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Still recovering from MAGwest so here’s another quick beatbox thing.

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I once read that letting your son live in your basement is a death sentence.

Made on the Dirtywave m8

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It's best if you don't ask too many questions about the bratwurst.

Elektron, emphasis on Octatrack, re-cut in Ableton from a longer jam.

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Not breaking any new ground here or anything, but I enjoyed it.

If you're interested you can check out the bundle.

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New M8 update gave me some inspiration! This all started with the “bass” synth, which is using one of the new instrument shapes.

I’ve been listening to a lot of The Orb and Amon Tobin. One thing about Amon’s music I like is how thick and layered his drum sections are. A takeaway from The Orb’s music is how some of the groove pockets sit with drum breaks. I’ve noticed up a couple of sounds in their music that I was already doing, which must’ve been why RMR suggested listening to them.

I really really like this song! I worked on a song with deeckzeven and we let it get a bit out of control. At one point in our conversations, he noted that he likes to stick with one pool of instruments and push it to its creative limit, whereas I am not afraid to switch up everything on a dime. Maybe it’s a point of mild insecurity getting to hear what other people notice about what I’m doing, but it tends to make me go experiment with other ways of doing things. So, what we have here is something committed and reserved to its own sound pool. I respect the grooves that were created and allow time to dance in them. My music can often sound like a charcuterie board of sound worlds, which I personally like, but I sometimes yearn for the opposite. It just takes patience and discipline for me to not run off with completely flipping around my song.

This one is all M8, too, with my signature vocaloid classical thing I’ve got going on.

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Took a run at a Polo & Pan pastiche this week! Had a great time with it.

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Mpc + Ableton like most of the times

Thank you for listening

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making beats lately with ableton note. added couple of recordings for nice touch

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I am aware that I have a tendency to just layer more and more and more on tracks. When I've mentioned 'killing darlings' in previous weeks, this has been a conscious effort to be more deliberate and precise, to make choices about what sounds good and, when something's not right, respond by making changes to what's already there before adding something else in.

I think I have a decent ear for how to make things work as assemblages and/or am bloody minded enough to ignore it when they don't line up perfectly, but something I'd like to do is stop accepting something that's "a bit off" just because that's how the things I've mashed together sound when mashed together.

So, particularly in the wake of last week's frenetic journey of discovery, I wanted to do something a little more laid back, a little more chill, and - dare I say it - a little more minimalist.

I call this result a... partial win.

This is not 'minimalist', by any stretch, but by comparison to my other tracks, there's relatively little happening. Most of the instruments are moving between G#4 and E4, even the more complex sounding stuff given that's largely in-plugin arpeggiation.

For a song made by me, this track has a lot of space to it, a lot of gaps and a lot more... patience, I guess.

Overall, I'm really happy with it as an exercise in (contextual) restraint and I'd play the shit out of the game this was the menu music for :) Which is also why the track ends so abruptly, it *should* loop reasonably well, if you've a mind to do so.

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