I made this song in two hours with a premade amen break sample and two Moog Grandmother tracks. It is a silly, simple track, but I like it, and it was hella fun to make. Feel free to use it in your projects!
2025-02-14 04:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT: UH OH Don't know why the text in this post got deleted! Here's the link to the Google Form for you to enter th...
2025-02-14 04:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! This is gonna be a shorter Progress Report, because this month has been a very bad one!
Hey y'all, it's been a pretty rough start to the year here in LA (and also maybe everywhere), but Karen and I are safe. Our apartment is, by some unbelievable luck, still standing. Here are the links I talk about in the video:
GOODBYE TO YOU, 2024! HELLO TO THE NEW YEAR! If you’re reading this, you did it! You made it through another very challenging year in a string of challenging years. And that’s pretty incredible. Keep it up.
okay don't tell anyone because we weren't supposed to film anything at the BLIB concert
but let's just say that a kind fan (cough cough karen in the balcony cough cough) managed to snag a relatively stable iphone video of the first song in the set
... 2024-12-29 17:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostPlease forgive me for an extremely unhinged brecommendation for the month, but Michael Bay's Pain & Gain is a Michael Bay movie that parodies Michael Bay movies, and it's astonishing. And since a Michael Bay recommendation on its own wouldn't sit well with me, I also recommend Lubalin's new a...
2024-12-17 21:52:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello and howdy! Sending out this Progress Report right before I go hang out with Jordan & Jarvis on Sad Boyz Live! If you had a Thanksgiving this week, I hope it was a nice one. If you didn't have a Thanksgivi...
2024-11-30 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI had a ton of fun figuring out how to film/edit this video in order to make it look alright, so here's a video talking through the production of it! Hope it inspires you to make your own Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Kids-core videos. Anything to give me an excuse to show off all of our little guys.
2024-11-19 05:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's Talking Small! No stems this time since Louie did all of music work, but feel free to listen to it here or on streaming! (Here it is on Spotify)
2024-11-19 03:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a new Louie Zong & BDG song!
This was extremely fun to make because we did the songwriting process in the reverse of what I'm used to: I wrote lyrics and a melody, and he wrote the music behind it. It's always fun to have chords in my head as I write it, only to be COMPLETELY surpr...
2024-11-15 18:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back to recommending things! And as always, I spent way more time than I had planned to answer some questions and talk about coming back from my break!
Links/media mentioned:
NOTE: I'll be catching up on the behind-the-scenes/blooper videos of the videos I posted during the hiatus starting now! It might take a little while, but I'll try to get them finished over the course of the next few months.
Here's our behind-the-scenes footage from the week...
2024-11-01 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the full track of Silent Love! You should also be able to stream it today! Enjoy!
2024-11-01 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
October is over, and the Patreon is back up and running! And that means it's time for a !!!!BIG PROGRESS REPORT!!!!
the boys, as they say, are back in town.
Ian "Worthikids" Worthington came through a few weeks ago to make a song with Louie Zong and myself that absolutely smacks of Steely Dan. And I think we sure did it. You have no idea how excited I was when Ian said he could do a flute s...
2024-10-30 23:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
You might have seen the post on Instagram, but Louie Zong, Ian Worthington (Worthikids), and I are doing a little live concert in December! Ian brought up the idea to Louie and I, and of course we said YEAH YEAH LET'...
2024-10-22 20:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostCome! A Jaunty Quest awaits you!
Here's a video that's about taking a daring quest, but it's actually about how I started getting weirdly self-conscious going to the grocery store after the pandemic, but it's actually about how fun it is to make a video that has little animate...
2024-10-18 22:55:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe BDG business groundhog has come out of his den and is predicting one more month of Patreon pause! This is a reference to Groundhog Day. The holiday, not the movie. I'm not stuck in a time loop.
I've had this video ready for the past month, but I've been sitting on it for a while.
The main reason is because I haven't decided when I want to post it on my channel yet (or if I'm going to at all). It's still a silly song, and the vast majority is a joke, but by the end, it's also one o...
2024-09-28 21:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostI finally can share the kids show proof-of-concept that Karen and I got to work on earlier this year! It's called Outdoor Ed, and I play a 20-foot-tall mountain man. Here's the official copy from the pitch deck:
Outdoor Ed is a silly kids nature show! Gentle giant Outdoor Ed, hi...
2024-09-21 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Look at that, I made a video this month!
Not a ton, but I will say that you should expec...
2024-08-31 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey hey! I finally finished up this video, which will be going live on September 9th! I love to make a video that has a deadline built into it.
I'm planning to go through all of the footage I took with Anna Love and Sam King, the two beekeepers in this video, and post it as a big Patreon be...
2024-08-26 19:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'm finally writing that quick Progress Report I promised!
Thanks for your patience on the delay of this one—I've been busy working on the next season of Um, Actually, and I just had a chance to sit down and write this up.
Mostly Um...
2024-08-04 18:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I'm going to keep the text part of this post quick since I go into more detail in the video above, but here are the main updates.
I'll be taking a longer break from the Patreon. This means I will pause the billing cycle (starting from the moment thi...
2024-06-25 23:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for another Brian Brecommends that goes long because I can't stop talking about a thing. That's right, it's MAGIC THE GATHERING.
Oh, and also Juanpalitoschinos, a great band that just released their debut album!
LINKS:
Phew! Made it through May. That's one extremely busy month down, probably one or two left to go.
Sorry it's only ...
2024-05-31 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a new Brian Brecommends! And I have once again fallen into the indie game vortex with a strange one, ANIMAL WELL.
Links mentioned:
Another dang month over! Hot dog!
Karen and I went to the renaissance fair so I included those photos in this post, because why not? Almost all of the clothing I am wearing is from Karen. I wanted to go as "farmer who is bad at farming because he spends all of his day composing terrible poe...
2024-05-01 00:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The business begins.
(I'm making burgers)
2024-04-30 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post