RPM is over and i made an EP!!! yay!!! :D (https://dantealexander.bandcamp.com/album/house-for-broken-dolls)

i humbly submit this track i technically started last week but finished this week. which was for RPM. i learnt a lot! it was super fun! i will definitely do it again next year. this is the track i feel reflects a lot of what i was trying to do at the beginning of the month, but didn't quite know how yet.

it does have swearing in it again. sorry lol

we are probably back to very simple instrumentals for a while i am so tired :')

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.

i wrote two things this week, which were both intended for this challenge. this one was the easiest to finish, so i went with it - it came out of finding a cool set of chords while writing my first idea and wanting to expand on it, and the rest came very naturally.

there is more polish i would want to do with more time, but i decided to leave it there so i had a chance of finishing my second track too, in the same week (i was hoping the second song would count for week 1, which i never completed cause i didn't realise the challenge started on january 1st 😂)

(ALSO: i never noticed but all three tracks so far start in the key of D. should i just keep writing songs in D for this challenge??? lmao)

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