Wanderers of Deep Time
By alonemusic on March 8, 2026 6:57 pm
This has been a tough week. Just.. stuff to do, and while I made progress early on, I really hated the way it was going after a while and kinda wrote myself into a hole.
When that happens, I usually have 2 options: Full reset, or sample food, where I take the thing that is not working, take out the drums, and sample it with some massive amount of chopping and arranging.
I chose option 2, and this is the result. It's a simple - build - release composition, which feels like harking back to the 'old' days, but I'm pretty happy with the chord progression in the loud bit. It felt like it needed to feel a bit like tuning into a lost radio station. It was also a pain to mix right.
Oh! The title was inspired by an old novel by JG Ballard called The Drowned World. It's.. a good book, somewhat let down by gender and race politics from the 60s, but that aside, it was something I recently re-read (a rarity for me considering a rarely have time for books..) as I was taken by the descriptions of people uncovering primordial memory of jungles as the world floods and heats... its good! just ignore the 60s of it all..
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CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
