Quick jam before going to San Francisco!  I'll be there by the time you read this!

OP-XY, OP-1, EP-136 Sidekick

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A demo recorded in only a few takes.

Gear used:

Erica LXR02 sequenced with an EP1320

a cheap mic

SP404MKII for recording

... at least I've finished something ;)

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We spend our lives chasing the light, only to realize the shadows were telling the truth. Nothing is as it seems.

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A wonky melodic beat. It's been a while since I got out the model:cycles and made something fun with its specific FM sounds.

Model:Cycles -poemt

Mangled by baste kastle2 fx wizard: Pitcher

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Just sitting over here keeping my streak hanging on.

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This one's scale is called "Pyramid Hexatonic".

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Near Miss - of the deadline. first time I needed a late upload link D: Ableton was fighting me by crashing on the export. Not fun!

Anyway, weird hybrid track this week. Started by recording some guitar loops, then sent those into the modular and recorded some ambient noodling, then took that and arranged a little bit of stuff over it on the M8.

Video:

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jankyjams/near-miss

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Written entirely on the Dirtywave M8 Tracker.

Light mastering in Audacity (normalizing/limiting/compressing).

A continuation of last week's track's outro, whose intro was the previous week's outro, whose intro was the previous week's outro, whose...

This track is part of an ongoing series started from week 4, you can listen to the Through the Year mix on the latest week.

First and foremost, this track was made with the secret (I'm still writing that?!) collaboration of...

the one of a kind Huabun!

If you haven't checked it out already, please, please go listen to Huabun's track.

› Notes on the collab‹ Notes on the collabWe followed the same Exquisite Corpse protocol we used with Neon Liminal and Barrister Plong

You can get an idea from Neon's great write-up.

Swapping bundles almost everyday was amazing and cemented my admiration for Huabun.

A rough start (was too lazy to downgrade the firmware of my M8, had to copy everything one by one from one project to another using ReM8xer), things went smoother afterward.

It was a busy week with kids' school starting over, but we still managed to send projects to each other regularly and progress almost as planned.

› Friendly Sample Challenge #5, part 2‹ Friendly Sample Challenge #5, part 2

This week was also part 2 of the fifth(!!) unofficial WB-friendly sample challenge (details on Discord): the composing week, following a week of gathering song ideas to remix (during week 35).

Votes were not conclusive, so the weight of decision came to me and I chose

Sample contributor shout-out: Huabun!

The chosen song to remix / cut up / mangle was Riding At Dawn.

And thanks to you for checking it out.

Hope you enjoy!

M8 bundle

PS: Every week a new collab, life has chosen for me.

Stay tuned for next week's awesome collaborator!

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I messed up the export - need to re-upload this one. :-/

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