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Original track by my good friend Jimmac...(https://weeklybeats.com/jimmac/music/now-shodan) he had said something to the effect of not wanting to put beats on an ambient track, so that's just exactly what I did.

Well, and then some - cutting the whole song up and whacking it into a sampler, recutting the original sample...

Friends are special and I'm grateful for this one. It's wild how, out of all the people you meet, e-meet, work with, live with, some of them stick around and I'd say it's not always really explainable. Sometimes these connections start out unknown but next door, travel across the globe, and then wind up back in your own house.

Making this, I felt confused, dirty, and noisy, so that comes out here.

One short moment for another friend of ours included at the end.

Thanks Jakub.

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Something summery, dancery, sunset-drinking-on-the-balcony for you today.

Kinda playing it safe with this because I didn't have a lot of time, but the one new thing I experimented with this week has been to use the Bitbox Micro as a looper at the start of my master insert chain - meaning the main mix of all voices (except the kick, which is separate for sidechain reasons) are multed into the Bitbox, where I can trigger a 4 bar recording, and then crossfade between the recording and the live audio. All this before my end of chain performance effects, i.e. the Desmodus Versio and Oxi Meta. You can see me use it at 4:25 with the crossfader - at which point I prepare the mixer for what's coming after the next drop.

Patch notes:

- Bass from Manis Iteritas Alia via Doepfer SEM and WMD Javelin

- Monumatic through Imagènes as the main chord voice

- Moog Subharmonicon, now racked on the upper shelf, through Rings, then QPAS, then a VCA for the secondary background harmonies.

- Vhikk X for the ugly breakdown intermission

- Drums are my usual, but I've got them all patched into Vortices as a submixer before they go into the main mix via the Koszalin freq shifter. Bohm separate as usual.

Enjoy!

Video:

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jankyjams/cocoon

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*gotta love those random m8 names!*

As soon as I got a proper m8 I started making jungle/ drum & bass but this track is more of what I would 'normally' do with Ableton.

This is just the m8 into the octatrack for a few FX and gentle compression then into Ableton for recording only (no processing done in the DAW).

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Slow Double Bass Beat

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Another week of finishing off other ideas, while new ones sprout up in between writing and recording sittings. This is another tune that is more lyric focused, with the guitar and the ensemble sitting back to allow the lyrics to be the main focus. I personally really like this one.

As per some feedback, I'm trying out some more vocal ideas - adding harmonies and using some delays to add more complexity and diversity to my vocal palette - let me know what you think!

Open C again - I still LOVE this tuning!

Have a wonderful week - any and all feedback is welcomed! Thanks for taking the time to listen!

Lyrics:

We grew up together

Now you're years ahead

I follow in the footsteps

You used to tread

Head over heels

Yeah, I'm over it

We hardly speak since

It was said

We were side by side

Now were back to back

Must've been the years

But i've lost track

Keeping it together

Held with super glue

You're looking up to me

But now i'm over you

And i know

That were trying to change

Guess were stuck in our same old ways

Growing up

But growing apart

What fun is winning with a head start

You're up in business

I fly economy

You think thats i'm a joke

Makin' fun of me

We used ti laugh together

Now i'm the punchline

I can smile along

maybe some other time

Running round in circles

Playing hide and seek

Singing silly songs

Dancing cheek to cheek

Music in the kitchen

Screaming in the bed

Things seem pretty quiet

When i'm in my head

And i know

That were trying to change

Guess were stuck in our same old ways

Growing up

But growing apart

What fun is winning with a head start

You only hear what you want to hear

And only see what you choose to see

You only kept the memories

That made you hate me

You only try when it suits you

You only cry when people look

No matter what we've been through

You'll always come out on top

All the quiet whispers

And the shouting in my face

Those painful crossed words

that Put us in this place

Another 3 missed phone calls

Another message left unread

Another blocked account 

Another reason not to salvage.

And i know

That were trying to change

Guess were stuck in our same old ways

Growing up

But growing apart

What fun is winning with a head start 

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wrote some rhodes chords to chop up, added beats and bass but really needed something on top, so i turned to FL Cloud to put a bunch of trumpet lines on it. with this track i have produced over an hour of music for weeklybeats! enjoy!

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Wind and electricity

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I made this song in 3 hours.

I didn't try with the song cover.

I was gonna do a tiny bit more with this song if I hadn't accidentally deleted the things used for this song.

This song is 95% complete and will forever stay like that.

more stuff to find this song at

https://youtu.be/jg6RZoC2Tto

https://soundcloud.com/mapril3/catfunk

https://mapril.bandcamp.com/track/catfunk

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Hi everyone :)

This week I wanted to try a more minimal track again, and it reminded me how challenging it actually is to make just a few elements sound like a lot. I definitely need to spend more time on this to really understand it (scratching my head).

If anyone has any tips or topics I should look into, I’d really appreciate it!

Anyway, here’s my entry for this week, hope you like 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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Had to make something to make my brain quieter… it worked!

No hard thinking got into this one, just noodling around with sounds.

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