The same songs,
twenty years apart.

The acoustic archive

50 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.

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The electronic catalogue

274 tracks produced in FL Studio, 11 hours 40 minutes of it, filed under electronica, electro pop and glitch hop out of Brooklyn. It is available on ReverbNation, SoundCloud and YouTube.

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What he does now

The day job is data and AI, so the music comes in bursts: 1832 newer songs generated on Suno, tagged indie prog, and the occasional acoustic take when a guitar is within reach.

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Me, My Angels and My Demons (alternate version)

progressive rock · IDM · experimental

Me, My Angels and My Demons

progressive rock · IDM · experimental

Negotiations with Myself (alternate version)

progressive rock · IDM · avant-prog

Negotiations with Myself

progressive rock · IDM · avant-prog

The Infinite Amateur (alternate version)

avant-progressive rock · melodic IDM · jazz fusion

The Infinite Amateur

avant-progressive rock · melodic IDM · jazz fusion

Me, My Angels And My Demons (Alternate Version)

The alternate version of my introspective concept album, featuring the alternate version of each song on the original album.

10 songs

Me, My Angels And My Demons

A cohesive concept album that is an abstract adventure into me. Exploring the good and bad I see in myself, my impulses, my need to please, my ideals and the struggle to reconcile these things in myself.

10 songs

Chill, Beautiful And Positive

10 songs focusing on a more chill beautiful sound with a positive message.

10 songs

Feelings, Hopes And Trauma Wrapped In Songs

More songs a lot of genre experimentation around themes I’ve done in many of introspective albums (kindness, regret, love, acceptance)

50 songs

Roller Coaster Of Mixed Emotions

A bunch of songs covering a lot of emotional topics.

50 songs

Decision Points

Songs about moments of inflection in life.

35 songs

Unmaking Of Xibalba

Songs of service and sacrifice told through the eyes of Mayan Mythology.

11 songs

Metaphors And Meta-Conflicts

Metaphors around internal conflicts. Enjoy!

20 songs

Strength In Weakness, Weakness In Strength

Songs about finding strength in being more kind and empathetic, and songs about finding yourself growing weak in the effort to be strong for everyone else.

50 songs

Seeing The Path Walked, And Moving Forward

Songs about accepting yourself and your past so you can move forward and live your life.

50 songs

One More Minute

50 songs targeting one minute per song give or take.

50 songs

Acceptance of the Life Being Lived

Songs about embracing who you are and the life you are living.

47 songs

Manifesto of Love and Liberty

Songs about a world where we are free and peaceful.

10 songs

Make A Better World

Fifty songs about kindness, making room for others and taking small steps toward a better world.

50 songs

The Lives Never Lived

Twenty-three songs about the paths not taken and finding meaning in the life you have.

23 songs

Misplaced Temporally

Twenty-one songs about time, regret and the lives that might have been.

21 songs

All My Favorites, But Acoustic

Twenty-six generated acoustic versions of Alex Merced songs. Each track links to an earlier version for side-by-side listening.

26 songs

Strange Is Good

Several songs embracing being strange, weird and wonderful!

33 songs

In Another Life, In Another Song

More songs covering several of my inner most thoughts across more experimental and sometimes less melodic genres.

50 songs

The Seams Inside That Burst

Songs about my struggles with impulse control.

27 songs

Metaphor and Effect

More songs from fun metaphors.

20 songs

Metaphor All Seasons

More songs around fun metaphors exploring the tapestry that is life.

42 songs

Metaphor What It's Worth

A few more songs of metaphors about the directions that life pull you in. The closing song is quite a banger.

10 songs

Metaphor Than Meets the Eye

Another album of songs made up with many unique metaphors on being at a crossroads in life. Some real ear worms in this one.

40 songs

Metaphor Better Or Worse

A song of several songs each applying a different metaphor for love, insecurity, and more.

50 songs

My Screamo Album, cause I’m A Millennial

This album is made of 20 Screamo songs each telling a story of love through a different body horror metaphor.

20 songs

Am I Good?

Songs about exploring the bad and good side of ourselves

11 songs

Never Enough Love

Songs about love from many different perspectives.

20 songs

Songs For Your Entertainment Vol. 3

This is the final album catching the remainder of my published songs that weren’t on an album yet.

22 songs

Songs For Your Enjoyment Vol.2

The next album in this series that collects awesome album-less songs I’ve published in the past.

50 songs

Songs For Your Enjoyment Vol. 1

1st album in a series of albums to catch any older published songs not in a dedicated album.

50 songs

Soundtrack For A Long Drive

Lots of songs across different fun and emotional themes to keep you entertained on a long drive.

58 songs

Deep Thoughts

Song that represents deep thoughts in my head.

34 songs

I’m Just Being Myself

An album covering all the songs I have hooks for that aren’t yet on an album, this covers self-reflective songs, fun/playful songs, songs about technology, and a lot more of some of my catchiest generations.

67 songs

Big Nights

Songs with theme of Hope, Triumph and Love. I tool old melodies I found in videos I had done with Sora once up a time and used them to craft variations on their musical ideas to become what you see in this album.

24 songs

Catchall Album for Emotional Songs

This Album is to catch Al the quality emotional songs I’ve made in the past didn’t fit into any particular album.

34 songs

The Engine Roars

Some songs generated using my voice and random musical clips of myself I made in Sora thst had melodies I liked.

10 songs

Experimentation With One Audio

The first track is an upload of an old instrumental I generated awhile back. The other 9 tracks are all remixes of that track with different lyrics, genres, etc. to see how far we can pull one audio input to results in quite happy with.

10 songs

Ear Worms

Songs that didn’t fit in other albums but are undeniably infections and worth listening to. A must listen.

34 songs

Feeling Something

Songs about reflecting on the journey that is life and appreciating the ride.

10 songs

Electronic Originals And Reimaginations

Eleven original electronic productions made by Alex Merced in FL Studio, each followed by two Suno reimaginings.

33 songs

The Greatest Generations

Song that I really enjoy that didn’t fall into any of the existing albums.

23 songs

Food And Nostalgia

Songs either about food I like or about things from my childhood.

32 songs

Acoustic Originals And Reimaginations Vol.2

A second installment of my original acoustic songs and their AI reimaginings.

24 songs

A Fun Journey In My Mind

A bunch of songs that represent the things constantly going on in my head.

15 songs

Economics In One Playlist

An album covering fundamental economics concepts.

13 songs

You Are Good Enough

Songs about being and loving yourself.

50 songs

Songs For Love Over Hate

Songs that promote empathy and inclusion.

9 songs

Cliche Love Songs, Why Not?

Fun generic love songs for when you just need to hear some love songs, cause, why not?

31 songs

Of Course I’m Fabulous

Song about being great, grand and fabulous and not caring what people think about the space you take.

25 songs

Sad Songs Of Catharsis

Songs that represent a release of built up anxieties and insecurities.

19 songs

Soy Disrupter

A heavier album about being a force for disruption.

8 songs

The Power Within

Songs about finding your inner strength.

15 songs

Forgivness, Empathy And Kindness

Songs about forgivness, empathy and kindness

20 songs

The Cost Of War In Peace, Life and Treasure

A theatrical album that explores the tragedy of war and its economic, political and human costs.

10 songs

The Battle Best Fought Inside

Songs about inner conflicts I’m constantly struggling with.

11 songs

The Damned Man Of Masks

A theatrical exploration of inner conflicts through the lense of judgement and the impulses that pull us in different directions.

12 songs

Yes. I Am Weird.

Songs about being proud to be weird.

43 songs

A Kinder World

Song about kindness and the importance of being kind.

20 songs

A Division Of Hearts

Songs about hearts being pulled in different directions.

23 songs

Less Debate, More Understanding

Songs about practicing more empathy in the way we engage with each other.

13 songs

What If Grindcore Was Catchy?

An attempt to make some grindcore songs that had more accessible but weird elements.

9 songs

Scarred Heart Chronicles

Songs about the effect on the heart after life of heat break and breaking hearts.

10 songs

Everyone Is Worth It

Song about how everyone in the world deserves love.

5 songs

The Robot Apocalypse

Songs about a world where more and more of what humans do being replaced by technology and the implications.

18 songs

Songs Of Positivity

Encouraging and Positive songs for the soul.

17 songs

Una Luz Mas

A Spanish language album mixing prog rock with salsa.

7 songs

Unsustainably Fragmented

Songs about feeling overly split among the responsibilities, people and projects in your life.

17 songs

Happiness Or Goodness

An album of songs exploring the tension between being happy and being good.

10 songs

Lofi Thoughts

Lofi songs reflecting thoughts I had at the time

9 songs

Acoustic Originals and AI Reimagination

This album contains 10 original acoustic recordings from my younger singer/songwriter days and 2 AI reimaginations of each one.

30 songs

Stress and Calm

An album of songs that cover many of the stresses and anxieties of life and overcoming them more powerful on the other side.

19 songs

Halums Adventure

Halum’s Adventures is a five-song fantasy concept EP following a wanderer named Halum as he crosses mountains, luminous cities, impossible kingdoms, and halls of unopened doors in search of meaning. Along the way, his journey becomes less about conquest and more about understanding what it means to keep going when the road is hard, to love more people than one life can comfortably hold, to accept how quickly time disappears, and to make peace with the countless lives hidden behind the choices we never make. By the end, Halum discovers that a life does not need to be complete to be worthwhile. It only needs to be lived fully, loved deeply, and carried forward with enough courage to keep choosing the next road.

5 songs