Kinds of Summer and Paradise Syndrome

I made something Summery and sampled some bossa nova.

So far this Summer I've released two new Curtsy Rehearsed projects.

Kinds of Summer#

Kinds of Summer is the first thing I've made that feels "summery". I particularly like the dancey urgency of the title song — and the stoned, washed out quality of the next one — Nicely Tired with a Warm Buzz. These are genuine head-nodders, but I'm (sadly) biased...

Paradise Syndrome#

I also released Paradise Syndrome. This one is almost completely sampled from old bossa nova tracks, although you might not be able to tell with the cold, spacey hip-hop of So Blown Through or the roboticised pep of Encouragement Song. It's far more obvious with My Idle Animation and the title track.

I really like these, let me know if you do too.

Some notable features:

• All the Curtsy Rehearsed music is now free: there's an option to pay that I'm only leaving open because it helps with search-indexing, so I recently learned.
• I stopped caring so much about LUFS: these songs are mixed louder than my conventional target of 14 LUFS and it's to their benefit. The 14 came from when I researched LUFS normalisation on streaming services but I don't put my music there anymore so there's no point.
• Upping the tempo: the first song in Kinds of Summer has a BPM of >120, which is at least double what I would commonly use before and firmly in the vicinity of dance music. If BandCamp had per-song genre tagging I might have used the "dance" tag at least once.

Now I want to do something creative that isn't music for a while.

I'm not sure what it will be.