Madoka
Yesterday’s Gone

Length: 3 Hours
Recorded: December 14, 2006

I created Yesterday’s Gone with specific emotions in mind. I previously recorded some great mash-ups and incorporated two of them into this story. My new song “Sofia” also appears in the mix and will be officially released on my first full-length album A Cure For Loneliness. The rest of the mix, including my Madoka edit of Pig & Dan and “Deux,” was recorded in one take.

Some of my favorite moments in Gone include the bass kicking in over the vocal of Toka Project’s “Reach For You” (7:08), the chunky groove of Chris Fortier’s “Tight Lip” (34:22), the first sign of light in the mix (55:00), Richie Santana’s “Afterhours Rhythm,” especially with the added Madoka samples and extended delay effects, the bass filtering in and out of Alex Flatner’s “Circle of Life,” Pig & Dan’s entire “After Ibiza” track, the bass change-up in The End’s “The Forgotten” (171:28), and the gliding groove of the final track with three other loops over it and the melody whispering at (174:03).