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Made on mobile, feels like it could use some lyrics or something high and staccato.

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made with m8 + modular

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I found what I was looking for, I think.

This ended up being rushed at the end because people don't respect my time and boundaries, but I think I got everything in there I was hoping for.

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Well maybe not too excessive.

This is still chasing a sound - "post-rock space-ambient with a decidedly country twang" - and a follow up to a couple of my other albums, most notably The Message and The Pulsar Suite. Chasing the sound on its own wasn't getting me where I needed to be, and I came back to narrative as a solution, which kinda boils down this this:

"Bedroom songwriter/producer/musician, but in space."

Lonely space cowboy, big empty ship, guitar, amp, and just the massive cisterns and cargo holds and tunnels to provide reverb, and the pipes and metal walls for percussion. I wanted to explore the idea of "transmission" and "echo" as well, which this sketch started a bit but sorta ran out of time for that exploration this week.

There's also an element of sending this song out into the cosmos, and hearing the cosmos singing back - again, an echo, a call and response.

So I used my semi-hollowbody guitar, my little katana amp, my mic I use for vocals, and started recording stuff in weird ways, capturing some of the essence of the room via live mic recording, getting some direct input stuff, and then throwing everything into some convolution reverb to create that sense of space. So there's a little "method acting" going on, and a little pure fantasy.

Everything you hear - apart from the percussion - derives from the guitar recordings in some ways, there's no synths, no additional instruments. The main 'riff' is transformed into long drones and echoes, stretched and reversed and reflected like it's being sent out into space and echoed back by cosmic dust and black holes and the stellar winds. I feel like that's kinda making the soul of the track as a result.

I got a few things more to explore but I think I found a workflow and a story and a method and space for this album, and that's exciting.

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Hey everyone, this week is kinda short again because i honestly spent most of the week playing grandia 1 (sega saturn version with english patch) and just simply love it. Its a game about going on a adventure and finding the remains of a lost civilization but sometimes i kinda miss the city from the beginning with all its character and the playfulness that was still there at the beginning. So this is kinda inspired by me wanting to go back to the old continent to explore some more.

I really like the call and response in this one and it certainly made it on my „create extended version for the best of weeklybeats album“ im gonna release at the end of it.

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Had one nice melody in this so all the other parts are just about getting there and then winding down. Doing a thing where the low end is automated away every 4 or 8 bars so I can bring it back on impacts.

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For this week's Speedtrash Sunday, another ambient entry. I used a couple instruments from my week 15 (Augmented Rain) and patched in some short field recordings I did in a park in Philadelphia. There was a helicopter hovering for awhile but it kind of blends in nicely with one of the instruments.

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chiptune electro + nasty bass. 2 hours.

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This was fun. Nice little guitar riff(s), and a bit of sub.

In Lak'ech

_mzunguko

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This weeks weekly beats is a bit random.

I hadn't done anything at all this week (I wasn't busy it was just nice weather and I had some spiced rum in the fridge).

With only a few hours left I started playing with the awesome new sampler features in Bitwig 6.1 which I'm very impressed with and cut up some random samples including a guitar, flute and some African drums, then added the built in Bitwig 808.

That all sounded quite jolly, but then I decided to layer some super dark synthwave synths with Sublab and Proxima and then add some vocals from Kasane Teto about being haunted.

My daughter has been on at me to get Teto for ages and I finally caved as I want to put some Japanese lyrics into a project I'm working on.

I put Hxvoc in as backing vocals as my daughter suggested it.

Does it work together?

You be the judge. It's kind of a sketch rather than a proper song and weirdly reminds me of 80's Peter Gabriel in some way (maybe the world music elements).

The song is just C, F, Am with a D hanging over every chord for some harmonic interest then a super cheesy chromatic mediant bit for the B section which is maybe a bit more musical theatre than I was going for.

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