This week saw the release of a new album from a very influential band to me: Boards Of Canada (BoC) released Inferno this Friday. I took the train on Thursday evening to attend to one of the many listening parties that happened around the globe that day. It was a great experience, all these people moved by the same sound in a sort of religious gathering. I really enjoyed it.

I was then very much inspired and I made this week's track on my way back, in the train. Then today, I made the arrangement and proceeded to the recording. This time, I took more care in how I recorded. I went through several ideas, but in the end, I realized that the sound of BoC is a savant melange between lofi textures and hifi beats. So instead of recording everything on cassette like I usually do these days, I mixed cassette recording and direct export from the Deluge into Reason (like some kind of parallel processing).

The cassette recording followed my usual practice but this time, I really committed. I created a version of the track at double speed with a master transposition of 12 semitones (and without drums), recorded at full speed, and then played back at half speed into a Zoom H1n recorder. That recording was then added to the normal mix where I turned down the volume of the hifi version to make more space to the lofi textures, but I kept the drums hifi and at full volume.

I think the result really shine and is worth the effort. And bringing all this effort makes me more convinced of the quality of the final track.

So here it is, a track inspired by Boards Of Canada, in celebration of the release of their new album (which I already love by the way). I hope you'll like it, and if you do, please let me know!

Have a nice week everyone.

Tags: 120 bpm, boards of canada, deluge, electronica, f minor, hifi, inferno, lofi, portastudio, pvc, switzerland, week 22 2026, zst, View by:Ashtom