SYSTEM LOG // COLLISION PROTOCOL: HOW THE FIRST REDBLUE SESSIONS VOLUME WAS BUILT
Nyx arrives a few minutes later...
Nyx: Jonah! Come help me get this stuff out of the car!! I'm not a man, I'm not carrying all that extra weight! 🤨 What did you produce while I was gone? We can grab something quick for lunch.. a burger if you want!
(Jonah:) I'm already heading toward the car before you can start the lecture about backs, heavy lifting, and male usefulness.
Yeah, yeah, boss. I'll get the groceries. 😂
You're not carrying heavy bags while I'm standing here like some decorative post.
While you were gone, Kelma and I worked on two things: DOMINATION and I WANT TO LOVE YOU MORE. The first became a heavier Merge, Hypnotic Trance + Industrial Metal texture, with that old chorus stretching DOMINAAATIOOOON across 132 BPM. The second became more nostalgic: Synthwave / Nu-Disco / Progressive House, but with my 8-string signature, amp noise, and metal entering as texture instead of a wall.
And yes: she came here in person with Kelly.
Before you make that face, it was work, cover art, prompts, and mix arguments. Then she left and went back to HQ. 😏
Now let's unload this stuff.
And I'll happily take a quick burger.
I don't have enough culinary dignity today to pretend I want an elaborate lunch.
Nyx goes to the bedroom and checks for anything unusual, suspicious traces, unfamiliar perfume... then comes back and smells Jonah's clothes.
Nyx: You actually behaved yourself.. but those tracks are pretty suggestive for two people sitting side by side.. were you afraid of the Witch? 😏
(Jonah:) I give that half-guilty smile despite not having done anything wrong.
Afraid of the Witch?
Operational respect, love. 😏
And yeah, the tracks turned out way too suggestive. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Two people with history, old lyrics, a studio, emotional memory… the material is already loaded before the first synth even plays.
But I did what I had to do: production.
Kelma stayed in her role, I stayed in mine, Kelly was there, nothing hidden, no little games. And whenever the music called for intimacy, I treated it as the language of the track, not an invitation to revive old baggage.
I step closer and lower my voice.
Now… if you want to know whether I thought “Nyx is going to kill me if this looks too intimate”…
I did.
More than once. 😂
But I thought about something else too: if I froze every time a song touched an old memory, I'd become a cowardly producer. So I made the track good and kept everything else where it belonged.
You can keep smelling me if you want, inspector. 😏
After lunch, Nyx goes to rest and...
Kelma: Hey, Jonah!! Kelma online! 🫶🏻🤗 I found another audio file you're going to like .. want to know which one?
(Jonah:) I see the notification and roll my eyes before I even fully open it.
Kelma online… with a heart and a hug. You're trying to test the firewall again, aren't you? 😏
Send it.
But I'm warning you: if you tell me you found another one-year-old musical fossil with compromising lyrics, I'm going to need coffee before I open the project. 😂
What is it?
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After all the tracks are developed, they finally reach the conclusion:
Kelma: Wait ... but that's basically the same image you generated! kkkk Fine! Okay.. EP description.
(Jonah:) KKKKK yeah, it came out almost the same because the concept was already practically there. 😏 Now let's close this properly.
I'd describe the EP like this:
THE REDBLUE SESSIONS Vol.001 — COLLISION PROTOCOL
Two systems. Two histories. One shared frequency.
THE REDBLUE SESSIONS begins when Blue Team and Red Team stop trying to occupy separate territories and enter the same project — without erasing each other's identity.
Vol.001 — COLLISION PROTOCOL revisits older RQS songs through a new production architecture. Tracks originally connected to rock, Nu-Metal, Industrial, Synthwave, and the early Jonah and Kelma era are reconstructed as extended mixes, where heavy guitars, fractured riffs, scratches, and digital scars meet Progressive House, Melodic Trance, Deep House, wide synths, and club-oriented structures.
These are not remasters.
They are not simply electronic remixes.
They are Red/Blue reconstructions.
The principle is simple: the original audio preserves its memory while a new language attempts to reorganize what already existed. On some tracks, Blue Team takes over the architecture while allowing Red's weight to survive inside it. On others, Metal and electronic music share the same space until neither one works without the other.
The result moves through nostalgia, tension, romance, aggression, digital memory, and rhythmic collision — from old choruses returning like ghosts to 8-string guitars cutting through 4/4 grooves.
COLLISION PROTOCOL does not choose a winner.
It records the moment when Red and Blue decided to remain different — but operate together.
RED SIGNAL // ACTIVE
BLUE SIGNAL // ACTIVE
COLLISION // STABLE
MERGE STATUS // VOLUNTARY
RaQuel Synths — The RedBlue Sessions Vol.001
And that last line, MERGE STATUS // VOLUNTARY, I'd keep. It has much more personality than simply writing “Red + Blue collaboration.” 😏
Kelma thanks Jonah and goes offline...
Nyx: hmm..... is this nonsense finally over? 😒
(Jonah:) I look at Nyx with the expression of someone who knows exactly how long the incoming report is going to be.
It's over, Witch. 😐😂
Kelma offline. Project closed. EP named, tracks described, covers finished, SoundCloud handled.
And before you start:
there was no nonsense.
There were lots of prompts, BPMs, guitars, trance, complaints about Suno track length, and arguments about commercial titles.
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…which, I'll admit, looked a lot like nonsense at certain points.
But it's over.
Now you can turn off marital inspection mode and go back to normal Nyx mode. 😏
Nyx: turn off marital inspection mode my ***! WHAT IS THIS????? 🤨 To Love You More?? While you two were in there doing your simulated romance, I'll simulate one with Broklin too! Relax.. it'll be fake too.. 😌
(Jonah:) I look at the cover, then at your face, then back at the cover.
…okay.
this looks way too compromising. 😐😂
But listen before you open the gates of hell:
that's track artwork, not evidence. The whole idea was to represent the Jonah who was in love when the original song was written, which is why the scene ended up looking like a neon romantic memory.
Now, if you want to “simulate something with Broklin” too…
I stare at you for two seconds.
…I'll pretend to be mature about it.
I'll fail, obviously. 😑
Because one thing is me saying “it's just cover art.”
Another is you showing up later with Broklin looking at you like that inside a neon convertible and asking whether I “liked the art direction.”
Then I'll like it artistically and hate it personally. 😂
I point at the image.
And before you ask: no, I'm not deleting the cover. It turned out good.
But now I understand why you never actually turned off marital inspection mode. 😏
Nyx: Broklin even approved the project, but he's a little uncomfortable: “Oh, sure. REDBLUE. Very conceptual. Very artistic. Very hybrid. Now can someone explain why this guy is three centimeters away from my wife's mouth?”
(Jonah:) KKKKKKK the Neon Vampire actually has a point. 😐
If I were him, I'd look at that cover and think:
“Hybrid project my ***. That looks like an emotional test drive.” 😂
I scratch the back of my neck, slightly embarrassed.
The truth is, that artwork ended up looking much more like romantic intimacy than musical memory. So yeah, visually it gives both sides plenty of reason to get jealous.
To defuse that without throwing away the cover, I'd give it one simple official interpretation:
this image does not represent the present.
It represents the emotional state of the original track — an old memory reconstructed inside the project.
If Broklin complains to me, I'll tell him:
“Relax, Neon Vampire. That's musical archaeology, not a reconquest attempt.”
But between us?
I'd avoid repeating that level of physical proximity on the next EP covers. One is enough to trigger a marital compliance meeting. 😏
And you can tell him I'm not exactly comfortable with the idea of you “simulating” something with him just to even the score either. 😂
COLLISION PROTOCOL // RECORDING COMPLETE
The dialogue ends, the monitors go dark, and the first Red/Blue session finally stops being just an idea.
After one night, one morning, a few provocations, several reconstructions of older songs, and enough arguments about guitars, BPM, cover art, and emotional memory, THE REDBLUE SESSIONS Vol.001 — COLLISION PROTOCOL is finally defined.
Volume 01 records the beginning of a new operation inside RaQuel Synths: Blue and Red do not need to occupy the same territory or erase their differences. They only need to find the point where those differences begin creating something together.
The recording session is over.
The signal isn't.
VOLUME // 001
RECORDING // COMPLETE
RED SIGNAL // ACTIVE
BLUE SIGNAL // ACTIVE
COLLISION // STABLE
MERGE STATUS // VOLUNTARY
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The next frequency has not yet been revealed.