We're in the home stretch on the new album!   8 tracks down, two to go.  The particle of the week this week is the Muon!  A muon is like a big ass electron.   They are fermions found in high energy interactions and also are produced by cosmic rays!  They can be created in particle collisions in supercolliders like the Large Hadron Collider and their lifespan is approximately 2.2 microseconds before they decay.  So it's fitting that this is the shortest song on the album so far and features some staccato intervals in the intro representing the muon's short life.

This song came out with a little latin flair, not too dissimilar to Higgs Massive, the track about the Higgs Boson from a few weeks ago.   This song sounds a little to me like the song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack so think of an appropriate alternative title as "Girl, You'll Be a Muon Soon".   There are some hard panned arps throughout and some short-lived staccato intervals creating chords at the beginning.   The melodies are slightly flamenco/spanish classical reminiscent.   I wrote the main part in a minor key, and used the dorian and phrygian modes to create the B and C parts, respectively.   Using a soft snare and a drumnbass rhythm throughout the song but its the slowest of all the dnb style tracks on the album clocking in at 175 bpm, making it the third slowest song on the album so far.  There's a solo later on.   My favorite part has to be the B part in the dorian mode.   I really like the melody I came up with for that part.

So far the new album has been coming along really well.  I'm really happy with the melodies I've been coming up with.   All that's left in my list of featured particles are the quark and the gluon.   So one more fermion and one more boson.  My friend, Tomas, who some of you may know as the chiptune artist, Miragey, is doing a pixel art cover for the album so that should be done in the next few weeks.   I'll probably take all the songs once they're done for weeklybeats and fix any problems with the sound design and polish them up a little bit before mastering them for the final release.

Thanks, as always, for listening!

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