Hello Newgrounds,

Let me tell you what I've been up to lately in terms of my upcoming album "Overlord", formerly known as the "Gerald Finegrooves LP", I decided to change the albums name to "Overlord" because it lines up better with the content and general vibe of the musical pieces therein which all have some sort of element of the central themes of "Power and Control". After a lengthy period of time, I was able to generate my OC "the Syntrus Robot" over on Night Cafe with the prompt "Album Art of an Evil Golden Robot Overlord with One Eye and a Triangular Head Retro Sci Fi 8K".

I think he's looks dreamy...but the ai fucked up it's mouth a little. I know using this tool is a little sacrilegious to a lot of you, but I just remembered that I don't really give a shit.

My newer release Interstellar Interstate is intended as an interlude, and I know I've told a number of you that I was going to do lyrics on every track but a lot of my favorite albums are very instrumental heavy, and I think it breaks up the album a little bit and facilitates the telling of story through space rock. I leaned heavy on the Cherry Audio Miniverse a really good Moog Model D software clone. So far it seems to be pretty popular, and I like the mix.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1159111

Unlike together before a few hours ago where I retooled the mix.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1157675

I sought out the opinion of other qualified musicians and producers to try and figure out what about it was bugging me so much, something I learned from college where I majored in broadcast production was to "get more ears on it when you're unsure what's wrong with it." So a member of the NG community and somone I consider a mentor @AliceMako was able to detect that the high end wasn't as smooth on this release of the song and I was able to pot down on the high end of the EQ and correct the mix, thank goodness, that shit was driving me nuts.

I am in the process of discovering my inner poet and I'm thinking of polishing off a couple of ol beats to rap over Starling City 2021 and Post Dr.Pepper

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/993004

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/265811

If any of you have any links or titles to books or articles that have helped

you write lyrics please let me know.

This WIP is coming along quite nicely check it out here.

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/f57444a3666a32337cc4ef027efaccba