I had a busy weekend and essentially only had Friday to make my weekly beat.

I phoned up my old roommate, Riley Bruce, to see if he wanted to collab after work.

I would take whatever sounds we generated and arrange and mix them later that night.

We had a strong vision and generated some damn good sounds (mostly with his Korg Minilogue). The arrangement went into the midnight hour and was excruciating (I'm awful at it) but I'm proud of how this turned out.

I hope you enjoy. I'm off to San Fransisco!

P.S: Riley's Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/riley_bruce

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Hard week, hard track. Hopefully something better next week

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I was watching a video on industrial bass sounds, and it made me go "yeah, FM bass!" So I broke out the Volca FM and found a good preset ("Pluckkey"), and I think I adjusted the envelope a little? Initially I was thinking this would just be a part to put in a couple times but then it became the basis of the whole thing.

After working on the song a bit more, I accidentally overheard the Volca playing the part on its own speaker, which I liked, so broke out the field recorder and mixed that in, adding a bit of bite and definition that worked well together.

Death By Audio Rooms on gate mode on the Digitakt drums gave me a good approximately D tone, setting my key. Spooky gothy string pad via Alpha Juno.

Plinky synth from the Prophet 6: my initial version was too plinky and I had to turn down the high pass resonance. It sits better now. There was initially going to be more plinks! But it did not actually add! This is one of the things I am working on, not playing every instrument constantly, they are allowed to just do small parts. It is hard.

Random speech via an audiobook on Project Gutenberg, "Seven Wives and Seven Prisons: Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac" by L.A. Abbott, read by Kehinde and released to public domain, and fragmented by Chase Bliss Blooper (though in retrospect this might've been a better job for Habit). Title inspired by this selection.

High background chime is a guitar loop in the Montreal Assembly Count to 5 into Pladask Baklengs, with Chase Bliss Lost & Found giving a bit of stereo ambience. I tried to mix in different pitches of loop but it isn't very obvious for the most part.

And then field recorder of the whole mix for a bit of air.

Overall this is probably a bit too long and could use a bit more variation in the drum part, but that is basically everything I write. This could probably turn into a great 4 1/2 minute track with a little more structuring and an actual vocal. Fun to write it, anyway!

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This week I tackled the theme song for my buddy's in-progress video game. I had a few notes and chords that I was both set on and stuck on at the same time, I had about five seconds of music that I really struggled to flesh out but I knew something good was in there somewhere. A big problem I have when composing is I just don't have the discipline to sit down and work something out, I tend to just do things that I know work and work quickly so I'm pretty happy that I challenged myself to work through those issues this week and was lucky enough to have the time. I fear that my friend will think this track is too serious or too slow in parts but as a WB track, I'm very happy with it!

Uploading this on Saturday so I can spend Sunday morning catching up on everyone else's stuff with a giant coffee :)

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Continuing to work on a kind of orchestral sound (though I still am using a bit of FM synthesized instruments here and there because I can't help myself)

Logic Pro X

Mostly Kontakt instruments

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syntakt->zoia->sp404mk2

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you need not hold it

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A chiller, desolate sort of thing, thinking of "battlefield the day after" type scenes. It's a wash since there's a long tail delay-reverb AUX I've sent almost everything to, more or less.

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Used this little sleek break instead of amen.

Real police bodycam samples for your pleasure.

I added couple DBs with slight saturation, using T.Power's track from his 1995 album "The Evident Truth.." as a reference.

And yeah, Jungle is not a headphone music, plug some bass bins yall.

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Spoken Word Lyrics & Performance by Scottux

Vocal Production & Programming by Judgement Act

Melodic Lyrics (JP version) by Judgement Act

Melodic Lyrics (Eng. ver.) by levelcapybara

Composition & Instrumental Production by levelcapybara

And now for something completely different: super special awesome magical girl theme song goooooooooo!!! 💖🪄✨

› lyrics‹ lyrics

(verse one)

what idol descends on thee?

what evil stares daggers back at me?

either live for love or you’re dead to me

this is destiny, i am magical

behold my power like never before

looks kill and i’ve got a million more

i’m your god, your lord, and i’ve drawn my sword,

and you’re on the floor, i am magical

(prechorus)

in the moonlight

we believe what’s right

hold the skyline

and our hearts shine

(chorus)

It’s a new body, a new blade,

but my blood’s hot and i’m not afraid

i am ready to slay

i am ready to be this brave

cast my spell, spread wings, fly

so this whole crowd can hear my cry

i am ready to be this brave

i am ready to slay

(verse 2)

what angel descends thereon?

what evil dares lay its hand upon?

suit up, mask on, gloves off, come on,

come one, come all, i am magical

(prechorus)

in the moonlight

we defeat what’s lies

this is our fight

and our hearts shine

(chorus)

(prechorus)

in the moonlight

we will be your knights

this is our fight

let your heart shine

(chorus)

HUUUUUUGE shoutout this week to Scottux and Judgement Act, who were the heroes *I* desperately needed to make this track a reality. Absolute studs, both of you. 😎 Be sure to let them both know how awesome they are on their Week 8 submissions as well!

Gravest Gardener will return in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, it’s collab time. 😉

Happy Week 8 everybody!

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