a sweet song.. post-boss relaxation music?

got a chroma console and played some synth through it, bumbling through a chord progression until it sounded decent. Recorded to a click for a change so it was easy to bring into M8 and jazz up a little.

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i _was_ all out of sunflower seeds, but now i have more. phewww.

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This week came completely out of left field.

This was a left over recording from last weeks weekly beats session. I was rushed and didn't bother listening back to the last recording.

This recording is about an hour long, and this long, progressive and evolving techno track which would almost be good enough to release.

This weeks weekly beats is a small snippet of it, it was difficult to decide just what to release however I think this is a good place.

Sound sources: Battering Ram (kick drum), Manis Iteritas: Bass and rest of the sounds.

FX: Bastl Ikarie (filter, VCA, saturation), Electus Versio (delay/reverb). Maybe Erica Synths DSP (mono delay).

All this squished into Librae Legio.

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Produced on Dirtywave M8 and finished in Reaper

Length: 1m42s

BPM: 70

Genre: Dungeonsynth

Samples: All sounds/samples were taken from Erang's tomes of free samples

Arturia Tape Mellow-Fi and Plate-140 reverb were added in Reaper

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I'm off to visit family and tried to capture the past couple of days

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Aaaand I've been sick all week :D

I apologized for not checking anyone's song, I will get back to it as soon as I can!

I still managed to make a stretched out loop, I thought it was missing something so I started looking for some (CC) audio sample that would fit and found something that... really talked to me...

Vocal sample:

A DECLARATION by Pipe Choir is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

Downloaded from The Free Music Archive

Software:

Fors Pivot

Fors Opal

The Usual Suspects Osirus

D16 Phoscyon 2

Softube Bad speaker

Softube Dirty Tape

Valhalla Delay

Valhalla FutureVerb

SSL and FabFilter Plugins

Ozone 11 Mastering

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Another challenging week, not helped as I got hit by a bad cold. I rolled out of bed to make this short and feverish track. Woodblocks, stream foley, marimba, shakuhachi (bamboo flute). It is super unquantized and organic, and I somehow like it like that.

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IT HAS BEEN A VERY BIG WEEK. I don't think I've fully caught up with it all yet.

Selected big things:

I got a new job! I've worked my current job for the last 5 years and although I was very happy there, an opportunity came along that was too good not to follow, and as I interviewed I realised I really wanted to work at this place. Saying goodbye to the people I work with is going to be very sad, but I am very excited at the opportunities that will come with the next stage of my career.

Part of the interview process involved a personality test, which after a 30 minute questionnaire gave me a very thorough and scarily accurate look at myself. It was a bit surreal, and a strange mixed feeling. It made me feel very understood, predictable, and very normal? (not that I didn't feel normal beforehand). It gave me lots of helpful things to look out for and to work on too. I know it's a descriptor and not a life-sentence, but it has made me think a lot about the way I look at the world, respond to things happening, and my relationships with the people around me.

MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC. I saw Alex G on Wednesday - beautiful. I can't believe how big an artist he is now, how far his songwriting has gone, and also how tight the band's performance was. I went to Laneway festival - highlights: Oklou was transcendent, Geese had such a passionate crowd and singing Au Pays du Cocaine along with the crowd was cathartic. Bladee and Yung Lean were a surprise favourite for me with an intense AV/lighting experience with mesmerising live visuals from Nate Boyce. I was transfixed but also torn between watching the live show and watching his laptop screen to figure out what he was doing. Then yesterday I went to Life's a Beach festival with my brother. I'm not normally listening to heavy music but I enjoy seeing it live, and it was very special to get to go with my brother. If I thought Geese were cathartic, getting into the moshpit was another level of catharsis. Highlight sets there wer Thy Art is Murder (with a new frontman???) and Heavensgate.

This week I started writing a very elaborate post-punk track, layered electric guitar, electronic percussion, distorted bass guitar, and I was very pleased with the instrumental. But when I got to the vocals, I was absolutely stuck. I just couldn't get anything to hit. I moved on and did my other weeklybeat (see: walter normand) in a matter of 20 minutes or so. I came back to this track and again I was stuck. Running out of time I decided to pick up my acoustic (still in DADGAD from last week), and improvised into an SM57 as a room mic. This was the fourth take of improvising. It just poured out of me, and left me feeling satisfied but also wrecked. You can also hear Ren (my cat) on backup vocals. Decided to keep the recording pretty dry, just some compression and EQ - I really like the howling room resonances that appear at points too.

just take it as it comes

'cause you can't get it back

your fingers and your thumbs

are holding you back

tomorrow never waits

so let's go get some rest

your fingers and your thumbs

lay them on my chest

it's just another day

you've been here before

just take it as it comes

and you'll do good I'm sure

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All Sequenced, tracked and rough mixed in the Dirtywave M8

Vox and acoustic guitar were recorded through an MD421 through light 1176 style compression on a UA276 directly into the M8

First takes only :D

I really wanted to change things here - it was tempting.  I was very dehydrated and I could hear it.  When I came back and tried to clean it up earlier this saturday night the performance wasnt there.

Mixed with a bunch of my ozone bus presets in Reaper - also my workflow there is 2 stages - I find myself tracking everything onto the m8, getting song structure down, then pulling vocals into reaper with an instrumental mix, handling the harmony stacks and the tuning if needed, bouncing the mixed vocals as a stereo track back into the M8, putting in sweeteners and making adjustments before I bring it back out to Reaper for one last (very quick) pass at a master.

For the song - this is a character.  I grew up hard, I like it quiet now.

Lyrics I missed a couple words but will put the intended lines here:

It’s been a year since I got my gun

A year since I said I’m not gon’ run

When them boys from the old town step

Strapped up I’m gon’ tell em that I’m not the one

Never more with they hold me down

I’ll be the king of the whole damn town

No fear gonna keep my pride

and family safe and sound

Not like yesterday, or any other day

Today is something better, took my fear away

Make a final stand, the iron in my hand

Trading brass for blood, trading brass for blood

the iron in my hand

It’s been a year since them boys came round

A year since I made em hit the ground

They rolled up from the old town, stepped

and I raised that barrel then they heard that sound

Never more will they hold me down

I’m the king of the whole damn town

No fear gonna keep my pride

and my family safe and sound

Not like yesterday, or any other day

Today is something better, took my fear away

Make a final stand, the iron in my hand

Trading brass for blood, face down in the mud

the iron in my hand

It’s been a year since I got my gun

A year since I tried to be someone

from the sky I can hear momma cry

sayin lord why’d you have to take him home so young

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☆ Had a bit of a FEELING CRASH this week! Like the waves of this song, sometimes I feel like a kettle of emotion - temperature slowly rising - that needs to steam out, bubble over, to reach a baseline again. I'm getting used to balancing full-time work alongside trying to grow & make my little art projects. Like everyone, sometimes I feel so utterly exhausted that it's hard to come home & continue work on the things that actually make me feel alive. Still, is it a fool's errand to base a whole identity on a creative output, especially when I find it so strained lately? Is it better not to fixate on a Self at all? Is it better just to act, or to rest, depending on how much the body can take? ☆

I dunnoooo. Haha, anyway, here's an accelerating ditty. Beedoo-boop.

I learned how to use chords on Lovely Composer a little more this week. ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

Might have a bit of burn-out lol. Still, even with a 「FEELING CRASH!」... it's been a good week.

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it's been a rough few weeks and the cortisol has been building up, definitely. but it's coming to a head: tomorrow my wife and my toddler and I leave bc for a trip to peru. the bags are mostly packed, and as long as we don't forget our passports we're set.

It'll be my first time in peru, but my wife has been many times. Her parents have a house in lima, and we'll be staying there. I'm bringing along my m8 and an audio interface, so with a little luck I'll keep my weekly streak going. :)

this track was thrown together quickly. it's basically a little jam built around chopping of some vocal samples of my daughter and I, sequenced through the drum machine. actually, there's two drum machines here, one more chaotic, in the beginning, then fading out, and in the final third there's some pads that come in to quiet the chaos a little bit. the image in my mind is of an airplane taking off, rising above the day-to-day stresses, leaving that behind. 

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