The acoustic archive
39 recordings going back to the mid-2000s, most of them posted to his YouTube channel. A guitar, a room, and songs about the things you write songs about at that age.
Songs, recordings and productions
The same songs,
twenty years apart.
Alex Merced has been writing and recording since the mid-2000s: a guitar and a camera first, then years of electronic production, and lately a set of those early songs rebuilt with an AI model. This is where all three live.
AcousticElectronicRebuilt with Suno
39Acoustic recordings
269Electronic tracks
7Rebuilt with Suno
20Years of it
The loop closed
Songs written on a guitar, handed to a model
Seven songs from the archive have been rebuilt with Suno in styles they were never written for: disco house, salsa, rock. Each video opens with a clip of the original recording, so you hear where it started before you hear where it went. Six of the seven still have that original sitting in the archive.
The recording
Alex Merced - My Heart Stopped
Rebuilt as
My Heart Stopped
Disco house · 3:56
The recording
Alex Merced - Through The Darkness
Rebuilt as
Through the Darkness
Disco house · 3:29
The recording
These Days Video
Rebuilt as
These Days
Salsa · 2:12
The recording
Alex Merced - Scar and Stitches
Rebuilt as
Scars and Stitches
Rock · 3:55
The recording
Alex Merced - The One Who Can't Be Loved
Rebuilt as
The One Who Can't Be Loved
Sultry indie disco · 4:29
The recording
NEW SONG Alex Merced - Try to Forget You
Rebuilt as
Try to Forget You
Sultry indie disco · 3:25
Three eras
What is here
The electronic catalogue
269 tracks produced in FL Studio, 11 hours 26 minutes of it, filed under electronica, electro pop and glitch hop out of Brooklyn. It is scattered over three profiles and no one of them holds the whole thing, so the full list is assembled here.
What he does now
The day job is data and AI, so the music comes in bursts: 5 newer songs generated on Suno, tagged indie prog, and the occasional acoustic take when a guitar is within reach.
Everywhere else
Where to listen
YouTube, Alex Merced Music
The music channel, opened in May 2014. Acoustic recordings, electronic tracks and the FL Studio tutorials, in three sections.
44 videos
Best of Alex Merced Music
Two decades of guitar recordings, most of them uploaded to his YouTube channel.
39 recordings
AI Covers of Alex Merced Songs
Seven songs rebuilt with Suno, each opening with a clip of the recording it came from.
7 videos
SoundCloud, the albums
Five albums of produced electronic music: Mid-Life Crisis, An EP, Are You Game, Voices Volume 1 and Spaceman.
35 tracks