Bit of an odd one and the first one that I've felt got away from me a bit, so I'm still pretty happy with it overall, but I would have liked to tear it down to first principles again and start over.

So, a friend of mine is an illustrator and comic artist and he's been publishing "Where's Waldo?" style puzzle books over the last couple of years, including one about finding pigs. A couple of weeks ago, he posted about receiving copies of one of the books' Danish translation and the word 'Grisebasser' on the cover really stood out to me, so I made the joke "I'm going to call one of my Weekly Beats tracks that".

So, this week rolls around and I'm sifting through samples and I find the greasy bass part that's in the back half of the finished track and say "well, this week is Grisebasser week", but I went awry when I decided I was going to create a metaphorical retelling of "The Three Little Pigs", as one does...

I spent a lot of time assembling the pieces for that, but in the end I had to admit that I was too far down the rabbit hole to be accurately judging if it worked *as a song* or if I was just used to it now and pulled the plug on restructuring as much as I could into a Fatboy Slim / Daft Punk type thing instead.

I'm very glad for having done that work to figure out Wave Traveller, so I was just refining the use of it instead of learning on the fly to create the scratching section.

But in the end, I got to the point where I wasn't making significant steps towards the shape I was trying to hammer it into, so I had to call time and wrap it up.

So, yeah, could have used another structural pass, but I'm still happy to call it 'done' and learned a few things from doing it, which is always a win :)

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I wanted to make something this week to celebrate 909 Day, and what better than a pounding dance track full of toms and nerdy acid basslines. This one was done entirely on the Polyend Tracker+ using 909 From Mars samples and two synth presets: "Bourgine" for the ACD engine (the first bass you hear--it is stupidly deep and destroys the mix) and "Acid Trip" for the WTFM engine.

I don't often use the Polyend Tracker's perform mode, but I did for this jam. I may have overdone the whole thing but I'd rather go too wild than not be wild enough, and the 909 just brings out that behaviour when I hear it. I took a raw recording and "mastered" it by liberally applying SketchCasette (I wasn't shy about wow and flutter) with compression on, and ran that through Bitwig's Peak Limiter.

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Okay, now we're getting into difficult territory, I had nothing 3 hours ago and I'm submitting this knowing that this needs another hour or so mixing because I want to be done. WB feels like a chore right now. I know this is going to get better again, but at least I didn't give up.

Regardless, this is a weird one. I worked on and off throughout the week on a different track but today I finally completely lost the interest in it. Instead, I had this disco-ish octave bassline in my head and I started tweaking it until it sounded interesting.

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Week 37

Goal at start 9/10

Firstly, my real goal is to finish something fast so that I have some time left over to do repairs on my laptop so I can return to my normal setup (I’m using an old laptop now).

But beyond that, I want to start by imagining the song in my mind first and think “what would it be like if I could produce that in a daw here and now?”

As the process unfolds, I want to stop and mentally create the next part before diving into the chaos of trying to make something out of random bad presets.

I want to start bridging the gap between the part of my mind that imagines music, and the part that is forced to make due with a scant array of production knowledge, and thus resort to randomly clicking notes until something sounds like a melody, or doomscrolling presets.

End notes 9/11

I probably need to start doing a lot of drum pattern remakes until I can wrap my head around how to handle drums.

Plan for next week:

Do something with a drum pattern that is an approximation of drums from a reference song.

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This is an instrumental in which I was mostly just playing around with some different synth lines.  Nothing super crazy or anything, but a good time was had during its creation.

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This is the sound my corduroy pants make when i dance.

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Week two of sleep deprived, time squeezed writing and recording! it's not perfect, but it's what I can do in the time I have in a week!

Little pop-punky acoustic thing this week - kind of reminds me of the stuff Four Year Strong used to pump out back in the day... obviously with way less intense and beefy vocals - just little ol' me!

Back to work next week - even less time. YIKES!

Have a lovely week - thanks for all of the positive messages and congratulations over the past few submissions!

Lyrics:

we never fixed those creaky floors

It was a symbol of what we were

We never oiled those squeaky doors

We just thought it didn't hurt

All those years we promised

Making little changes

All those times that we would cry

That we would start again

But we never meant it

You never fixed your fucking car

I always hated how loud it was

I never quit my awful job

I guess I always liked the fuss

You always left the front door open

You knew it would wind me up

I'd always leave the keys on the counter

But you always just forgot

All those years we promised

Making little changes

All those times that we would cry

That we would start again

But we never meant it

We never meant it (x4)

All those years we promised

Making little changes

All those times that we would cry

That we would start again

But we never meant it

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surprise surprise

signal to noise ratio

a meat grinder with a landing page

i have no time

i have no time to lose

this story enters its final stage

surprise surprise

signal to noise ratio

a disturbance on the

baltic sea

i'm out, i'm out

i'm out of ideas

sandblasted by reality

surprise surprise

signal to noise ratio

a disturbance on

lake ontario

i'm out, i'm out

i'm out of ideas

where the hell am i supposed to go

i saw the world

i saw the world end twice

drowned in a pool

of shared meaning

surprise surprise

last man ever hired

how is this tech supposed

to be helping me

101.57 BPM 4/4, F-minor. A pair of Mother-32s provides the stereo bass. A hybrid TR-909 kit with my fav Analog Rytm. All other sounds Osmose.

Composed, recorded, and produced in Vancouver BC. No AI used in any part of the process. For this year every cover art is a photo I took.

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I kinda mostly like the intro on this one. The rest is pretty random.

eh. keep it goin, keep it going. THx for listening!

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