Welcome back, this is awesome.
- Devieus

Welcome back, this is awesome. - Devieus

instant classic 🙌

instant classic 🙌

This is sooo awesome... first favorite of the year. 

This is sooo awesome... first favorite of the year.

This is great. Spectacular work with the vocal sampling, the laugh echos are perfect.
Excited to hear more of your stuff this year!

This is great. Spectacular work with the vocal sampling, the laugh echos are perfect. Excited to hear more of your stuff this year!

Welcome back and Hi Hi Hi!

This was so much fun. The guitar is so perfectly seated here and everything just comes together with some high energy joy...
But then the pads on the breakdown omg teh feelz.

Looking forward to a froggy year!

Welcome back and Hi Hi Hi! This was so much fun. The guitar is so perfectly seated here and everything just comes together with some high energy joy... But then the pads on the breakdown omg teh feelz. Looking forward to a froggy year!

this is so rad!
happy new year paisleyfrog!

this is so rad! happy new year paisleyfrog! [img]https://media1.tenor.com/m/lVc_0q7vq80AAAAd/toast-bread.gif[/img]

Hi!

Hi!

Hi hi hi 👋

That's a great sample, and you pulled it all together well - cool track!

Hi hi hi 👋 That's a great sample, and you pulled it all together well - cool track!

Great usage of the Orange Drink sample.  And now I've got hi hi hi hi stuck in my head. 

Great usage of the Orange Drink sample. And now I've got hi hi hi hi stuck in my head. :)

Wait I clicked play on the Paisleyfrog track why is Orange Drink OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH I GET IT.

This is both hilarious and beautifully conceived at the same time. So many cool details too, like the pads in the breakdown. You and Orange Drink totally need to play this live together someday!

This is gonna be a fun year, I can already feel it.

Wait I clicked play on the Paisleyfrog track why is Orange Drink OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH I GET IT. :P This is both hilarious and beautifully conceived at the same time. So many cool details too, like the pads in the breakdown. You and Orange Drink totally need to play this live together someday! This is gonna be a fun year, I can already feel it. :D

omg, incredible!
what a great start to the new year 

omg, incredible! what a great start to the new year <3 [img]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2Fciilp6ZuZyxphZwsQt%2Fgiphy.gif%3Fcid%3D790b761153f4e262b0439ab7078d6ec11ab668359aa49ec0%26rid%3Dgiphy.gif%26ct%3Ds&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ee1391845f4bf843095aa9e3dca5bfc6a08c6026b828cfeebd27d0ce5fd1daea[/img]

Let’s go 2026, hi again!

Let’s go 2026, hi again!

Love the ethos of this one!

Love the ethos of this one!

Hi!  it's a bop! loved the guitar and drum. Rocking out!

Hi! it's a bop! loved the guitar and drum. Rocking out!

This is such a cool idea!
I actually read about your stuff in 2024 in Billy’s zine. The laugh sample is amazing

This is such a cool idea! I actually read about your stuff in 2024 in Billy’s zine. The laugh sample is amazing

Hell of a way top kick off the year, that was a super fun track.  Loved it.  The songs charm and humor really play off each other so well.  Whispers of The Cure in your guitars was a really nice touch.  WB26 ahoy!!!

Hell of a way top kick off the year, that was a super fun track. Loved it. The songs charm and humor really play off each other so well. Whispers of The Cure in your guitars was a really nice touch. WB26 ahoy!!!

Haha, yeah that laugh works perfectly throughout the song. I eventually forgot it was even there because it blends in seamlessly. Great playing too!

Haha, yeah that laugh works perfectly throughout the song. I eventually forgot it was even there because it blends in seamlessly. Great playing too!

This keeps making me laugh on every listen
What a start for the year

HI! (hi! hi! hi...)

This keeps making me laugh on every listen :D What a start for the year HI! (hi! hi! hi...)

HI

HI

Hi!

I kinda expected you to use the sample as well, but we kinda did the same with the laugh as well XD
Totally different direction though! dang the guitar work is on point and you delivered a banger!

Hi! I kinda expected you to use the sample as well, but we kinda did the same with the laugh as well XD Totally different direction though! dang the guitar work is on point and you delivered a banger!

that hi sample forever lives inside of me now.

that hi sample forever lives inside of me now.

HIGH

Nice grungy rock, perfect fun vocal sampling

HIGH Nice grungy rock, perfect fun vocal sampling :heart:

OK I got distracted and I thought this was the breakdown for OrangeDrink's ACTUAL Week 1 submission. The bar is real friggen high this year! I'm going to rock my 40s with some PRIMUS fused one man band nonsense.

OK I got distracted and I thought this was the breakdown for OrangeDrink's ACTUAL Week 1 submission. The bar is real friggen high this year! I'm going to rock my 40s with some PRIMUS fused one man band nonsense.

Hello again!

Glad to see you here, this one was loads of fun!

I digged the sample as an instrument, and it almost hid the fact of a really cool instrumental underneath! Nice entry to 2026!

Hello again! Glad to see you here, this one was loads of fun! I digged the sample as an instrument, and it almost hid the fact of a really cool instrumental underneath! Nice entry to 2026!

i love this so much

i love this so much

The bass sounds awesome right away.  Drew is sampled into a hypnotic and mesmerizing catchy groove.  I really enjoyed the wailing guitar line.  Made me wanna air guitar along.  Agree with ENC_ that sample hook is gonna bounce around my noggin forever

The bass sounds awesome right away. Drew is sampled into a hypnotic and mesmerizing catchy groove. I really enjoyed the wailing guitar line. Made me wanna air guitar along. Agree with ENC_ that sample hook is gonna bounce around my noggin forever :)

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!!! hahahahaha... I kind of heard this yesterday during weekly meets, but with everyone chatting, it was super hard to actually hear the music. Boy am I glad I came back to give it a proper listen: it's simultaneously hilarious, haunting and VERY good, hahahaha...
I particularly like your comment about trying not to overthink things this year. I mean, it's not like my music is particularly cerebral or intricate, but I want to allow myself some more flexibility and space to explore weird stuff.
Anyways, awesome to hear from you again, friend!!! Looking forward to a great 2026!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!!! hahahahaha... I kind of heard this yesterday during weekly meets, but with everyone chatting, it was super hard to actually hear the music. Boy am I glad I came back to give it a proper listen: it's simultaneously hilarious, haunting and VERY good, hahahaha... I particularly like your comment about trying not to overthink things this year. I mean, it's not like my music is particularly cerebral or intricate, but I want to allow myself some more flexibility and space to explore weird stuff. Anyways, awesome to hear from you again, friend!!! Looking forward to a great 2026!

Hahaha, this was fun! Interesting how rhythmical laughter can be!

Hahaha, this was fun! Interesting how rhythmical laughter can be!

I'm so glad you used the sample! I spent so long chopping that video up, and I just couldn't get over the contrast of OD living in the land of future acid weirdness. like a universe with him it has to go solar punk and not cyberpunk.

guitar line absolutely rules throughout. love the breathers we get too. face melt off / face come back / face melt off. sweet tune.

I'm so glad you used the sample! I spent so long chopping that video up, and I just couldn't get over the contrast of OD living in the land of future acid weirdness. like a universe with him it has to go solar punk and not cyberpunk. guitar line absolutely rules throughout. love the breathers we get too. face melt off / face come back / face melt off. sweet tune.

Hi!

Hi!

Nice hommage. I feel now that orange drink now maybe regret to have given his ok to sample his video. Lol.

Super fun track!

Nice hommage. I feel now that orange drink now maybe regret to have given his ok to sample his video. Lol. Super fun track!

Hi! I just wanted to say that this is amazing

Hi! I just wanted to say that this is amazing :cool:

That wailing guitar fits so well, what is even going on here? I come in to see Paisleyfrog's first track of the year and find a mosh pit party. Which then takes a pensive emotional turn somehow and finally lands a rocking finale.

Instant classic, as SQF said. No notes, five stars.

That wailing guitar fits so well, what is even going on here? I come in to see Paisleyfrog's first track of the year and find a mosh pit party. Which then takes a pensive emotional turn somehow and finally lands a rocking finale. Instant classic, as SQF said. No notes, five stars.

Drew saying "Hi" never sounded so scary and threatening before.

Drew saying "Hi" never sounded so scary and threatening before.

Hi! This is amazing the tone in the guitar is majestic.

Hi! This is amazing the tone in the guitar is majestic.

Hi! This sounds freakin awesome! Love the solo after the buildup

Hi! This sounds freakin awesome! Love the solo after the buildup

Oh hell yeah!!!
This is amazing. Love it.

Oh hell yeah!!! This is amazing. Love it.

Oh wow...I'm a little blown away by the response, thanks to everyone. I think I was able to respond to everyone, apologies if anyone was missed!

The week 1 energy has been AMAZING - this is going to be a great year. Love the Weekly Beats community!

Thanks! It's so good to be back on the boards with everyone.

Damn...thank you so much!

Thanks! OD's laugh was so much fun to play with, the rhythm of it was great. Very much looking forward to your music as well!

I think that was the other part when making this song clicked - was just having a lot of fun playing along and rocking out to this mildly goofy song

I'm sorta proud of the pensive bridge - that's another part I didn't overthink. Hit record, played it and then left it alone. Looking forward to another year of Neon music!

Thanks emily! Happy New year to you as well, so glad you're back for another WB

Thanks! There's so much joy in OD's voice, and that laugh - when I played the first mix for my wife, she said, "It needs more laughing!!". She was right

Hah! Starting my first track of the year with someone else's voice is a choice, that's for sure

I'm glad the feels came across. It's a weird track in that it was making me laugh, but sorta rocked out as well. Super happy it all clicked together. And I agree, this year is already feeling like so much fun. The energy is electric.

As far as a performance - we're both in the same state. I'm down if OD is

Gotta start hard, because I heard U like to party.

So glad to see you back, this is going to be a great year!

Thanks! This was a lot of fun to play. Hit record and play!

Thank you!

You're pretty well spot on with the guitar tone. I've built my guitar sounds primarily off of two patches in Logic...and one of them is called "Eighties Goth"

So happy you're back for '26 - let's go!

The rhythm of his laugh, and even the pitch. So much fun to work with! Thanks!

Was so excited to see you worked with it as well! And definitely - totally different directions. Glad you enjoyed, and looking forward to a year of your music again!

I'm sort of glad I wrote the song quickly - the sample is firmly in my head as well, can't imagine if I had spent a week listening to HI HI HI HI Thanks, glad you liked it!

Thanks! Playing grungy is FUN

One man band nonsense. It's me!

Week 1 submissions have been GREAT! So much great music. Thanks, glad you liked it!

Glad to see you back as well! His sample was so much fun as percussion. And thanks for the kind words on the instrumental - it was so much fun to put together. I need to do more trashy rock this year methinks.

Thank you!!

Thank you so much - so happy you called out the bass, this might be my favorite bass sound I've done. Sits forward in the mix, and has some of that rock bass growl I really never use

Thank you thank you!

Definitely, looking forward to not overthinking and experimenting - letting things sit if they feel fun, maybe going into weird territory. And this one definitely felt weird, I don't think I've combined "funny" and "rocks" before.

Awesome seeing you back again as well! Here's to experimentation and fun in '26

HAH heh huh huh heh heh hah heh...

Thank you! Glad it all worked and that laughter was had   This is going to be a great year!

Definitely, it was the first thing that caught me. So much fun. Looking forward to your music this year!

So happy you had that idea in the Discord! It felt like the perfect week 1

Thanks for the kind words on the guitar. '24 gave me a lot of confidence in my playing that I've never really had before - shredders and technical players have always been held up as the gold standard guitar heroes, which are definitely not me! Very happy that the style I'm finding works - thank you!!

Hee hee He actually messaged me after music drop on Sunday to tell me just how hard he was laughing. Best compliment ever

Thank you!!

Thank you so much, that is such high praise. Funny thing is, even while I was recording it I wasn't exactly sure what was going on. The reaction to this rtack (and the music I've been making over the past month) reinforces to me the decision to get out of my own head, follow the creativity, and see where things go. Even if they don't make sense. Looking forward to see where it leads everyone this year!!

Right?! I'm sorta glad I didn't follow my first instinct, which was to take it in a dark industrial direction. Now THAT would have been scary Glad to see you again Raja!

Thanks! It's my cheap Glarry telecaster knockoff - it's my go-to, it plays ridiculously well

Thanks! That was my first take solo - I'm working on keeping the high energy recordings, and not trying to be perfect

Thank you!!

Oh wow...I'm a little blown away by the response, thanks to everyone. I think I was able to respond to everyone, apologies if anyone was missed! The week 1 energy has been AMAZING - this is going to be a great year. Love the Weekly Beats community! [quote=DESLRV]Welcome back, this is awesome. - Devieus[/quote] Thanks! It's so good to be back on the boards with everyone. [quote=SQF]instant classic 🙌[/quote] [quote=Napear]This is sooo awesome... first favorite of the year. [/quote] Damn...thank you so much! [quote=BarristerPlong]This is great. Spectacular work with the vocal sampling, the laugh echos are perfect. Excited to hear more of your stuff this year![/quote] Thanks! OD's laugh was so much fun to play with, the rhythm of it was great. Very much looking forward to your music as well! [quote=neon liminal]Welcome back and Hi Hi Hi! This was so much fun. The guitar is so perfectly seated here and everything just comes together with some high energy joy... But then the pads on the breakdown omg teh feelz. Looking forward to a froggy year![/quote] I think that was the other part when making this song clicked - was just having a lot of fun playing along and rocking out to this mildly goofy song :D I'm sorta proud of the pensive bridge - that's another part I didn't overthink. Hit record, played it and then left it alone. :) Looking forward to another year of Neon music! [quote=emily]this is so rad! happy new year paisleyfrog! [/quote] Thanks emily! Happy New year to you as well, so glad you're back for another WB <3 [quote=mukti]Hi hi hi 👋 That's a great sample, and you pulled it all together well - cool track![/quote] [quote=Cosmic Cairns]Great usage of the Orange Drink sample. And now I've got hi hi hi hi stuck in my head. :)[/quote] Thanks! There's so much joy in OD's voice, and that laugh - when I played the first mix for my wife, she said, "It needs more laughing!!". She was right :) [quote=levelcapybara]Wait I clicked play on the Paisleyfrog track why is Orange Drink OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH I GET IT. :P This is both hilarious and beautifully conceived at the same time. So many cool details too, like the pads in the breakdown. You and Orange Drink totally need to play this live together someday! This is gonna be a fun year, I can already feel it. :D[/quote] Hah! Starting my first track of the year with someone else's voice is a choice, that's for sure :D I'm glad the feels came across. It's a weird track in that it was making me laugh, but sorta rocked out as well. Super happy it all clicked together. And I agree, this year is already feeling like so much fun. The energy is electric. As far as a performance - we're both in the same state. I'm down if OD is :) [quote=jwh]omg, incredible! what a great start to the new year <3 [/quote] Gotta start hard, because I heard U like to party. So glad to see you back, this is going to be a great year! [quote=mzunguko]Let’s go 2026, hi again![/quote] [quote=alterationx10]Love the ethos of this one![/quote] [quote=Crash Overture]Hi! it's a bop! loved the guitar and drum. Rocking out![/quote] [quote=Earp Lug]This is such a cool idea! I actually read about your stuff in 2024 in Billy’s zine. The laugh sample is amazing[/quote] Thanks! This was a lot of fun to play. Hit record and play! [quote=lament.config]Hell of a way top kick off the year, that was a super fun track. Loved it. The songs charm and humor really play off each other so well. Whispers of The Cure in your guitars was a really nice touch. WB26 ahoy!!! [/quote] Thank you! You're pretty well spot on with the guitar tone. I've built my guitar sounds primarily off of two patches in Logic...and one of them is called "Eighties Goth" :D :D So happy you're back for '26 - let's go! [quote=ViridianLoom]Haha, yeah that laugh works perfectly throughout the song. I eventually forgot it was even there because it blends in seamlessly. Great playing too![/quote] The rhythm of his laugh, and even the pitch. So much fun to work with! Thanks! [quote=As_Yoesual]Hi! I kinda expected you to use the sample as well, but we kinda did the same with the laugh as well XD Totally different direction though! dang the guitar work is on point and you delivered a banger![/quote] Was so excited to see you worked with it as well! And definitely - totally different directions. :) Glad you enjoyed, and looking forward to a year of your music again! [quote=ENC_]that hi sample forever lives inside of me now.[/quote] I'm sort of glad I wrote the song quickly - the sample is firmly in my head as well, can't imagine if I had spent a week listening to HI HI HI HI :) Thanks, glad you liked it! [quote=Dustsucker]HIGH Nice grungy rock, perfect fun vocal sampling :heart:[/quote] Thanks! Playing grungy is FUN :) [quote=Tweaklab]OK I got distracted and I thought this was the breakdown for OrangeDrink's ACTUAL Week 1 submission. The bar is real friggen high this year! I'm going to rock my 40s with some PRIMUS fused one man band nonsense.[/quote] One man band nonsense. It's me! :) :) Week 1 submissions have been GREAT! So much great music. Thanks, glad you liked it! [quote=myfirstpunksong]Hello again! Glad to see you here, this one was loads of fun! I digged the sample as an instrument, and it almost hid the fact of a really cool instrumental underneath! Nice entry to 2026! [/quote] Glad to see you back as well! His sample was so much fun as percussion. And thanks for the kind words on the instrumental - it was so much fun to put together. I need to do more trashy rock this year methinks. [quote=Apticx]i love this so much[/quote] Thank you!! [quote=Tone Matrix]The bass sounds awesome right away. Drew is sampled into a hypnotic and mesmerizing catchy groove. I really enjoyed the wailing guitar line. Made me wanna air guitar along. Agree with ENC_ that sample hook is gonna bounce around my noggin forever :)[/quote] Thank you so much - so happy you called out the bass, this might be my favorite bass sound I've done. Sits forward in the mix, and has some of that rock bass growl I really never use :) [quote=jegasus]I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!!! hahahahaha... I kind of heard this yesterday during weekly meets, but with everyone chatting, it was super hard to actually hear the music. Boy am I glad I came back to give it a proper listen: it's simultaneously hilarious, haunting and VERY good, hahahaha... I particularly like your comment about trying not to overthink things this year. I mean, it's not like my music is particularly cerebral or intricate, but I want to allow myself some more flexibility and space to explore weird stuff. Anyways, awesome to hear from you again, friend!!! Looking forward to a great 2026![/quote] Thank you thank you! Definitely, looking forward to not overthinking and experimenting - letting things sit if they feel fun, maybe going into weird territory. And this one definitely felt weird, I don't think I've combined "funny" and "rocks" before. Awesome seeing you back again as well! Here's to experimentation and fun in '26 :) [quote=Princent Vice]Hi![/quote] [quote=fetalface]HI[/quote] [quote=.exe]Hi![/quote] HAH heh huh huh heh heh hah heh... :) [quote=doomscrolling]This keeps making me laugh on every listen :D What a start for the year HI! (hi! hi! hi...)[/quote] Thank you! Glad it all worked and that laughter was had :) This is going to be a great year! [quote=Xjs]Hahaha, this was fun! Interesting how rhythmical laughter can be![/quote] Definitely, it was the first thing that caught me. So much fun. Looking forward to your music this year! [quote=sleepunit]I'm so glad you used the sample! I spent so long chopping that video up, and I just couldn't get over the contrast of OD living in the land of future acid weirdness. like a universe with him it has to go solar punk and not cyberpunk. guitar line absolutely rules throughout. love the breathers we get too. face melt off / face come back / face melt off. sweet tune.[/quote] So happy you had that idea in the Discord! It felt like the perfect week 1 :) Thanks for the kind words on the guitar. '24 gave me a lot of confidence in my playing that I've never really had before - shredders and technical players have always been held up as the gold standard guitar heroes, which are definitely not me! Very happy that the style I'm finding works - thank you!! [quote=djippy]Nice hommage. I feel now that orange drink now maybe regret to have given his ok to sample his video. Lol. Super fun track![/quote] Hee hee :) He actually messaged me after music drop on Sunday to tell me just how hard he was laughing. Best compliment ever <3 <3 [quote=cortx]Hi! I just wanted to say that this is amazing :cool:[/quote] Thank you!! [quote=RPLKTR]That wailing guitar fits so well, what is even going on here? I come in to see Paisleyfrog's first track of the year and find a mosh pit party. Which then takes a pensive emotional turn somehow and finally lands a rocking finale. Instant classic, as SQF said. No notes, five stars.[/quote] Thank you so much, that is such high praise. Funny thing is, even while I was recording it I wasn't exactly sure what was going on. The reaction to this rtack (and the music I've been making over the past month) reinforces to me the decision to get out of my own head, follow the creativity, and see where things go. Even if they don't make sense. :) Looking forward to see where it leads everyone this year!! [quote=RajaTheResidentAlien]Drew saying "Hi" never sounded so scary and threatening before.[/quote] Right?! I'm sorta glad I didn't follow my first instinct, which was to take it in a dark industrial direction. Now THAT would have been scary :) Glad to see you again Raja! [quote=TheIntern]Hi! This is amazing the tone in the guitar is majestic. [/quote] Thanks! It's my cheap Glarry telecaster knockoff - it's my go-to, it plays ridiculously well :) [quote=shaike]Hi! This sounds freakin awesome! Love the solo after the buildup[/quote] Thanks! That was my first take solo - I'm working on keeping the high energy recordings, and not trying to be perfect :) [quote=DataJanitor]Oh hell yeah!!! This is amazing. Love it. [/quote] Thank you!!

Enjoying the panning of the effected laugh in particular - takes it from central to a sort of weird spread curtain. Compliments the rock quite well.

Enjoying the panning of the effected laugh in particular - takes it from central to a sort of weird spread curtain. Compliments the rock quite well.

Incredible I cant stop smiling when I hear this.

Incredible I cant stop smiling when I hear this.

I need to film a reaction video because you need to see my tears of laughter - and then I start laughing IN TIME to the sample and then I lose my mind all over again!

it's an honor.

I need to film a reaction video because you need to see my tears of laughter - and then I start laughing IN TIME to the sample and then I lose my mind all over again! :) :) :) it's an honor.

What a great start of WB! The song flew by really quickly, in a good way. Super enjoyable

What a great start of WB! The song flew by really quickly, in a good way. Super enjoyable

Hi! This is super fun! Hahahaha

Hi! This is super fun! Hahahaha

hi (hi (hi (hi (hi))))

hi (hi (hi (hi (hi))))

Thanks! The weird panning was from when I was going to go in a weird electronic direction...and left it when it went rock

Thanks! Starting the year with some FUN.

The image of you cracking up in time to the music cracked ME up. So happy you enjoyed this, it was so much fun to make!

Thank you! Hoping to get back to making goofy music again, this year has been a little serious thus far...

Thanks!

Heh heh huh he heh heh....

(Also, I appreciate your properly nested parenthesis. I want to put that on an Excel spreadsheet.)

[quote=Jazzaria]Enjoying the panning of the effected laugh in particular - takes it from central to a sort of weird spread curtain. Compliments the rock quite well.[/quote] Thanks! The weird panning was from when I was going to go in a weird electronic direction...and left it when it went rock :) [quote=HoolieBrown]Incredible I cant stop smiling when I hear this.[/quote] Thanks! Starting the year with some FUN. [quote=orangedrink]I need to film a reaction video because you need to see my tears of laughter - and then I start laughing IN TIME to the sample and then I lose my mind all over again! :) :) :) it's an honor.[/quote] The image of you cracking up in time to the music cracked ME up. So happy you enjoyed this, it was so much fun to make! [quote=dreat]What a great start of WB! The song flew by really quickly, in a good way. Super enjoyable[/quote] Thank you! Hoping to get back to making goofy music again, this year has been a little serious thus far... [quote=XC3N]Hi! This is super fun! Hahahaha[/quote] Thanks! [quote=starpause]hi (hi (hi (hi (hi))))[/quote] Heh heh huh he heh heh.... (Also, I appreciate your properly nested parenthesis. I want to put that on an Excel spreadsheet.)