Lil broken beat track. Needs some more sounds but no time this week. Sorry about ending. Put the wrong sound through the wrong reverb. (Note to self - check post send amount!).

Soooooo.... I've kept going just not on the site. Things got crazy with life: designed sound/music for a crazy theatre production. But I kept going so here is the start of a lot of late submits (sorry!)

The first week I actually had to force myself to write some track at sunday in order to submit in time in the last hours. Haven't been doing any music during the week, a hangover, horrible weather in moscow(it even snowed a little) - I was completely uninspired but decided to submit something nevertheless.
Decided to explore NI komplete start, never tried it before. The track is mostly done with komplete start presets with little tweaks(of course I couldn't pass by the one called AphexTone)

this weeks trope tickets:

experimental
melodic
beat driven
tell a story

I made a couple basic beats in FL, run through dBlue glitch. live bass and the rest in Ableton.

Last week I bought a uPlaits (by Tall Dog) and am trying out a few things now. It essentially takes the place of the E352, but I think the sounds are a little more musical and melodic. Some things I'm trying:

1. More coordinated drops. I try silence in the middle, I don't think I quite succeed.
2. More fills, to keep drums driving and interesting
3. B sections in songs, even though they're in the same chord progression. In this one, I accidentally hit the octave up key midway for a track. It actually sounded good, so I left it. I actually wanted to bring up the next 16-step loop (which I also have).
4. Sounds that are a little more coherent. Plaits just sounds good overall, but things seem to gel together a bit more.
5. Ozone Elements to maximize everything. That's also a bit of a learning curve also.

Instruments used: Only the Eurorack! Main sound sources are BIA (kick/snare), Plonk (hat), Plaits (lead), Cursus Iteritas (arp), and Dixie II+ (bass).

Emotional tone, I wanted something exciting and groovy and danceable. That's usually not hard to do for me.

This piece came together from some syncopated drum lines and little compositional direction. I put down some Electric and Operator lines, tracked bass around a few repetitive figures, and guitar (Res-O through Vox Wah) on top...which didn't coalesce until I copied the guitar lines to another channel and reversed all the clips in that channel. Then it kind of came together. Very little inline processing except for M4L Humanizer and Drum Buss on the drums, Auto-Pan on the keys, Auto-Filter with drive on the forwards guitar. Sends: two convolution reverbs, Delay, Echo. Full-Chain master on the master channel. Kind of floaty.

Title from associations from this week's element, uranium. I'm a fan of the work of the late sculptor James L. Acord, who was the only private individual to have earned a license to work with radioactive materials, including uranium (which he initially gathered by leaching it off of mango red Fiestaware). He'd planned a series of sculptures--reliquaries--designed to contain radioactive materials, which he'd wanted to install at the Hanford Reservation, a project he didn't live to complete.

very random :p

Some loops I got out of the arpeggiator on the Akai MPK Mini. Spent more time on mixing this than I should have - time will tell if I hate it in the coming weeks or not.

More Gameboy, mainly made on lunch breaks.