This is week 7 of posting a track for free over at WeeklyBeats, trying to do something a bit different from what I release as Jet Jaguar usually.

This is week 6 of posting a track for free over at WeeklyBeats, trying to do something a bit different from what I usually put out in the world as Jet Jaguar.

Only 4 months on, here’s some music I’ve been really enjoying recently.

This week’s track is kind of a grubby dub thing, which is certainly not a massive stretch for me stylistically, but process-wise I tried something I haven’t done in a very long time. I played something live, off a ukulele (an ukulele, if you say it Hawaiian), and manipulated what I did live with no take backs. Of course I had a few practice runs, but still. More details on the page.

For week four of WeeklyBeats I have gone back to upbeat dance music.

For this week’s WeeklyBeats submission I moved away from the relatively upbeat, dancey stuff of the first two weeks and went the opposite way. The track is entirely “off-grid” – I made it without thinking about tempo or time signatures and without any kind of snapping or quantising to a grid. All elements are either played in by hand with no kind of metronome or are field recordings.

For this week’s WeeklyBeats I’ve gone even faster than last week, an up-tempo dance track that I guess you’d call “breaks”, or at least that’s what house tempo breakbeat stuff was called after big beat and before dubstep (when people weren’t calling it electro, yikes). Anyway, scene nonsense aside…

I’ve decided to try participating in a challenge to make and upload a piece of music every week for a year. I talk about why on my WeeklyBeats profile page, and my main aim is to upload music I like that is different to my concept of what I write and release as Jet Jaguar.

Being a giant fucking nerd, I keep folders of WIP (work in progress) and finished music per calendar year.

My 2025 finished tracks folder has 27 things in it:

I’ve been listening to this wee 16-minute album a bunch recently and wanted to capture some thoughts:

Lia Kohl – Various Small Whistles And A Song