I write from the midst of a weird computer crisis, in which my USB hub has apparently bitten the dirt. So I can have internet or access to my external HD, but not both (well, I could if I were willing to give up my mouse or keyboard...)

Aaaaaanyway. I've been listening to a lot of Autonomic lately, so I thought I'd try my hand at something Autonomic-ish. It sounds more like my usual junk sped up to 170BPM, but hey, at least it's a change of pace.

Pad made in Operator, with autopan and some reverb

Bass is a tuned 808 kick with some beat repeat

Drums are an LD kit with autopan on everything but the kick, plus flange on the hi-hats and tambourine

Everything run through Ableton's "warm analogue" master

The title probably inspired in part by the airlock-based climax of Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice," which I'm a few pages from finishing... but mainly the combination of spacey pads and jittery rhythm gave me the sense of some tense situation on a spaceship, with somebody trapped in an airlock or something...

Tags: 170 bpm, autonomic, drum and bass, jittery beat, spacey pads, week 27 2016, View by:CrazyBob