House

Turbulence goes back to late 2007, which put it just before Existential Funk. Back then, it wasn’t meant to be an “official” anything – just this relentless piece of hard-hitting drum and bass with a bassline that refused to let go.

We live in uncertain times. The word “turbulence” carries gravity it didn’t have in 2007. Even the value of human-crafted music has shifted in the age of AI - to some, more precious. This isn’t algorithm-generated content. Every second here was wrestled into existence by a human.

The original gets the re-release it always deserved, but it’s not traveling alone. Three new remixes explore what happens when you feed a 2007 mindset through 2025 sensibilities.

Endless Winter is an EP focused on minimal house. Light rave-inspired touches give unique contrast to chilly, deep-house beats. There’s a warmth here, where you can take comfort.

Endless Winter is almost as much of a labor of love as its “prequel”, The Endless Summer. The beginnings of this EP came about at about the same time. I didn’t plan this as a sequel when I started working on it, but the connection became obvious later.

Endless Winter captures those months when you’re not trying to escape the cold, just finding ways to make it beautiful. Minimal house that doesn’t rush anywhere, doesn’t demand attention, just exists in its own carefully controlled climate.

This EP is a Bandcamp exclusive and a free download! Click through the player to grab the entire Endless Winter EP.

November may be pretty late for an album called The Endless Summer to be released, but it depends on your perspective.

The Endless Summer is a (tropical) departure from most of my work, all the tracks come in at 110 bpm, and bring some heavy island inspiration.

The first track “Shipwreck” has some carribean R&B flavor by way of techno; “Sunburn” goes into fidget house territory, not skimping on the bass; the last two tracks “The Endless Summer” and “Stay a While” cap off the EP by centering in on the tropical vibes.

This short EP has been in the making for almost 3 years. Most of that time has been getting the tracks right, there were a few more that didn’t make the cut, this is now down to the most special tracks that align with the vision of this EP.

in-flight is a short EP of experimental tech-house. All of the songs were composed exclusively onboard flights on PHX-PHL and PHX-MFR routes. The tracks are presented in a continuous mix (the intended listening experience) as well as individually.

I used the iOS app Groovebox to create these tracks, then stitched them together using Ableton back at home. Although the tracks are shorter and less complex than my typical releases, producing this way was an interesting constraint.

Just a little over 6 years ago, I released life.remixed. Similar to what I was able to do for Existential Funk, I wanted to somehow update the release for it’s 5th anniversary.

I’ve been working on this for almost 2 years now, and today I am ready to release this “special edition” of life.remixed: life.refactored.

life.refactored started as a DJ mix of the entire life.remixed album. However, it quickly came to my attention that the album was too diverse for a straight DJ mix, so it was necessary to “remix life.remixed”. Rather than remixing the tracks on an individual basis, this is a remix of the entire album – the tracks are split up at an atomic level and mixed together to form something totally different. In the making of this mix I constrained myself to only using samples from the original album, with small exception (a breakbeat and a cymbal).

This mix is inspired by some of my favorite DJ mixes, like Richie Hawtin’s DE9 series and King Cannibal’s Way of the Ninja – like these examples, this mix is greater than the sum of its parts.

The “random beats” series (the namesake of this site) was a collection of Karl D productions which were intended to be a more stripped-down standard of music production than full length albums and single releases. This series spanned 61 tracks across 5 volumes, at 2 hours, 30 minutes of music. Although the domain name preceded the series, it provided the inspiration for the nameless tracks, focusing on the music itself.

pseudorandom curates 14 standout productions from the random beats series. These tracks are now available in the highest quality ever.

This is a free download! You can click through the Bandcamp player to download the entire pseudorandom album, including the individual tracks.