just looped it backwards and forwards a ton of times. I was really inspired by dubstep for this one, and listened to a lot of slugabed and numbernin6 while working on this. I loved how the verse bass line came out.

Download the Track Here

The Nu Wave - My Favorite Drug (Wolves Withdrawl Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August

And make sure to go download The Nu Wave's free EP over HERE.

Status: Official
File Under: Wolves Remixes Vol.3
Duration: 4:28
Inspiration: Daft Punk - Tron Legacy Theme (John Roman Remix), Innerpartysystem - Last Night In Brooklyn (Numbernin6 Remix)

Up dates

I'm gonna give a little update here. I just spent an hour looking at photos for the covers of my next two albums. Above this is a little taste of the art coming up. I'm also working on my last remix for vol.3 which of Nu Wave's Favorite Drug. So I'm chugging along.
Now onto the krux of this post. I've got plans to release 3 albums this summer. One every month, here is the tentative release schedule as of now:

+Late in June I'm looking to put out Wolves Remixes Vol.3. You can already score most of the tracks off my website, but the final product should have slightly better versions than are already out there. As well as them being neatly arranged by me.

+In what will probably be early July I'm going to drop my Ocarina Of Time megamix called Ocarina Orchestra. The album is five tracks with an additional track that mixes all the songs together into one long mix. Here's the tracklisting, It actually gives clues to some of the main samples I use for each song.
Part. 1 Kokiri Melody
Part. 2 Lost Woods Lullaby
Part. 3 Stormy Windmill Waltz
Part. 4 Geruedo Valley Grind
Part.5 Temple Of Time Tango
Ocarina Orchestra Mix

+The last release will be sometime in August and is an EP full of brand new material. The EP is called Precipice, and will act as sort of a precursor to the album I'm going to be putting out next year called Mountain Range. It's a completely new style for me, and it's very different than my last album.

Little extra bonus. Here's what I'm currently spinning:

A-Trak - Dirty South Dance 2

mc chris - mc chris Goes To Hell

Tokyo Police Club - Champ

Chemical Brothers - Further

Asher Roth - Asleep In The Bread Aisle

RAC x Holy Rollers

Ratatat - LP4

BRIAN BEYKE - HOW OUR LIVES LOOK WITH THE LIGHTS OFF (WOLVES REMIX) + KRISTEN WIIG - CHAMPION (WOLVES REMIX) + Soundcloud

Well It's your lucky day. Two new Wolves remixes. My second one for Brian Beyke and a contest entry for the MacGruber remix contest. I'm a big fan of Will Forte, and the movie is a lot of fun, so you should check it out.

Brian Beyke - How Our Lives Look With The Lights Off (Wolves Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Official
File Under: Wolves Remixes Vol.3
Duration: 4:53

Kristen Wiig - Champion (Wolves Upperdecker Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August

Status: Contest Entry
File Under: Wolves Remixes Vol.3
Duration: 2:40

Also in case you didn't notice, I'm now on soundcloud. Which is where you can stream and download a bunch of my stuff. Here is my SOUNDCLOUD

HAROLD FALTERMEYER - AXEL F (WOLVES REMIX)

Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (Wolves Banana In The Tailpipe Remix) by Wolves Of Saint August


Status: Unofficial
File Under: Wolves Remixes Vol.3
Duration: 4:23
Inspiration: Clerks Animated Series, Daft Punk - Rollin and Scratchin