this is great! feels like a whole song to me! love those pads! base is sick when it comes in!

this is great! feels like a whole song to me! love those pads! base is sick when it comes in!

Wooooow the progression on this is great! I always have a huge amount of respect when people make a M8 track without samples. Well done! I feel like it could use some more energy the last section before the outro. Some strong chords, extra punchy percussion or something. Really end on a climax.

Wooooow the progression on this is great! I always have a huge amount of respect when people make a M8 track without samples. Well done! I feel like it could use some more energy the last section before the outro. Some strong chords, extra punchy percussion or something. Really end on a climax.

really nice sound design on this one, whole track sounds great!

really nice sound design on this one, whole track sounds great!

the pads are incredible but also the bass riffs really propel this guy.   overall a real cleansing and surprisingly uplifting experience

the pads are incredible but also the bass riffs really propel this guy. overall a real cleansing and surprisingly uplifting experience

This is a trip! It keeps growing and changing, the bass keeps innovating, and it all makes me want to fly.
Also, I love the little pitch bends on the bass when it kicks in or solos

This is a trip! It keeps growing and changing, the bass keeps innovating, and it all makes me want to fly. Also, I love the little pitch bends on the bass when it kicks in or solos

Thank you Jam. As I mentioned on your track this week, your tracks are so sick.

Might have to give this idea a go. I was trying really hard not to do what all of our tracks tend to do - go into their heaviest section at the end, or reinvent themselves from a 'rock' vibe into a mellow 4x4 dance moment. But maybe they end that way because they're just all supposed to. lol.

Thank you. When I forced the limitation of not sampling, I think it helped to really start to explore things the synths, FX/interesting modulation can offer.

Alex is a bassist first and foremost. He asked me about the m8 one day when he had his dog around to play with mine in the yard. I gave him a walkthru in a couple of hours on a TV while we made something together.

Since then he's been pumping out really remarkably beautiful ideas, with particular attention the basslines, that I feel like only a guy who's thought about, recorded and toured bass (as well as writing and arranging whole tracks for bands) for like 15 years would write into a tracker?! I, and I am sure all of us who have been tracking for years and years, have so many pre-conceived approaches to writing, from like LSDJ, that he just doesn't have?!

This 'Abraide' project's output is often a doodle he came up with on a bus home from work, which I expand out into a whole track when 'what they should do' feels obvious to me. This is definitely one of those instances. Sometimes it flows the other way, like last week's track.

I look forward to you two nerding out at Interrupt.

As I just raved about above, my collaborator Alex is a bass player, and man does it elevate the project. He can really stank up an arrangement and lead an idea from the bassline in a way I cannot emulate myself. I will take credit for the slides in the bass fills in this instance though! haha

[quote=Jamatar]this is great! feels like a whole song to me! love those pads! base is sick when it comes in![/quote] Thank you Jam. As I mentioned on your track this week, your tracks are so sick. [quote=RoccoW]Wooooow the progression on this is great! I always have a huge amount of respect when people make a M8 track without samples. Well done! I feel like it could use some more energy the last section before the outro. Some strong chords, extra punchy percussion or something. Really end on a climax.[/quote] Might have to give this idea a go. I was trying really hard not to do what all of our tracks tend to do - go into their heaviest section at the end, or reinvent themselves from a 'rock' vibe into a mellow 4x4 dance moment. But maybe they end that way because they're just all supposed to. lol. [quote=mzunguko]really nice sound design on this one, whole track sounds great![/quote] Thank you. When I forced the limitation of not sampling, I think it helped to really start to explore things the synths, FX/interesting modulation can offer. <3 [quote=Perhaps Bry]the pads are incredible but also the bass riffs really propel this guy. overall a real cleansing and surprisingly uplifting experience[/quote] Alex is a bassist first and foremost. He asked me about the m8 one day when he had his dog around to play with mine in the yard. I gave him a walkthru in a couple of hours on a TV while we made something together. Since then he's been pumping out really remarkably beautiful ideas, with particular attention the basslines, that I feel like only a guy who's thought about, recorded and toured bass (as well as writing and arranging whole tracks for bands) for like 15 years would write into a tracker?! I, and I am sure all of us who have been tracking for years and years, have so many pre-conceived approaches to writing, from like LSDJ, that he just doesn't have?! This 'Abraide' project's output is often a doodle he came up with on a bus home from work, which I expand out into a whole track when 'what they should do' feels obvious to me. This is definitely one of those instances. Sometimes it flows the other way, like last week's track. I look forward to you two nerding out at Interrupt. [quote=MRDRCAT]This is a trip! It keeps growing and changing, the bass keeps innovating, and it all makes me want to fly. Also, I love the little pitch bends on the bass when it kicks in or solos[/quote] As I just raved about above, my collaborator Alex is a bass player, and man does it elevate the project. He can really stank up an arrangement and lead an idea from the bassline in a way I cannot emulate myself. I will take credit for the slides in the bass fills in this instance though! haha

Very fun and sonically crisp, as per. Looking forward to your output this year!

Very fun and sonically crisp, as per. Looking forward to your output this year!

Instant favourite! I will be checking your future stuff for this lovely game-pop sound

Instant favourite! I will be checking your future stuff for this lovely game-pop sound <3

Man this is lovely, def feeling the derris and disasterpiece influence. And I’m gonna third on the basslines being so damn good! 

Man this is lovely, def feeling the derris and disasterpiece influence. And I’m gonna third on the basslines being so damn good!

nice melodies and rich jazzy harmonies! feels like 2 cool songs into one! also digging the basslines, and the groove.

nice melodies and rich jazzy harmonies! feels like 2 cool songs into one! also digging the basslines, and the groove.

Chill little beat with a fluffy backdrop
- Ebrit

Chill little beat with a fluffy backdrop - Ebrit

This is wonderful, really up my alley. The lead reminds me a little bit of my piece "Duendes" from the 2024 edition, harmonically. And so I'm hearing some malevolence/mischief in this seemingly straightforward major-scale tune.

No notes, five stars.

This is wonderful, really up my alley. The lead reminds me a little bit of my piece "[url=https://weeklybeats.com/rplktr/music/duendes]Duendes[/url]" from the 2024 edition, harmonically. And so I'm hearing some malevolence/mischief in this seemingly straightforward major-scale tune. No notes, five stars.

Cool song 😎

Cool song 😎

i had to google the thing you told me to listen to https://abraide.bandcamp.com/album/abraide-i for the convenience of any other connoisseurs 🫶🫶🫶

eyeliner / volo kinda vibe along the lines of thool again with this one which i adore

i had to google the thing you told me to listen to [url]https://abraide.bandcamp.com/album/abraide-i[/url] for the convenience of any other connoisseurs 🫶🫶🫶 eyeliner / volo kinda vibe along the lines of thool again with this one which i adore