for record production month, i'm doing a house EP, because i wanted to do something with some restrictions, like... 'okay it's going to be 120bpm, you can only use 4 on the floor drums, and you should be able to dance to it'. i am not being very strict on the definition of 'house'. i know my stuff is gonna wind up being noisy and weird anyway, but it's the idea of starting from a stronger and simpler, more restricted foundation to give me the opportunity to rein it in a little.
i started this song and i was pretty excited! i downloaded one of those band in the box style phone apps to help me with writing a good chord sequence and having a sense of how it would sound in the arrangement, which helped massively in separating out the compositional and production process. i arranged the main parts, thinking. okay. this is good. i like it. but it is not Dante yet. it needs more STUFF. so then i did my usual nonsense on it and now it is like this.
i dont think any DAW file has made my computer take off like a jet engine than this one. i'm usually super lazy with my automations but this one absolutely needed it because of the amount of competing elements to juggle. but i'm excited, because the fact i am thinking about juggling them and not just attempting to shove them into one giant, inedible sandwich was exactly why i needed to do this.
i spent my entire weekend on this and it might legitimately be my favourite thing i've ever made. i may come to regret saying this once the listening fatigue wears off.
hello! first weekly song ever! ah! uploaded in a rush, for i must go on a trip tomorrow. (in fact immediately after posting i noticed the tail was SO long but i was in such a rush to upload that i forgot to save the audio file i edited. so. there is like a minute of silence at the end. but let's just call that part of the track :))
I have been mainlining DJMAX Respect V for like... the past month. I love the 90s/2000s tracks from earlier games that just sound SO obnoxious and of their time. I have no idea what subgenre this is other than "cheesy as all hell". But I had a ton of fun making it.
Future weeks will probably not be this dense or complicated... but then again, I like dense and complicated :D
