Alternate Universe is one of the exclusive perks available on Julien-K's official Patreon page, allowing fans access to unreleased songs, mixes and videos from the band and their other projects such as JK DJs, Orgy and Dead By Sunrise in varying qualities and file formats. While some of the content had already been released through other platforms, most of it is exclusive to Patreon. Although the series started with weekly releases, they became less frequent over time until they became sporadic releases in 2023 when the band felt they had already provided too much content and decided to save some things for future official releases.
Alternate Universe is available to patrons signed to the "SILENCER" and superior tiers: "INNER DEMON", "ELITIST" and "OVERLORD"; not being available to the "SHADOW ARMY" and "LEGION" tiers. Access to remix stems aren't included in the "SILENCER" stems, only for "INNER DEMON" and superior.[1] However, the band has released entire instrumental albums and stems of at least one song to lower tiers.
Content
| Title | Artist | Length | Released | Notes |
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| Instrumentals: Death to Analog | Julien-K | 5:15 | April 29, 2020 | "This was one of the last songs created for the eponymous album. By the time we started on this, Tim Palmer had mixed most of the songs, but we wanted to add a heavy industrial banger to fill out the album. We invited Tim in the room as a collaborator to see what we could do together." |
| Lincoln 6 Echo - JK RMX Perk | Lincoln 6 Echo | 4:47 | April 30, 2020 | "Please enjoy the FREE download of our Exec Producer and good friend Jason's new song "Don't Let Go". We spent a lot of time on this one! I think it came out great!" |
| Cast Into The Sea Acoustic | Julien-K | 3:35 | May 11, 2020 | "Last weekend Amir and Ryan sat down to record an acoustic version of "Cast Into The Sea" for Talinda Bennington's 320 festival - an online event created to bring awareness to the importance of mental health, provide resources to our community and normalize the conversation surrounding all mental health pursuits. Here's the audio mix for your delectation" |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Remix (DJ Dub) | Mindless Self Indulgence vs. Julien-K vs. Chester Bennington | 5:56 | May 17, 2020 | "Back in 2005 (or so) Julien-K did a remix of "What Do They Know" for friends and touring partners Mindless Self Indulgence. Today's Alternate Universe is an instrumental edit that I haven't heard probably since we worked on it. My reaction: Wow! kind of a banger!" |
| JKDJs — Fuck Me I'm Famous | JK DJs | 1:03:10 | May 24, 2020 | "Back when I was DJIng in the mid 2000s with Brandon, we made a few live mixes as the JK DJs. We did this when Electro House really started to hit the clubs HARD. It’s so fun to listen to these peak time bangers after all these years!"
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| Harmonic Disruptor — Original Demo | Julien-K | 3:23 | May 31, 2020 | "I started this song as a project to fill a gap on the Harmonic Disruptor album with impetus from Amir. He saw the need for a dance floor banger at (specifically haha!) 131 BPM and also gave a bunch of references such as Aesthetic Perfection, Imperative Reaction, Combichrist, and Covenant." |
| Alternate Universe: Superdiscount (Jagz Kooner Version) | Julien-K vs. Virgin Tears | 4:17 | June 07, 2020 | "This is Jagz' production of a song that didn't make the Casa Del Tigor E.P. — not sure I remember why it was cut!" |
| Alt Uni Sundays - Mumiy Troll (JK REMIX) | Mumiy Troll | 3:58 | June 14, 2020 | "Back in 2012 I was approached by an old friend and former head of radio promotion at Warner Bros to do a JK radio remix. It was for a Russian band called Mumiy Troll. When I returned home from the meeting, I checked the band out online and was extremely intrigued. They were really awesome and quite famous! After a quick meeting with Ilya, the singer and driving force of the band, we got to work." |
| Alternate Universe: Matt's Chance (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Julien-K | 1:16:40 | June 23, 2020 | "Back a few years (was it 2013?) a Seattle film maker by the name of Nick Gyeney approached us to score his new film. It's almost cliché that bands want to get into scoring, so, yes, of course! — and it was a good fit since Nick came to us as a fan of our music. Since it was a bit of a dark love story, he wanted "Palm Springs Reset" to be the theme song, and luckily we had the amazing Battle Tapes remix handy for the closing credits. In between you'll hear some more variations on PSR, and a few other themes reworked from the past, as well as some fun electronic pieces and some epic floyd-esque jams." |
| Alternate Universe Tuesdays: Avenged Sevenfold | Avenged Sevenfold | 5:53 | June 30, 2020 | "Friends of the J-K, Avenged Sevenfold had us do a remix of "Strength Of The World" back in 2005. It's an epic journey of metal and electronica, Enjoy!" |
| Alternate Universe Tuesdays: Harmonic Disruptor - Instrumental | Julien-K | 5:15 | July 07, 2020 | "Next up on Alternate Universe is the title track from our last album "Harmonic Disruptor". This one started with a directive from the dark lord Amir — that we need a heavy club banger with a 4/4 kick at exactly 129 BPM." |
| ALT UNI - Surrounded By Cowards Orchestral Remix | Julien-K | 4:08 | July 14, 2020 | "After the album was done we had a lot of people wanting to remix tracks as well so we ended up with many more remixes! A lot of them we never released! The crazy thing about this orchestral version is that we have no idea who did it! Either way it's really fun to listen too! Enjoy!" |
| ALT UNI - "Dystopian Girl" Isolated Guitar Track | Julien-K | 3:38 | July 21, 2020 | "After we finish a new album, I have to go back and learn the guitar parts I did so can play them live. Many parts are created "in the moment" that I usually don't even remember what I played! Fu will bounce a simple instrumental background track (mostly just drums) and my solo'd guitar parts. This makes it A LOT easier for me to remember my chord voicings, rhythms and all the other guitar or bass parts I played." |
| Alternate Universe: Instrumental mix of Dossier | Julien-K | 4:45 | August 05, 2020 | "I love the sound of this track! So much ear candy to study with the vocals out of the way. I remember when I first heard Depeche Mode around the time of "Some Great Reward". It changed my life. Samplers and FM synthesis had entered the musician's toolbox with a distinctive "clang". In many ways, Dossier is a tribute to that moment." |
| Alternate Universe: Flashback - Julien-K Acid Test Remix | Motor | 7:01 | August 18, 2020 | "Motor did a "Someday Soon" remix, Bryan did "Technical Difficulties", we returned the favor with our rendition of Motor's "Flashback" from 2007's "Unhuman" album." |
| Alternate Universe: Dirty Heads "Neighborhood" JK Remix | Dirty Heads | 6:33 | September 01, 2020 | "Today we bring you our remix of Huntington Beachsters and good friends Dirty Heads' song "Neighborhood". These guys had great attitudes, talent, and charm; very glad to see they went on to have a lot of success in their career!" |
| Alternate Universe: 1000 Years of Destruction (demo) | Franz & Shape vs. Julien-K | 5:37 | September 15, 2020 | "Among the EDM collaborators for the "We're Here With You" sessions were our Italian friends, Italo, Dark Wave, and Synth Wave revivalists Franz & Shape, who you may know also collaborated with us on "Futura" from "Death to Analog". Here we have the seed that turned into "1000 Years of Destruction" — a bonus track on the deluxe version of WHWY." |
| Alt Uni Tuesday - Early Untitled DTA Demo | Julien-K | 4:59 | September 29, 2020 | "From the JK archives I present a very early untitled Death to Analog album demo. This was made at the dawn of Julien-K and has a pretty groovy dance feel to it." |
| Alternate Universe - Frühstück in Berlin | Julien-K | 4:15 | October 13, 2020 | "Among the chaos and fun of that summer <someone - a German artist> approached our tour manager and gave us a German language version of the song "Breakfast in Berlin". Later, I combined their vocal with our studio recording. Sorry, I tried to hunt down some emails to elucidate who did this, but no luck. Plans to release this in Germany were shelved for whatever reasons, so here you have it, a very rare never released German version of BIB." |
| Alternate Universe - Futura Demo | Franz & Shape vs. Julien-K | 6:32 | October 27, 2020 | "A while back we featured the demo / seed of "1000 Years of Destruction" from our occasional collaborators Italo, Dark Wave, and Synth Wave revivalists Franz & Shape. Today we have the demo beginnings of what turned into "Futura". You can definitely hear seeds of Futura in there, but also ... what a transformation!" |
| AMIR SONGZA PLAYLIST | Various Artists | 8:08:42 | October 28, 2020 | "I remember on one of our recent chats I had discussed a playlist that I had made in 2012 for some music service called Songza. Does it even exist anymore??? Haha anyway, I thought I would just share the songs in a folder as some of this stuff is not on Spotify etc. I still listen to this playlist all the time! I miss some of these bands and this sound! All of this was a HUGE influence on WHWY and the CA Noir albums." |
| Alternate Universe: My Suffering - iPunk Remix | Dead By Sunrise | 4:57 | November 10, 2020 | "Todays A.U. is an unofficial iPunk remix of Dead By Sunrise' "My Suffering" that we allowed him to concoct, knowing we could never officially release it given record label realities." |
| Alternate Universe - The Cure "Sleep When I'm Dead" Remix | The Cure | 4:01 | November 24, 2020 | "We made a lot of friends on Linkin Park's 2007 Projekt Revolution tour, including Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. In 2008, Gerard came to us with a project to remix a Cure song, "Sleep When I'm Dead". He's a super talented guy, but didn't really know what a remix entails. No problem, we got this! It was a super fun session that came together with a "flow" that really makes this kind of work fun, and we never lost track of the fact that we were remixing The Cure!" |
| Alternate Universe: JKDJs - Deviant Din | JK DJs | 59:11 | December 08, 2020 | "An hour of non-stop retro dance music for your holiday zoom party! Back when I was DJIng in the mid 2000s with Brandon, we made a few live mixes as the JK DJs. Techno & Electro House was our flavor! It’s still so fun to listen to these live mixes :) This was the most crushing of the 3 mixes we did. All bangers!"
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| Alternate Universe - Holiday Special: Unauthorized Live in Europe | Julien-K | 1:03:51 | December 23, 2020 | "We have an unauthorized live recording that has never been heard before from our We're Here With You European tour to share with you! This is STRAIGHT OFF THE BOARD! So cool!! I actually really had a good time rocking this in my car as we were proofing it for release earlier this week. Over an hour long 14 track set from 2012!"
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| Alternate Universe - Fiction "Unplugged" with Paige Haley | Julien-K | 3:55 | January 05, 2021 | "2021 was off to a better start for those of us who woke up to Paige joining the boys on Saturday for a very cool rendition of Orgy's "Fiction". Nice to see Paige again! We did a little spit-shine to the mix, and a dash of mastering, so here you go, an audio version for the archives, enjoy!" |
| Alternate Universe - Surrounded By Cowards: Gorstein Remix | Julien-K | 4:48 | January 19, 2021 | "Marcus Gorstein, who did a remix of "Dreamland" back in 2010 brings his downtempo style to "Surrounded By Cowards". I think this might solve the mystery of who did the orchestral remix we posted here in July." |
| Alternate Universe - "What Do They Know" Remix | Mindless Self Indulgence | 5:26 | February 02, 2021 | "Back in 2005 (or so) Julien-K did a remix of "What Do They Know" for friends and touring partners Mindless Self Indulgence. In May 2020 we posted the "DJ Dub" version here on AU which was a cut-up of instrumental parts created while doing the remix which is today's Alternate Universe. Keep an ear out for Ryan's vocals in the verses, a fun thing you can add when there's a singer in your remix team. Chester got some credit too, but I forgot what he did." |
| Alternate Universe - Breakfast In Berlin | Julien-K | 4:21 | March 03, 2021 | "We had great fun last time on "We're Working On It Fuckers" deconstructing "Breakfast In Berlin" with special guest Sharooz, who collaborated with us on it. So, for todays Alternate Universe we're featuring the instrumental of that track, in which you can enjoy some more of the subtleties of the programming, guitar licks, and grooves. Enjoy!" |
| Alternate Universe - Cruel Daze Of Summer: John Fryer Mix | Julien-K | 6:32 | March 16, 2021 | "Sometime almost a decade ago we were looking at who we might hire to mix our 2nd album "We're Here With You". Tim Palmer did an excellent job on "Death To Analog" but that doesn't always get you re-hired, especially when there's a change of direction and sound. Typically in hiring a mixer, you get them to do one test mix first and see if you want to proceed on the rest of the album. One very talented gentleman who did a mix for us but who surprisingly didn't end up getting the gig was John Fryer. His discography is a who's who of our influences. Tons of Depeche Mode credits, Love and Rockets, Nitzer Ebb, Yaz, Alison Moyet, Stabbing Westward, NIN, etc. It's a good mix, but Amir had a certain style he was going for, and we ended up using the awesome Mark Needham (The Killers, The Sounds, Bloc Party, etc) for the final album mix." |
| Alternate Universe - Stick On The Disc | Julien-K | 3:57 | March 30, 2021 | "Initially inspired by the song "Money" by The Flying Lizards! Anyone remember that song from the 80's? This was an early instrumental track done by myself in the very early days of Julien-K. At the time I did this, I had a basic Pro Tools set up, one or two drum machines and maybe two synths! It's actually really fun to hear this again! I was really feeling the retro sounds and dance beats obviously. The title came from me being a DJ and "putting on a disc" or "playing records" hence "Stick on the Disc". I hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane as much as I just did!" |
| Alternate Universe - F___Song Demo | Julien-K | 3:22 | April 13, 2021 | "This was the second Julien-K song commissioned by Sega for a video game. After the crazy success of "This Machine" for the Sonic Heroes game and soundtrack (over a million streams and counting!) my good friend Jun, who is the main composer for many Sega games came to LA. We met up at the JK studio and went through a bunch of demos we had at the time. During this listening session he heard the "F___Song" demo and immediately loved it! After we decided on the music, he sent us video snippets of the game and some words and themes that needed to be covered lyrically. We then set about finishing the track for use in the brand new Shadow the Hedgehog game and soundtrack. "Waking Up" as it's called now, has also been very successful!" |
| Alternate Universe - Kick The Bass (Steve B Mix) | Julien-K | 3:45 | April 27, 2021 | "I stumbled across this the other day while looking for another file! Before we had chosen a mixer for DTA it was suggested to us by a friend to let Steve B take a crack at a mix (also known as Steve Baughman). Usher, 50 Cent, Destiny's Child, Pink, Dr. Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg are just a handful of the top-selling artists that Steve B has worked with. We thought why not? This was the result. At the end of the day it just wasn't right for what we were looking for but it's still fun to revisit this unique mix! Enjoy!" |
| Alternate Universe - JKDJs: Electric Summer Mix | JK DJs | 58:19 | May 12, 2021 | "Another hour of non-stop hard hitting dance music for your herd immunity summer party! Back when Brandon and I were DJIng as the JKDJs we made a few live mixes. This is the last of the three we made. Lots of bouncy bangers!"
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| Alternate Universe - The Hunting - Jay Baumgardner Mix | Julien-K | 4:27 | May 25, 2021 | "The Hunting was a song from a little after "Death To Analog" sessions that didn't quite find a place on any release —until Time Capsule of course, a repository of such things. On the Time Capsule version I did an update of the mix, but here we have an older mix by Jay Baumgardner, an old friend, owner of NRG studios, producer, engineer and mixer. He has worked on albums by Superheist, Ugly Kid Joe, Bush, Helmet, Sevendust, Papa Roach, Endwell, Coal Chamber, Drowning Pool, Godsmack, Three Days Grace, P.O.D., New Found Glory, Spineshank, Alien Ant Farm and of course, Orgy." |
| Alternate Universe - Dave Audé Bootleg | Julien-K | 7:33 | June 08, 2021 | "He did a bunch of versions really, which were released on a remix EP along with a bunch of other remixes. One day I came across this bootleg track, which was kind of a new song but very much based instrumentally on his remix of Kick the Bass with the addition of some diva vocals. It kind of works, but quite a departure from Julien-K!" |
| Alternate Universe - Swing (TV Edit) | Lifter | 5:27 | July 06, 2021 | "In 2009 we recorded and produced a song called "Swing" for Jeffrey Sebelia who was a finalist in season 3 of "Project Runway". He ended up winning and founded a boutique clothing line "Cosa Nostra" with lots of celebrity clients. The song was originally from his 90's band "Lifter", but we did a complete Julien-K re-do of the song, which was then played when his final runway show was on TV. Jeffrey subsequently designed our outfits for the "Kick The Bass video, which were really amazing." |
| Alternate Universe - Bonus - "Swing" (Runway Version) | Lifter | 10:43 | July 07, 2021 | "Bonus! A super extended version of "Swing" that we posted earlier. It's a nice long musical journey suitable for a runway fashion show." |
| Alternate Universe: "Solar - Lincoln 6 Echo Remix" | Julien-K | 3:36 | July 20, 2021 | "Now this is what we like to see! Last Thursday we posted Solar on our monthly stems post. A few days later we get THIS in our inbox. Nice Job Jason Corry! Jason is one of our Elitists on Patreon! Please check out his project Lincoln 6 Echo on all digital platforms :)" |
| Alternate Universe - "I Need Answers" (Broken Pieces demo) | Julien-K | 3:39 | August 03, 2021 | "DIsc 1 of our 4 disc anthology "Time Capsule" felt very much like a fresh new Julien-K album because in 2017 we dusted off and finished a bunch of old songs that were shelved from various albums that nevertheless held promise. A good example here is what became "Broken Pieces". We tossed the chorus and completely re-wrote it, but there's something interesting about this one too. Which do you prefer? We need answers!" |
| Alternate Universe - SLSTCE | Julien-K | 5:18 | August 18, 2021 | "California Noir sessions had quite a few songs that started their existence with in-studio guitar-bass-voc-beatbox jams. Here's one that didn't get too far into development, and demonstrates a process that sometimes ends in a blind alley. You can hear the process of Ryan casually “scatting” ideas that never fully got fleshed out …." |
| ALT UNI - Talk about a time capsule! | Private Life | 6:07 | September 07, 2021 | "Here’s a recently resurrected recording I did with my cousin’s band Private Life when I was 20. My cousin was playing synths and doing background vocals. I was playing rhythm & lead guitar. It’s crazy to hear this after 38 years! This recording was done straight to cassette tape right before I joined Rough Cutt. I actually used the melodic lead line from this song “Mirror Mirror” on the Rough Cutt cover of “Never Gonna Die”. That song ended up being our first single, on our first RC album. One of the many things I think is super cool about this recording, is that it immortalizes my new wave influences at a very young age. Obviously you can hear that we were heavily channeling Missing Persons, but we loved that band so it’s no surprise!" |
| Alternate Universe - Palm Springs Reset Balcony TV + Interview | Julien-K | 7:42 | September 21, 2021 | "Late 2012 as part of promoting "We're Here With You", we played a web channel called "Balcony TV" —their premise was basically stripped down and unplugged —given the limitations of a balcony— and to do it in various cities around the world to have that international vibe. I'd love to say we flew to Florence for this but alas it was somewhere in LA, I think Silverlake or something like that. Bonus - there's an interview with Ryan after." |
| Alternate Universe - "Dynamic" (demo) | Julien-K | 3:32 | October 05, 2021 | "A long lost demo from one of the California Noir sessions in which aspects of jamming, sequencing and programming were experimented with. I can see the ingredients not quite meshing into something we wanted to pursue at the time, but maybe this can be re-invented for a future "Time Capsule 2"?" |
| Alternate Universe - Fiction (Digital Monster House Remix) | Orgy | 5:03 | October 19, 2021 | "This was a random remix a friend of ours did back in the Orgy days. He was a cool German fellow we used to call the “Baron”! We hope you enjoy it!" |
| Alternate Universe - Blue Monday (DJ Iain With Osgoode Remix) | Orgy | 6:54 | November 04, 2021 | "Here's a rare remix from a Canadian dance compilation CD! I honestly don't remember much about it but it was fun to hear again!!!" |
| Alternate Universe - Killing Fields Guitar Reference | Julien-K | 4:31 | December 01, 2021 | "This is one of those mixes Amir made for rehearsing guitar for live. It's a stripped down mix, mainly showcasing the guitars so Amir can remember the nuances of what he played and to help program the tones into his pedal board. A fun peek under the hood of the track!" |
| Alternate Universe - We're Here With You - Instrumentals | Julien-K | 1:01:10 | December 15, 2021 | "Hopefully those of you that ordered one have got their Vinyl editions of "We're Here With You" by now or will very soon. Here's a special bonus: the whole album instrumental! The play button above will only play the first track, but the zip download below is the whole thing with some bonus tracks too. Enjoy!"
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| Alternate Universe - California Noir Ch. 1 - Instrumentals | Julien-K | 36:45 | December 28, 2021 | "In the holiday giving spirit, here's another full instrumental album, Happy New Year! (Photo Voltaire plays on the player but the link has the whole album)"
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| Alternate Universe - "Mystify" acoustic | Julien-K | 3:21 | January 11, 2022 | "In case you missed it, or just need a copy for your mixtape, here's last Sunday's acoustic cover "Mystify" by INXS. Enjoy!" |
| Cruel Daze Of Summer - Eli James Remix | Julien-K | 4:01 | January 25, 2022 | "Eli is a multi talented guy, and back in 2014 he handed in this remix of Cruel Daze showing he can do more than just hit things. He's also killing it these days with GhostCircus Apparel, his fashion brand that he started in 2015. Go Eli!" |
| Alternate Universe - Beta Test (rejected opening credits) | Julien-K | 1:41 | February 08, 2022 | "Around 2015 we embarked on our 2nd movie score for "Beta Test" a sci-fi thriller. The first step was to create the vibe of the score with the intro / opening credits theme. This was our first attempt, which we quite liked, but the director said, nah, keep trying. It could be revived into a JK song, don't you think?" |
| Alternate Universe - Desperation Day (2019 Demo) | Julien-K | 3:16 | February 23, 2022 | "This is a 3 year old demo of our latest single "Desperation Day". This was before The Anix was involved in collaboration. As you'll often hear on Alternate Universe, or when listening to our anthology of alternate universes "Time Capsule", a song can take some petty radical twists before settling on the final version!" |
| Alternate Universe - "Track 13" | Julien-K | 7:00 | March 15, 2022 | "In 2014 we set out on the "California Noir" double album concept. The album was not yet complete, but the song "California Noir" was released as a single and we endeavoured to film the video in the bleak wasteland of Salton Sea. Gathering ideas for the opening shots, there was a phone booth in front of an abandoned liquor store that Ryan was going to sing the first few lines into. One of us had an idea to show him dialling a real number, close up so that you can see the number he calls, and to set that number up with voicemail and see what messages we get once the video comes out. We had to scramble to quickly get that number set up before shooting, but we made it. This is a compilation of the messages we received. It was included as secret "Track 13" on the CD "California Noir Chapter One - Analog Beaches & Digital Cities"" |
| Alternate Universe - "Antix" | Julien-K | 2:36 | March 29, 2022 | "1987 called and wants their demo back. There's a lot of "how the sausage is made" in this series. This is the raw starting point, working title "Antix" vintage 2011." |
| Alternate Universe - After The Moment (2013 demo) | Julien-K | 3:10 | April 14, 2022 | "Here's an unfinished song idea from 2013 when we were transitioning into the California Noir series. You can hear us experimenting in the lighter vein of songs like "Cast Into the Sea" and "She's the Pretender"" |
| Alternate Universe - Wastelander (2017 Acoustic Show) | Julien-K | 5:04 | April 26, 2022 | "Many of you attended our several acoustic shows over the years that were a perk in our Indiegogo campaigns. These were intimate dinner and a show hangouts for about 50+ fans and friends hosted at Ryan's The Den restaurant in Santa Ana. This was the Nov 5 2017 show associated with the "Time Capsule" campaign and features several tracks from that release including one of my favourites, "Wastelander"" |
| Alternate Universe - Morning After—Meat Beat Manifesto remix | Dead By Sunrise | 3:29 | May 10, 2022 | "In the late 80s I became a huge fan of Meat Beat Manifesto with their (I think debut) release "Storm The Studio". Very edgy, noisy electronica with industrial and dub influences. They went on to be quite successful and ground breaking in the 90s. However, I'm not super sure they were a great pick to remix this Dead By Sunrise track. Something about the different styles don't find a successful overlap in my opinion, but I could be wrong. What do you think?" |
| Alternate Universe - "Cover Ground" (Cruel Daze early demo) | Julien-K | 5:08 | May 31, 2022 | "This is an early demo of "Cruel Daze of Summer dated Dec 18 2009. A song that went through a lot of changes. A difficult thing in songwriting sometimes is to scrap what you've worked so hard on, and try something different. The verse here definitely had a darker, minor key vibe compared to the final." |
| Alternate Universe - "Laza Base" (early Darkest Days demo) | Julien-K | 4:11 | June 22, 2022 | "We're Working On It Fuckers today featured "Darkest Days Of My Bitter Youth" — here's an early demo of that track." |
| Alternate Universe - Dystopian Girl (Instrumental) | Julien-K | 5:00 | July 05, 2022 | "A while back, (years!) in the spirit of gathering and organizing all of our assets, we realized an instrumental of "Dystopian Girl" was never mixed, or if it was, we lost it. Up on the "to-do" list went the memo to create a new instrumental mix for it ... and there it languished. But alas I sat down a few days ago with the will to get it done, and here it is!" |
| We're Here With You - Seed demo from Motor | Julien-K | 3:30 | July 19, 2022 | "Bryan Black (currently Black Asteroid) was a talented DJ/Producer we met via working with Virgin Tears back in the late 00's. I'm sure his name has come up here on AU before. His band at the time - Motor - was an incredible electro project that was a natural choice to collaborate with when the "We're Here With You" sessions began. Here we have the seed that started the title track back in 2011. Check out their classic 2006 album "Klunk" for a good taste of Motor!" |
| Alternate Universe - The Hunting (demo) | Julien-K | 3:59 | August 02, 2022 | "Amir's cousin James Kinney is an incredibly talented musician who has seeded a handful of Julien-K songs over the years including "Forever", "Stranded", "Killer Instinct", and "The Hunting". Here's his original demo to "The Hunting" — you can hear that we kept a large portion of the original ideas. Nice work Jim!" |
| Alternate Universe: Nights Of Future Past (demo) | Julien-K | 4:35 | August 16, 2022 | "In the "collaborate with EDM artists" vein that became our 2nd album, we tapped our UK buddy Sam aka "Vandal", whose remix had gotten our electro house side project "Circuit Freq" to the top of the Beatport charts. The result was "Nights Of Future Past". Here's his well developed seed for that fan favourite." |
| Alternate Universe - "Institution" live keys reference | Julien-K | 4:26 | August 31, 2022 | "Here's a peek at part of the process of rehearsing for live performance. Since we don't have a rehearsal room where we all get together and regularly jam like acoustic musicians of the past, most of the prep for live is done at our home studios, and then when everyone is ready, in-person rehearsals take place for a few weeks leading up to the actual tour. In our case study here, I created a mix of "institution" with the parts Amir was playing extra loud and everything else turned down. This allowed us to hone in on programming the sounds, and re-learning all the parts." |
| Alternate Universe - Surrounded By Cowards - original seed | Julien-K | 6:03 | September 15, 2022 | "I'm excited about this one, I haven't heard it in over a decade! We've posted a bunch of "We're Here With You" album song seeds before. This was the album where we (ok, Amir) reached out to electronic music artists and producers and solicited collaborations in the form of "seed" ideas that we then developed into Julien-K songs. The seed for "Surrounded By Cowards" came from Parisian pal and audio architect Benjamin Vial. It's really a cool track despite having very little resemblance to the track it became." |
| Alternate Universe - Broken Pieces 2017 acoustic show | Julien-K | 4:09 | October 26, 2022 | "Many of you attended our several acoustic shows over the years that were a perk in our Indiegogo campaigns. These were intimate dinner and a show hangouts for about 50+ fans and friends hosted at Ryan's The Den restaurant in Santa Ana. This was the Nov 5 2017 show associated with the "Time Capsule" campaign and features several tracks from that release including Broken Pieces." |
| Alternate Universe - Strange Invisible (2017 acoustic show) | Julien-K | 3:28 | November 09, 2022 | "How about another from the 2017 Indiegogo acoustic show? Eric Stoffel joins us on stage to play his keyboard riff on Strange Invisible along with Amber Snead who has done backing vocals on all of these shows. This was the Nov 5 2017 show associated with the "Time Capsule" campaign. wow, 5 years ago already." |
| Alternate Universe - Holiday Special, "Death to Analog" Instrumentals | Julien-K | 1:08:58 | December 25, 2022 | "We have something special for the holidays this year - the full "Death to Analog" album in instrumental form! It's been a while coming, since we were actually missing an instrumental version of "Dystopian Girl" —which therefore needed a meticulous re-construction of the mix, minus the vocals. Then the whole album needed mastering to match the original. We put the finishing touches on that this morning, just in time for a special holiday gift to all our wonderful patrons. HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND THANK YOU!"
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| Alternate Universe - Cast Into The Sea (2017 Acoustic Show) | Julien-K | 3:37 | January 04, 2023 | "Nov. 5, 2017 was the last time we played one of our Indiegogo perk acoustic shows. Wow, over 5 years ago. Time goes! These were so much fun to do, I hope we can do them again!" |
| Alternate Universe - Cruel Daze Of Summer (Z-Listers demo) | Julien-K | 8:04 | February 14, 2023 | "I was surprised we hadn't shared this one before —from the bottomless pit that is the vault of Cruel Daze versions: Here's the original song seed from Z-Listers, I'm guessing 2009 vintage or so." |
| Alternate Universe - Eviscerate - 2017 acoustic show | Julien-K | 4:57 | March 01, 2023 | "Continuing the trickle-out of these live recordings we present "Eviscerate" featuring the lovely and talented Amber Snead on backing vocals. I really miss doing these shows!" |
| Alternate Universe - Palm Springs Reset (2017 acoustic show) | Julien-K | 5:09 | March 28, 2023 | "Rounding out the Julien-K songs from this recording is "PSR", recently featured on "Decode Radio" and coming to stems this week as well!" |
| Alternate Universe - 2017 Acoustic Show: "Let Down" | Julien-K | 4:04 | April 11, 2023 | "And for the penultimate post in this series we have the lovely "Let Down". Miss ya so much CB! Also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!!" |
| Alternate Universe - "Morning After" - 2017 Acoustic Show | Julien-K | 3:26 | April 26, 2023 | "And finally ... the last in the acoustic show 2017 series. Serious consideration is going into another acoustic show experience in the future. Lots of juggling of schedules and life events to do but it could happen. Let's hope so." |
| Alternate Universe - Fiction (Dynamic Remix) | Orgy | 5:03 | May 09, 2023 | "From the cobwebs of the black hole of the archives we dust off this remix by Dynamic of Orgy's "Fiction". Today we're allowing ALL patron tiers to have this :)" |
| Alternate Universe - Nightlife In Neon Instrumentals | Julien-K | 44:36 | May 23, 2023 | "Sometimes its nice to mute the vocals to hear things in a new way!Alternate Universe - "Your Tears Mean Nothing" early inst demo"
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| Alternate Universe - "Your Tears Mean Nothing" early inst demo | Julien-K | 3:55 | June 08, 2023 | "Here's an instrumental demo of what became "Your Tears Mean Nothing". The early working title was "Trust Me" and this was its state as a work in progress around December 2022." |
| Alternate Universe - Another Surrounded By Cowards Remix | Julien-K | 6:47 | June 27, 2023 | "Here's a dancy Surrounded By Cowards remix we found in the archives. Somehow, sadly, who did it is lost to time." |
| Alternate Universe - Harmonic Disruptor album Instrumentals | Julien-K | 34:07 | July 11, 2023 | "I think we've shared all of the previous album instrumentals, except this one, so here you go!"
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| Alternate Universe - Death To Digital X | Julien-K | 34:29 | July 25, 2023 | "Here's a remix instrumentals album we pulled out from the vaults — for your Summer of Instrumentals exclusively here on Alternate Universe ;)"
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| Stems - California Noir | Julien-K | February 23, 2024 | "Stems are back! 24 bit 48k 126.5 bpm" | |
| Alternate Universe 2024 - CA_X Ringtone | Julien-K | 0:03 | February 27, 2024 | "On the recent California Noir Decode Radio, someone mentioned the keyboard part would be a great ringtone - ask and you shall receive! For iPhone users, connect your iPhone to a computer with USB and drag the .m4r file to the phone. For Android, I have no idea, but I put a wav file in there, maybe you can google it ;)" |