Welcome to the Golden Braid, home of the music of Dorian Green. If this is your first time here, please visit the “About” page. Take the time to enjoy some music, reading material and anything else you manage to get out of this site. We thank you for coming and intend to regularly put up new material, so continue to come visit us.
What's Going On, and DG Talks Politics
1-22-2012 4:21 pm
Hey everyone, it feels like so much has happened since we last heard from each other even though it hasn't been that long. It's a new year if that means anything, and while I haven't given you any new music on here recently I have been working as hard as ever on all my various projects. I've been writing a lot of songs that are more of a fun nature than deep, often a good quality for rock and...
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Quality, Supposedly Better Than Quantity
1-15-2012 12:27 pm
Dear listeners, Presumably the next best thing to new music, I have fixed the unacceptable quality of mp3's on the site. While most ears can't tell the difference, now the audio nerds will be happy to know all mp3's are now 320 VBR, and there is a zip download available for FLAC files of album material. Happy Holidays, DG
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Some Thoughts On God
11-20-2011 11:41 pm
Any continual disclaimers about this topic come from spending most of my life thinking this type of thing is best kept personal, but I’ve come to appreciate learning from the words of others while maintaining an individual view about the nature of everything. I certainly never want to give the impression of preaching. With that said, I’ve discussed thoughts on God before, but never clearly enough...
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DG-Unit
10-6-2011 9:04 pm
Almost certainly my best electronic piece to date despite it's ridiculous name, DG-Unit maintains a danceable groove while providing plenty of ear candy and an adventure. As you can tell by the preface statement, I'm unusually proud of this one in part because I just began making electronic music a few years ago, and consider much of what I've produced like the Chocolate on Chocolate stuff to be...
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New Coincidentally Sermon Themed Tracks
9-26-2011 8:41 pm
On this beautiful Friday I am releasing a couple of electronic tracks, both of them with samples compliments of random sermons I found online, one of which has some guitar rippage. Revival features some 80's sounding synth bass (compliments of former bandmate Kipp Cain) driving over a percussive drum part, and Awake consists of a series of parts that interweaves and after building to a peak drops...
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Personal?
8-28-2011 9:55 pm
I thought about a comment I made in my last post about being 27, which was how I don't generally get personal on here. Well, a) that's not entirely true, and b) why not? The internet has no shortage of people saying shit, most of which is inane or trite or both, so if I've got a more interesting than average story to share, should I? Part of me would say that the true personal communication is in...
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Some Thoughts on 27
8-20-2011 3:21 pm
While I usually don't get so personal on here as to discuss my age, I recently turned 27 and as people often do have been thinking about the subject. I actually feel pleasantly young, despite so many friends I grew up with begrudgingly accepting "growing up". Not everyone has fallen prey to this mentality, but as it consumes more of my generation every year, I hold on to these youthful feelings...
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My Agenda
7-22-2011 7:27 pm
For both you and me, I am synthesizing my thoughts and words from this site about my inordinately ambitious goals from where things currently stand. After taking a few years to make A Symmetry and some of my electronic work in between that, I have just really begun promoting it and getting people to listen to all the music I have available. I put off promoting it until I had more material, and...
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Mission Statement?!
7-22-2011 3:25 pm
Yes, thanks to Papa Bear for getting this one taken care of. We're figuring out the specifics, but some might currently describe the feature as "really tying the site together." Plus, it is very helpful for search terms like Dorian Green music and The Golden Braid, which it would be a shame if I was trumped in Google searches by any book companies named Golden Braid or any individuals named...
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Compassionate Hedonism
7-11-2011 11:34 pm
I'd like to designate the Golden Braid home to my Compassionate Hedonism movement. This term began as an insignificant joke, but it grew on me with its terse and effective manner. I think it's possible to care about others and be incredibly self-indulgent. You just have to have the slightest bit of moderation to reserve room for consideration. It's not that bad. It looks like the term has been...
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