Time to set up camp and recover from the fight you had earlier in the day. Rest up, but always be on the lookout for glowing red eyes peering at you from the tree line

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Noodled on the piano until I came up with this. I have 0 musical theory knowledge so no idea what it is, but sounds like it works. Ended up attempting to recreate the lines on Ableton and messed around with sounds + effects and here we are.

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Now inside the cave with all the Sync done, the zknightBros venture forth following their ears to what it seems to be some sonic experiments being held. It's getting louder as they crawl through an opening above, avoiding the PorteiroGuy, surely not eager to make friends. When they reach the other side, they're above all the scenery: two live acts struggling to be louder than the other. Constantly pushing power into their machines, both contestants (or should we say brawlers?) are unaware that the zKnightBros always bring their audio kit and suddenly some cables passing by (they're inside a giant Euroracks system) have a stereo splitter on them and that's feeding into the mixer down there. They both connect the're POs and after a magical PO Sync and pattern choosing, the music hacking begins. This is a LiveHackt!

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This one is really a PO battle in the sense that we used two Pocket operators only. And it was by chance we got the two ideas together, forming the story and the subsequent chaos choices we made.

Not many ideas, had to go with this one.

Cheers, take care!!

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First spin with the M8 and I have to say I’m really happy. Switched half way through to Pro Tools, cause I’m not that confident yet to do everything in the M8, but yeah. Quite happy how it turned out. Even though the song probably needs a B-section or something :D 

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Welcome to week 6. Congrats friends, we made it~!

-- Story --

Deep in the woods, you have summoned three ancient spirits. You need their advice.

The first one to speak is small and somewhat unhinged. An ominous presence.

The second one is confident and self-assured. A playful trickster who has a way with words.

The last one is abstract and formless. An amalgamation of jagged shapes shifting in and out of focus.

-- Production Notes --

This track is a little more experimental. I wanted to push the m8 to not sound quite like the m8. I modulated SO MANY THINGS and tried to find some really abrasive sounds. I also discovered that M8's OTT can do some really funky things to your mix if you're not careful. It definitely helps to spot check your final render.

Thanks for listening!

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Focused on workflow in the M8 this week so kept it pretty simple. Building more muscle memory and having an easier time getting around the interface and rendering tracks. Seems more feasible now that I could take it along with me to work/out and about to sketch quick ideas when waiting around and such

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Not really in the mood today (yes, of course I've only started on Sunday), wanted to do other stuff instead. But after playing around with some presets I quickly had an idea for this track, and I'm actually kind of happy with how it turned out. It starts slow, but then … well, mostly stays slow, but it's nice nevertheless :D Enjoy!

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I've been procrastinating like a mother fucker. I think the result of today's beat is pretty nice but, if I wasn't under the time constraint, I probably would've taken extra time on the vocals to get a better performance. Instead, I just tried my best and layered three versions of my vocals hoping that the least shittiest aspects shine through. Oh, and then used a lot of compression to try to even out the voices. I've been kind of struggling a bit more with singing lately because I'm trying to avoid tension in the throat but I'm finding my natural singing voice tends to lean lower towards the baritone range, which is harder to mix into songs I want to sound dreamy and ethereal.

Anyways, negative thoughts aside, I this week's tune is a psychedelic piece inspired by McBaise and Alice in Wonderland. Lyrically I just leaned heavily into the themes of escapism that already exist in the story because I relate to that quite a bit. Maybe instead of reading all the depressing shit on social media every day I could be finding solace in a book.

Oh, and I'm pretty happy with how THICC the bass turned out.

› Lyrics‹ Lyrics

Turn the page on another fantasy

Plotting escape from our cruel reality

Alice, Alice, Alice

Can we drink a cup of tea together and fall asleep

Alice, Alice, Alice

Convince me that madness doesn’t always mean defeat

So here we stand at the precipice of a new land

Far away from that place of decay

Alice, Alice, Alice

Help me see past all ugly things and find beauty

Alice, Alice, Alice

Could it be that hiding in a story is not the key

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Machine gun modified only to add a jack

A plush pig modified to add an amplifier and body contacts in a fantastic workshop this Saturday by Marti Guillem.

And this is what I had time to do with them.

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