2024 Favourite Moments
The RPM Challenge is full of ups and downs. Here are some of people’s favourite moments from this year. Check out the big list of completed projects here.
| {AN}EeL | Green Ting | It came together very fluidly | LINK | |
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| $ense | What We Went Through | Best moment was cutting ourselves some slack. | LINK | |
| Aaron Parys | RPM 2024 | The Sound just jumped out as soon has I started Playing and just had to continue .. Actual Full Length is 15+ Minute's | LINK | |
| Abbott & Hanlon | RPM Challenge 2024 | All of the snowstorms that conspired against this project being recorded | LINK | |
| Abi Ai | Sun Shined and Then Rained | When I shared it with my sister for critiques and she said she didn't understand what I was saying for the first half but got after it a bit. Diction is not my strong suit. But I'm glad she liked it. | LINK | |
| ABSTRXN | Accidental Hypervelocity: Volume I | Jamming with Coyote Senate is always a blast! | LINK | |
| acoustic | RPM 2024 | Just that I got it done. | LINK | |
| acoustichewy | The Disconcerting Domain of Diminishing Returns | A memorable moment probably had to be "Wild Things." That didn't even begin to exist until about 2 am on Saturday morning (2/10),after the first push of any recording this challenge, on what had begun as a Friday evening. And then it just...fell out. Ninety minutes later when I finally went to bed, I had all the guitar and lyrics recorded for this unexpected bonus song. I certainly didn't consciously set out to begin writing a whole new song at that late (or early?) hour, and if I had, I wouldn't have set out to write it about that. It just...fell out of me, and those are the best the moments to live for as an artist. | LINK | |
| ADDEND | No. 4 | When I thought that I might not make the deadline! | LINK | |
| admm | the leak | rehearsal space started leaking | LINK | |
| agary bock | feet and ears | Sifting through the recordings used to mix this, triggered great memories from the time period in which it was recorded. | LINK | |
| Åge | ÅGES bestemord | Granny Nomination | LINK | |
| AKAP | RPM 2024 | Once the I reviewed the sounds I first recorded I knew this is What I was Searching for | LINK | |
| Al Bee | What Gives? | Wasn't sure whether to continue pursuing a track which was a sort of dark twisted piece of Eighties synth-pop. It needed something else. Next thing you know I was writing a little passage reminiscing about the Eighties and moaning about Margaret Thatcher. My album of background music had suddenly got a bit political. Ha ha. And I wasn't even drinking. | LINK | |
| Alex Fae | Tender Embraces | taking photos for the album artwork | LINK | |
| Alias (ten years later) | This little life | The title track was written and recorded on the last day of this challenge. | LINK | |
| AlienXXX | The Pads of Paddington | Deciding on the name (this came before the trakcs) and deciding that noise would be a big part of it. | LINK | |
| ALVU | Dreams | I spent a couple days working on the "stringed" instruments on Sulfur, and when I finished I kind of felt like a real musician weirdly enough haha. The end result just felt so.. epic and cool, I am immensely proud of the time I put into that track. | LINK | |
| am/fm dreams | Tropical Depression | Playing around with all the weird synth sounds, laughing at Marc trying to teach his his songs and chords he invented for them. | LINK | |
| Amelia Wilcox | Small Increments | Writing a song about getting my blood drawn was pretty fun and unique for me. | LINK | |
| Amos Clapp and the Tender Touch | The Grind and The Grey | All of it | LINK | |
| AMUC | Creatio Ex Tenebris Nihil | The last minute track I did at the end was a pleasant surprise. It came together in about two hours. | LINK | |
| angie fights crime | FULL MINGO | watching Ash come up with vocal harmonies on the fly. | LINK | |
| Angus McFadden | Bene Vixit Iuvenis | Maybe. | LINK | |
| Angus McFadden | The Contingency EP | Yes, there was. | LINK | |
| Anne Dorko | conceptual | When I shared the song idea for Tell Me Your Story and people so instantly connected with it. | LINK | |
| Anton Samford | The Eternal Illusion | Listening to the completed album in full. | LINK | |
| Apple Cinnamon | Third Try | The 13/8 time signature in Disorderly! | LINK | |
| Apples of New England | Apples of New England | The moment it was D O N E. (And listening to it as I fill out this form.) | LINK | |
| Apraxia | Scratch Paper | Yes, we did this remote 2/3 of the group is in Louisiana, and the other in Tampa, FL. Hearing the drums, bass, and sax added in for the first time made this special for sure. | LINK | |
| Atlanta Trash Collective | Surfterfuge | I had one full day to work on it (among other piecemeal time spent on it),that one day was awesome. | LINK | |
| AuOH | CBT 1 - "the humbler" | Using this VST for the first time and exploring how you can make creative pieces just with it...a very versatile instrument. | LINK | |
| AURORAE | l’anomalia | I had a big breakthrough 3 days before the end of the challenge and took 2 days off from work to make it happen! My boss is an artist, he will approve. | LINK | |
| BackspinZX | Nightlife | Nightrunner coming together early on really managed to give me a surge of momentum. I felt accomplished in what I'd made, the friends I'd showed it to seemed to like it a lot and were really supportive over it, so that was the moment the rest of the challenge started coming together for me for sure. | LINK | |
| Balloon Marsupials | Message from the Past | That we managed to use a recorder and it actually sounded good! | LINK | |
| Bay Mud | A Quiet Celebration | During an initial playtest for a friend I realized the entire track was composed of manglings and resamples of the same initial sound, which was a happy accident | LINK | |
| Behind T!me | 100 Disclaimers | I almost gave up when I was two weeks in and didn't have anything I was happy with. One weekend came where we were kind of snowed in and I was able to create the basis of songs I ended up finishing. Was a close call though! | LINK | |
| Ben Century | Why? | When I finally came up with an intro. I struggled with that. | LINK | |
| Ben's Ekman Spiral | Singularité | When the mix is finish, it was the first time I went deeply into that and it was a revelation | LINK | |
| Bennett Rabiega | Somewhere Southeast of Here | There were two: 1) When I finished writing the songs and felt really good about them and 2) Hearing the completed recordings and feeling that it sounded just as I intended it to. | LINK | |
| Beyond the Limes | Sunset of a Mindset | The entire thing, really, was a joy to make. The music, ideas and lyrics just seemed to flow effortlessly. | LINK | |
| biilborbillb | Songs for Every Mood | Titling our little babbies | LINK | |
| Bill De Martino | Brittle Bones Jones | Getting up the courage to do the vocals even though I knew they would be bad was a special moment. | LINK | |
| BJ Boyd | Other | I tried recording multiple versions to portable recorders, but I kept coming back to the version I recorded using Tracktion Waveform. I particularly enjoyed using the dual guitar IR plugin. Although I wanted to make a 3 or 4 track EP I'm glad I just focussed on just this one track that ended up being entirely different from what I thought it would be. | LINK | |
| Black Auks | 7 Dreams of Dr Aukikus | We occasionally had connectivity issues but worked with it. | LINK | |
| BLEAK WİNTER | ø | The moment the main idea of the track finally clicked was one of the most satisfying moments, after looking for the right feel for days on end | LINK | |
| Bleepeater | Evilutions | Yes catching the coin counting machine in the bank which became the track killer for Money | LINK | |
| bodydouble | Lullabies for an Anxious Mind | They were all good moments :) | LINK | |
| Boys Dressed As Witches | Self Titled Demo | I never wrote lyrics to so many songs in one day! | LINK | |
| brainstorm Sheen | Big Broken Machine | This record helped me not drink | LINK | |
| Brandon Brooks | Insomniac | After losing my voice for the entirety of January, I didn't think I was going to be able to sing for awhile. I learned about February Album Writing Month, and threw myself at it with the intent of getting my voice back to normal and getting back into the swing of writing. I loved the process of having to work on something and not second guess or overanalyze yourself. Actually FINISHING songs! It was rewarding, especially with no planning and only one month. | LINK | |
| Breaking Light | Abstract Oblique | The EP was recorded during a very busy, stressful month of moving everything I owned, which is a lot of shit. | LINK | |
| Brogan White | Constant State of Paranoia | The greatest moment while making this record was being nervous about how the final products of the songs sounded and then being obsessed with them and loving every second of them in the end. | LINK | |
| Brutha Cutch | Not Done Ye... | My memories are the times when working with friends. I also worked on a song with my daughter, which is not immortalized forever. | LINK | |
| Bukupanda | Bukstrumental 4080 | When I pulled the vocals and heard how good it was (to me) without them | LINK | |
| C Alex | On command | It was just nice to make something! | LINK | |
| Caitlin Piper | Compulsion to Stand | Recording in nearly every room of my house during a major construction project was definitely memorable. I had good luck with technology and enjoyed the process of adding multiple layers to each song. | LINK | |
| CANCEL FACE | Selected Akai-based Works 20-24 | I recorded the piano on Track 1 in a single take, liked it so much I kept it! | LINK | |
| Carson Dalton | Nostalgia | The Recording process was a new experience | LINK | |
| Cat Amongst The Pigeons | Sunny Disposition EP | When I finally managed to lay down the rap in 'Comfortable Courting' and build a nest around it. It was after midnight and the metre was so unnatural that I kept making mistakes and having to retake. I knew that if I went to bed I wouldn't be able to make those lyrics fit in the morning so I kept going. I managed to lay the rap down well and as soon as I syncopated the drums around it and heard the way it sounded I knew that this track was gonna work. | LINK | |
| Centrale Electrique | To Place The Final Piece | As always, the dark night of the soul moments that occur as time is running short and you regret ever signing up are the most memorable! | LINK | |
| Chai Maca | Perché diventi pallida? | When I lost the synth patch forever... and decided to go along and compose the song with the only 2 chords I recorded with it | LINK | |
| Chalices | Somebody Else to Blame | Sitting backstage feeling like shit about myself and deciding to stroke my own ego by completing a song | LINK | |
| Chapter 13 | Welcome 2 The Core | During the making of this song, our singer couldnt help himself when it came to singing "Shalalala yeaah" from mr.jones during the end of a take. This was picked up through the guitars sound hole and made its way on to the final take leaving us with a little counting crows easter egg. | LINK | |
| Chris Anderson | Goodbye Eden | Every moment was equally thrilling, exhilarating, exhausting, frustrating, exciting, and oh so ragged and right. | LINK | |
| Chris Cooke | Phoning It In | I really did enjoy jamming with my friend around the campfire, even if the "music" we made requires air quotes. | LINK | |
| Chris Sabatini | Four Track Archives | There is just something really sublime about hearing yourself sing a song two decades later and have no recollection of the recording being made. | LINK | |
| Citric Astrid | Slices of Life | Pop & Me came together very organically | LINK | |
| Civic Holiday | Civic Holiday | Max's voice makes it on the record! | LINK | |
| Cloot | Cloot | Sharing half finished work with peers and getting positive feedback. | LINK | |
| Cole Mcguire "Bungle" | CORKSCREW | Randomly getting the motivation to do at the very last second | LINK | |
| Cole Stanfield | Going Sideways | getting my piano | LINK | |
| Commander Sunset | My Pronouns | My studio is so boring. My equitment does not listen. I have to bring the fire everytime. | LINK | |
| Corporate Mind | Rhythmic Peculiarities | Some of the interesting interactions of text to speech coinciding interestingly with established tracks. | LINK | |
| Count Cromulent | Monorail | This was a tough one - hitting the submit button! ) | LINK | |
| Coyote Senate | A Silver Thread | Listening through several hours of Apollo 17 flight recordings to find a good sample was actually really enjoyable | LINK | |
| Crunch Man | The Crunch Beats | Great melody I made one day | LINK | |
| Cybernetic Voyager | Recharging in the Particle Storm | Playing piano sounds with a MIDI guitar for the first time. | LINK | |
| dadii | Songs About Men... | I wrote the music for DEAD MANN WALKING in about 20 minutes, did a single take of the vocals and had this moment of euphoria where I felt like I had come upon a rare gemstone of a song. Of all the art I've made, I think that's one that makes the highlight to revisit later on when I've developed my skills further. It was a blast to compose and even more fun to record! I'd love to play it live some day. | LINK | |
| Dandy From Home | He Waits | Calling off work to finish it lol | LINK | |
| Danger Painters | XX | When we said ‘it’s done!’ | LINK | |
| Dave Saigh | Left Over Winter | Yes, recorded some surprises and learned a few tricks about music and recording. | LINK | |
| Dave the Magical Cheese Wizard | Potato Rock Rocks! | The joy of shouting SUSPICIOUS at the tops of our lungs together! | LINK | |
| Dave Vause & Moe Lassiz | Flat Out | Recording Moe's vocals. We actually recorded two songs, but I couldn't get the second one finished in time unfortunately. | LINK | |
| DAVI BARDO | Routine | When all the instrumental came together | LINK | |
| David Caruk | Soundscapes1 | The moment when I played it back on an mp3 player and I realized that it is my creation. | LINK | |
| David Cooper Orton | Surface Tension | 29 days of pretty great times, fortunately. | LINK | |
| David Fazzino | Instant Regret | getting sick at the end of February and writing lyrics in bed in a mild state of delirium | LINK | |
| David Thorley | We Are Working On Rewinding Your Movie | It's always the moment when plans are abandoned and you find yourself sailing into uncharted (and probably shark-infested) waters. | LINK | |
| dawn.of.tunes | lost love, new love, true love | Yes, my friend Nathan came and sang on one of the tracks and i really enjoyed making music with him. | LINK | |
| Death and The Poetess | Potions of Pre-villainy | Making one another laugh while writing dark spells of lyrics on the fly, and keeping some cackles in the recording. | LINK | |
| Defy the Mall | Defile the Mall | No! | LINK | |
| Devospanko | Unwilling Incense | Mastering the finished tracks for the record! | LINK | |
| Dhedbeats l | Blue Skies on a Cold Day | Making the piano parts | LINK | |
| Dimitris Tsironis | ⋅ Paraphrase ⋅⋅ Invalid Beats ⋅⋅⋅ Blink of an Eye | It was a rainy day... | LINK | |
| Dishonorable Green Discharge | The Death Fish | making this beat | LINK | |
| Distinct Kicking Motion | Escape Plans | When I nailed down the concept and the lyrics practically wrote themselves | LINK | |
| Doctor Coffee | 20 Songs 20 Days | By day 17 I was losing it. It is really hard to record 20 songs in 20 days. But I was surprised at how good the final tracks turned out. | LINK | |
| Doll Butcher | Dying Breed | This album is very special to me and my brother, we are very proud of what we built. | LINK | |
| DON JOHNSON | DON JOHNSON | I would have regular phone calls weekly with my grandfather this month to help piece together a lifetime in 5 songs.. we had some great conversations. | LINK | |
| Dr. Thunder | Rainbow Bridge Ep | The Final track is really hitting the spot for me | LINK | |
| EB Reid and MC Hunter | Xylophonic 5 (or Maybe 6. We’ve Lost Count) | Making the blender sound | LINK | |
| Eephus | Expose Yourself To Art | When Zac vocalized in the middle of a track. | LINK | |
| EFEM | Cant Go Back | The final moments when I was really in a flow and could keep going but had to call it. | LINK | |
| EFSPACM | RPM Challenge 2024 | the release communication , lets say 26th feb | LINK | |
| Elder Caius | Super Destroyer | The collaborative moments. Tracking bass with Nathan Cluett, getting the masters back from Jacob Cherwick, getting the artwork from Julie Barter. | LINK | |
| Erin Yvette Haroldsen | A Menagerie of Light | A song that I had to basically start over finally coming together | LINK | |
| Estella Ramirez | In My Sights | learning from my fellow RPMers was the most memorable | LINK | |
| Estudio Chispa | RPM2024 | Climbing the learning curve of recording software... | LINK | |
| Field Mouse | pilgrim tracks | Collaborating together to make our first album :) | LINK | |
| Filterdrive | Sodium Vapor | Running by the sea one night, it was "overcast so the city skyglow was very visible across the bay". I messaged them to say that. | LINK | |
| Firephly | Silent Blur | When it all came together! | LINK | |
| First Born Sun | The Serotonin Harvest | This was one of the most intensive 4 weeks of music ever for me as 7 of the 9 songs were written in February. There was a point when a theme started to form around the songs and this was a memorable moment. | LINK | |
| Fish Plants | Kipper | Every track was put together with a lot of improv. All the little mistakes and notes that found a way to fit in just right are enough to make me smile. | LINK | |
| FIVE EXTRA ARMS | What’s Going On Inside Her Head? | When the chickens were included in the recording, I felt like everything suddenly made sense. Electronic music and farm animal sounds. It was a moment of absolute bliss. | LINK | |
| Former Eraser | Cold Solid Chunks | Just how everything fit together, with occasional surprise moments you get playing improvised music. Hearing the results, the recorded output, allows you to hear new things missed or forgotten in the moment. | LINK | |
| fricatives | Jungle Cat | Setting up our studio and dusting off our equipment | LINK | |
| frost finger | red king's keep | tracking heavy guitars was just so fun! | LINK | |
| Future Thread | This Canyon Stops Dark | The greatest moment was when I finished, having that sense of relief and excitement fill me. | LINK | |
| Geo-Joe | Back Home | Singing obnoxious "choir" vocals just a few hours before the deadline because they still felt necessary. | LINK | |
| gizzardgulpe | RPM 2024 | Getting into the groove on the first track of the album was a ton of fun. It just has a lot of attitude that I enjoy. | LINK | |
| Gliftor Draken | Swing Nose Frog | I must have forgotten it... | LINK | |
| Glitch M3owT | Static Hiccups | Laughing my ass off, realizing all of the weird sounds I could perform with. | LINK | |
| Goldparalax | Where No One Dares To Tread | As mentioned, the lead synth sound took a while to get right but feel it came out solid. | LINK | |
| Golly | Teleautomatic | The rush of the home stretch. | LINK | |
| GRAVEYARD SHIFT | GRAVEYARD SHIFT | I was a bit stuck on lyrics for a bit and then one morning during a heavy snowstorm, I had an extremely unnerving lucid dream where I felt as though I was awake in reality, but knew I was dreaming. I woke up and immediately started jotting down ideas and wrote most of the lyrics for this EP in the following 5 minutes. | LINK | |
| Grogbit | Serf & Turf | It was all great fun! | LINK | |
| GUCCI egg | FEBRUARY | This was initially a two person recording project but due to lost files, broken PCs, and DAW issues it has come out as just a beat tape. We're going to think of these tracks as a starting point for the real record | LINK | |
| Guy Capecelatro III | Illustrious Mind Readers | It was a delightful back and forth volley. | LINK | |
| h{EE}l | communityedit navigation bar Don't Mistake my Weakness for Kindness ( 2024 RPM Project ) | I Always enjoy assembling these, and remain humbled at the amount of trust artists have in me to engage in the process used to create these h{EE}l projects - It's a real treat | LINK | |
| haleyjo | clouded mind | When going through all my songs after writing them I remember feeling proud of myself for doing this challenge, just knowing that some people could hear my songs rather than just keeping them to myself is big for me. | LINK | |
| Haven | In the lap of the land | Trying to keep my pet ferrets out of the recording (they scratched up some of my sound insulation!) | LINK | |
| Headlay | False Bringer EP | Getting together and one of us saying "Just edit it in." | LINK | |
| HHM 218 | Cowbell on the Beach | Gang vocals! | LINK | |
| High Flattery | The 3 Day Single | When I cranked the click track to a deafening level in order to play the drums at a half decent level | LINK | |
| Hokey | Laundry Camp | Couldn't go to sleep after laying down in one take what I wanted with VCV Rack | LINK | |
| Holy Mountains | All We Have is Time | Sat down to work on ideas for the final track, and the first notes I played ended up being the basis for the song. Track came together in 2hrs and ended up as my favorite of the bunch. | LINK | |
| I Love You Alien | The Slow Trek | Laughing to tears at least 3x | LINK | |
| ICCCP | Flux Zone | There's always a turning point mid-month where stuff begins to click. | LINK | |
| Indestination | Call The Whole Thing Off | First RPM Challenge, so... finishing it? | LINK | |
| ISPIR | ISPIR | We made eachother laugh and dance while writing and recording | LINK | |
| Jack Picco | Montana | During work breaks, I'd swing my chair around, lay down a track, then turn around and go back to work | LINK | |
| Jai Mohan | closure | when i forgot to start for threee weeks and then had to scramble | LINK | |
| James Ghofulpo | Eclipse | Not really. Just trying to keep the momentum going. | LINK | |
| Jamie Muir | Supercool 1.5 | Throughout this recording, I was suffering from a horrible cold and lost my voice entirely. My frustration led me to recording the 10-minute long closing instrumental (You are in Control of the Whispers),and I ironically had the most fun with this track in the process. All other vocals were recorded on the last day of RPM submission, being forced to write melodies around my broken and still recovering voice. | LINK | |
| Jarrett Osborn | Morning Star | Making the stomp and clap sounds in my garage with my son Andrew was way more fun than I expected. | LINK | |
| Javi Vinagre | Golden Apple, Golden Worm | Last days are always the most Painful/gratifying. Felt like i pulled tracks out of thin air in the last three days or so | LINK | |
| Jay Batzner | thoughts among the cloud of mountains | no | LINK | |
| JC | Burnt Sienna | getting the guitar bits to fit/sound good (even though I'm a drummer) | LINK | |
| JC Farnham | Game Over Try Again | Not one moment, but overall this has been an eye opener for letting myself write "easy" music more often | LINK | |
| Jeff Foran | Waxwing | Walking through the snowstorm to get to some xylophones. | LINK | |
| Jill Staveley | Proof | Writing a song with my kid. That was great. We work well together. | LINK | |
| JimBaumerME | February Is a Tough Month (for Love) | Recording "Rocket Store," using samples for the first time. | LINK | |
| Joe Spuds Riekert | Barely Breathing | When I realized these songs are different than my usual style. | LINK | |
| Joel David Hickman | In Tonal Blue 2024 | Realizing how unique and creative this album is compared to others that I have recorded. | LINK | |
| John Vogel | No Concept | Listening to all the songs through for the first time was pretty memorable. | LINK | |
| Jon Gillespie | Remainder | When I finished recording 'By The Spent Fuel Pool', I knew that improvisation resonated with me, and that it was a keeper. | LINK | |
| Joseph Human | A Day at the Lake | Most of the songs took shape the last week and it was really exciting to see them become real songs. | LINK | |
| Josh Singh | Nights Alone | It got me into a fun routine of making music again! | LINK | |
| JRNL | Demo 3 | Some of the demos I recorded were so embarassing that I think I will never forget the struggle of putting this one together. | LINK | |
| Julia Leguerrier | St-Fulgurance, là où je reste pas | tuning a banjo by the woodstove. always a charm ... | LINK | |
| Justice Eats Trees | Groove of the Day: tenyear|fiveyear|season3|RPM|onedisaster | I remember a couple spots (like during the making of my preferred track) where I was having so much fun just grooving to the nonsense my sleep deprived brain dumped into my computer and being like "this is nonsense no one will hear but damn is it fun to make music!" | LINK | |
| Justin Mathews | Game Theory for Non-Gamers | Getting track 5 recorded after having it stuck in my head for 6 months! | LINK | |
| Kea | real is free | Honestly finishing it, I’m someone who struggles with ADHD and finishing projects has always been an obstacle. This challenge and the community really gave me the push I needed. | LINK | |
| Keith Landry | Everything is Fragile | Letting go of the notion that I could do more. | LINK | |
| Kevyspice | The Stars Where We Used to Live | Apart from the giddy excitement of setting up the bleeps, bloops, and drones to see what happens, seeing the cover image, which was not at all how the LED star field in the ceiling of our band's rehearsal actually looks! | LINK | |
| King Fawn | Cement + Sand | When I was able to step back and really look at how everything had taken shape. It was a gratifying moment to see that the end product might not be what was expected but, what was needed. | LINK | |
| Knob | Stella | Getting my friend involved singing backpack since it was his idea. I brought it to fruition. | LINK | |
| Knot that Good | Splendesto | No one moment. | LINK | |
| KR Seward | Kemistree | Hitting enter. | LINK | |
| Kristy Hanson | Be Good | This was a return to songwriting for me after too long an absence. The entire process felt like meeting a version of myself I had truly missed. And the music helped me let go of a lot of pain I had been holding onto. I feel lighter now. I'm so grateful for this project! | LINK | |
| Kyle Johnson | Ballad of A Rambler | One Saturday, I spent the entire day recording and mixing some of these tracks. Time just slipped away and it felt great ot be that productive! | LINK | |
| LAKE IRREGARDLESS | RPMC2024 by LAKE IRREGARDLESS | I went back to work on it but it was already done, backlogged sense of well being blast | LINK | |
| latecomber | wish you're were here | ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | LINK | |
| Lauren Smee Studio | Moods & Myths | Every moment that one of my students discovered something new was incredibly special. | LINK | |
| Law Offices of Davis and Dresnok | Better Than Justice | We had several practices that felt inspired which is pretty fun. | LINK | |
| Letter Seventeen | Meets Minimum | When the song idea popped into my head and I realized that I could quickly record something. | LINK | |
| lil bits | Dream About Things | At some point I programmed a melody played by 10 different instruments, but each instrument has only a 10% chance of actually making a sound. This was quite a fun moment, because this generated so many combinations I could just sit and listen to random probabilities vibing out in their own jam session. | LINK | |
| little big planet | so long (HOSTED BY DJ WINTERCOAT) | <3 | LINK | |
| Locynaeh | Next Try | Like what I done soloing when I done my transition between the two parts (and the last improvised one). | LINK | |
| lokey, that strange bass layer | congression | improvised live recording is a always a singularly rewarding and perplexing process. it's always amazing to hear the recording afterwards and boggle at what was conjured. | LINK | |
| LÖMSK | Memento Moirai | LÖMSK is an revolving and evolving collective of musicians, singers, lyricists from around the world. When not participating in the RPM challenge you can find and join them at www.reddit.com/r/gameofbands collaborating on new songs every two weeks. We had about 30 people work on this project. That is something special. | LINK | |
| los beatniko | OG_24 | Just in how easy I could swap certain elements/instruments or make choice modifications with effects or tempo, and generate a new set of ideas. The process was easy to get great results fast. | LINK | |
| Loyal Hate Machine | RPM Album | I got to use and old beat from years back:) | LINK | |
| Luc Grey | I Don't Know Ya | Just having fun with strict deadline. | LINK | |
| Luna Ponderosa | Steamboat Willie | All a blur, really. | LINK | |
| lynraske silpader | LYNErasketre paDERNE i 2024 bpm sjalenge | Grammy Nomination | LINK | |
| Maestro Bizarro | Up Your Alley | Finishing | LINK | |
| Marcella DeVelis | Some Things I Hate | this is a collection of songs ive been working on for years now, but never had the confidence to release. This moment of putting it out there feels great because i can put this old work behind me and grow and branch off from here :3c | LINK | |
| Mariya Boyko | Echo in the Cyber Sky Hall | It is an ambient piano improv. | LINK | |
| Mark Hunter | Oh no! I Locked Myself Out | My cat watching me | LINK | |
| Marten Ingle | DEEP C WORLD III Pond at the Bottom of the Sea | finishing | LINK | |
| Matt is Stuck in a Window | There is no Chaos | Knowing that after 20 years of friendship, touring and writing we could both surprise each other | LINK | |
| Matt Long | We | Not really | LINK | |
| matt s | all i love can fit in an eyeball | no | LINK | |
| Matthew M. Conroy | B LLOON S | Some of the slowed-down birds I recorded don't sound anything like birds... | LINK | |
| Max Grazier | a piece of me, for you | I came up with one of the most unique chord progressions I've included in a song and I'm very happy it made the cut! | LINK | |
| Mazinaw Lake | Stretch | Finishing it and submitting it was very memorable I didn't believe that I could finish anything. I mean, it's rough. But it's done!! | LINK | |
| meadows | Hometownfeelings (2001 demo tracks) | The fictional character meadows made the music (shhh) | LINK | |
| MechaniCrash | Silent Venus | The track “Merely Fantasy” had a moment where it was sliced up and rearranged with the break becoming the verse, and turning the whole thing inside out in a way that made for a much better song. | LINK | |
| medians | Lines In Light | Every time a certain small sound, timbre, or instrument being added to a song caused a composition to really click | LINK | |
| Metamere | Unconstrained Within Constraints | There were a few times when some improvised sections came together just right and gave me goosebumps. Also, when the analog filter and resonance hit just right. Mmmm! | LINK | |
| Michelle Monette | Discipline I - Perception | Probably the moment when everything came together. It's always amazing to me how a few small musical ideas can become full songs in such a short amount of time. | LINK | |
| Mieremet | Cleansing #3 | Nah | LINK | |
| Mike Kay | Waimarie | Everything shaping up in the mixing and mastering, like a dream. | LINK | |
| Mike Neville | Mike's Mixed Tape ep | Making my bass sound like it was on fire | LINK | |
| milligan | grey isle | I was encouraged to do this 3 days before the due date, so it was n intense process, some friends came over and we recorded together for each others challenges | LINK | |
| miscellaneous owl | you are the light that casts a shadow | First tried to record "jamie's halo" at 195 bpm and was quickly humbled into dropping it to a mere 175 bpm as it turns out my hands just won't go that fast. | LINK | |
| Monchy Street | Gus | No | LINK | |
| Monica Walsh | Pont | For this one, just completing it which almost didn't happen this year! | LINK | |
| Morteza Kasravi | Vernier | The moment I finally did it! was my 3rd RPM challenge for same idea | LINK | |
| Mossland (aka Twin Goat) | Mossland | The cat fell of my synth rack and interrupted a vocal take. | LINK | |
| Mr. Steam Kitchen | The C Cell | Recording The Vapist was a memorable experience.. love the way it came out. | LINK | |
| mrgoetta | Who Shot Professor Sex? | Being unable to record bagel bites monster without laughing | LINK | |
| Mulberry Drive | Untitled Demos | Getting the echo effects right on Under a Spell I've never done spoken word, and I love how it came out. | LINK | |
| Mungo | Groovy Man | When I thought this is some of the best music I have created so far. | LINK | |
| Munk | Spirits Up | just getting into meditative states | LINK | |
| names of the dead | Astaüand | Being done. Again. Knowing that completion is within reach and not all of it sounds cringy. | LINK | |
| Nate Monoxide | NEONEON | Finally finishing the song 'Burning Bridges' was a big moment for me. I'd been holding onto that guitar riff and concept since 2012 but never sat down to record it until now. | LINK | |
| Nazir | Nasty Naz | Yes I had a great memory of hanging out with friends | LINK | |
| Nigel Moss | A Room With A View | Realising that it *was* going to be finished | LINK | |
| Nightwatcher | Nightwatcher | ya, putting in all this information while I am trying to finish | LINK | |
| NightzSonar | Rosed Dragons | scrapping like 100+ ideas | LINK | |
| Noble Gossip | Nothin' but Net | Realizing that no one is stopping you for hard clipping your master | LINK | |
| North of the Checkerboard | Turner's Shadow | crushin a few beers, getting it done, happy days :) | LINK | |
| Not Quiet Noise | ...But Quieter Noise | There were many moments where I didn't think I'd find time or energy to record, so this moment of completion is especially sweet. | LINK | |
| nurture nurture | Emergence | When I first listened back to the final version of my song about how hard sobriety is, I teared up a little bit. | LINK | |
| Oddball | Where We Going? (Pond Funk Party) | Liking the funk backing track, then loving the song completely with the vocals added! | LINK | |
| oddSTAR | This Twilight Garden: Live Looping Sessions Volume 2 | It was a bittersweet venture as these sounds take me back to a difficult time, but it means the world to me to finally offer them in a form that I am proud to share. I think everything turned out beautifully and really tells our story without the need for words. | LINK | |
| Olive Astronaut | Recipe for Disaster VII | Finally figuring out the vocal chain and getting the vocals to sound useable. | LINK | |
| Omega 13 | I Can't Remember Portland | The day I finally figured out the first verse, two days before deadline | LINK | |
| Ouroboros | The Endless Knot | Getting a not-so-subtle hint from the Universe to trust myself and follow my muse. | LINK | |
| pami | the anatomy of plants | This was originally meant to be a 3 song EP, but one evening Jake noticed that parts of the song "faces and flowers", would work as a round, and so we sat and recorded track one (a round) spontaneously one night, and it worked beautifully! I've been talking about writing a round for over a year, and one seems to have materialized on its own! | LINK | |
| Panda Face | Triangle Dream EP | Listening to it when it was completed | LINK | |
| particledots | The arc of fruitless intensification | It was hard this year - all of it | LINK | |
| Passing on the Right | Pride | We recorded 6 songs in a 48 hour period. It was great to push ourselves in a way we normally wouldn't. | LINK | |
| Paste The Sky | Death of a Mystery | The point where I overcame the despair and negativity and found what I did to be instrinsically worthwhile. | LINK | |
| Pastel Emergency | Pistachio | Playing off each other’s creativity | LINK | |
| Pat Sloan | New Seed | When I finally finished it! | LINK | |
| Personal Space Invaders (Brian Downton) | Random Noises. A.I. Choices | Snow lots of snow | LINK | |
| Peter Menzies | I Hate Cell Phones | The line about nose hair. | LINK | |
| PHIL-IN-THE-BLANK | Redumbdantly | Finishing | LINK | |
| phog masheeen | In Plain Sight | There were moments, mostly of panic to come up with something to write about. I would fall back on notes in my phone for songs. | LINK | |
| pink smog | ◦ ✶ ✺ kissburn ✺ ✶ ◦ | Trying to digitally recreate a d-beat. | LINK | |
| plain view | Cellardoor | This was an iterative process with individual small improvements being made along the way piece by piece. The payoff is now hearing it all come together in the end! | LINK | |
| Pleasant Ditch | Word | Finishing first track. | LINK | |
| Poloma | Momentary Feeling | when i finished it | LINK | |
| Port-Aux-Poutines | Le Rossignol | The collaboration with talented artists was the most memorable moment, as well as what made this song possible. | LINK | |
| Preset1 | the surfer jettes | i wrote a cool bassline at one point i think. honestly, it's all sort of a blur | LINK | |
| Psychic Sperm | Suddenly Pants | Sajid's parent's food | LINK | |
| public art space | you are invited to enter and gently touch this installation | each and every moment spent creating together is eternally special. | LINK | |
| Pumpkin Mouth | Method Actor | Seeing the cover Jocelyn Mackenzie came up with was fun. | LINK | |
| QLOI | The Tuvaq Demos | Adding an Eq pedal after my Big Muff was a great idea. | LINK | |
| quiet abandon | rapid prismatic miasma | 🌈 | LINK | |
| Quinn | Songs About A Nightmare I Once Had | Fitting people and sounds I like into music gave me a different appreciation for it. | LINK | |
| Ralph Jeremiah | We'll Be Okay | Learning that I could write lyrics again | LINK | |
| Reconsider | RPM 2024 | The moment I was writing lyrics a few days ago, and realized, "oh wow...I've got 8 songs with actual, honest-to-goodness lyrics. I should probably push and make that 10." And it's always fun to record a song with the keedos. | LINK | |
| Red Queen Hypothesis | Redecorate with Gamma Rays | My 9 year old got involved this year and helped to sing on a song | LINK | |
| Reverian | Alone | I impulsively bought a new guitar half way through the month and re-recorded a few tracks in a way that made me happy. | LINK | |
| richaux | My Achilles Is My Achilles | That rupturing my Achilles a few weeks back wasn't all bad: it led to the album title. | LINK | |
| Ricia Rae | A Drop of Light | When I inadvertently recorded the sound of chopping vegetables in the background of one track - with enough reverb it made for a cool sound. | LINK | |
| Rob Hailman | From Saturday to Monday | The first listen back after tracking vocals for all the songs - "hot damn, this is really gonna be a record!" | LINK | |
| Rob Parker | The Potato Situation | Nothing stands out. It's all just sort of meh this year. | LINK | |
| RobC | Frog Salad! The Rough Reel Production Month Attempt | I think a crucial moment was when I decided to forget about listen-ability and just "sing", if you can call it that, and mangle guitar. By now you'll have worked out I don't really play the damn gitbox, I just record chords and splice them together like Delia Derbyshire. Runner-up would be coming up with "Cheese on Toast for Breakfast" in the shower after doing just that. | LINK | |
| Rollos | The Hole Left Behind | Confronting the abusers and emotions directly after 20 years of pent of emotions led to such a gratifying and freeing feeling. | LINK | |
| Ross Williams | Progress | When I could quickly see it forming into an album. | LINK | |
| Safari | The Tape | Going DAWless was a huge step forward for me, as I was going through a bit of a creative block not being able to just hit record and jam. It was an ease of access thing. With a DAW I have to sequence, record, re-dub, etc... and I wanted to break free from that. So just being able to push something out in one-take whether it be good or bad was really refreshing. | LINK | |
| Salman Ahad | Out of Death, Together | I think when the melody clicked for The Baby, it was truly magical and especially when I put it under the actual tracking, there was something really magical to all that. | LINK | |
| Sandra Glorkle | Sandra Glorkle 8 | Touching the electric fence. | LINK | |
| Saria Foxx | Let’s Go Places | Seeing it spark joy✨ | LINK | |
| Saucy Voxel | Hello World | The theme of the process of making this album was that it was often very funny. I committed to some pretty unhinged ideas but what takes the cake for me was the luck that when I learned how to use a gate, it was exactly what "Something Bad Happened On The Farm" needed to elevate from boring outtake to something I scream laughed at. | LINK | |
| Savory Flakes | WITH A FORK | Basking in the genius of friends. | LINK | |
| Schismogenesis | Schismogenesis | Around the middle when I got to the point where I wasn't so self conscious and I made a track called "Marcato" that's super trippy and dramatic- when I stopped worrying about whether is was any good was when it started to be fun. | LINK | |
| Schmex | Break a Leg | It's always fun laying down the vocal tracks and the violin bits of all our songs. So... there... | LINK | |
| Securitron | Post-Apocalyptic Eras | The writing process is always the funnest part. There were moments during the writing of this album that I surprised myself with the riffs I was coming up with. | LINK | |
| Serene Dominic | Time Tunnel | Bumping two songs together that had o business being together. | LINK | |
| Sha-Pink | Vibrator | When we finished it. | LINK | |
| Shaundar | Feat and Fortitude | The whole process is always great but completion is very satisfying | LINK | |
| sheehan | a couple tunes (record production month 2024) | Many | LINK | |
| SimondaGOAT | feelings | When I thought about taking different approaches to songs - like when I tried techno drums. | LINK | |
| Slagg | Slagg | I like chuggin on dem strings | LINK | |
| Smooth Around The Bend | Dreamstealer | When I finished | LINK | |
| Snaxwell65 | Feb24 | Creative outlet in the darkness winter | LINK | |
| SNR | Petal.Feather.Stone. | My friend's daughter sitting on his lap while he recorded a bass track. | LINK | |
| Some Racket | Some Racket I | The Vocal Harmonies! The clips were fun too. | LINK | |
| Sooky Couch Girls | Two Steps | Doing the live-off-the-floor recording was very memorable as it was the first time any of us had recorded music that way! So it was a huge learning experience and we loved it. | LINK | |
| Soul Face | Intention Dimension | I really enjoyed deciding which parts of the speeches I wanted to sample. | LINK | |
| Spacetruck | The Tuckening | No singular great moment. They were all great. | LINK | |
| Spice Rack Collective | ... So Many Stories | As usual, the whole process was a blast, and the biggest kick (for Your Friend and Humble Narrator, anyway) was the first playback for a couple of particular tracks, for different reasons. That gleeful giggle is a high point every year! | LINK | |
| Squawk Box | MCA 7 - Good Bye Phresh | all of em | LINK | |
| squelch | manifold prisoner | yes | LINK | |
| Stallions of Sound | SOS | all good in the hood | LINK | |
| Stefans_isch | Spud | finishing it last second!! | LINK | |
| Stephen Nash | The Place Where You've Let Go | A couple of nice moments.. Dreaming up the half time outro and making it work with some original lyrics that had not yet been incorporated felt great. The lyrics came very easily once I got going which was also great. | LINK | |
| Stephen Portrie II | New Material Live 2|24|24 | I enjoyed all of it. | LINK | |
| Steve Hoskins | Mine EP | I made a snare drum and used it on a few tracks | LINK | |
| Suburban Behemoth | Overwhelmed and Fumbling (Instrumental) | I ran the drum track into an organ speaker simulator. | LINK | |
| Summer Field | Stuck! | Being able to produce so much music in so little time was something I didn't think I could do. Though the results are very scatter brained. | LINK | |
| T.Z1 | Willoughby | it was all good! | LINK | |
| Tapes In Motion | RPM 2024 | The most memorable moment that comes to mind is when we invited a bunch of friends over to record group vocals for 'What Did Your Lover Say?'. | LINK | |
| TB8S | Post Processing | Getting on a roll until 3 in the morning one night working on a few songs. | LINK | |
| Temenos | Binary Shadows | My audio gear started failing, but I didn't give up! | LINK | |
| TemporarySolution | Baby Space Station | Strumming "on" a speak and spell. | LINK | |
| Tessa Cecilia | The Paths We Took With No One Watching | Being able to hear the layers of sounds and then being able to create them as envisioned. | LINK | |
| Texturions | THIS | n Ope | LINK | |
| The Ames Window | The Ames Window | minor electrical fire | LINK | |
| The Arlington Arguments | We've All Come To Be Here From Somewhere | Finding a voice memo of my son when he was four years old on my phone and taking a slightly disjointed phrase he said and turning it into a completed song, and being able to add him on the track from that voice memo. | LINK | |
| The Beer Rats | Rat Tracks Vol. II | Abbi Sleeper and Laura Manzi helped with sick album artwork | LINK | |
| The Calculus Affair | RPM0224 | I finished it pretty quick -- more than a week before the end of February -- and when I was done I was pretty meh on the whole thing. I came back a few days before it was due and listened again and lo, it was a pretty good record. The songs were all pretty decent, my voice was in fine form, and it's...you know, it's got a vibe. | LINK | |
| The Chameleon Collective | Colour Shift | Too many to count | LINK | |
| The Combovers | LIVE at the Star-Lite Lounge | One hot moment was when Teddy Connecticut stopped the show to put Jacko on the band's tab. That's what professionals do. That's The Combovers way. | LINK | |
| the cosmic light | music to pump iron to | The whole thing reconnecting my fingers to a piano again. | LINK | |
| The Cropdusters | The Cropdusters: RPM 2024 | I thinking singing the vocals was tonnes of fun. A lot of it is just blobs of text on my phone until I scream it over the instrumental | LINK | |
| The Elysium | Ineffable | We found out one week before the deadline that we'd recorded our entire album through the speaker of the computer, and didn't have the actual microphones turned on. This definitely set our hopes low and we almost gave up, but we perservered and ended up with an album we're both very happy with! | LINK | |
| The Estuary | The Red EP | Every second. Happy to be anywhere. | LINK | |
| The Handsanitigers | Omicronopolis | My daughter singing into the microphone about her best friend and worries about school was a moment I realized my daughter was packing some real thought and emotion into what she was creating. It was a really raw, memorable moment during the recording. | LINK | |
| The Hawefultones | The Brightest Turd in the Punch Bowl | Connecting with my friend RazorBunz and having him on the album. | LINK | |
| The Interposed | Really playing music | Getting rad pedal steel guitar at the 17th hour! | LINK | |
| The Jet-Black Project | Juicy! | Surely you jest! | LINK | |
| The Loos | see it say it sorted | Writing all of the songs on the train. | LINK | |
| The Martin Gachiri Experience | WASTED | Creating the beat for "Dark" | LINK | |
| The MIDI Machine | Five Pins | Uploading and having a final listen before submitting. | LINK | |
| The Natural Casings | Brofu | BBQ'd Meats | LINK | |
| The New Sound of Silence | All Ascensions Available! | Tunes getting stuck in my head | LINK | |
| The Ram Has Touched The Wall | In The Arms Of Death | Nothing really clicked until the moment I uploaded the work onto BandCamp. I've never fancied myself an artist or a musician but having a tangible site to access music that I composed, recorded and mixed and published pretty much dispels any last vestiges of imposter syndrome. So I'd call being able to consider myself a real artists now as pretty memorable. | LINK | |
| the Robinovitches | great mimes ride a bike | While adding different instruments to the track "resting guitar face", i realized that it all of a sudden sounded like a grumpy eastern european waltz. | LINK | |
| The Ruining Bit | The Ruining Bit | Coming up with the song ideas. Titles came first. | LINK | |
| The Spinal Chord Stim Lab | Near the Corner of Grand Ave | This was our first attempt at the RPM and it didn't go great. We attempted a whole album but fell far short. It is always great to collaborate with friends. It was great when they got to hear the final song | LINK | |
| The Synthetic Forest | Connecting The Dots | I did it live on twitch and I have made many many friends! | LINK | |
| The Turkeys | The Turkeys | Hearing Cody's son cover our first song and write a song of his own! | LINK | |
| The Tyrant Love | RPM 2024 | Overall lack of tech issues was nice | LINK | |
| The Velvet Tomato Experiment | Paperman | The moment I heard the vocal harmonies come together, we knew we had something special on our hands. | LINK | |
| The Wizards of Vomit | Elephant Time | At some point I was trying to work on 7 songs at the same time: I started making up some raw ideas on the acoustic guitar, then for would record drums for all songs, then bass for all, etc. Halfway I forgot what my plans even where for most songs, and all of them started sounding quite glitchy. In the end it kinda came together, but maybe there is something like trying to be too efficient. | LINK | |
| thetworegs | west | It just flowed like nothing before | LINK | |
| This is Terrible | MUSIC TO THE MAX | DJ KHALED | LINK | |
| This is Terrible | Podcast Classics | we have 2 guests, the first guest is Dr Gregory Shiraz | LINK | |
| This Wretched Vessel | Seppuku | This was not a great year for me. Just glad I recorded something. | LINK | |
| Thorny Music | Latency | It was really rewarding to do so much on a single divice. The feeling just flowed. | LINK | |
| Thorsten Nesch | Woe the vanquished | There sure was, somewhere in this world ... | LINK | |
| Tim Hazelton | Teenager | I recorded percussion for the first time! | LINK | |
| tinker | Handyman | I liked the call & response guitar melodies that the song fell out from. | LINK | |
| Tiny Keys | Return Of Tiny Keys | Sampling Dolly Parton from Steel Magnolias VHS tape | LINK | |
| TotoRobyn | journeys versus destinations | I feel this album pushed me towards darker music in a good way. It feels nice to get our of my comfort zone of light ambient vibes and push musical boundaries. | LINK | |
| Town Counsel | Raise Me Up | Every time someone added their parts, the song grew new life. | LINK | |
| Travis Hatcher | Fever Dream | When I started to get multiple instruments laid down and I heard the songs with more than just an acoustic guitar, that feeling never gets old when you hear the sketch of a song and know you're either going to love it or hate it when it's done. | LINK | |
| Trent Radio - Various | Noises by Nogo | All of it | LINK | |
| Trouble with Normal | Desert Road | Play together again | LINK | |
| TwentiethSentry | Rocket-Propelled Music | refining my ability to look past mistakes | LINK | |
| Two Hippopotamus | Two Hippopotamus | When it suddenly became a rap tune. When the zoologist showed up. When the children started shouting along! | LINK | |
| Tyler & Steinmetz | Lost & Found | Tyler masterfully freestyling his lyrics and melodies, priceless! | LINK | |
| Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | All of them | LINK | |
| Unthank | Rough Play Machines | The genesis of the idea for making it was on my birthday (31 January). My kids gave me the Pocket Operator I used for all the drums on it and that gave me the idea for what the record would be. It was such a thoughtful and unexpected gift and using it all month was a joy as a result. | LINK | |
| Van Gauche | Journey EP | Mixing Nathan Wiley's stems. | LINK | |
| Vanishing Point | Vanishing Point | Bringing moments in life to song | LINK | |
| Verdin Brothers | Arcana | Sneaking cumbia into a hornpipe | LINK | |
| Vidi Games | Vidi Games | 1) When I discovered that my keyboard can just plug into my computer and record midi, and 2) When I finally started getting the hang of Garage Band. | LINK | |
| VolksDroog | Elation | When the found sounds were added it came together. | LINK | |
| vrklgn | glöm & dröm | When I wrote the first single "elefant" and realised just how great songwriting can be in swedish and finding these small references that I could put here and there. but also the massive positive feedback I got from people around me upon it's release <3 | LINK | |
| VuxieMoonCrow | Upwards Rain | The centre section when it all comes together | LINK | |
| w0a | INTHAQ | Twiisto giving me the beat to "deadbydaylight." That beat is incredible | LINK | |
| wall eater | can't finish a damn song to save my life | Finishing my first song | LINK | |
| Walter Noons | The Beast in Me | Finishing | LINK | |
| Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys | BETWEEN BREATHS | 19 years with RPM have shaped a journey of music and milestones! Walter and I connected during the first challenge, making February a beacon of creativity and introspection. This month commemorates pivotal events—our daughter Wednesday's birth, life transitions, and a myriad of shared experiences. Despite the ebb and flow, we've faithfully released an RPM album each February. 'BETWEEN BREATHS,' our 19th RPM Challenge offering, is a heartfelt homage to the years of RPM challenges and the myriad inspirations they've brought us. It celebrates the people, places, and moments that define us. RPM has given us a precious space to create, reminding us that, against any obstacle, our passion for music perseveres. | LINK | |
| Wazzocks | Silly Orange Men | Our pro tools crashed so many times, the filename ended up as sillyorangemen.recovered.recovered.recovered | LINK | |
| Weiner | Still Waters Run Shallow | When I got the concept for I Am The Mailman from a crazy guy's truck. | LINK | |
| Werewolf District | Slightly More Dangerous | Getting weird/fun sounds out of my little Roland synths, and learning a bit more about them in the process. | LINK | |
| WGP | RPM 2024 | Every moment we sat together and worked on our tracks. | LINK | |
| While Supplies Last | Stompin' | Getting to hear what the other contributors added! | LINK | |
| White Air | Equanimity | RPM always inspires me to listen to music as much as record it. That's the best part. | LINK | |
| Wild Branch | At The Edge of My Understanding | Not really this year. I just wanted to make something so I didn't miss out on participating. Fingers crossed I have energy enough to do more next year. | LINK | |
| Wilfried Hanrath | My RPM Challenge 2024 | Due to health issues I thought I could not do much...but was pleased when I saw how things sum up | LINK | |
| Will Bird | Nothing Gold | It's all good man. | LINK | |
| William Watson | a series of mundane things | the moment I became comfortable with not knowing where the music might go next | LINK | |
| Wilsun | It's My Life | Singing without abandon I couldn't embarrass myself further, having written these questionable lyrics. | LINK | |
| Wolfgang Merx | Time Stands Still | The moment of completion was the best, knowing that the record is finally done. | LINK | |
| WreckAsketch | C.S.L. and the Unwavering | The memorable moment was in the process of making "You will know him by his Signal". I was messing around with jamming over the first section, just hitting record and playing along. During one recording take the song stopped, but I just kept playing. The synth solo that comes through in the 2nd section was that take. A synth solo where I just went for it. It was cathartic. | LINK | |
| X5s | Beatcoin | Leaving an open mic and just letting the lyrics show up organically while I worked. | LINK | |
| Xelocs | Clouds Passing In Two Directions | Mixing on the 4 track, had a blast | LINK | |
| XYZ-123 | XYZ-123 | I figure, just go for it and turn this RPM into an Trap Beat challenge. | LINK | |
| Δημήτρης Τσιρώνης / μελωφοβία | Hell_as Core | You know the moment when a ray of sunshine breaks through the clouds... It's when you find exactly the sound you were thinking of and you want to smile. And you smile... | LINK |