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Ontrylevel

By AiDeRen on July 26, 2026 11:59 pm

Written entirely on Dirtywave M8 Tracker
Light mastering in Audacity (normalizing/limiting/compressing).

A continuation of last week's track's outro, which intro was the previous week's outro, which intro was the previous week's outro, which...

This week was part 2 of the second unofficial WB friendly sample challenge (details on discord): composing week, after a week of gathering samples (during week 29) by five awesome WB contributors.

Sample contributors shoutout:
- MyloWhyTho (NEPHRON_Fmin)
- Sleepside (SambaGtr)

This track also reuses a few samples from the previous WB friendly sample challenge (weeks 27-28).

Previous sample contributors shoutout:
- Lizenn (WB SAMPLE 3)
- Endojo (Bass Bow)
- TheDaeVolta (BRASS DMaj)

I would have loved to incorporate more samples from this week’s contributors, but I had limited time since I needed to finish most of the track before going on vacation with my family.
This track shouldn't live up to the hype of the previous ones, but it has something going on and I can feel the progress week by week, that's what putting in the work and time does to the quality of a track.

It was also supposed to feature a secret collaboration with another WB member, but they didn’t have the time, and hey, that’s life.
Collaborating feels like uncharted territory that would be exciting to explore, and a great way to turn WB into a playground where we can challenge ourselves and push our creativity further.
If anybody's up for it, let's jam.

M8 bundle

And as always, thanks for listening.

This track is part of an ongoing series started from week 4, where every track follows the previous week's.
You can listen to the Through the Year mix (WB #4-30) (as of week 30, it is 51 minutes long).

FAT drums on this bad boy. Love that. Nice job!

That was SWEET Such a cool swirly energy from the arps - and the percussion sounded crisp in the mix smile Great work on this one!

wait i want to be the secret collaborator (that doesn't have time)

sick beats as usual!!!!

This is so fun and joyous. There's a part at 149, that I was really vibing with. I feel being the secret contributor that doesn't have time.

great track with a very nice arrangement, me like a lot. love the bass and the arps in particular. the drums are mean too.

This is good stuff AiDeRen! I dig how you keep changing the scenery. Giving a sense of movement and progression. The long, accordion-eqsue sound give the track this strange vibe. I like it! Let me give it another listen. Very well done!!

Great stuff! Engaging from the start. Nice chords and stereo feel. Then the badass drums. Also interesting transition to a badass baseline. Love it!

Ahh that swell before the drums.... it just hits all the right frequencies for me lol, worked sooo well. Love the drums, but for all the beauty that surrounds them I think there's plenty of room to make the drums even uglier and more filthy lol. This is definitely a song of contrasts, push those limits! heart

I love the contrast between the whimsy of the upper melodies/arpeggios and the grunge of the bass/drums

0x_colt wrote:

FAT drums on this bad boy. Love that. Nice job!

Thanks for hosting and playing! The drums do be fat, like the past two weeks, they all come from MUZZ's Drum & Bass Essentials.

MyloWhyTho wrote:

That was SWEET Such a cool swirly energy from the arps - and the percussion sounded crisp in the mix smile Great work on this one!

You're the SWEET one for providing such a great transition/riser sample!
It really helped glue everything together.

orangedrink wrote:

wait i want to be the secret collaborator (that doesn't have time)

sick beats as usual!!!!


Crash Overture wrote:

This is so fun and joyous. There's a part at 149, that I was really vibing with. I feel being the secret contributor that doesn't have time.

You two can only be my secret colaborator if you've got time, else I'll be sadder and sadder week by week as collabs don't work out.
(Wait, is a collab free labour? In this economy?! Am I the bad one?!! Oh noooooooo...)

monstret wrote:

great track with a very nice arrangement, me like a lot. love the bass and the arps in particular. the drums are mean too.

Arrangement might have been what consumed the most of time, so very glad you liked it!
Drums are a badass sample from a sample pack, sliced and repeated or let through here and there to make it sound less repetitive due to you next commenter's friendly feedback.

electronic_tiger wrote:

This is good stuff AiDeRen! I dig how you keep changing the scenery. Giving a sense of movement and progression. The long, accordion-eqsue sound give the track this strange vibe. I like it! Let me give it another listen. Very well done!!

Thanks for the great feedback you gave during the week, it fed my thoughts and it made me try juuust a bit harder to make the drums a a lot more varied and alive.
Took your comment on last week's track at heart and left ideas flow a bit more, but it still kinda feels stretched, this track still misses a few things here and there to make it less repetitive, haven't implemented everything that could help, yet.
Hope both your listens were nice though!

WahSp wrote:

Great stuff! Engaging from the start. Nice chords and stereo feel. Then the badass drums. Also interesting transition to a badass baseline. Love it!

Badass comment, thanks WahSp! Will try to keep being engaging.

neon liminal wrote:

Ahh that swell before the drums.... it just hits all the right frequencies for me lol, worked sooo well. Love the drums, but for all the beauty that surrounds them I think there's plenty of room to make the drums even uglier and more filthy lol. This is definitely a song of contrasts, push those limits! heart

Nice that you liked the swells! Here's a production secret: all three come from MyloWhyTho's unique sample and have been tuned differently depending on the track's transition. (I thought that was nice.)

clonedkitty wrote:

I love the contrast between the whimsy of the upper melodies/arpeggios and the grunge of the bass/drums

Love it when people take a step back and hear things I didn't plan for.
Thanks for opening my eyes to this contrast that does indeed clash nicely!

AiDeRen wrote:


Crash Overture wrote:

This is so fun and joyous. There's a part at 149, that I was really vibing with. I feel being the secret contributor that doesn't have time.

You two can only be my secret colaborator if you've got time, else I'll be sadder and sadder week by week as collabs don't work out.
(Wait, is a collab free labour? In this economy?! Am I the bad one?!! Oh noooooooo...)

WHAT IF Crash Overture and I collaborated WITHOUT YOU and did a diss track???

smile

I wonder if there's ever been a diss track in the history of WB.........

The wash out before the beat drop was nice because you washed it out so well my brain wanted a little more contrast maybe with a crisper drum break but then again I don’t know that anything sounds crisp on my shitty car speakers chord changes were nice and fresh those FM bells were funky.

Wow, that arp is instantly captivating. I love the way you abruptly carve spaces into the track at times to give it center stage. This is a really cool track!

Great finish too!

Love those big powerful drums as they push thru the synths in the mix.  Sweet build up with the arp that leads back into the drums.  The bass is super catchy and sinister all at once.  Awesome use of all those samples too yikes Well done!

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