Running late - holiday. I'll try to catch up over next few weeks. Sorry.
This was a dub track that late in the mix i realised was in or near key with the classic AON track. So, not treally thinking mine was amazing i worked that in using samples and Arturia's rendition.
Original track (C) Art of noise
I'm a week behind at this stage, plan to catch up though!
I like this one.. bit slower, kinda deep, a bit glitchy, techy but kinda acid housy, a bit groovy.
I swear I still plan to write 52 songs this year. Just maybe not per week. The last two were songs I wrote In a day so I'm not cheating... much yet...
I'm cheating this week, it was my partner's birthday so I didn't really spend extra time making music.
This song was a live song on my modular with my Octatrack, my TR-8s (as has been usual for the past 3-4 weeks or so), and the Nintendo Switch. I actually changed up the patching a tiny bit to patch in a distorted input of "Corneria - Star Fox" from the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate playlist. You can barely hear it but it's there in the background and this song uses the same BPM and key. I suppose it's almost like a remix if it actually sounded anything like the original.
A more "intuitive" approach on this one: I threw together a few drum beats during the week that had some ambiguity, and then tracked bass (Epi P-J) and guitar (Res-O) Friday and Saturday, not having much of an overall architectural plan, other than cutting parts out of the bass for the start/stop feeling in the beginning. Gradually it came together with Ableton Simpler grand piano as glue (Auto-Filter high- and low-pass with drive to make it grittier). Auto-Filter overdrive on guitars, EQ-8 on bass. Sends: Echo (Analog Triplet Dub) and two convolution reverbs.
This week's element was Polonium, which...is pretty negative as a subject. Apparently mid-20th-century, Firestone produced polonium spark plugs, which seems...like a bad choice.
Didn't have as much time this week so polished up this track which, again, is probably too slow and doomy for many but perhaps it's what I've been feeling like at times.
title comes from one of my go-to plugins, Sakura string synth; since the whole song was built around a little melody using that and then run through dBlue Glitch (even though you can barely hear it now, everything sprang from that)
beat, strings, arp, and one pad all sequenced in fruityloops and then exported to ableton for arrangement and some tasty synth via Symptohm and some more pads.
Early this week because my laptop goes in for repairs tomorrow. I feel the mix was a bit rushed and maybe a bit too busy with too many elements. However, this time I felt I almost got a real song structure in there (if you squint a lot).
