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Take 2 minutes and reset.

Atmospheric pad samples and a nice little groove

M8, of course.

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(insert usual caveat about lack of time)

Vocal sample saved my butt on this one.

I had only put together some bars with chords, drums and a plucky melodic thing before I looked at splice in panic. This was the first sample that showed up when searching for female vocals (except it was the wet version and I always go with the dry one) and thought it fit well. Made an edit to a part of it in melodyne to create a variant that I liked.

Then it's just bookended by an uneasy atmospheric sample I made in the S4 when testing the workflow just to include it.

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just a quick jam at the camp after the LeMans race with @lecroquetmonsieur

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A friend came to visit so I had even less time than usual but I was able to start this in between some going around the city, nothing too polished this week just riding on the vibe of piano and atmospheric, I hope you'll like it!!

Render straight from the m8

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This comes pretty much as fresh off the press as it can get, it's big and boxy and a bit rough around the edges but maybe that's part of the charm innit

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I originally did this one for a remix competition a year ago. I had wanted to make an own track out of it for a while, so here we are. I removed all remix samples and vocals (I tried to replace the vocals, but did not find anything good to replace them with), sped the track up and did some alterations to the version from a year ago

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I have awarded myself the coveted Participation Trophy.

The vast majority of my output is the result of meticulous, non-real-time editing and arranging. Trying to get myself to the point where I can actually do a live performance that's not just hitting "Play".

I found myself bobbing my head a lot while recording, I hope you find it acceptable.

I tried doing an oldschool house style track on the OP-XY. Which is kind of backwards - house is traditionally made with multiple pieces of cheap gear, not one compact groovebox. Notably, it takes 2-3 sequential button presses to get from the arrangement page where you can mute and unmute tracks, to the filter page for the acid synth where you can do acid synth things.

The title? There are a whole bunch of songs on Spotify titled "House Music". So I figured I'd do the same.

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Hot rain, cold stares, and a thread leading to all the wrong places.

Notes

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Produced on Dirtywave M8 and finished in Reaper

Length: 2m05s

BPM: 86

Genre: Cyberpunk Blues

Samples

- All samples from Erang's tomes of free samples

FX

- Added Valhalla Supermassive to keys, pads, and percussion samples

- Added Kilohearts Formant Filter to bass

- Added Kilohearts Flanger on pads

- Dunked the master in Arturia Tape Mellow-Fi

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I decided to return to my BEAD idea from before! This is an experiment in what I like to call "tonal serialism." Every element in this music comes from the note sequence BEAD.

For the bass it was simple. The lines had to hit B-E-A-D either forwards, backwards, inverted, with some transposition so things didn't get too boring.

For the chords I took the shape of BEAD and used its inversions to make chord shapes to sit on top of that bass. It being all 4ths it was mostly really odd harmony so that's why it sounds so alien.

For the rhythm I had to turn BEAD into numbers. In set theory that makes 11-4-9-2. Altogether that's 26, so I wrote some hot jams in 13/8.

Then last, the melody. I used a system I got from this YouTube video to give me variations on an input melody. And once I did all 4 of those things, it was off to the races!

Tonal serialism will return in like I dunno maybe another 11 weeks or so

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