In 2015, I began recording music under the name Electric Maestro. I recorded several tracks for a project that was supposed to be released that October titled “Autumn Dreams”. It began as deep, midtempo house tracks and spread into other styles as I worked to find a musical identity for Electric Maestro.

Ultimately, I realized there were some major technical flaws in the mixing of the album so I pulled the plug on the project with the intention of starting over from scratch, re-doing all of the mixes and releasing it in the next year. At that time I was still busy creating episodes of The Afterglow and working on other music so a year passed before I brought my attention back to the Electric Maestro project. Unfortunately, around that time I suffered a major hard drive crash and my lack of diligence in backing up my data was exposed in the worst way. I lost a lot of music – including all of the source files for the “Autumn Dreams” tracks.

Recently, I found myself listening to the rough drafts I still had of these tracks thinking “these still sound pretty good. I should share them”. So here ya go. “Autumn Dreams” as close to my original vision as I could get it. You may have heard a few of these tracks on the Electric Maestro Bandcamp page or on my YouTube page 10 years ago. I even played one of them on The Afterglow. My studio skills have improved greatly over the last 10 years so I was able to improve the sound of the rough draft mixes in a way I was not capable of back then.

I hope you enjoy it.

Produced, Arranged & Composed by Waynebo All instruments performed by Waynebo

Recorded & Mixed by Waynebo at The Exodus Lab Mastered by Waynebo © & ℗ 2025 Exodus Music

Buy this on BANDCAMP: https://electricmaestro.bandcamp.com/album/dance-of-the-refugee

I’m so excited to finally release this track! However, the inspiration behind this one requires a bit of explaining.

Back in 2017, I went to the CD Baby DIY Musician conference in Nashville, Tennessee. During my time there, one of the many wonderful musicians I met was a singer/songwriter named Sara Quah. We had a great conversation about music, the industry, and a lot of other stuff. And, of course, we talked about collaborating. When I got back to my hotel room that night, I listened to her music and found that she was indeed very talented. Particularly at songwriting. One song in particular – “Refugee” - grabbed my attention. It was a live performance without her band. Just Sara and her guitar. Something in that song really inspired me. When I saw her the next day, I told her that I wanted to do a remix of it. She seemed a little surprised that I had chosen that song, but seemed to warm up to the idea.

As soon as I got back home I started working on it. At that time, she wasn’t able to record an acapella of the song for me, so I used the audio from the YouTube video and built a track around it. It was a very inspired session because “Refugee” is a really good song. To this day, it’s one of the best arrangements I’ve done. When I sent it to her, her response was “holy crap! That’s amazing!!”. Unfortunately, we were never able to work out getting her vocals recorded so it was never released.

So here we are in 2020. I’m 3 years better as a producer and still sitting on one of my best tracks. I decided this arrangement was too good to never see the light of day so I updated the production and re-worked the arrangement into an instrumental I call “Dance of The Refugee”.

Maybe one day Sara and I will collaborate. In the meantime, enjoy a track 100% inspired by her.

p.s. be sure to look her up on YouTube and Facebook and show her some love.

Watch Sara Quah “Refugee” here >> https://youtu.be/X-EKgZ6tA4k

I was in the middle of working on another track when I pulled up the new SRX Electric Piano plug-in from Roland Cloud. I had just added it to my collection that day and wanted to hear how it compared to my other rhodes plug-ins.I was playing along with the track and just going through the patches. When I reached the patch your hear in this track, inspiration interrupted. I suddenly pressed stop and out of nowhere I started playing the keyboard line that forms the backbone of this track. It was like that patch was made for this song. I immediately opened a new project, dropped in about 4 minutes of 4-on-the-floor kick drum @ 120 bpm and started playing. A couple of hours later, I was done and "Out Of Nowhere" was finished. I came back later and added the intro and outro of the extended version. Enjoy!

Buy it >> https://electricmaestro.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-nowhere

Stream it >> https://lnk.to/outofnowhere

End the summer and kickoff the autumn season with some smooth dance vibes. Cool, jazzy chords swim beneath a melody built with a blend of analog synths & woodwind samples bouncing on top of a classic 4-on-the-floor house beat. Old-school synth bass adds just a touch of funk to the shine of this beautiful track.

Buy it >> https://electricmaestro.bandcamp.com/album/the-maestros-prologue

Stream it >> https://lnk.to/themaestrosprologue