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The Thirteenth Hour Podcast

The Thirteenth Hour books are 80s inspired illustrated fairy tale fantasy novels that pay homage to fantasy, sci fi, and teen movies from the 80s as well as the music of that era. This podcast explores aspects of 80s culture as well as a wide variety of influences behind the books. Companion site: http://13thhr.wordpress.com

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00:25:06

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #269: October Updates and...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/10/05

Originally aired on October 5, 2020.This week, there was so much "housekeeping" business to take care of, I made it a whole episode. Here's the lineup:-I am just about done the title track, "Once Upon a Dream," for the next Thirteenth Hour soundtrack LP. I finally figured out what was missing from the backing part. More synth (there's a surprise). Then it all fit together. It's odd, in a way, since the beat is fast (120 bpm), but the vocals are actually quite

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00:18:55

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #267: Wrapping up “Once...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/09/21

Originally aired on September 21, 2020.This week, I'm wrapping up "Once Upon a Dream" and discussing more on the idea of creating a creative arts collective. Last week, I created a private Facebook group called Thirteenth Hour Arts - For Creators, Not Haters. Many thanks to all who joined!This week, I'm launching a Patreon of the same name and idea - a place to share in the creative process, though more specific to things related to the creation of The Thirteenth Hour books,

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00:25:05

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #266: Adding Vocals to...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/09/14

Originally aired on September 20, 2014.This week, I'm adding vocals to "Once Upon a Dream" and discussing more on the idea of creating a creative arts collective. To start, I ended up creating a private Facebook group called Thirteenth Hour Arts - For Creators, Not Haters.Here's the premise I've copied from my inaugural post there:Welcome to The Thirteenth Hour Arts Collective - a place to create, not hate!There are so many ways to be creative in the world. Although I publicly

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00:41:25

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #265: Continuing the...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/09/07

Originally aired on September 7, 2020.This week, I'm continuing to record the backing tracks for "Once Upon a Dream" - the solo, the chorus, and so forth. Next will be the vocals, the outro riffs, and maybe a few electric guitar accents here and there.Speaking of which, I thought it might be a nice thing to add some of the magnet dolls I talked about recently as part of the special edition of the Once Upon a Dream LP. Here are the magnet dolls, by the way, of Logan and Aurora plus

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00:30:27

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #264: Starting the...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/08/31

Originally aired on August 31, 2020.This week, I'm working up and wrapping up few concurrent projects - starting the recording of the backing track for "Once Upon a Dream" discussed last on episode 261 and finishing up a little "kitbashed" minifigure of Aurora from The Thirteenth Hour discussed a bit last episode. The magnet dolls discussed last episode are in the editing process, so I'll be printing those out soon!One of Aurora's costumes is this one from a picture

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00:20:19

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #261: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/08/10

Originally aired on August 10, 2020.This week, I'm working on the title track from the next Thirteenth Hour soundtrack LP, Once Upon a Dream. I have the keyboard riffs and the lyrics mostly done and am now trying to figure out how they go together. I've recorded a bare bones version here with just the vocals and the piano chords, which is how many of these songs start. In the coming week's, I'll be refining the skeleton of the song as I figure out how the different riffs work into

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00:25:57

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #257: Musical Interlude –...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/07/13

Originally aired on July 13, 2020.On this week's show, I'm continuing the recording process to a song I started a number of months ago, "The Last Dance," last discussed on episodes 223, 224, 225, and 256. We're discussing the recording of the vocals as well as additional synth tracks, like a simple instrumental solo. Speaking of which, I added a voiceover to a track that I recently finished, "The Land of Dreams" (see below for the video or here for the audio track) to

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00:16:01

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #256: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2020/07/06

Originally aired on July 6, 2020.On this week's show, I'm starting the formal recording process to a song I started a number of months ago, "The Last Dance," last discussed on episodes 223, 224, and 225. I got stuck for awhile since the original way I'd conceptualized the song was much slower. It took awhile for it to evolve in my mind and to work out how to play certain parts and sing some sections within my vocal range more comfortably. The song starts out without no

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00:18:33

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #225: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/12/02

Originally aired on December 2, 2019.This week, I continue work on a ballad written from the perspective of Aurora from The Thirteenth Hour from a passage in the book where our young protagonists are starting to realize that there might be more to their relationship than just friendship. I've been fiddling with adding a beat to the song and was listening to two examples - one by Debbie Gibson ("Lost in Your Eyes") which adds a beat after a piano intro riff and another by Alphaville

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00:22:48

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #224: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/11/25

Originally aired on November 25, 2019.This week, I continue work on a ballad written from the perspective of Aurora from The Thirteenth Hour from a passage in the book where our young protagonists are starting to realize that there might be more to their relationship than just friendship. Last week I had a rough draft of the lyrics. This week, I'm singing the second draft and playing the chords on the keyboard.While I was practicing the intro riff, I kept wanting to play the theme from the

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00:24:09

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #223: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/11/18

Originally aired on November 18, 2019.This week, I start work on a new ballad written from the perspective of Aurora from The Thirteenth Hour from this passage in the book where our young protagonists are starting to realize that there might be more to their relationship than just friendship. You can see the passage referred to on the original page of show notes here:

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00:13:27

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #217: Musical Interlude –...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/10/07

Originally aired on October 7, 2019.This week, I'm reading from a short excerpt from The Thirteenth Hour sent to a draft of a music track I just wrote to score this particular passage. It was done on the iOS app, Auxy, and was meant to be an ambient, introspective instrumental piece. Because skipping stones feature in the excerpt a few times, I tried to find synthesizer effects that sounded like splashes of water.For the text, please see the original post at

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00:17:06

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #213: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/09/09

Originally aired on September 9, 2019.This week, I'm finishing a track I started several years ago. When a sibling of one of my friends got engaged, I said I'd make a music track for them to commemorate the occasion. And then ... well, fast forward a few years. Still not done! All excuses aside, today is the day. I'm keeping my promise and finishing it. It's made with Auxy, like the track I finished last week. The draft (90-95% done) plays at the end of the episode. More at

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00:23:25

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #212: Musical Interlude –...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/09/02

Originally aired on September 2, 2019.This week, I'm adding to the track I started back in Episode 208. I think it will eventually be used as accompaniment for flying sequence music videos or a video game with a flying pixelart Logan:https://13thhr.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/the-thirteenth-hour-podcast-212-musical-interlude-chiptune-flying-track-2/For now, though, I've made a little pixelart still that I edited in Photoshop that will be the cover art for the track:A game is a long term

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00:14:06

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #211: Musical Interlude –...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/08/26

Originally aired on August 26, 2019.This week, I'm using the iOS app Auxy to work on a variation of the synth track I started back in Episode 208. I think it will eventually be used as accompaniment for flying sequence music videos or a video game with a flying pixelart Logan:More at https://13thhr.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/the-thirteenth-hour-podcast-211-musical-interlude-chiptune-flying-track-1/That, however, is a long term project. For now, I'll probably just be making the musical

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00:28:12

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #208: "Empty Hands"...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/08/05

Originally aired on August 5, 2019.This week, we’re discussing Empty Hands behind the scenes, specifically the influence of Dungeons and Dragons and the character creation process. Just like the D and D alignments, the eight Rangers in Empty Hands have their own specific alignment that informs which sidearm they are assigned. (If the idea of D and D morality alignments are as mysterious to you as they were to me before my brother explained them to me, check out the graphic I found on the internet

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00:14:03

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #204: Musical Interlude –...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/07/08

Originally aired on July 8, 2019.This week, I finished "A Place of Our Own" and experiment with distilling it down to a few key notes to make a theme for Aurora, one of the main protagonists for The Thirteenth Hour books.Edit: "A Place of Our Own" is here https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/track/a-place-of-our-ownIn other news, Empty Hands has an official launch date - 7/13/19! I'll probably be doing a little pixel art music video to go along with the launch of the album as

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00:16:33

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #203: Musical Interlude –...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/07/01

Originally aired July 1, 2019.This week, I'm working on the musical piece I started last week, "A Place of Our Own." I'm just playing through it, working out the kinks, mistakes and all. Typically, it takes many, many takes and a fair amount of practice to get a piece to a point where I can record it without mistakes (or, at least, minimal ones that I can adjust to or work around). So this week's episode is a mostly unedited window into a little of that process. Stay tuned

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00:18:04

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #202: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/06/24

Originally aired on June 24, 2019.Ideas for songs sometimes come at the most random times and places. I think the idea for this little instrumental track came when I was cooking dinner or putting my kids to bed. I remember humming a voice recording to myself since I didn't have time to work on it at the time and didn't want to forget it (my phone is full of similar such recordings; I used to use a tape recorder but this is one area where modern tech has made life a lot easier). I'm

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00:25:44

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #201: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2019/06/17

Originally aired on June 17, 2019.This week, I add the guitar, synth, and vocals to "And Now, We Are One," the last track on the last Empty Hands track, which is an ode to the ending themes of 80s action movies as well as the intros (and sometimes closings) of 80s Saturday morning / after school cartoon shows. I don't really possess the Sammy Hagar / Freddy Mercury / Stan Bush type pipes to do the vocals the way I envisioned them, so I just recorded myself several times singing the

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