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Great Music
I love music. I listen to it all the time. I make it too — electronic compositions as Infinite State.
My client of choice is Apple Music, mostly for the lossless quality. As I get older, I notice my tastes shifting from the intensity of rock toward the texture of electronic music. The wide audio spectrum of heavy guitar is more taxing to my ears than it used to be.
Favorite Albums
These are the albums I keep coming back to, years later:
- Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd — The purest expression of absence I've ever heard.
- Lateralus by Tool — Consciousness and spiral dynamics rendered as music. Still finding new things in it.
- Under Pressure by Logic — Vulnerable, ambitious, honest about the cost of ambition.
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West — Whatever you think of the man, this album is a masterpiece of maximalism.
- The Life of Pablo by Kanye West — Messy, unfinished, alive. The most honest thing he ever made.
- Elect the Dead by Serj Tankian — Rage refined into something more precise.
- Make Yourself by Incubus — The album that defined a specific kind of late-90s introspection.
What I Listen To
Hip-Hop — Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Logic, J. Cole, Eminem, Travis Scott, Baby Keem.
Rock — Tool, Incubus, A Perfect Circle, Chevelle, 311, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Foo Fighters.
Classic Rock — Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac.
Electronic — Puscifer, Moby, Deadmau5, Beck.
My Own Work
I release electronic music as Infinite State. A few tracks that mean something to me:
- She May Require Lithium — From Messengers Rising. The title says it.
- Consistent Inconsistency — From Unmastered Impulses. A meditation on living with a mind that won't hold still.
- Nintendo Dreams — Pure nostalgia rendered as sound.
- Reminiscence — From As Above, So Below.
Top 50 Songs
A snapshot from iTunes — what I actually play on repeat:
| Song Title | Duration | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landslide | 3:18 | Fleetwood Mac | The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (Remastered) |
| Hurricane | 4:03 | Kanye West | Donda |
| First Person Shooter (feat. J. Cole) | 4:07 | Drake | For All The Dogs |
| Midas (feat. Robb Banks) [Bonus Track] | 2:55 | Jace | Jace Tape |
| Internet Persona | 1:31 | aut★psy | Ethertopia |
| Nintendo Dreams | 2:07 | Infinite State | Nintendo Dreams - Single |
| Bullet Train To Iowa (Billy Howerdel Mix) | 3:39 | Puscifer | Bullet Train To Iowa / The Underwhelming (Re-imagined) - Single |
| Heaven and Hell | 2:25 | Kanye West | Donda |
| goosebumps | 4:04 | Travis Scott | Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight |
| family ties | 4:12 | Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar | family ties - Single |
| Sticky | 4:03 | Drake | Honestly, Nevermind |
| 44 More | 3:09 | Logic | Bobby Tarantino II |
| Crooked Smile (feat. TLC) | 4:39 | J. Cole | Born Sinner (Deluxe Version) |
| Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1 | 2:16 | Kanye West | The Life of Pablo |
| SICKO MODE | 5:13 | Travis Scott | ASTROWORLD |
| Iris | 4:50 | The Goo Goo Dolls | Dizzy Up the Girl |
| Vultures (feat. Bump J) | 3:58 | ¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign | Vultures (feat. Bump J) - Single |
| What Would Pluto Do | 3:03 | Drake | For All The Dogs |
| Otis (feat. Otis Redding) | 2:58 | JAY-Z & Kanye West | Watch the Throne |
| Selah | 2:45 | Kanye West | JESUS IS KING |
| Amber (feat. Sevak Amroyan) | 3:36 | Serj Tankian | Amber (feat. Sevak Amroyan) - Single |
| Off The Grid | 5:39 | Kanye West | Donda |
| All Day (feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney) | 5:11 | Kanye West | All Day - Single |
| Major Distribution | 2:51 | Drake & 21 Savage | Her Loss |
| Isis (feat. Logic) | 3:57 | Joyner Lucas | ADHD |
| THANK GOD | 3:05 | Travis Scott | UTOPIA |
| True Love | 2:29 | Kanye West & XXXTENTACION | True Love - Single |
| Swimming Pools (Drank) [Extended Version] | 5:14 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe Version) |
| BURN EVERYTHING (feat. YE) | 2:48 | Sean Leon | HERD IMMUNITY 1.0 |
| Pardon Me | 3:44 | Incubus | Make Yourself |
| KOD | 3:11 | J. Cole | KOD |
| Saving Us | 4:41 | Serj Tankian | Elect the Dead |
| Reminiscence | 3:15 | Infinite State | As Above, So Below. |
| Remote Control pt 2 | 5:23 | Kanye West | Donda |
| Follow God | 1:45 | Kanye West | JESUS IS KING |
| Will You | 3:47 | P.O.D. | Payable On Death |
| Cash In Cash Out (feat. 21 Savage & Tyler, The Creator) | 3:36 | Pharrell Williams | Cash In Cash Out - Single |
| Karma's a B!tch | 2:36 | Sophia Rayne | Karma's a B!tch - Single |
| Shekina | 4:46 | Blindside | About a Burning Fire |
| Rich Flex | 3:59 | Drake & 21 Savage | Her Loss |
| Lucky You (feat. Joyner Lucas) | 4:06 | Eminem | Curtain Call 2 |
| She May Require Lithium | 4:07 | Infinite State | Messengers Rising |
| Moon | 2:36 | Kanye West | Donda |
| Wash Us in the Blood (feat. Travis Scott) | 3:10 | Kanye West | Wash Us in the Blood - Single |
| Consistent Inconsistency | 4:50 | Kenneth Reitz | Unmastered Impulses |
| When I Talk (feat. Kx5) | 3:28 | deadmau5, Kaskade & Elderbrook | When I Talk (feat. Kx5) - Single |
| 10 Bands | 2:58 | Drake | If You're Reading This It's Too Late |
| Chicago Freestyle | 3:40 | Drake & GIVĒON | Dark Lane Demo Tapes |
| Family Matters | 7:37 | Drake | Family Matters - Single |