I made this song in two hours with a premade amen break sample and two Moog Grandmother tracks. It is a silly, simple track, but I like it, and it was hella fun to make. Feel free to use it in your projects!
2025-02-14 04:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT: UH OH Don't know why the text in this post got deleted! Here's the link to the Google Form for you to enter the giveaway as try to remember what I wrote in this before.
I JUST FINISHED TIDYING MY ROOM AND I FEEL LIKE A MILLION BUCKS!
This was extremely important for me to do, and...
2025-02-14 04:44:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello! This is gonna be a shorter Progress Report, because this month has been a very bad one!
At the beginning of the month, I was making a lot of progress in reorganizing my office—I had just finished taking everything out of the cabinets and installing some sliding shel...
2025-02-01 06:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, it's been a pretty rough start to the year here in LA (and also maybe everywhere), but Karen and I are safe. Our apartment is, by some unbelievable luck, still standing. Here are the links I talk about in the video:
See some of the most terrifyi...
2025-01-21 19:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
GOODBYE TO YOU, 2024! HELLO TO THE NEW YEAR! If you’re reading this, you did it! You made it through another very challenging year in a string of challenging years. And that’s pretty incredible. Keep it up.
okay don't tell anyone because we weren't supposed to film anything at the BLIB concert
but let's just say that a kind fan (cough cough karen in the balcony cough cough) managed to snag a relatively stable iphone video of the first song in the set
Forgive us for the so-so sound quality, but hey, we got proof that the concert happened!!! And if nothing else, I hope this captures the energy and excitement we felt while performing. To those who...
2024-12-29 17:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostPlease forgive me for an extremely unhinged brecommendation for the month, but Michael Bay's Pain & Gain is a Michael Bay movie that parodies Michael Bay movies, and it's astonishing. And since a Michael Bay recommendation on its own wouldn't sit well with me, I also recommend Lubalin's new album "haha, no worries," which I can't stop listening to.
LINKS REFERENCED:
- First Eight Minutes From Pai...
Hello and howdy! Sending out this Progress Report right before I go hang out with Jordan & Jarvis on Sad Boyz Live! If you had a Thanksgiving this week, I hope it was a nice one. If you didn't have a Thanksgiving, go eat a big meal anyway because it's always fun to have an excuse for a big meal.
I had a ton of fun figuring out how to film/edit this video in order to make it look alright, so here's a video talking through the production of it! Hope it inspires you to make your own Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Kids-core videos. Anything to give me an excuse to show off all of our little guys.
2024-11-19 05:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's Talking Small! No stems this time since Louie did all of music work, but feel free to listen to it here or on streaming! (Here it is on Spotify)
2024-11-19 03:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a new Louie Zong & BDG song!
This was extremely fun to make because we did the songwriting process in the reverse of what I'm used to: I wrote lyrics and a melody, and he wrote the music behind it. It's always fun to have chords in my head as I write it, only to be COMPLETELY surprised to hear how it turns out when Louie arranges it (his version is shifted two beats from how I originally planned it, and it makes it EXTRA groovy). It's my favorite part of making music with peopl...
2024-11-15 18:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back to recommending things! And as always, I spent way more time than I had planned to answer some questions and talk about coming back from my break!
Links/media mentioned:
NOTE: I'll be catching up on the behind-the-scenes/blooper videos of the videos I posted during the hiatus starting now! It might take a little while, but I'll try to get them finished over the course of the next few months.
Here's our behind-the-scenes footage from the weekend when we made the song for the BLIB concert! We had a very fun time. Would highly recommend the Vintage Synthesizer Museum.
P. S. I originally called this post "The Making of Silent Love"...
2024-11-01 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the full track of Silent Love! You should also be able to stream it today! Enjoy!
2024-11-01 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
October is over, and the Patreon is back up and running! And that means it's time for a !!!!BIG PROGRESS REPORT!!!!
A concert with Louie Zong and Worthikids (and a pr...
2024-10-31 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Postthe boys, as they say, are back in town.
Ian "Worthikids" Worthington came through a few weeks ago to make a song with Louie Zong and myself that absolutely smacks of Steely Dan. And I think we sure did it. You have no idea how excited I was when Ian said he could do a flute solo for this, and boy oh boy is it fun to watch Louie come up with great instrumentals on the spot.
This video will go up on Friday, Nov. 1st, because let's face it, if we post it now people wil...
2024-10-30 23:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
You might have seen the post on Instagram, but Louie Zong, Ian Worthington (Worthikids), and I are doing a little live concert in December! Ian brought up the idea to Louie and I, and of course we said YEAH YEAH LET'S DO IT! So we threw together some of our favorite songs and we'll be performing on December 5th at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles.
The tickets go live to the public on the 24th, but we aske...
2024-10-22 20:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostCome! A Jaunty Quest awaits you!
Here's a video that's about taking a daring quest, but it's actually about how I started getting weirdly self-conscious going to the grocery store after the pandemic, but it's actually about how fun it is to make a video that has little animated bunnies in it, but it's ACTUALLY about how I made some really Cool & Nice pants.
This video took a little longer than expected because of all the art that Ka...
2024-10-18 22:55:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe BDG business groundhog has come out of his den and is predicting one more month of Patreon pause! This is a reference to Groundhog Day. The holiday, not the movie. I'm not stuck in a time loop.
I've had this video ready for the past month, but I've been sitting on it for a while.
The main reason is because I haven't decided when I want to post it on my channel yet (or if I'm going to at all). It's still a silly song, and the vast majority is a joke, but by the end, it's also one of the more honest and vulnerable ones. Even "i wish that i could wear hats" had a few more layers of irony and metaphor built in to make it feel safer, but this one's far more straightforward. Then ag...
2024-09-28 21:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostI finally can share the kids show proof-of-concept that Karen and I got to work on earlier this year! It's called Outdoor Ed, and I play a 20-foot-tall mountain man. Here's the official copy from the pitch deck:
Outdoor Ed is a silly kids nature show! Gentle giant Outdoor Ed, his self-serious producer Business Duck, and their production crew of forest friends try their best to put on a TV show that never goes quite to plan. But, with a little creativity and compassion, Ed al...
2024-09-21 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Look at that, I made a video this month!
Not a ton, but I will say that you should expect at least one (and maybe up to three???) videos being posted to YouTube this month. First, "promises..." will be out on the 9th.
The other two are still tentative, but here's one of them: we'r...
2024-08-31 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey hey! I finally finished up this video, which will be going live on September 9th! I love to make a video that has a deadline built into it.
I'm planning to go through all of the footage I took with Anna Love and Sam King, the two beekeepers in this video, and post it as a big Patreon behind-the-scenes video. They taught me a ton, not just about beekeeping, but about how to get into it as well! I had such a fun time filming and editing this, and I hope the BTS video will maybe get a ...
2024-08-26 19:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'm finally writing that quick Progress Report I promised!
Thanks for your patience on the delay of this one—I've been busy working on the next season of Um, Actually, and I just had a chance to sit down and write this up.
Mostly Um, Actually! I'm extremely excited about this next season. We've been putting a lot of work into it, and it's been nice to have a specific project to work on during this Patreon pause. It's still easie...
2024-08-04 18:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I'm going to keep the text part of this post quick since I go into more detail in the video above, but here are the main updates.
I'll be taking a longer break from the Patreon. This means I will pause the billing cycle (starting from the moment this post is published) and keep it paused for the next few months. I don't have a specific return date set yet, but I don't see it being any sooner than October.
I will post short Progress Reports...
2024-06-25 23:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for another Brian Brecommends that goes long because I can't stop talking about a thing. That's right, it's MAGIC THE GATHERING.
Oh, and also Juanpalitoschinos, a great band that just released their debut album!
LINKS:
Phew! Made it through May. That's one extremely busy month down, probably one or two left to go.
Sorry it's only one post this month! The next section should hopefully explain why.
A whoooooole lot of things! As I mentioned in 2024-05-31 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a new Brian Brecommends! And I have once again fallen into the indie game vortex with a strange one, ANIMAL WELL.
Links mentioned:
Cole Escola (it was jus...
2024-05-10 00:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Another dang month over! Hot dog!
Karen and I went to the renaissance fair so I included those photos in this post, because why not? Almost all of the clothing I am wearing is from Karen. I wanted to go as "farmer who is bad at farming because he spends all of his day composing terrible poetry on a hill."
More posts this month, and the first video of the album project! What a weird one to complete first. But I guess the rest will be odd, too.
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2024-05-01 00:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The business begins.
(I'm making burgers)
2024-04-30 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post