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I tried to focus on that hypnotic elements but maybe it is to much and the changes a still not subtle enough as I myself don't feel a lot of tension.. What do you think? Enjoy and have a lovely week with the superbooth 2026..

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Hello!

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Another week, another attempt at future bass on the M8. This week, I watched a some more production videos and also reviewed Coldsushi's generous notes on my last track. I focused on the following areas:

- 7th-ish saw chords on hypersynth

- the mix! (i.e. listening to how each section sounds/what feels loud vs what is quiet)

- try to have big contrast between sections. I specifically aimed for mono/stereo and wet/dry

- hypersynth sound design on chords

- loudness

- minimal drums

While this track is pretty sparse compared to my usual arrangements, I tried to be more intentional with the placement of every element. In a way it kinda reminded me of when I did my chiptune track where having less elements gave me more time to think about melody and composition. I'd love to spend some more time on this and add a bit more variation to the sections, but alas it is Sunday and the weather is sunny.

Thanks for listening!

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The song idea I started on yesterday was not leading me anywhere, so this is a super last minute substitute thingo, intended as a sci-fi synth theme of some sort.

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Another format that I've been thinking about is the 'artist studies', I get inspired by a lot of music here on weeklybeats and I thought it would be a cool idea to create something every once in a while inspired by another artist, in this case it was Celio Morya. I love his fusion of techno and psy with oriental instruments, it works really well and he is very good at it! Unfortunately I did not have much time this week to explore his genre but I'm quite happy on how the mix turned out, even tho the mood is quite on the dark side and could probably get some high freq love, I still feel everything is well balanced!

The volume is a bit lower than my usual over the top but maybe more enjoybale thanks to the air in the dynamic range, I used the dj filter on the m8 to sweep through frequencies and it surprisingly helped me quite a lot into gain staging kick and bass early on, an interesting technique I might use more often.

Thank you for listening!!

render straight out of the m8 <3

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Tried not to give up on this challenge this week so here it is

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Hey everyone :)

A new week, a new Weekly Beat.

This time, I tried to create my own musical interpretation of what a day at an arcade might feel like.

Starting with heading out in the morning towards the arcade, arriving there and jumping into the first games, all the way to the lunch break where you just lean back, look across the arcade, and watch everyone else playing.

Then of course the gaming session continues, until it’s finally time to pack up the backpack (which, back in those days, was probably just thrown somewhere on the floor anyway :D), head back home, and arrive there completely exhausted but happy.

I’m curious if you can hear the different parts and moments throughout the track :D

Here’s my entry for this week, hope you enjoy it!

Have a nice day :)

Cheers

KaZu

P.S. As always, I’m really grateful for any constructive feedback, opinions, and so on :)

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Just not feeling good about it

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Short and sweet this month (the song, not this giant wall of text that follows...) - I help out with the monthly challenges on the Red Means Recording discord and this past month was Acid April, a notable favourite of mine. The challenge was to create a song (around 3 minutes) using the acid "sound" (bonus if you deep dived into one of the many acid-genres), most notably characterized by the sound and unique sequencing of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer. All that might read as gibberish to you, but I guarantee when you hear the acid-synth sound, you will recognize what it is.

I had lofty ambitions of creating several acid tracks for April but was neck-deep in the Titan City Nights series, so I only made a couple. This track, Radiant Wake, was the one I submitted for the challenge. You can watch the stream below, it was really fantastic - so many talented musicians doing all kinds of different things with this sound.

My track was arranged on the Dirtywave M8, one of my fave devices for making techno, using Mikey303's TB-303 preset. I discovered that if I changed the filter to the LZF-lowpass and cranked the resonance, I could essentially "ping" the harmonic series by boosting the cutoff at regular intervals, creating a secondary hypnotic melody over top of the fundamental created by the 303 - which is to say it sounded cool and I ran with it.

As much as acid techno is a bit of a touchstone for me now, I always want to push my limits and explore new things, so I brought this track to Jeremy for our monthly lesson, and while listening we had a conversation about how he realized we'd both been drawing a lot from trance music over the years without entirely realizing it. Which made sense, cuz I basically grew up on trance (thank you Jam & Spoon), and the hypnotic qualities and pads of a lot of my techno/house was definitely drawing on that background. So we spent some time strategizing how I could push this track firmly into the acid-trance arena, and I spent the rest of that week doing the work and polish and here we are!

(most notably on the trance-side, some subtle repeating atmospheric elements, various vocal pings, and some trance-gated mysterious vocal chanting nonsense)

I'm gonna be running with the trance music for a few weeks now, so expect more, and also more weird.

I have been learning music production and composition from Jeremy at Red Means Recording for over five years now, and I'd encourage anyone looking to seriously expand their music practice to reach out to him, regardless of your skill level - I definitely started with him as an absolute beginner. If you've ever had me master something for you, or give your track a critical listen, or wondered how I've done something in my music - chances are I learned it from Jeremy.

Anyway, the RMR discord is a great place with very chill people, tons of queers and furries and old people like me, and it's available at the lowest tier of his Patreon. yes, it's a pay-wall, a very inexpensive one that comes with tons of other patreon bonuses, but honestly, that really helps maintain the community, and people feel invested. And you can participate  in the monthly challenges! This coming May will be Found Sound Ambient, so expect some ambient horror from yours truly end of the month.

Red Means Recording Discord Monthly Challenge stream for Acid April

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feeling very uninspired

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