Tardigrades 2
By onezero on October 12, 2014 8:48 pm
I thought this one would be a minimal techno kind of piece, and worked up some beats with the usual drum machine suspects (606, 808, K3M) along with an Impulse kit assembled from my last-week's all-filtered-noise sources. I threw in some Analog (two of them stayed--the tremolo bits), three tracks of Electric for Rhodesiness (intervals, hook, and bass). Then, thinking "why not try Danelectro baritone guitar through the Reuss Repeater Fuzz?" I tracked The Hook, which completely took over and changed everything. I threw out a bunch of other stuff and tracked some more baritone (some through the Reuss and some straight into the D/A) for variation and pseudo-bass. One pass to trigger things (overlooking a bunch of things I'd tracked before) and then one to cut it all down, and here we are.
My kids insisted that this one should be called "Tardigrades 2," not because it's a remake of my "Tardigrades" piece from week 32, but because they like tardigrades a lot, and it sounds like a tardigrade action film soundtrack to them.
To the rest of the Weekly Beats people, I'm going to recommend picking up a Reuss RF-01, which is a glorious pedal. The recreation of the Vox Repeat Percussion pedal is great, but I keep using the Vox Tonebender side of it, for the immensely satisfying fuzz.
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