Hi friends! be warned - the mix is loud this week :)

› Collab notes‹ Collab notes

This week, I collaborated with Coldsushi! I've been a huge fan of his future bass/hyper pop/dariacore productions on here all year, and sometime maybe in March I reached out to him for a collab. We decided to try doing a version of an exquisite corpse-style collab, where we'd work on half a track, swap bundles on Tuesday, work on the other half of each-other's tracks, and then swap M8 bundles (projects) on the weekend for final edits. We also agreed on building up two hyperpop/future-bass tracks. This was a pretty challenging way to collab (compared to doing a single track for the week) because we still needed to produce a whole track and while swapping songs midway through. I'm super glad we did this and really grateful to Coldsushi for being game to do this and share his knowledge with me <3.

This is the first time I've ever tried to make music collaboratively with anyone, so it was extremely vulnerable and intimidating! I'm super glad I did this though because I learned so much from Sushi's work and approach to composing tracks. It's also super rewarding to share art with ppl. Weeklybeats is such a nice and supportive environment for this stuff, and I'm glad to be making music on here with y'all. (Also hit me up if you want to work on a track together!)

› Production notes‹ Production notes

For the first half of my track, I attempted my interpretation of dariacore. After watching some tutorial videos and listening to a lot of hyperpop tracks, the general vibe I got was aim for "dry" and dense sounds w/ a lot of sampling and rendering+running through OTT. I threw together the chordy sections in the intro, the pad-like sections, and the dense chordy sections at the outtro. The bundle I sent to Coldsushi had the rough shape and texture of a track, but I didn't have time to come up with more melodic ideas.

The bundle I got from Coldsushi at the first swap was about a minute of pure joy, atmospheric future bass with a delicate melody and well-mixed sounds. It was inspiring and extremely intimidating :). It took me a while to decide what direction to take it. I decided to build up a mirror section that was more abrasive and aggro to contrast with the first half. It was a struggle and I learned a lot and feel pretty happy with the result. Go listen to Coldsushi's track if you want to hear what we cooked up!

After that, we swapped bundles on Sunday and I switched to working on the dariacore track that I sent to sushi at the start of the week (this is the track you're listening to here). He changed up the intro, beefed up the drums, added a whole middle section with a sick drop. It's wild hearing his distinct style applied to the structure that I sent, and seeing my sounds get remixed. He gave my sketch a whole narrative arc with a lot of life and movement. Most of my edits on Sunday were touch up mixing and making sure more of the sounds came through in the busy sections.

M8 Bundle

Thanks for the listen! (And also - go listen to Coldsushi's track!)

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For Vera. Thank you for a beautiful, relaxing day at the beach.

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there is the threshold

we stand before it

then

we pass

into

liminality

before

returning

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.

.

.

headed into Burning Man

from dust to dust

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Hi, this was submitted to keep the streak going (WBFSC Cycle 4.5). Community samples are MoDrum Sample 1 by Endojo and EffedUpWhistle by TheDaeVolta.

Editing this description now that the deadline has passed. I had a good week in that I went to the premiere of {the film i worked on along} with 24 others. All the schmoozing was hard though. Partly as a result of my own gross self-esteem bullshit vs mistakes I made in the edit; partly from being the first filmmaking event I've partaken of since an assault at someone else in the scene's hands eleven years ago; and partly from the unexpected casualness with which everyone's apparently making short films with heavy generative AI usage. I'm lucky I'm sober & on meds now, so that I was able to make it through with a little extra headspace.

Separately, through my director I made contact with an R&B singer and sent her some demos two weekends ago, and she just on Tuesday texted back that she wants to work together. So I'm hyped for that opportunity and owe it all to the awesome feedback and work-hours accrued via WeeklyBeats.

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I wanted to do more guitar focused stuff. This is a start.

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In light of my band opening for 'moony' later in September, I've been listening to 'moony' and his bandmate / friend 'Boy Bandicoot' lately. They both play a fun mix of modern indie rock with lots of electronic and glitchy elements. This started off as some guitar samples and drum samples then turned into a full arrangement. A mix of indie rock and electronica with lots of random little FX. This was done entirely in the hours before deadline. I kinda like it, had some fun with it after some initial 'writers block'.

* Guitar & drum samples from Splice

* Ableton bass and Wavetable for synth bass and synths

* Valhalla, Transit plugins

* Gullfoss and Ozone for mastering

Total Time: 5 hours

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I am building collaboration into my lyrics app and in testing it I've been typing "typing here, testing, more words" while the magnet words suggestion feature still runs. I saw it pop "Any sign of life" as a line suggestion and thought that was interesting.

› lyrics‹ lyricsChorus

Searching, scanning, any sign of life?

Ever since the blast our memories were wiped

It's getting pretty dark getting pushed out to the side

Searching, scanning, If you're out there send a sign

Verse

No signal, bro. Just the vastness of the ether

It's a riddle, though. How we were gasses in a freezer

Don't feel big, alone. Now we lost the other creatures

It's a lie, that we're wise, we're just the ones who survived

Nobody ever listened to the girls with crystals

Nobody ever wrote in to their public officials

Everybody laughe  d at rick as a pickle

Now theres just a few of us left in this mess because the rest had thick skulls we mix  ed null now our hope is abysmal

› idea and narrative‹ idea and narrativeSigns of life as a metaphor -> metaphor for connection among the demands and stresses

Options

- scanning for a rare triumph of meaning over emptiness

words:

- signals

- orbit

- static

- frequency

- distance

- gravity

- transmission

- pulse

- drift

- light-years

- the dark side

- interference

› rhyme worksheet‹ rhyme worksheet

Music and Lyrics by Jake Spracher

Feel free to roast.

Created with Lyrium

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A little hard acid time attack break beat track. Thanks for listening!

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In this week's edition of "Rendering-Just-Before-The-Deadline-Beats", I was trying to focus on just a simple retro synth line using the synth from last week's outro, combined with a simple beat. I tried to polish the sound design of the beat more, but likely went a little overboard with the saturation. I threw in some pitch bends to spice it up a bit, and automated the mix of the operators on the "FM-4" bassline FM synth for variety.

I was telling Sodabelly this week about how much more productive I feel using Bitwig over Renoise. I can reliably whip up tracks for WB in much less time, with much more polish than I could before. Hoping to keep learning new techniques and tricks that I can put to use for the rest of the year and beyond!

Oh, and the title - I drove about that far for a paintball tournament this weekend, and started working on this track once I got back. I guess my brain was still in long-haul driving mode when I was making this track!

Thanks for listening, as always. :)

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