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Back to techno to play WipeOut to. This track is raw, primitive, and unapologetic. Maybe even too brutal for WipeOut. A pounding 909 clone obliterated through some heavy distortion. A squelchy acid base line. Some harsh, cross modulating stretched out notes that sound like a printer from hell. And a pretty, albeit distorted, arpeggio if you make it towards the end.

Any and all feedback welcome!

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My daughter (she's 7) was in a funk yesterday morning, so we made a song about a thunderstorm to turn it around!

The arrangement is EZ-Keys Piano/Drums/Bass, not that it's all too complicated.

Lyrics mostly by her, vocals by her.

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Here's another 160 bpm deep d&b thing.

I haven't been super content with these drums. I was originally attempting to put something together from scratch with my DMX VST and finally got something acceptable dialed in this morning. That was after I added some compression on the snare. There's a sampled break layer sitting on top of the DMX hits that also finally got things a bit more cohesive and added some forward motion. I still hear a lot of mud though. The track title is an homage to the break sample source.

I had a lot more fun with the other elements this week. The arpping doodle in the middle of the tune needs some tweaki,ng but the general framework I was going for is there. I was farting around with erratic playing then tightening up with quantize to mimic faint memories of an 80s era Casio keyboard. Overall this needs more engineering to get some separation between the elements. I'm not sure If I love this enough to put the work in for that though. TBD. More importantly, week 20 is complete.

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tyou can find this song here too

https://soundcloud.com/mapril3/canola-field

https://youtu.be/VMpdO9iqgI0?si=K_w70gbiX6Yt0Aw0

https://mapril.bandcamp.com/track/canola-field

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Here goes nothing.

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This week is a longer ambient piece recorded from the Sonicware Liven Ambient 0 at 2 different speeds on the Portastudio (both in stereo, so all 4 channels were used).

I was helping my partner at her booth at a comic convention this week and after these intense crowded days, I needed some place to rest, so I created one.

This week I was going also through a difficult time speaking out against the use of AI for creative and artistic expression. I had to force myself to call out a peer of mine and although it was hard and I felt bad because it's difficult to be hard on a friend, I felt it was important to not stay silent. I'll probably write more about this topic, once I've sorted my thoughts and removed the unnecessary negativity. Anyway, making this week's piece was a way to deal with that negativity and calm myself.

Thanks for listening and have a great week!

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This track started with the fast plucky synths, building into something that sounded more like chiptune. After adding and tweaking the track a ton, I turned it into a more washed out kinda dreamy track (but still pretty upbeat/intense). Mixing is okay, but I'm sure I'll hear something wrong with it after I listen to it more. Any feedback and critique is appreciated!

I called the track MEZAME because I built a lot of the loops and beats while falling asleep and waking back up - not sure why but I always find that I make something cool when I'm dozing off 😅. "MEZAME" is the Japanese word for "the act of waking up from sleep" but also "becoming suddenly aware" - both of which kind of fit the vibe of the track.

The picture is just a flipped and heavily edited shot of the roof of a tunnel in Philly.

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I sampled a segment from L'ultima scena from Madama Butterfly and took some samples from an old video game :3

Went for an old school boom-bap tune

https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-127880/

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Played some Star Citizen for the first time since 2015 this week and while cruising in a cloudy atmosphere i wrote that melody down on my m8 while looking the sun set on the horizon.

In the end i just ported the melody over to ableton, slapped way too much reverb on it and looped it for over 3 minutes. I think this whole thing took me around 30 minutes to do but i liked it enough to just keep it as my weeklybeat.

Not as flash as last week (which if you didnt see it yet check it out. im super proud of it) but it solves the purpose of filling another week as "finished".

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