Organic Sink
By carcus on January 25, 2026 1:09 am
I'm not sure if people appreciate the blog style format, but at this point it's too late now... This week I was short on time. I turned to the Dirtywave M8, as I knew I could have very focused short sessions. It was nice to get reacquainted with the device and the new 6.5 firmware features.
For this track I picked Bjork's Cocoon as reference, one of my favorite of hers. In the beginning, I thought it would be interesting to create a "mishearing" of the track from memory, but ended up abandoning that and borrowing the scale and starting note, and some of the feel.
For the main "drum" part I found a forgotten recording I took on my phone of walking near an icy lake near Half Dome.
The rest is: a filtered "kick_edward" from the DW01 Synthdrums pack, the main keys are the "Rhodey Mk2" from user @Pantler on the Dirtywave Discord (thank you both!). The two intermittent sounds I made with macrosyn's partical noise and hypersyn. Title by M8's random name generator.
Finally, and almost not ending up in the mix, is a chopped, pitched and panned sample from this freesound user.
Thib02a.gH.m3.f4.aiff by hanstimm -- https://freesound.org/s/41694/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Thanks for listening 
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