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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / jwh's music / danger (w/ emily)
emily // bass, vocals
jwh // casio sk-5, electric guitar, drums, vocals, mix
round 2 of the 2026 monthly emily collab!
>>> if you are here first, please make sure to head over to emily's page to check out her version:
emily // danger
much love to all of you. let's keep going.
XO,
jwh
danger // we're on the ledge
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oooh yes those chop cuts. Love the crunchy tape bits in this. 1min fantastic mixing letting all these little things poke through and be heard! So different from Emily's version, dig the rhythmic elements of your take.
Sometimes danger can be fun. This is a good example. It has a happy upbeat feel to me. Okay, I'm headed over to check out Emily's version.
digging the waviness felt in the groove that quietly gets you nodding along. Ooof the chord at 2:30 
. love these!
Loving how tape-wobbly this feels. The insistent guitar line works wonderfully, and the rhythmic cuts are both surprising and reinforcing. Super great. Loving these collaborations!
And, yes, we're in danger.
Delightful. Playful and perilous at the same time - I keep expecting your vocal to resolve and am rather pleased they don't entirely, there's a real connection to Laurie Anderson's O Superman there with a folk Arcade Fire spin... just awesome.
I love how you both go in such different directions, it makes me smile.
Oh wow so different. The weird drony chords are so cool, doing so much with so few notes. Very nice composition. Yes please, more of these collabs, so interesting to hear the different results!
Love to hear about the process, interesting to see how different the results can be from the same source material. This time around I gotta say I prefer Emily's version which feels like it's treating the threat with more gravity. Your light-hearted (or at least lighter-hearted) interpretation almost seems too stoic to me.
Of course, all of this interpretation is through the lens of current events and with the understanding that musically everything is top notch. Speaking of Pink Floyd, this got some magical realism of the early Floyds, but is more musically modern. In that it reminds me of the UK band Archive that with their 2002 album "You All Look The Same To Me". At the time of its release we were excited this is next-gen Pink Floyd music.
here, there, and back again love the different takes. Here for the mystery box collab!
That bed of repeating distorted vocal chord stabs make for a peaceeful and weirdly nostalgic feel ("weirdly," as in "I can't think of any song in the past that was memorable or meaningful compared to the mood I get from this").
we then went to our respective corners to layer & mix without listening to what the other was doing
I love the collab process you two have
That's a cool track!
That "trip hop" vibe works super good with Emily's vocal. I like both versions!
Always love the emily / jwh collab weeks!!
The sense of danger is palpable with that droning synth line, but the rest of the track feels like it has a sense of innocence, could it be hope? The juxtaposition was really interesting both sonically and to think about in the bigger picture. Makes for an impressive amount of depth to this weeklybeat. I'm hoping we can stay on the ledge. Stay safe!
Fittingly, weeklybeats has auto-cued emily's next!
uncanny valley vocals (I mean the ones that are like a texture), nice processing on them. feels very spooky. dangerous. cuuuute collab
Great work, both of you. The shifting retune and distortion are appropriately unnerving while the beat and guitar feel like comfort by contrast. You two have done a wonderful job putting this year in context musically. Even when things don’t feel hopeful, the way you both tackle that head-on gives hope.
Feels strangely kifd_affirming to me, lije, we're at the ledge.. But we're still here
I really like how differently both of your versions came out. To me yours feels more uncomfortable, because it's slightly less ominous. One of the things that's been hard for me over the last week is how normal and stupid and regular everything has been - there have been a million little daily life things to focus on. AT the same time, I have a lot of friends living in the gulf (I used to live there), and even in some of the least impacted places, things are still being up-ended. I can only imagine what it is like for the most vulnerable, but here I am stressing about work and packages being delivered and shows and stuff. Your track feels like it captures both that nagging concern about things being wrong and bad, but with a variety of elements that feel optimistic. It feels disjointed (in a very intentional and effective way), and I really liked it.
I like. I get a lightness from this. Some hope and a twinge of fun after the more ominous danger of emily's great track. Cool process for collab! Let's go.
Awesome. Has the light poppy feel of a late 60s gem, but that overlaying grit and chops give it a modern feel - danger with a bit of “this is fine” feel. Love how the mix gradually cleans up over the duration of the track. Going right over to listen to Emily’s version!
d a n g e r
Please continue with the collabs, you guys have a wonderful thing going here, love how you each make your own version without the other one knowing what it will be (some healthy competition).
Some hope...
...could it be hope?
Even when things don’t feel hopeful, the way you both tackle that head-on gives hope.
we're at the ledge.. But we're still here
“this is fine”
Your track feels like it captures both that nagging concern about things being wrong and bad, but with a variety of elements that feel optimistic. It feels disjointed (in a very intentional and effective way), and I really liked it.
FRIENDS. thank you so much for listening this week and for taking the time to comment.
i'm glad that several of you picked up on some hope in this track.
i wasn't really sure where my mix was going to go after emily and i finished tracking. we had both been feeling overwhelmed and shaky, and yes... on the ledge.
when the song started to come into focus i was surprised when i started to feel some lightness, even a little bit of a bounce to it. i resisted the urge to steer it to darker territory, because well... i truly believe that the Songs are in charge, and i try to let them steer the boat.
dadboy - i think your comment sums it up really well. it can feel trite, silly even, to be making music and going about our normal routines when so much of the world is burning. when so many are being harmed. so many voices silenced.
i know in my heart that music helps. making things, feeling things, expressing ourselves, building community... these things all push the needle towards love. and that truly does give me hope.
let's keep going
This has a good doze of the Gorillaz vibes I always dig.
Great execution!
