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Steve’s memorial will be on Friday at 2 pm (Wisconsin time). I will be going in person, but it appears it can be attended virtually. Here’s the link for anyone that is interested. https://facebook.com/events/s/steven-mueske-time-of-remembra/1152586745963153/

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👋 fellow electronic musician here… I’ll follow you on SoundCloud and check out what you got going on later -William

I came on here to check in on Steve Mueske and discovered the bad news. I’ll be attending the memorial on July 19th, so if anyone else is going, you’ll get a chance to meet me. I’m still working on music and released another full length last December. I got a lot of decent reviews, press coverage, and a magazine feature, but not much in the way of new listeners (gained a handful of hardcore fans, but that’s it). But… atleast, I know I can please critics. I guess that’s the cost of being a niche artist. I also lost a lot of weight (333 lbs to 195 lbs) in a little over a year. I’m still not done as I plan to stop around 170ish but it’s going a little slower as I upped my daily calories to slow muscle loss. I’ll post pictures below. I’m still emerging from a deep depression and have been working on remixing my meds with my doctors. It’s a common problem amongst us artist types, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Hope everyone is doing okay. I’ll try to pop in once in a while. If you’re interested in hearing what I’ve been up to go here —-> http://www.williamsanford.rocks Peace ☮️

This is the worst news ever. 😭I always kept in touch with him even though I am a very private, distant, and aloof person. We were discussing depression just a few days before as we both suffer from intense depression and mental health issues (Schizoid Personality Disorder 🙋🏻‍♂️). I got kind of worried as he hadn’t responded to me in a bit, but it wasn’t all that unusual for Steve to disappear for stretches of time. Hell, I do it too. But, I couldn’t shake this heavy feeling so I hopped on here to see if he was still posting and found this. I did have the pleasure of working with Steve on a song and he is an extremely talented, passionate and creative individual. But… he was also difficult to work with 😂. The results were worth it. I will miss him dearly. RIP Steve

While I'm not gonna go courting blogs and stuff with past releases, I do commonly through them up on Instagram stories every now and then (especially if they're season specific). I'm also fairly active on Repost Exchange and I'll throw them up there as my newer releases start to go stale just to freshen things up a bit. Old songs still have their uses.

Here’s something that I’ve been messing with. It’s rough and unfinished and may probably remain that way. I’ve been going down a goth/ darkwave/ ebm/ witch house rabbit hole and am trying to dip my toes into writing something depressing that pulls from a number of “dark” genres. It may be one for the trash bin, but I figure I’ll let you guys hear it first. goth type thing.mp3

@john I’m totally heading Steve’s point about the Thom Yorke thing. There’s a something about the way that your chord progression and melody intersect. It’s like a deep voiced, cowboy Radiohead (in a good way). @Emily Quinn very good voice. Your performances have a weird, uncanny ability to draw the listener in. It’s captivating. @Steve Mueske I sent you my opinions via text. In short, it’s stupid good.

I've also been getting side chain crazy on a couple of experiments. Testing different instruments and patterns and side chaining them to filters and compression to see what is interesting and what sounds awful.

I poked it around the 300range. It sounds a little strange there, so I brought in a slightly wider band around 1700 to fill it out and that sounds a bit better. It's an interesting idea. I'm gonna have to fool around with it. Good call. It plays nice with the snaps as well.

I posted this on last Friday's post, but I've worked on it over the week and I think it's closer to where I think it belongs sonically.

Steve, Let's begin is fantastic. It reminds of something really detailed that Aphex Twin would've done. Fantastic stuff. Love the pad melodies and the interactive beat elements going on. There's so much detail, I can barely take it. I've heard the second one. It grew on me since the last time I heard it. The textures and reverb/delay treatments are interesting. It's got me curious thinking about it's further development. The Death of Love is up there with my favorites from you. Seriously F*cking Powerful!!! Please make this available on Bandcamp or something so I can add it to my collection.

Here's my logo and some photos.....