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Omg I almost didnt make it, its like 30 minutes until the deadline I almost didn't make it ufff

I was watching Artemis views a lot recently, and it kinda prompted me to not only make a bit more atmospheric spacey tunes but play some kerbal space program.

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..but then it's not funny anymore.

I don't like this one, it is very ugly. This week I was devoid of inspiration for Weekly Beats. As a middle finger to my failing creativity, I deliberately made some horrible sounds on M8 and haphazardly threw them together into this. Somehow, this one ended up using only wavsynth and macrosynth and spans a total of four tracks. All done on Dirtywave M8. No need to polish a turd, so I didn’t do any extra mastering.

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This week, I did have fun with my submission for the Dirtywave M8 Discord Meetup: a track I made last year called “Ghostwriter�. It’s more of a demo than a song, really. When it plays on an M8 device, it takes over control via internal MIDI and starts to add to the song as it plays, while doing all sorts of shenanigans. I put in some time this week to add a couple more tricks at the end. You can see the latest version of it in the M8 Discord Meetup video. If you want to compare, the original is here.

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feel like a somewhat return to form.  at least it's a full song!  started it earlier this week and lost my way a bit.  came back to it, struggled to found some guitar counterpoint so left it rather unadorned.  I like the 'glide guitar' from the Yamaha fx500 soft focus patch.  I think it's going to get a lot of overuse over the next few weeks.

EDIT - jeez, the bass is too loud!

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Pretty quick double-track recording this week to get the ideas down. Traveling so somewhat lo-fi mode with USB mic and earbud mixing :lol: The first lyric is a carryover from my Week 7 track, but used pretty differently. Hard not to rewrite “Fade into You� which really just owns that beginning I V ii progression.

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You were laughing til you cried

If you’d fumble all your life

After all you saw

Stared down that hall

And still haven’t changed your mind

You crawl

Reign of terror, rule by knife

Where’s your peaceful paradise?

No one else to call

To save face or take the fall

Though the end is there, in sight

You crawl

Say it’s over, pack up your toy soldiers

Time to mend it rebuild all upended

Say it’s over, pack up your toy soldiers

Time to mend it rebuild all suspended

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Tumultuous week this week.

Got started on this one on Saturday by recording a bunch of stuff on my Perkons and Super 6 with the modular looper set up. Chopped it up last night and today. Pretty happy with it over all! A bit same-y, without distinct sections, but I like the vibe.

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Spent a lot of time listening to Neurofunk this weekend, a subgenre of Drum and Bass and took some time to try to reverse engineer the genre. I think I was partially successful but no big deal either way, had fun with it.

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I have, as I often do, been inspired by the music of Minecraft. It's a peaceful nostalgic atmosphere, and despite the game being quite mainstream, the music is often not appreciated a lot. Most importantly this week, my wife challenged me to get this week's beat done in 45 mins so we could resume our minecraft session - so I sat down at the piano, and here it is. I added a sampled beat in because it felt right.

Paired with a recording of seagulls from the local seafront while I was walking with her this week.

I think it is a song that says "look at what you have, and realise it will be gone before you know it, but that will be because you'll be somewhere new looking back on this time as a happy memory"

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Thank you if you listen.

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Not sure how everyone else does this, over time I'm waiting longer to get started each week. I gotta stop that, it was more fun when I started practicing early. Regardless, I like a lot of the parts here. It could have used a few more days to come together :)

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