@djb-rekt.bsky.social
My name is actually very clever & funny. You're just going to have to trust me on that. Aggressively amateur and wildly untrained, I make music for at least 7 people. Playing games on underpowered hardware since 1987. Streaming on everything. 🎧 🎮
"I had fun making this song"
That's musician code for:
"I didn't make this for anybody and nobody likes it"
which is something I'm really good at
open.spotify.com/track/5IOV9B...
youtu.be/26Ltg7j30L0
#music #selfproducedmusic #originalmusic #musicsky
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That's exactly it: Labubus are the Bored Apes of the plush world.
02.08.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hard at work on finishing the next album, low effort post incoming:
This is a track liked by people who don't like my music. I don't know if that's good. I don't know what good is.
open.spotify.com/track/2wCB5G...
I have over 200 games in my backlog.
Last week I played through Sonic Adventure. Again.
The backlog is a part of me now. The backlog is a third arm, an 11th finger.
I am backlog.
The new album is fully composed, and rough mixes are complete!
...which means the fun part is over. Now I get to master it.
Now I get to hate it.
Now I get to question why I ever got into music production in the first place.
Now I suffer.
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Took this screenshot the other day...it's not even close.
21.07.2025 06:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"it must be nice being your own boss"
Are you insane?! NOBODY has EVER been as cruel to me as I have been to myself. NOBODY would DARE say to my face the things I say to myself in my head.
OK, but hear me out: there's this scarab named Jeffrey...
15.07.2025 01:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the best things about listening to video game music is it's ability to allow you to relive the emotions you felt during the game while that particular track was playing.
Which makes my current project — an album for a game that doesn't exist — one of the worst ideas I've ever had.
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I'll never understand why people get so defensive about the quality of things they enjoy.
I like Sonic Adventure. I play it a lot. But that game is absolute GARBAGE, and that's OK. It's not illegal to enjoy trash, you're allowed to like things that are objectively terrible.
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I barely had anything to do with this track: it's a sample that I like so much I just changed the pitch & arrangement and added vocals & drums, because IT SOUNDS COOL and that's essentially the only requirement needed for 99% of people.
youtu.be/uAAlwsO1WBs?...
open.spotify.com/track/2I7gzp...
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Tidal is an excellent choice. They actually pay more than anyone on the chart I posted, I just always forget about them because I've literally only gotten 6 lifetime streams from there so they don't really show up on my earnings sheet 😁
01.07.2025 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As one of the artists that gets paid, no subscription streaming service pays me less than Spotify. Paying to skip garbage ads is fine, but if you're trying to support your favorite artists I'd recommend literally any other service.
01.07.2025 22:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Wait, you guys are paying Spotify?
01.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You have been AFFLICTED by the CURSE of BAD MUSIC! Share this track with 20 friends or ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN because IT'S 2025 and I CAN'T AFFORD to buy HIGH QUALITY and EFFECTIVE CURSES due to THE RISING COST OF LIVING and STAGNANT WAGES
youtu.be/VypjBOj9jsQ?...
New album on hiatus as my eye heals so I can actually see what I'm doing.
I injured it while sleeping? Which is something you can do? That's stupid. They need to release Sleep 2. Sleep 1 has too many issues. I don't know why we've put up with an inferior product for so long.
Okay, so like, objectively I know this song isn't very good, but I love it. I love all my songs like ugly little stupid children. Sure they've made some bad decisions, maybe they've been to prison a couple times, but I'm a proud song mother and my babies are special
open.spotify.com/track/25NH3m...
I don't know if "songs that take so long to get going that everybody gives up before they do and nobody has heard the whole thing" counts as a genre, but if it does, that's definitely what I make.
open.spotify.com/track/7xx2w5...
youtu.be/PBiOisDHOoM?...
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AND NO I CAN'T JUST TAKE OUT CHAPTERS 2-3 AND 2-4 BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE HOW THE PLAYER GETS TO THE WALLED CITY FROM THE FOREST VILLAGE SO QUICKLY. THE VAST DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS INTEGRAL TO THE PLOT
THE PLOT THAT CAN'T BE EXPERIENCED BY ANYONE
OBVIOUSLY
The "album for a game that doesn't exist" has gotten completely out of hand. It just hit 19 tracks, and I still need to compose 4 more songs for Chapters 2-3, 2-4, 4-5, and the end credits.
Chapters & end credits that don't exist and don't need music because they aren't real.
Why did I do this.
I'm 99% against AI producing music...but 1% in favor if it's for compression. I hope somebody programs a really good compression AI really soon, because I'm really tired of turning these damn attack and release knobs, and adjusting gain by 0.5dB twenty times per track.
09.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don't worry too much about it, literally every creative industry is like this. We all wish we could draw/perform/program/write what we imagine in our heads.
Even seemingly perfect works of art have a flaw somewhere that drives the artist absolutely crazy.
On today's edition of "songs that would be amazing if they were produced by somebody much more talented":
open.spotify.com/track/33F9Ts...
youtu.be/ZPD3Q--45pA?...
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This is a track I'll absolutely need to remaster someday when I'm better at this 'music' thing: the only reason it's not a total banger is my general lack of production knowledge.
open.spotify.com/track/0APDr9...
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Oh boy, that moment when you've been using a self-invented gibberish title for a piece of media you've been creating for months — that you're just assuming is totally unique — and one day, on a whim, Google it and discover that it's been widely used by others for YEARS. That's a special gut punch.
02.06.2025 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0While working on my dumb new album, I've been taking multiple music producing courses to better utilize the tools I have.
The irony of my stupidest album potentially having my best production is not lost on me.
Since joining BlueSky, I've gone from 18 monthly listeners to 15! Wow!
Here's a track link to celebrate this momentous occasion:
open.spotify.com/track/2KuOi4...
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Just messing around with visualizers
Track: DJ B-rekt - Busted
I named this track "Surgery" because it was the first song I made after I learned how to use the Surge XT synthesizer.
And by "learned how to use" I mean "clicked on a lot of buttons and got very frustrated".
Great synth though. Just a little tricky for dummies like me.
youtu.be/XdUFDyFCTuo?...
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I think I need to take a break from working on the new album for a couple days. I've spent at least 100 hours working on it in the last week alone. I've got midi patterns and waveforms burned into my retinas.
My poor 20-year-old headphones are putting in overtime for sure.
