Dream Together Hits Top 10 on RadioAirplay

Dream Together is RadioAirplay Top 10

My song Dream Together achieved a Pop Score of 100/100 this past week on RadioAirplay, making it one of their Top 10 songs for the week! Dream Together is one of my personal favorites, and features drums and bass, a screaming guitar lead, Vocaloid Avanna on vocals. Avanna is a synthesized vocalist, which I programmed with… Continue reading Dream Together Hits Top 10 on RadioAirplay

Anti-Rock Is Hard When You’re Wired For Rock

Signal Flow is Anti-rock

My collaborations with my friend Paul Frick continue to work towards a better understanding of, shall we say, “Anti-Rock”, or “music that is not rock/blues based”. Rock and blues is where we both come from, having listened to classic rock since the ’60s, and played it ourselves in cover bands since the ’70s. It’s how we… Continue reading Anti-Rock Is Hard When You’re Wired For Rock

T-Minus One – A Glimpse Into My Music Production Process

T-Minus One

A short glimpse into my music production process, regarding my latest release. 3am. It’s dark, and my wife is sleeping soundly. I crawl out of bed and sneak quietly downstairs to the part of the living room that serves as my music production studio these days. Headphones on, monitors disabled! The glare of the computer… Continue reading T-Minus One – A Glimpse Into My Music Production Process

Turn It Into Light Featured On AcidTed Music Blog

Thanks go out to the acid ted dance music blog for featuring one of my dance tracks by posting a very positive review of my song on their blog site. Turn It Into Light is the 2nd track on my Script For A Chill EP, and it features a collaboration with the wonderfully talented Elizabeth Greenway on vocals.… Continue reading Turn It Into Light Featured On AcidTed Music Blog

Music Promotion In The Age of Obscurity

Music promotion services

We have entered The Age of Obscurity. Wow, there’s an absolutely inconceivable amount of music out there. The barriers to entry have never been lower. Every audio editor or DAW production tool these days tries to make it one-click-simple to upload your latest masterpiece to your favorite streaming/sharing site for immediate consumption by literally billions… Continue reading Music Promotion In The Age of Obscurity

Script For A Chill – New EP Released!

Music label DistroKid has just released my 2nd electronic music album, a 5-song EP entitled “Script For A Chill”.  It’s available on Bandcamp for download.  It’s also available for free internet streaming on my SoundCloud account. The album was produced in Ableton Live, and mastered in Cakewalk Sonar and Sony Sound Forge.  Two of the… Continue reading Script For A Chill – New EP Released!

Dream Together – New dance/chill release

song art for Dream Together, by Collins & Frick

Songwriting and production partner Paul Frick and I have recently released another new song, “Dream Together”, which will be appearing on our upcoming debut album, which we’re hoping will be out some time in early 2016. Dreamy prog rock? Funky dance groove? You decide… “Dream Together” takes it to the next level. The song features… Continue reading Dream Together – New dance/chill release

Blue Paradise and Causality

This past week I released a couple of (chill/dance) songs that have been kicking around on the back burner over the last few months.  The first one (chronologically) is entitled Blue Paradise: Blue Paradise is a fun collaboration with my long term Wednesday Night Music cohort Paul Frick, and influenced by one of our favorite… Continue reading Blue Paradise and Causality

Mixdown Effects and the Mastering Chain

EDIT: October 2016 Note that since I posted this, I’ve become convinced that multiband compressors (like the C4 effect I had been using) can change the music in undesirable ways, so I’ve stopped using them in my mastering process. In this blog post, I hope to provide some insight into my music production process for my… Continue reading Mixdown Effects and the Mastering Chain

Wednesday Night Sessions With Paul Frick

I have some exciting music happenings to talk about.  One of the biggest is my ongoing long-term collaborative project with my friend Paul Frick. First a short bit about Paul.  We met several years ago, as Paul is my daughter’s boyfriend’s father (yep, they’re still dating).  Our families have always gotten along well, and it… Continue reading Wednesday Night Sessions With Paul Frick