#weeklybeats2026

Week 1 of WeeklyBeats. This week is straight ahead dance music, about 30 bpm faster than 99% of the music I make. Which still makes it pretty chill for house or techno, heh. And I recorded my cat purring. I lay out in the description what I was trying to do - overall what I'm trying for with this challenge is, after 30 years of releasing music as Jet Jaguar, make music that isn't bound by what I think I'm supposed to be doing. #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #ElectronicMusichttps://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/purring-pouring

Week 2 of WeeklyBeats. Even more upbeat dance music this time, kind of breaks. The concept this week was to imagine a future Michaels band with me on beats a la Mouse On Mars and a friend with the same name doing vocals a la Mark E Smith, inspired by their album as Von Südenfed. In this hypothetical the music is for a club PA, not for home listening, so I worked on it being punchy, simple and energetic. For week 3 I plan to go in a really different direction, away from having any fixed tempo or master clock. #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #ElectronicMusichttps://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/future-michaels

Week 3 of WeeklyBeats. WeeklyBeatless, more like... I tried making a piece of music with no regard for timing. It's largely playing notes and improvising with the Sealegs emulation that Chris @ambientspace@cloudisland.nz made and kindly gives away as a #Bitwig preset, although I then processed the recordings further. Lots of explanation on the page if you're interested. I successfully resisted calling it "Mr. Rubato". https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/rubato #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Ambient #AmbientMusic

Week 4 of WeeklyBeats, free to listen to and download if you like.

I'm trying to explore new things (for me) each week, this time I:

1. used synthetic sounds (no recording or sampling - until I forgot at the end, oops),
2. only use a step sequencer (Stepwise, like an old school drum machine interface, but in my software of choice #bitwig ), instead of either playing or writing notes in like sheet music, and
3. once again keep it relatively upbeat, compared to my usual sub-100bpm slow motion...

Although it kicks off all polymetric and a bit spiky, it settles into something more dance-y quickly.

https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/lucky-number

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Week 5 of WeeklyBeats, free to listen to and download if you like.

I'm trying to explore new things (for me) each week, this time I:

1. made and jammed with a live looper,
2. played ukulele (a bit)
3. made it dubby to pay respects to Sly Dunbar, RIP

That opening sound is a ukulele chord, perhaps unbelievably.

https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/sly---ukulele

#WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #ElectronicMusic #Dub

Week 6 of WeeklyBeats, here’s an uptempo dance track with growly bass and blippy percussion. Plenty of process notes on my blog. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/the-borzoi-in-the-bubble #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #ElectronicMusic

Week 7 of WeeklyBeats, here’s a 5/4 dub (?) track. Plenty of process notes on my blog, I try not to be #Bitwig specific. This week was a slog. What am I doing this for? etc. https://nonwrestler.com/weeklybeats-2026-7-click-through-rates/ #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #ElectronicMusic

Week 8 of WeeklyBeats, here's a beatless track with ever-increasing distortion. Lots of process notes on my blog, mostly not #Bitwig specific. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/dusted-and-done #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Ambient #Drone

Week 9 of WeeklyBeats, here's a murky, icy-cold techno track. Lots of process notes on my blog, mostly not #Bitwig specific. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/slaw #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Techno #ElectronicMusic

Week 10 of WeeklyBeats, here's a shuffly downtempo groove that reminds me some of Afrobeat and a little of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. Free to listen to and/or download. Plenty of process notes on my blog as usual, if you make music yourself and want to know what I did. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/make-haste-2 #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic #Beats

Weeks 11 and 12 of WeeklyBeats - I guess I forgot to share last week? 'Crossworld Puzzles' and 'The National Apple Congress of 1883' are I guess both different angles on noisy (not in the sense of aggro) downbeat grooves. These last 3 have been the most "beats" beats so far. If you want to hear what I can do in just a couple of hours each, give them a listen? https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/crossworld-puzzles https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/the-national-apple-congress-of-1883-2 #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic #Beats

Weeks 13 and 14 of WeeklyBeats - I’ve made it past the quarter mark. Here’s ‘OK’ and ‘The Sun Always Shines On The Telly’. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/ok https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/the-sun-always-shines-on-the-telly #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic #Beats

Week 15 of WeeklyBeats, ‘Paekākāriki Escarpment Track’. I made quintuplet house music, or house in 20/16 kinda. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/paekkriki-escarpment-track #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic #Beats #DanceMusic

Week 16 of WeeklyBeats, 'On Kilter'. This track changes tempo every 4 bars all the way through, based on repitching a loop like it was on a piece of tape - to get to a new chord, you have to slow down or speed up. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/on-kilter #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic #Beats

Week 17 of WeeklyBeats, 'Pigeonhole'. What's not me this week? Fast (155bpm), hard beats (imo😅), almost no melodic or harmonic stuff. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/pigeonhole #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic #Beats

I've kept up the WeeklyBeats, just haven't been spamming yous every week. Somehow we're up to week 20 of 2026! Week 18: Sportsperson A piano piece (mostly) that never returns to the same chord twice https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/sportsperson Week 19: Popcorn On A Cake Squelchy lo-fi electro-y beat https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/popcorn-on-a-cake Week 20: Music For Apricots 7/4 gentle house (?) music https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/music-for-apricots #WeeklyBeats2026 #Musodon #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic #Beats