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I'm pretty late to this just found out about it yesterday.

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Second track using only PC-98 samples, embrace the granularity.

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This is a sad one. Read on only if you are ok with the sads.

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Ok? Here we go:

This week we said goodbye to our oldest cat, Aki, who was 17, who very suddenly took a turn on Monday, and we put him to rest on Thursday, at home with us.

We'd kind of suspected this year would be his last, but it still hit me like an absolute ton of bricks, and I've had a lump in my throat every day since.

I didn't think I'd be up for making a track, but after a day or so, it felt almost like the right thing to do. Weekly Beats is almost a diary for me in many ways, I often remember the sights, sounds, smells and feelings when listening back to older tracks.

In fact, Aki has featured underneath several of my tracks over the years, but damn I can't remember which ones, I'm sure I'll find one eventually. Anyway.. the track is short, and I tried to capture the sadness and joy in owning a brilliant animal, a true companion over the years, but also I really didn't want to overcook, or outstay its welcome, after all, when we say goodbye, we are paying tribute not just to the sadness in the moment, but the memory of all those great years of friendship.

It was already hard thinking of how to approach this, so I tried to just naturally build the piece. It's a pretty lo-fi mix, but I hope it hangs together.

Here is the art for the week (cat free, my partner and I looked and we'd taken over 1000 photos of him over the years and frankly, you can go to my instagram for many of those) I don't think I could do justice right now:

Thank you to the folk who reached out btw, or even reacted with an emoji, big heart to the WB community. Every pet owner really knows what it can be like. So I also dedicate this short little piece to y'all, I hope it matches for you too.

Finally! Here is the art from the 2016 track that featured Aki front and centre (Young Hopes for Old Dreams:

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Lyrics:

Technology

I love it

Eh

Now

Perfect

Wonderful

› oops‹ oopsI recorded from my tape back into nanoloop, old vocal samples, pads, other things

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Weekly Poem

In Progress

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They chewed through the cables (my internet). Now I have to play offline.

80's Eurovision version for some reason? idk

Look what the squirrels have done to me

Look what those cretins have done

They chewed through the cables (my internet!)

Before my weekly beat’s done

Now I have to play offline

Now I have to sing

I’m playing into ableton

Then a cafe for uploading

And if you see me dreaming of kicking a squirrel

Then please dont say it my dog loves that word

And if she hears me singing she’ll fuhreak out

And the doorbell’s ringing; tech help me now

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Let's do some 80s synthpop.

Photo is from House on the Rock, circa 2009.

This week was rough. Got to play around with a couple ideas on Monday, and then got sick. That lasted from Tuesday afternoon until Friday afternoon, when I finally felt good enough to get moving again. And then there was an event going on over the weekend (had to be there by 5 on Friday night), which left me Friday afternoon to get something done. Didn't have the energy or time to finish Monday's idea properly (celtic metal), so I started something new..ultimately had about three hours total to work on this.

The whole idea kicked off with a cheesy keyboard - first one I got working and recorded well was my Casio PT-10 (I've modified it with a line out jack so it records clean). Recorded a beat and then matched the Logic project tempo to it. I was working with The Quickness, so the chord track and Session Players were used to kickstart the structure. After I had a basic groove going (just C to F), I started noodling on guitar, which started to dictate changes to the basic chord pattern, and where the melody wanted to go.

When I was noodling, I got a vocal melody idea. Why did the idea have to vocals this week? Part of the week's illness was coughing until my ribs hurt. Bonus, I had a rasp with a slight flavor of Peter Gabriel. I was also pitchy as hell. Go with it, follow the creativity. Initial feel was to do a guitar solo, but inspiration failed immediately. Pivot, go with keyboard additions.

Lyrics were built off a phrase that popped into my head over the chorus - "our lesser evils", from the school of Vague Rock Lyrics. I like the final lyrics - the idea of needing to make a choice where all the decisions will hurt - but there’s a path and a best way.

Let's get into week 17…I’m happy that the last two weeks are over. I’ll get back to the Celtic metal eventually…always wanted to do that and call the band SpeedWhistle.

› Lyrics‹ Lyrics

Finding ourselves here again

Needing a friend

Threading the eye of a needle

Knowing it's not now and then

Lost round the bend

Running around though

Which is the way

What is the why

Where is the answer to

Not gonna say

Not gonna lie

I'm coming around to

Facing down the answer

Making a choice

Choosing our lesser evils

Understanding the way

Finding my voice

Choosing our lesser evils

See I've been here before

Wanting the door

Losing my wonder why

Taking the step

Finding the path

Always wanting to cry

Knowing the what

Knowing the who

Knowing where the answer is

Not gonna say

Not gonna lie

I'm coming around to

Facing down the answer

Making a choice

Choosing our lesser evils

Understanding the way

Finding my voice

Choosing our lesser evils

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More jazzy chords and similar but broken up progessions this week. I took the first half of the Rhythm Changes, the 1 - 6, dragged it out, added some arpeggios, swapped up the percussion, then later in the song a brief visit to the second half of the rhythm changes, the 2 - 5.

I really dig the way it turned out, it gives me Playstation era RPG environment exploration vibes.

Happy week 16 pals!

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Ambient GRM Atelier and field recordings. A response to my track 2 weeks ago, what does this week sound like?

This is also the 16th overall track of the year, 8th of this phase. I'll be releasing this and it's 7 friends (plus some bonus stuff that happened in between the official tracks) on Bandcamp later this week as BEETGARDEN02.

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dirtywave m8 tracker & nanoloop q & analog heat +fx

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Still got 7/4, but this week is my absolute speedtrash submission. There was no way I could have completed the original idea, will try next week.

I had to go with Plan B aka dark ambient. The good part is that I have some thoughts/ideas/plans for the future that came from making it, so it was not "wasted". Not much more to say - I went with known and comfortable to not break the streak.

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