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Another crazy creation.

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Typed out a whole description and must have timed out so when I hit submit it made me log in again and my description was gone. Sadly another frustrating moment in the creation of this weeklybeat. Despite a lovely week this track has pushed me to the edge and emotionally unraveled me.

This was meant to be a simple piece but the fingerpicking pattern was like a tonguetwister for me and I kept ruining take after take after take. It's funny how once you have expectations you can easily be disappointed. Once you have desire, you're frustrated. You can hear where I finally give up in this take and switch styles for a very cathartic ending. I was simply just done at the end of this.

My week has been well spent otherwise though. I've spent time with old friends. I've been enjoying riding along the Yarra to my new office, and I'm enjoying getting properly stuck into the work at the new job! I enjoyed a peaceful dinner by myself in the city on the commute home. I went to the gym with a friend while it poured rain from the sky outside. I felt a glimpse of the running strength I had last year. My body feels strong again, moving through the world feels easy these days. I think there's probably a lot more on my mind but it's easy to keep moving, it's only when you stop to record the same guitar pattern for an hour and a bit that you start to notice where your mind wanders to. Anyway, I really had a lovely week, and I'm hoping that in a few days time I will be separated enough from the frustration to enjoy the good in this piece.

as the blood drips from my chin

I wonder when I'll break this wall in

my loose muscles force my lips

over my teeth to make a grin

how dare you turn your back on me

I wish you'd had to see my face

the tracks I stopped in disappear

the last to lose has now been crowned

I reach between my shoulders

and pull myself off of the ground

a silhouette can bring her voice to my ears

people should take gramophone recordings alongside their photographs

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Another busy week, pressure plate came loose on my Jeep so I've been under that turning wrenches, had to dig through the archives for unfinished business, and I'm glad I did.  This is one of the first melodies I scratched out on the M8 when I was getting to know the instruments onboard - when I play with chiptune sounds I always try to think of what it would sound like rolling the credits at the end of a great video game, then build from there.

It sounds so good on the M8 I almost uploaded straight out of the box, but I had an hour or two tonight (saturday) and figured I'd keep my mixing chops up.  All I did was ride faders, do a little bit of copy and paste to build bigger in the final chorus, then widen the reverb and leads.  I was really heavy handed with final bus compression because the more I smashed it the better it sounded.  Render was hilarious because it was just two solid black tubes after the drums came in.

To everyone commenting in the last week or two I will work to respond soon, thanks so much for the incredible encouragement.  I listen to WB a lot while at work throughout the week and I'm SO INSPIRED by all of your work.  This community is amazing.

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i have been feeling like the 1980s lately, when i grew up as a kid, for various reasons... anyways

analog drum machine into a bass multi fx and a red panda particle, plus hydrasynth + monologue

originally i was going to have guitar on this but it became its own thing... cyberpunk af

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i first wrote and recorded this song circa 2008-09 on a fostex mr-8 and touched it up in garageband. somewhere around '14, my mac crashed and i lost 7+ years of my most prolific time as a musician. around the same time, myspace also lost like every fuckin piece of music on the site, including the original recording of this.  this song effectively became lost media, and i was honestly so put off from writing and recording music having lost pretty much everything.

the group i was playing with throughout the '10s started doing this one live and some shitty iphone practice recordings exist from that era, but no studio or produced recordings have survived. 

i've done my best to reproduce the original recording plus some of the better updates that were made with The Haps (i'll never be as good a bass player as brian).  original recording had an SK-1 for the interlude, but that thing disappeared years ago (rip).  the final verse "droppin' out" lyric was actually added during the original recording bc the bass file became corrupted at that moment in the song.  i decided to keep it as it was and play off of it and it became a permanent part of the song. i've done a bit more with that here.

anyway, this is all a cautionary tale. the internet is not forever. technology fails. back up your files. don't lose your shitty pop songs. enjoy the tune!

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Thank you to my friend Noah who agreed to do vocals on this song! He wrote the lyrics and did vocals. I did the rest :)

This was super fun and I hope I get to do more like this in the future!!!

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This was more of a journey than an actual track. I started with an initialized patch on the minifreak then just recorded the process of building a soundscape. Had no plans to begin with and just went for it. It got nice and washy down the track.

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Felt more inspired this week, but still struggled to get something done before the last minute. I had another more melodic piece that I was working on that feels like it captures more of where I'm at emotionally this week, but it was sounding best on piano and I need to practice it more to really be able to record it. At the same time, I've been listening to Power Glove and the Far Cry Blood Dragon soundtrack, and here we are. It was fun when I realized that there didn't need to be a progression for there to be a song, lol. TEO-5 provided part of the bass (layered with m8) and that pad that pitch bends. The rest are Linndrum samples and m8 synths. Hope you enjoy.

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