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some more guitar noodling this week

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115bpm fminor

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I didn't have much time this week on account of more band responsibilities - bass recording, preparing for a band show (which is in a few hours!) and other stuff. In line with wanting to do more 'vocal' based tracks, I've been very inspired by a few interesting tracks that use some looping vocal chops, namely, Jóhann Jóhannsson's soundtrack to the movie 'Arrival' - the tracks 'Heptabod B' and 'Kangaru' in particular.

I took some vocals I had recorded of my voice teacher Erika, then started looping small sections, pitching them, stacking them. A sort of polyrhythm beat popped into my head, then I recorded some bass since I was already in bass recording mode. I didn't have a lot of time to edit it, but I actually really like it. It was fun working on such as weird arrangement, weird tones, and excited to tinker with more of the looped 'vocal chop'.

* Vocals recorded through Shure SM58, Focusrite 4i4

* Generic P-bass (with freshly installed Seymour Duncan SPB-3's!)

* Ableton Drums for drums

* Ableton wavetable

* Transit, Valhalla plugins + Ableton stock plugins

* Gullfoss + Izotope Elements for master

Total time: 3 hours, 45 minutes

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long exhausting week coming to an end

huge moves

rushed to find something to upload

cc//mm

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What's your favorite way to maintain your dungeon?

Notes

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Produced on Dirtywave M8 and finished in Reaper

Length: 2m00s

BPM: 77

Genre: Dungeonsynth

Samples

- All samples from Erang's tomes of free samples

FX

- Added Valhalla Supermassive to piano, bass, and string samples

- Added Kilohearts Flanger to pads

- Added Kilohearts Bitcrush to strings

- Added Kilohearts Distortion to strings and percussion

- Dunked the master in Arturia Tape Mellow-Fi

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Polyphonic sound plateau and the voice sample by english psychiatrist, Dr. Humphry Osmond, the man who introduced the famous author Aldous Huxley to the psychedelic chemical agent mescaline at Huxley's house in Hollywood, in 1953. In his search for a general terminology for mindaltering substances Huxley came up with the term Phanerothyme:

"To make this mundane world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme."

In 1956 Dr. Osmond answered in a letter with his famous quote coining the word psychedelic:

"To fathom hell or soar angelic just take a pinch of psychedelic." (psyche = soul + delos = to manifest)

Note: The sample used in this drone was taken from the 1986 BBC documentary "The Rise and Fall of LSD" where Humphry Osmond recites his own quote, by saying:

"To fall in hell or soar angelic, you'll need a pinch of psychedelic."

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The zKnightBros are struggling through a dense vegtation area, climbing without stopping until they reach the Hazers Shrine, the site where they will upgrade the gear and heal some wounds. This is their tune.

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Volca & PO stuff. Put together online on BandLab.

cheers.

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edit: as suspected the mix was more dense than I had hoped.

Soundcloud version with some adjusted levels.

This week started as a 11/8 time signature experiment. drums are a bit all over the place but if you like wonky it might be up your alley! The hat sounds like a metronome.

I do like some of the melodics elements but im going to guess the mix is a bit messed up. had to speed submit as I ran out of time before we needed to leave for the movies.

hope everyone had a good week 23! Upwards and onwards

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