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Was trying to make this song as weird as I possibly could. Think I can make something weirder next week.

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heavy beats and thick synths

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I've been listening to a lot of Makossa music lately reminding me of a trip I took a long time ago. The rhythm is infectious. This my best go at making a Makossa tune.

Spent about 45 minutes putting together the rhythm patterns and the bass patterns as the heart of the track and contrary to my usual work flow I recorded the structure with just the rhythm and bass in place. Then I recorded a freeform Guitar track and chopped it up into sections and layered it a bit with itself. Took about 45 minutes to do that part. Another 30 minutes organizing and restructuring the song with fx and instrument groups. Then I recorded vocals and did a similar thing with two freeform vocal runs and then chopped them into 3 vocal tracks that run concurrently on the song.

Total work time about 4 hours on a Sunday dazed by Makossa music

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boing, but techno

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I'm at the point of WB now where I don't even think about starting the track before Sunday and upload it unmixed with fairly random arrangement decisions. But hey, it's still an actual track and last year I'd work on stuff like this for months and not even export it!

Title is just the boardgame I was playing this evening :)

Hope you had a good weekend and thanks for listening.

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Whoops gotta go!!! Sorry

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Now for something completely different.... (or is it?)

throws henchmen through table

This one's a little sloppy in places... much like my fighting style. I'm probably going to producer hell for these taiko drums, but they were fun to play around with, lol.

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Not a live jam this time. Been doing a few sound design sessions this week to recreate some iconic synth sounds I enjoy, but in the end I found myself unable to make anything with those that didn't sound like the track I was imitating... So I tried something new.

The process for this one was pretty different from my usual: I started with a short two-bar melody on the Lorn lead patch I had been working on, and then ran that through PaulStretch to create a massive ambient pad. Then I ran that back through my rack to add trance-gate-like gating, recorded drums from the rack, another chord pad track from Helical, and added a few vocal samples in Ableton.

Since it wasn't a live performance, here's some ambient video shot from my studio's balcony today.

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SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jankyjams/the-grey-cascade

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