About twelve years ago I made a SoundCloud account to post tunes I was making in Korg Gadget and find new music to listen to. I loved sitting at night scrolling through recommendations or reading /r/futurebeats. I found listening to the work that other aspiring artists were putting out really inspiring, and some of those folks are ones I still listen to (and I'm planning to write some more about them over the course of the next few posts.)
The first track I remember hearing from Dawnsoon, or Regulus (which was the name Zachary Rowden went by at the time) was called "Marraigeathon" and to the best of my knowledge isn't available on any platforms currently. Which is a shame, because I listened to it obsessively for the better part of the first year I heard it.
Looking back, I think my first comment on one of Dawnsoon's posts was twelve years ago on the track Nana's House, which remains a great listen, and very representative, I think, of the early releases under the Regulus name.
At one point about 7 years ago I'd compiled a playlist of the Dawnsoon tracks I liked the most. Tracks like feaŹ, Hard to remember lake, Real Cowboy, and Be are right up front. The latter two of this list are tracks I return to on a regular basis.
Since I'm really just writing these as a way to keep a record of music and artists that I've appreciated I'll add more notes here as I think of them. These posts aren't mean to be reviews, just spaces for appreciation. And appreciate I do. Quite a bit.
The track Memory is another one that I return to when I'm taking my at-least annual little trip through the Dawnsoon catalog. Like most of the tracks I enjoy most it gets stuck in my head for days after I listen to it. Floating around in the back of my head teasing my ears until I scratch the itch and listen to it again. Eventually I get enough for a little while, but I always come back eventually.