Another reverb experiment, this time based on a part of our jam last Tuesday.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210504a
Full jam session (with links to video): https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/lagoon-city-x-trent-hawkins-20210504-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesday-830pm-cet
This might be a borderline case but this week I was tired and didn't really end up creating a song of my own, but instead ended up doing an impromptu collab with my friend Starla (who runs compo.thasauce.net). Starla produced the track and provided vocals, and I did a guitar solo and some of the male vocal parts so it's really kind of not my track as the main artist but since it was a COLLAB~ I wanted to upload it anyway since I rarely do collabs or contribution of instrumental parts to other people's songs.
Also we did this as part of Two Hour Track Sunday which meant that we decided on what to do in real time in UNDER TWO HOURS over a stream!
Check out the stream here:https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1017024668
And if you can try to follow https://www.twitch.tv/starlainjury or drop by https://compo.thasauce.net!
its only temporary
so they said
i'm waiting for my judgment
so you said
I'm filled with all my secrets
I keep them to myself
I'm waiting for my judgment
ooohh
i'm hidden in this limbo
ohhh
im waiting for salvation
ohhh
Tell me all your secrets
I'll keep them to myself
I'm waiting for my judgment
ooohh
lost in the space between
you and me
in purgatory
tethered to you
can anybody hear me
can anybody hear me
drawn to the world that keeps
you and me
in purgatory
tethered to you
can anybody hear me
can anybody hear me
Still away from my usual setup so another very simple, chill track with post-rock clean electric guitar and bass. The delay system is like last week made in VCV Rack which I used as pseudo-daw to record the bass layer (using one of nysthi's plugins). One-take improv on both instruments.
I started the week jamming with the Lyra-8 and its mysterious sounds inspired this week’s song. Spitfire Audio LABS recently released a percussions instrument which I wanted to give a try and added to the mix. Then came lyrics and, alas, vocals. I just didn’t have it in me to make them sound at least OK this week.
If you want to listen to the out of key singing on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-493253580/heathen
This was an attempt at making something more fast paced. I think it is still quite slow, so I stopped and will try again with something else. It is not as high energy as I was wanting, but not terrible I suppose.
This track actually started as a jig with a piano and violins. I was stuck in the process and started playing with variations of instruments, vibes. A few iterations later I ended up with this glitchy breakbeat dark cyberpunk industrial track, closer to Atari Teenage Riot than to Irish music. It also reminds me a little of the great glitch tracks that TQI would make for weekly beats 2020 (check him out there, he's just so good: https://weeklybeats.com/tqi )
I kept it rather short and noisy but I think it's appropriate for this track!
Done in FL Studio with lots of samples from Splice and some FLEX synths.
Just found out about the streak club and decided to create something. Here is what I created in 2 hours by reviving old crappy mix when I was really new to making music (only remanence of the old music is the loop you'll hear in majority of the music)
This one began with the syncopated drums (Ableton 64 Pad Kit Jazz) and not much else of a thought behind it, though a few electric piano chords with PureMagnetik Berlin Mark Two kind of pointed the way. I added the usual 80s Epiphone Embassy II bass, tracked a bit more of the electric piano, and then finally tracked pedal steel. I'd tuned the 9th and 10th strings down a bit, from their usual E9 values (so the tuning is now A C# E F# G# B E G# D# F#), and that gives me a bit more of the notes I want on the low side of the board. (I track pedal steel with a Moyo passive volume pedal.)
Inline processing: a bit of Max Humanizer on the drums, Glue compressor on the pedal steel, and the usual EQ-8 on bass. The usual full-chain multi band compression on the output.
Sends: Ableton Echo, convolution reverb, and Valhalla Supermassive.
Title comes from NGC 70, a distant spiral galaxy.
