you've found my musical notepad

I make copyright-free music for my friends to use in live streams and video content. Everything is done on Akai MPC's. I'm not much of a producer, but I love writing hooks.

Everything here is free to download. You can email me to request your own music.

graftrak

The request was GTA sounding beats for a graffiti video.

Date: August 2025
Using: MPC Key 61

cruise control

Sampling more stuff, trying to get better at this rap beat thing.

Date: August 2025
Using: MPC Key 61

speedboard

Sort of a beach-themed Larry June style beat for a Speedboard review.

Date: August 2025
Using: MPC Key 61

ontop

First time screwing with my own vocal samples.

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

dropshot

Trap beats were requested.

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

stompa

Trap beats were requested.

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

dap2

Trap beats were requested.

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

dap1

Yet another megaride beat

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II

spacetrap

Yet another megaride beat

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II

bumpstock

Yet another megaride beat

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II

ghostride

Another megaride beat

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

tonka's garage

The request was "rock music while guys wrench on stuff". The problem is I don't have a working electric guitar, so everything you hear is DI from an acoustic that I kneaded into sounding electric.

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II, Schecter 5-string, Yamaha acoustic

Megaride beat 3

3 of 3 for the 2025 Surron megaride in Los Angeles, CA.

Date: July 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

Megaride beat 2

2 of 3 for the 2025 Surron megaride in Los Angeles, CA.

Date: June 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

Megaride beat 1

1 of 3 for the 2025 Surron megaride in Los Angeles, CA.

Date: June 2025
Using: MPC Live II, MPK Mini mk2

sugarfinger

Syncopated, shuffle-like rhythm.

Date: May 2025
Using: MPC Key 61, Schecter 5-string

tennessee

My best friend is in Tennessee at the moment of writing, and he needed a beat for a motorcycle video he's making out there.

Date: May 2025
Using: MPC Key 61, Schecter 5-string, Yamaha acoustic

two chord polyrhythm

No idea. Just jamming. Still remembering how to play bass.

Date: May 2025
Using: MPC Live II, Schecter 5-string

vibetown 86bpm

The first time I've plugged a bass guitar into the MPC, just a 12 bar jazz progression that I noodle over with some keyboards.

Date: April 2025
Using: MPC Live II, Schecter 5-string

smack041525.wav

The only house track on here right now. I plan on finishing this.

Date: April 2025
Using: MPC Live II

blast.wav

Not far from a complete arrangement. "blast.wav" is homophonous to "blastwave", after whom this track is named, since it was previously unnamed and he seemed to enjoy it.

Date: April 2025
Using: MPC Live II

j dilla, john wayne, same thang

Featuring guitar samples I recorded. It's a Yamaha electric-acoustic I got off Amazon and just ran direct into the MPC.

Date: March 2025
Using: MPC Live II

no autotune

One of the few things on here that's not a hip-hop beat, this is a song by Sunny Suljic that I covered to get better at using the MPC like an actual DAW. That is, no samples, just audio recordings. I used a Presonus Audiobox USB as the MPC's audio interface, and a 20 year old MXL pencil condenser to record.

Date: January 2025
Using: MPC Live II

tronka

This was used as the theme in a Naxeon Pro Electric Motorcycle Review on YouTube, for which I also shot the drone footage. It's name is a portmanteau of "Tonka" (the guy in the video) and "Tron" (because it's supposed to evoke that vibe).

Date: February 2025
Using: MPC Live II

phonka

Also for Tonka, this was just background music in a video somewhere.

Date: February 2025
Using: MPC Live II

for art blakey

I used my Numark PT-01 Scratch turntable to sample the beginning of a live Art Blakey Orchestra record, in which the MC introduces them with "How bout a big hand for Art Blakey, Art Blakey and his wonderful All-Stars!"

Date: March 2025
Using: MPC Live II

speedrun

I had some friends over who wanted to rap over a beat, so I did a 15-minute speedrun to see what I could make. This is what I got.

Date: December 2024
Using: MPC Live II

0125-wip.wav

This is an unfinished, unnamed idea in which I was playing around with automating sweep filters.

Date: January 2025
Using: MPC Live II

sadallegro

Unfinished, unmixed, etc...
Some random thing I don't remember making, the name is a portmanteu of Sada Baby (the rapper) and "allegro", the musical tempo.

Date: October 2024
Using: MPC Live II

si se puede

Unmixed, heavily unfinished.
I sampled a recording of protestors in Los Angeles chanting "Si, se puede" (Yes, you can). The guitar is that same Yamaha. If you'd like to know what that means...

Date: March 2025
Using: MPC Live II

pads-experiment.wav

Very much a "sketch", not a full arrangement. In which I was experimenting with the Performance Pads functionality on MPC.

Date: November 2024
Using: MPC Live II


Here are a few older tracks from 2008-2010, when I was a rock musician recording each instrument track-by-track in my room on Logic Pro. Everything you hear in these recordings is me.

At Least For Now

Recorded on a porch in 2010.

Date: 2010
Using: Logic Pro (7?)

See You Soon

This song was a b-side on an early Coldplay record, but was only ever acoustic. I made a full band arrangement and recorded it in my room.

Date: 2010
Using: Logic Pro (7?)