A synthwave/electro/arp cyberpunk track. How original.

This is my 300th week in a row. It feels more like a nod on the way than an achievement in itself. The reward is to keep going, through the ups and downs, and trying to take it all in.

Another cyberpunk-like track

This video about funky game soundtracks inspired the track this week. I am still far from that level but this is an exciting goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2QO6VdxUWQ

A short track, season appropriate.

A simple Sunday track.

I played a cyberpunk game this week and of course had to make a synthwave track. Here we go.

I am happy with the progress I'm doing with drums programming. Taking drums lesson has been really the key to get a feel of how drums can propulse a song. I'm still very much in the early days of learning but it's really good to feel progress.

I did wing this one a little (again). I played a couple of minutes on some good old Ninja Turtle game and was inspired to make a beat em up music track. And somehow a sheep sample made its way into the track. It sounded very appropriate to put it there. So i kept it there and decided that it's then not about Ninja Turtles but actually Ninja Sheeps.

Ok Ninja Sheeps does sound absurd. But when you really think carefully about the physionomy, and the basic skill set of the animal, I would argue it is not more absurd than Ninja Turtles. I am of course happy to debate it this topic in a civilized manner.

A good old arp, some koto lines, massive to make some atmosphere, and a programmed drums. There are also some samples of Japanese percussion.

I did not have much time this weekend and did a very lazy track, dare I say a "speedtrash". However I appreciate the fact that I played some live guitar and that my learning of drums has improved my drums programming with more dynamics and ideas, like paradiddles instead of straight beat.

A track inspired by the 70s horror movie featuring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and others, dealing with a creature not too far from the alien from The Thing. (it's in the public domain, easy to check out).

I am not feeling much energy today. I used the ambiance of a forest with some morning birds singing and started playing some non sequitur guitar lines. This is the track.

[edited] The first version was way too birdy so I fixed the mix.

I spent some time on FL studio on Sunday for this track. It's ok. As i was listening to the track on my headphones to check the mix, the sound of the boiling water pot for my tea just worked fine, so I sampled it and added it to the mix. :)

Arps, heavy beats, and some fake neo classical synth solo. Not reinventing the wheel but it's ok.

Continuing with tracks inspired by the Southern Reach serie of books, here is one about the Tower/Tunnel/Topological Anomaly.

I devoured the Southern Reach trilogy of sci-fi books last week and this inspired a whole bunch of ideas. Not necessarily music but at least visual.
The first book in the serie inspired the 2018 movie Annihilation. The books are reminescent of Lovecraftian horror but with more subtility, and more interesting characters. This was really a wonderful read.

This track is about the experience of going through the Border into Area X.

I am on a trip in the country side with just my phone and garageband. Here is a quick clumsy doodle, with a selection of Chinese music instruments.

Nothing to be proud of but a track is a track.

A Sunday jam

A track quickly put together. I took a week off and did not spend much time on music except playing with my new drums set. I don't like the mix here, it's a bit muddy especially in the second half, but this will have to do for this week.

I have not been able to focus clearly this week. Here's a track.

This track was inspired by Yoeri's discussion with SQF on the weekly beats podcast. His approach to production and especially the usage of panning made me want to play around with the concepts. I enjoyed it overall, though I am still still dabbling with it with little subtlety.

There is an acid arp midway where I played with the pitch in a way that is just ugly. I might want to change that next time, it sounds a bit way too much like it's out of tune. :)

The name is inspired by the movie Solaris.