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I’ve been into good mixes ever since SoundCloud has been a thing, and after I basically retired from making music, I’ve been quietly mixing some of my favorite songs and enjoying the results. With the recent lil blast of warm air that came through Atlanta, I wanted to make something that would keep me energized on the colder days this winter, and I wanted to share this lil bit of spring weather with all my friends. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it

Tracklist: Gacha / Open Chords BENET / Foolture Friendly Fires / Heaven Let Me In Super Fun Bumper Edition / Merge Baltra / Fade Away (Vocal) Disclosure / Apollo Lone / Pulsar Jad & The / Strings That Never Win Harrison BDP / Decompression Fort Romeau / Say Something KAASI / Caroline Street Harry Wolfman / Upstream Kaytranada / Lite Spots KAASI / Lisse Pitto / You (Accapella) KAASI + Bambarra / Dont Play Me Les Loups / Side to Side Folamour / Mad King In My Own Kingdom DJ Heure / Sunny Jam Jamie xx / Hold Tight

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it is time for gajoga to end.

been meaning to write this for quite some time now. it’s been a good run, i guess. but not really. i definitely spent more money than i made on this project, and the limited exposure i received wasn’t really worth it.

i’ve enjoyed meeting a bunch of interesting, like-minded creatives while making music for the past five years. it was a joy to collaborate on projects that i truly thought were dope. shoutout to all of you.

lately though, i’ve had no real motivation to work on anything new. i have plenty of unreleased tracks sitting on my hard drive, but i have literally no interest in releasing them. whenever i make a new track, i go through this cycle that starts with me not liking what i’m working on, to the track finally growing on me, to thinking that it’s worth being released, and finally ending with disappointment from only receiving twelve plays. the highs don’t really match the lows. it sucks but it’s true.

yeah, i know, i could spend time actually promoting my tracks around, but i just don’t have the time. i also haven’t really had that much time to work on music at all. when the payoff isn’t there, it’s not really worth my time, ya know? why spend my whole weekend on a few songs when i can go out and take pictures and actually get paid for some side work?

so this is goodbye for now. there’s a couple things i might still release if i care enough but most likely not. dj dad bod might stick around just because it’s a cool name. i might personally do some music stuff still but it’ll be way less serious than ever before.

if you supported my work in any capacity, whether it was through actual money or through just sharing my stuff with your friends or on youtube or something, thank you so much. i’ll remember the love. it really means a lot to me.

see you around.

-aj

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i also dropped my minimal house flip of Posty’s “Psycho.” i like this version 1000x more than my original flip, which you can listen to here, if you’d like. 

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a remix i made of Boombox Cartel’s “Whisper (ft. Nevve).” made with actual stems thanks to their reddit post from a few months back. this was tons of fun to work on so big ups to BBC!

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remember when I dropped i01 and said that it was “the first in what probably will end up being a new series of EPs or mixtapes of random tracks that i've been working on?”

well, here’s part 02.

this is been in development since november of 2016 and has gone through so many different revisions, tracklists, and designs that i almost quit making music altogether. the original plan was to put out a collection of low effort material, but over time that idea morphed into something with substance. i02 started with some of the songs from 34U, but that wasn’t enough: i needed to make a new mixtape. eighteen months of my life rolled through, and finally, i have something for you all to listen to. just like the original Interim release, there’s eight unreleased tracks in this set that feature my production, now alongside seventeen of my favorite tracks i’ve heard in the past year or so.

yeah, you’re right, sounds like a bad deal. you’re listening to a mix that’s just 32% original content. what was I thinking?

maybe I’ll put out a companion EP featuring all the other songs i made for this project that ultimately weren’t included...

i02 development timeline

11/16

“november project” development begins

“Novp8” becomes basic flip of the same samples used for “Pastels”

12/16

“novp” becomes internal working title for new project

01/17

“and she felt the world” forked off of “untitled christmas demo / wish u could feel”

02/17

Caustic 3.2 finally released after two years in beta.

Tons of new music developed

demo of “always something” drops on DJ DAD BOD Soundcloud

Infamous “SUNDRESS / DILF SEASON TAPES” reminder added to Google Calendar.

Sundress Season would be tied to i02 as maybe a house mixtape

Project also called “mf2”

DILF SEASON would be a DDB mix featuring trap and future bass

04/17

New tracks start to have a very deep house-influenced vibe

“And she felt the world” finished

Preliminary i02 tracklist drafted on bandcamp. Features a mix of genres similar to i01

05/17

“NOVP8” reworked into a true flip of “Pastels”

“Mf2sample” created as a demo tape. “NOVP8” used as intro. All other songs scrapped in final i02 mix

07/17

34U released. All songs deemed too different than i02 material

Work begins on gajoga remix of “always something”

08/17

“ID #0804” made in bed late at night. Features the core style of much of my recent work

09/17

preliminary mf2/Sun/Seas and DILFSZN tracklists curated. Both feature tons of unreleased material

DJ Dad Bod - “always something” released.

Lackluster response shelves all possible future DDB releases

DILFSZN cancelled

11/17

“sad around cool people” edit created. Style emulated onto other i01 edits

i02 announced as smp4. No release date given.

01/18

“actualgarbage.mp3” released. Immediately reworked into “ID #0101” (to be featured on companion EP)

03/18

demo of “Whisper” flip dropped on DDB page

06/18

work on i02 mixtape commences after several attempts throughout 2017 to get a good list together

mix goes through three different revisions in a week.

final i02 mix created

new intro recorded. “Novp8” title changed to “#88b04b”

07/18

mixtape released on July 1st.

companion EP compiling begins

more to come. see you soon

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BROCKHAMPTON / "LET'S GET MARRIED (GAJOGA HOUSE FLIP)"

[or: "married loop" (gajoga's cry at the club flip)]

“but when i close my eyes, i think about you every time”

more music soon

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had to touch my fav cut off DAMN.

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/ N O R T H S I D E /

(here’s a new track waaaay before i’m going to post it on soundcloud or spotify. it’s like a small shoutout to the people that follow me here)

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that moment when you’re on spotify ayy lmao

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my first big release in over a year, days above, is finally here! i worked super hard on making this EP a reality, spending multiple weekends tweaking each song to sound as amazing as possible. feel free to listen to it on soundcloud and download it over at bandcamp! (i'll have it on spotify soonish!)

if you really dig it, it would mean the world to me if you could share it with your friends. pop it on your wall, post it on twitter, snapchat it, whatever! it would be incredible if this EP could reach as many people as possible!

also, shoutout to all the people that have been supporting my music so far! you all are the real mvps, so thank you tons for liking my tunes! <3

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new remix for TOWERTOMARS. really enjoyed making this! didn’t know i could pump this much bass into a song lol

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new track!

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quick remix of a forthcoming track.

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This is a compilation of all the released remixes I've made from 2013 until the summer of 2015. Includes an unreleased remix for 3xclu5ive and two unfinished bonus remixes. Also includes self-made cover art for each track as released on SoundCloud.

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the pool of tracks that i’m working on for the album. and these are just the ones i’ve exported...there’s about 140-160 total tracks i think. 

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had an hour to kill while in a waiting room so i figured i'd crank out a beat. sequenced it up just a few minutes ago at home, but the bulk of it was made on my phone.

i think i dig it though. might have to actually work on it for the album....who knows

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it finally happened: i sampled theneedledrop on a track. i’m still wondering why they put the dick in the pussy tho.