AY DnB ayo???

If any of y'all have experience with DnB I wanna know what you think of my mess :D

(even if you don't know let me know what ypu think anyway :D)

I'm a bit clueless but somehow making something happen with 3 sound channels lol :3

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Gripped by the reflection of you

Lost from the shaming of the true

When everything is dying

It hurts to care

When everyone is lying

The callousness ensnares

Why can’t we have nice things?

Why?

(btw, the uploaded version of this song and the video below are different takes! Curious if ya'll like one more than the other)

› Song Notes‹ Song Notes

Another short thing this week. This one was extremely off the cuff, I just sat down and came up with everything in about 40 minutes and just recorded it. I obviously could have spent more time on certain aspects like the vocals, but I figured maybe just being super raw with it is maybe better? I got to learn to not pick shit apart. Plus, some of the imperfections are nice. For instance, I didn't mean to make my voice sound gritty when singing "nice things", but I think it sounded interesting and decent and added some character to the song so I just left it.

› Other stuff‹ Other stuff

I came to a realization this last week after talking to a friend that the shit happening around the world is affecting me more than I thought. Particularly when it comes to my motivation for music. It’s not entirely that I’m less motivated to create, but that I have this certain ideal of the kind of music I’ve been wanting to create but that doesn’t align with the way I’ve been feeling in my heart and mind. The “realest” shit I’ve made this year that I’m happiest with are tapping into feelings of hopelessness, despair, and defeat.

Those feelings in particular have scared me because I’ve been trying to take it upon myself to put myself out there more often with instagram reels, youtube shorts, and working my way up to doing some open mics, and I feel like being a total fucking bummer is not what everyone wants to hear right now (are rarely ever). And honestly, it’s not entirely the kind of music I want to make either because it doesn’t really feel cathartic to make, but I guess better out than in?

Anyways, I guess the main insight here that’s guiding my path forward into uncertain times is that I need to just lean into the defeat and explore what kind of music comes from it. Maybe this is the next album, not the one I wanted to make, but the one that needed to be made. Time will tell, no promises (as always).

By the way, thank you to everyone who revisited my music last week after my brief departure. I'm slowly trying to re-integrate and catch up on people's music. I just haven't been in the best headspace lately. Don't get me wrong though, ya'll give me hope, and I appreciate you.

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I had a bunch of weird and/or exciting dreams this week. Somehow those atmospheres transformed into the lead melody. Floating, yet somewhat pulsating and bubbly downtempo beats at 70bpm.

Arps by Waldorf MW1 plugin, bassline from ARP2000. Drums from Yam RS7000. Reaper made the surgery. That's about it.

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You know that feeling when you think you'll try to be clever and merge a few ideas and vibes into one thing but it really doesn't end up the way you imagined it...? Yeah, this is that...

The intro riff is a fairly new idea, and I smooshed it together with an old riff sitting in the vault (the riff at 2:25) and wrote some new bits and lyrics to piece it all together. It is quite experimental for me, some things worked, some not so much. I am crazy tired, I had some other stuff to get done when I intended to work on this, so I ended up pretty behind. This will probably need a revisit down the road.

This is my first WB2026 where I've been up at ridiculous o'clock to finish the song, and I am sad about that because I had been doing so well at avoiding that bad habit from previous years, and it's still not where I hoped it would be, but oh well...

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Staying on the dark with tech overtones theme. Added a new bit of synthery to the mix this week, using GRM Atelier to generate a bunch of samples which I then cut up on the MPC. It sounded good, but kind of muted with no real top end. I found a pile of samples from the "Sounding the Collection" bundle that the Powerhouse Museum in Australia offered a while back, an automaton bird, computer keyboard and dial phone all worked really well to round out the piece.

More about Sounding the Collection here, https://powerhouse.com.au/stories/sound … collection

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about 3.5 hrs of refamiliarizing myself with the Digitone II by making some 5/4 nonsense. I often wonder about a slimmer, usb powerable digitone that slides into my backpack with ease. Lowered knob height, 3.5 midi jacks, usb c, maybe in a sleek dark grey and a return to the yellow display of old. Idk. Anyway, as much song as self-tutorial, here's week 11.

production notes: sat the digitone ii on my lap and played around until the song was done enough, recorded into ableton while muting and unmuting parts (and i think fading one out with the level knob at one point), drum bus into 10%mix OTT, slap a little bit of cxm 1978 on the mix, Ozone 9 automaster and bounce the track.

Also, trying to return to commenting on people's stuff this week, so ideally look out for some if you've commented on my tracks basically ever.

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The last week track was an oddity for me in some ways and this is in a more familiar style I think. I made a simple backing and had a jam with overdubs. I hit a simple melody and this is basically just that and a few counterpoint ideas to it. I may try to make this into a more developed track later on, I think...

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I just can't seem to break away from the digitakt 2 lately!

All guitar sounds are from the laney supergrace pedal aka the smashing pumpkins pedal.

I did a mix of direct out with onboard reverb and through my board. Really digging it.

The biggest thing I've learned from making music is the best sound design happens in the mix.

Guitar tone that sounds fantastic on its own, does not translate to how it sounds in the mix.

Being able to tweak sounds where they will live yields the best results.

As far as song structure, it felt like enough sections with enough variation to keep it interesting.

I'm always tempted to take a song like this and force traditional song structure upon it.

Why? I don't know. Maybe I feel like following some kind of rule will take it to it's fullest potential.

The same false logic that is behind spending more time will make it better.

I will resist again and let it live as it was created, under the constraints it was created.

That is be beauty of weekly beats.

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got a little lost in the op-1

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