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Seems like this could be reworked into a song at some point.

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This week I've been stuck on some lines from Psalm 25: "Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.' It struck me again how outrageous these words are. How can we respect a God who forgets? For God to be just, how can he overlook the wrong we have done? What was David thinking when he first prayed this prayer? Could he have imagined a time, hundreds of years in the future, when Jesus would make a way for his sins to be paid for in full, leaving no trace of them in God's memory? Could he have imagined that Jesus would completely satisfy both God's justice and his mercy?

I've also had one of Sister Carita Kent's rules stuck in my head this week: 'Consider everything an experiment'. There is much more to be said about God's mercy and justice, but here is this week's experiment in expressing in song the mind-blowing mercy and justice of God:

I know I’m wrong and you know it too

How can we pretend that the truth is not true

Justice demands I pay back what I stole

The law will not rest till I’ve paid it in full

Where your justice and mercy meet

I will be forgiven

No more guilt hanging over me

I will be forgiven

There’s a God of unfailing love

There’s a God who would die for us

To satisfy his justice

To satisfy his love

You make me bold to come your throne

I’m on my knees but I know I belong

Justice is done and mercy flows free

Lord, you are good, will you be good to me?

Where your justice and mercy meet…

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..can I ask you kind of a weird question?

› Production brmpdfpm‹ Production brmpdfpmAnother track started with a crunchy OP1-F drum loop. Through messing with the option to add pauses in the sequencer it turned into this strange 7/4 groove that felt pretty interesting. Sampled it in M8 in two different keys, then went to work layering a bunch of synths on top.

Usually I do bespoke sounddesign on M8, but this time I mostly went with a cool preset pack recently released by fellow Weekly Beats user Joshua Morgan on the M8 discord, which features remakes of their favorite Hydrasynth sounds. I did mess with their settings a bit and added in a sneaky Hypersynth of my own, among some other small additions.

The initial loop proved difficult to get out of when I layed down the initial beat. I took another jab at it in the train when I went into the city to meet my mom today, then added all of the leads and a bunch of other stuff when I got back home in the evening.

The 7/4 groove makes this one kind of panicky, especially combined with the overload of hi-end crunchiness. I have no idea what is going on with the harmony. A lot of the lead noodling is super janky, cause it's hard to pin the exact tuning on the root note. Even with a bunch of tweaking I couldn't find a stable tuning. Ended up pitching all synths up by an 8th step, no idea if that really fixed it.

Some additional mastering in Logic, fancy plugin version. For those interested the chain is Pro-Q4, UAD Verve, Gullfoss, True Iron, Sausage Fattner, Pro-DS, JST Clip, Pro-L2.

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Unassuming and wry, they often travel at night. 

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Some weird Psy thing, Pink 'n traantje weg.

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Mother's Day today. Turned up the gain of the mic quite high and had to filter some noise. But the deep frequencies of my voice seem to come out quite nicely in turn. F# minor.

› Lyrics‹ Lyrics

Mother, have a drink

Mothers, have a drink

Enjoy the sun

The weather's fine

until the rain

Mother, have a drink

Mothers, have a drink

Mother, have a drink

your son is here

to bring you peace

Mother, have a drink

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Felt like angry protest electro this week.

right place

wrong hands

one way to the promised land

death trap

they say   

they come for you every day 

wrong place

wrong time

lying bastards will just say you're fine

What's that

You hear

drop the blade to end your fear

take these fuckers to the guillotine

their time is up if you know what I mean

take these fuckers to the guillotine

it's a fucking party if you know what I mean

another fucking billionare

these dumbfucks think they're better than you

another fucking trillionaire

first agiansts the wall stomp em under my shoe

wrong place

wrong time

lying bastards will just say you're fine

What's that

You hear

drop the blade to end your fear

take these fuckers to the guillotine

their time is up if you know what I mean

take these fuckers to the guillotine

it's a fucking party if you know what I mean

take these fuckers to the guillotine

take these fuckers to the guillotine

take these fuckers to the guillotine

take these fuckers to the guillotine

their time is up if you know what I mean

take these fuckers to the guillotine

their time is up if you know what I mean

take these fuckers to the guillotine

it's a fucking party if you know what I mean

take these fuckers to the guillotine

their time is up if you know what I mean

take these fuckers to the guillotine

it's a fucking party if you know what I mean

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Another noisy one, but quiet-ish? Not in terms of volume, but mood.

Ample use of Fairfield 20% More, which finds its way onto the Pulsar-23 bass synth and some half-hidden guitar. Other bass synth feature: Fairfield Conflict of Interest modulating the tuning at audio rates for some abrasive FM tones.

I actually tried using the Pulsar less this time; I've been feeling like I'm making my drums too busy lately so I tried pulling back. Relatively minimal everything else: the bleep synth is a very simple Prophet patch arpeggiating or playing through the notes of a Cm7 chord, the chorus pad is three notes on the Alpha Juno, some small hihats from the Digitakt, and... that's pretty much it.

My audio interface decided to start dying as I tried to mix down the track, adding a shrill wail onto everything that makes me think it has a dying capacitor. Fortunately I was able to mix down into my field recorder, but this makes another in the list of "equipment that needs replacement/fixing". I'll have to take a look at it when I've got an opportunity/get to buying all the new things I've already decided I need to get.

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This was a bit of a rushed track, but... ☺️

Started out practising a bit of question and answer structure, but ended up with a bit of speed producing against the deadline 🙈

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