[01] Chapter
Sessions and production
Remote bass recording, production, arrangement and mixing. Parts are recorded in a treated room and delivered as stems.
01.1Listen
A late-night sketch.
An untitled sketch from my home studio. I make beats as Digital Haze, and I have hundreds of these.
What you’ll hear
A filtered synth intro builds for five seconds, goes almost silent for under a second, then a heavy sub-bass drop comes in and rides to the end.
Beats from $100. Remote bass from $150 a track. Sessions & rates →
01.2 Rates
Rates.
Prices start here. Every song is different, so tell me about yours.
| Service | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Remote session bass | Full tracks or overdubs, recorded in a treated room. You get the stems. | From $150/track |
| Full production | Bass through mix. Bring a song and leave with a finished master. | Custom quote |
| Beat making | Sample-based instrumentals with live bass and keys. Hip-hop, R&B, neo-soul. | From $100/beat |
| Arrangement | Horn parts, string parts and full band charts. | Custom quote |
| Mixing | Your stems, my mix. Clean, punchy and ready for release. | From $400/song |
| Production consultation | An honest hour on your project, with feedback and next steps. | $80/hour |
01.3 Records
Records I’ve worked on.
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01.3aRe-release coming
Laid Bare
Alexa Marino, 2021Co-writer, producer
recorded in New York and co-written with established musician and producer, Alex Hayes
Ramapo College’s Berrie Center
strong and crisp music production
Ramapo College’s Berrie Center, Made in Jersey: Alexa Marino
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01.3bRe-release coming
Polarity
Mike Wartella
In his words
co-wrote, arranged, music directed, project managed, produced, mixed, and mastered my debut solo album
Mike Wartella
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01.3cWatch
Don’t Blame Me
Leah HarrisBass
Loads content from YouTube.
Laid Bare and Polarity first came out on my own label. The label is closed and the songs were pulled. Both albums are being re-published.
01.4Yeah Man!
An album with my best friend.
Tony and I grew up on the same street. He teaches English in Japan now, and together we make music as Yeah Man! Our first album is built on the music from Pilotwings 64.
01.4a The album
Let’s Go Fly.
A concept album in thirteen songs, built on Dan Hess’s music for Pilotwings 64, the Nintendo flying game from 1996. It came out in September 2026, for the game’s thirtieth anniversary.
Tony and I have been best friends since we were kids: we walked to school together, played ball and played a lot of video games. He is a linguist and a musician. We both went to Victor Wooten’s Bass/Nature Camp. The name comes from what we say to each other most: yeah, man.
It started during the pandemic, when Tony laid a line from The Goonies over one of his favorite Pilotwings tracks, just for fun. He sent it to me, and we kept building for several years. We sampled the game’s original music, wove it together with other records, wrote lyrics and played our own parts. Dan Hess, who wrote the score, gave it his blessing.
- Tony
- Lyrics, most lead vocals, ukulele, co-arrangement
- Alex
- Production, arrangement, bass, guitar, synths, background vocals, mixing and mastering
- Bass feature
- Blast Off! (Press On)
- Original score
- Dan Hess
- Released
- September 2026
Thirteen songs, 43 minutes. Play any one and the album carries on from there.
Let’s Go Fly on Bandcamp (opens in a new tab) ↗Yeah Man! on SoundCloud (opens in a new tab) ↗
Sample credits
Every song is built on Dan Hess’s music for Pilotwings 64. These are the other recordings woven into it.
- 01Flash Your Badge
- Hiromi, “If” · Jessica Lurie and Andrew Drury Duo, “Paprikash” · a voice memo from a friend
- 03World’s Discipline
- Final Fantasy VII, “Barret’s Theme” · Bobby McFerrin, “Discipline” · Erykah Badu, “Outro – World Keeps Turnin’”
- 04Blast Off! (Press On)
- Tom Waits, “Metropolitan Glide” · Fela Kuti, “Egbi Mi O” · Robert Randolph and the Family Band, “Press On”
- 05Medalheaded
- Fiona Apple, “Every Single Night” · White Zombie, “More Human Than Human” · Final Fantasy Tactics, “World Map Theme” · a Fiona Apple interview
- 06Shot From A Cannon
- Primus, “Eclectic Electric” · De La Soul, “All Good” · a Christopher Hitchens interview · Dream Theater, “Best of Times” · Metallica, “The Unforgiven” · Buckethead, “Scapula”
- 07Getting Air
- Oliver Mtukudzi, “Chiri Nani” · Scale the Summit, “Mass” · Belle and Sebastian, “The Boy with the Arab Strap” · Fiona Apple, “Drumset” · Ken Gampu, “Down and Out Song” (The Gods Must Be Crazy) · Battles, “Atlas” · Super Mario Land, “World Music 3”
- 09Spin!
- Cyrus Chestnut, “Baby Girl’s Strut” · Victor Wooten, “Natives”
- 10Coyote Glider
- Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma, “Coyote” · Born Ruffians, “Come Back”
- 11Mission Failure
- M.I.A., “Bad Girls” · Joseph Koo, the opening theme from Way of the Dragon
- 12It’s All Magic
- Final Fantasy VII, “Final Fantasy Theme” · 8-bit Big Band, “Birdman”
- 13Got Me Feeling
- a line from The Goonies · a song by Tony’s daughter
01.4b The film
The album film.
I made an animated film for the whole album: the two of us in pixel art, flying out over the sea, with each song’s name in the corner while it plays.
In the comments on the film
Fire!!
Thank you for keeping it alive
On an early Birdman video
You have taken this to another level, brotha.
Dan Hess, who composed the Pilotwings 64 score
The film on YouTube (opens in a new tab) ↗01.4c The games
A game for every song.
I built a small game for each song, to play while the song runs: a paper plane for the first, a soap bubble for the last. They are a tribute to Pilotwings, made for fun, and are meant for a computer with a keyboard.
Play the games (opens in a new tab) ↗
New songs of our own are on the way.
01.5 Sketches
Digital Haze.
Digital Haze is my beat alias. I make sample-based beats from my own record archive, with live bass and keys on top. Beats from $100.
Digital Haze on SoundCloud (opens in a new tab) ↗01.6 Contact
Contact
For lessons, sessions or projects, write to me through the contact form. I usually reply within a day.