When I’m not on the road, I’m at home creating my own music. Just as I’m about to release an album, the phone rings, and I’m on the road again. My focus becomes the gig, so the project gets put on hold.

This has been the pattern for some time.

Two years ago, I was going to release the five albums that had been sitting on my drives. I had taken some Deadmau5 challenges from his Master Class, where we had to come up with an original song in less than 24 hours - created, mixed, mastered, uploaded and release-ready.

Despite my tour schedule and being in the middle of a one-off in Europe, I still made time for one of the class challenges, completing it in my London hotel room from 4 am to 7 am, before an 8 am lobby call.

Then I thought, “if I can create a song in 3 hours when I have 24, can I create and finish an album in 24 hours?”

And in early 2018, I did. The master finished bouncing as I had five minutes to get downstairs to make my lobby call.

I decided to call the album One Day.

What was my next thought? “That was fun. Let me try that again next week on a day off.”

And I did it again, calling it Eleven.

And as the year progressed, I created seven more albums.

I call it the Great Release Project, or the GRP.

The vocal albums begin with High Floor, Mountain View and Unseen Pleasures. These two albums were created while traveling on the road, either in long-term residencies in Vegas, or bouncing around North America while putting shows together for other artists and productions.  

Alpha Fox was originally called “45 On The 15," due to most of its lyrics created by singing whatever came to mind into an iPad, as I was driving from Baker to Barstow one late night.

Fymila is a spoiled, entitled bratty girl who invaded my world late 2013, while I was working in Vegas. She loves to shop and get into trouble. A TV series, a Concert Tour, and a feature-length movie are swirling in her vortex.

Become 12 was also inspired by Master Class courses and exercises.  

Nativity was mostly created with the Native Instrument Komplete Bundle.

Go To 16 is a phrase often used on radio behind the scenes at shows, to let everyone know backstage that the show is about to start.

Table Top contains songs that were born on the iPad app of the same name.

BOBgOg was inspired by Roland Cloud releasing virtual versions of the TR-808 and TR-909.

Stragglers are songs that were created at random, without the intention of being a part of any particular album project or theme.

Night Flights and World Record were created while I was on tour, late 2018.

24 Stunden In Berlin was created in a 24-hour period, while having three days off in Berlin.

Stockholm Syndrum was created in a 24-hour period in Stockholm, during a few days off as well.

Omniverse (a meditation) completes the Great Release Project, created within a few hours using Spectrasonic’s Omnisphere.

For me, the process of creating is gratifying. I hope you enjoy the these as much as I did making them.

-GL3N