The International House of Dancakes
Music from The International House of Dancakes studio, most of which is just Dan messing around with silly stuff. Occasional guest appearances by some of Dan's friends are also on the menu.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 189
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Evergreen
Maybe we never made it home
Maybe we swerved across the center line
You know that bridge we crossed that seemed to just go on forever?
Maybe that’s what death was like
But then if you and I are ghost…
00:04:31 |
Sun 14 Feb 2021
Sail or Anchor
I feel like I'm finally nearing the end of production on my album Evergreen; everything is recorded, and now it's just a question of final mixing and mastering. Here's a more or less final version o…
00:05:18 |
Sat 12 Dec 2020
Pale Orange City Lights - Noisy Piano Demo
This is a very rough demo of a song I've been working on. I recorded it on my iPhone, playing the piano that I learned on as a child. It's in bad repair these days and sounds like it, but it has a …
00:02:44 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
Room Experiment
This is not really meant to be a track per se, just demonstrating a proof of concept. This is essentially taking the idea behind Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting In A Room" and faking it by chaining the…
00:00:17 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
How Long Can You Keep This Going?
Okay this is a sad one. I wrote this song about four years ago when I was approaching the end of a postdoc fellowship and didn't yet have another job lined up, and was contemplating what to do if I …
00:03:50 |
Sat 03 Oct 2020
Satellite Electrica
Hypnospace Outlaw OST vol. 3 is out, including a bunch of songs from me! They're also included in the new content update, which should be dropping on Steam and elsewhere today!
This track is an alt…
00:03:52 |
Fri 28 Aug 2020
John Cage's 4'33" in the style of Postmodern Jukebox
Everybody loves a good swing cover of a modern song, right?
00:04:33 |
Mon 01 Jun 2020
Attenborough's Monsters
I decided to see whether I could use the R package "googleLanguageR" to use Google's API for speech-to-text and automate my sampling process for my spoken word fuckery. Answer: very yes. This is ju…
00:01:20 |
Sun 10 May 2020
Wake My Love
Here's a draft of a song for Evergreen. Musically it started as an exercise in writing nonfunctional harmony. I've probably pulled this one apart and put it back together more than any other song I…
00:03:33 |
Sun 26 Apr 2020
Survival Machines Reprise
This is currently slated to be the last track on Evergreen. It's a reprise of the first song, Survival Machines. Regardless of whether anyone else ever likes it, Evergreen is a project I've grown s…
00:02:08 |
Sun 05 Jan 2020
With Tanja Manners: Wretched Beast (rough mix)
Here's a new take on my song Wretched Beast, with some lovely harmonies provided by Tanja Manners. It still needs a bit of mixing work, but I'm going to be traveling for a while and decided to go ah…
00:04:07 |
Sun 10 Nov 2019
Rough Sketch: I Will Recognize You
This is just a quick sketch of a song that's still only half-written. I basically sat down to record this just to make sure I wouldn't forget the vocal arrangement I'd thought of, but I ended up lik…
00:02:26 |
Sat 31 Aug 2019
Come Closer
Just a weird little song I came up with as an experiment. I actually had the idea for the weird vocal sound first and wrote the song around it, and I think it worked out surprisingly well for having…
00:02:58 |
Mon 19 Aug 2019
Most of The Time I'm Fine - Acoustic Demo
It's been a while since I've uploaded something, and unfortunately I'm traveling again so I can't record much at the moment. Until I get something else put together, here's a noisy living room recor…
00:03:27 |
Mon 29 Apr 2019
Satellite Orchestral
This is a track I did for Jay Tholen's new video game, Hypnospace Outlaw. Within the game, the song is by an imaginary 90's alt-folk band called Barnaby's Chair.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/…
00:04:23 |
Mon 11 Mar 2019
Oh You Temporary Thing
This is a slightly rearranged and remastered version of something I've uploaded before. I think it's close enough to a final version as makes no difference at this point.
Lyrics:
Oh you temporary …
00:03:26 |
Sun 10 Feb 2019
Take It Easy On My Heart
Lemme get pompous for a second: I've always loved the idea of the unreliable narrator in music, because I think people are a lot less prepared for it in that situation than they typically are when re…
00:03:35 |
Sun 23 Dec 2018
First Draft - That Old Familiar Ache
I don't often post things that are this new and unpolished, but I haven't had much time to record lately and it's been a while since I posted something. It's a pretty simple song anyway, so it doesn…
00:03:37 |
Tue 30 Oct 2018
The Tank
Just an old track that I put together as a test run for a project that I never really finished. Samples were taken from the audiobook of Almost Astronauts, by Tanya Lee Stone.
00:03:04 |
Tue 24 Jul 2018
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