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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / Chris Dotson's music / But when everyone said to do it, we decided to go for it and do the best we can.

But when everyone said to do it, we decided to go for it and do the best we can.

By Chris Dotson on November 9, 2014 9:55 pm

As promised, I stole the title of this track from one of the spam forum posts last week.


This track has a lot of location and distance built into the making of it. One of the field recordings is from the train traveling to the Portland airport. The synth parts were made while on the plane flying to San Francisco. The other field recording was from the ferry boat returning from Alcatraz. I did a little Samplr-processing of the synth part in my friend's apartment while the World Series parade was happening outside his building. Finaly, everything was layered in Ableton with a smidge of filtering and compression back at my home.

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Really nice feel. Nothing from the car?

Jim Wood wrote:

Really nice feel. Nothing from the car?

Thanks! In retrospect I should have included something from every mode of transport. Would have added bus, car, and walking. Stupid retrospect. ;-)

faved, that's my kind of stuff lately! i like the story behind the track, too smile

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