Lost in the Infinite (2022)

Original Album

In June 2021 I began writing down a ton of random ideas I was having, inspired by all of the different music I was hearing at the time. From video game soundtracks to film scores, classical music to rock and pop, if I had an idea or inspiration I would write it down. There wasn’t really any direction to this, and I wasn’t quite sure what I was going for at the beginning. Over the last eight months I started working out some of these ideas in my free time. I remember thinking I wanted to branch out from the heavy synth music I had been writing and learn more about orchestral composing, but I also maybe wanted to try mixing in some classic video game sounds in with the acoustic instruments. I wanted to make something memorable, and something different than anything I had written before.

From the “not-so-great” mental state of a stressed and unwillingly dissociated young lad, Lost in the Infinite is about being obsessed with what you can become, without ever actually becoming anything.

This album began as a ton of random ideas, but rather than honing in on something as I continued working on this, I think I became much more varied. With this music, I took elements of jazz, rock, orchestral music, and beats, and just mixed them all together in a weird way that I think ultimately works. You can hear sounds from the Super Nintendo (and even sounds from a specific game), synthetic strings, and a synthetic bandoneon (which I kind of fell in love with), but alongside this you can also hear real strings, real horns, and real piano, sometimes with varying levels of delay and other effects.

Music composed, mixed, and mastered by John Tadlock
Artwork by Colleen D’antoni - @c.dantoni

Available on Bandcamp!