Neutrino Cloud
By Disposable Planet on January 31, 2026 4:22 pm
Another week, another LSDJ tune! I've decided my next LSDJ album will be a concept album themed after many of the different kinds of elementary particles so all the LSDJ stuff of the last few weeks plus the foreseeable future will go on it.
Each track on the album will try to capture the vibe of a specific particle. Elementary particles in the standard model are divided into two main categories: Bosons and Fermions. Think of it like this: bosons are the particles that govern or mediate energy or forces (like the four fundamental forces of the universe) and fermions are the particles that make up matter. In previous weeks had Photon Jive which was about the photon, which is a boson that mediates the electromagnetic force and makes up what we call light, heat, radio waves, X-rays, microwaves, gamma rays, etc... and Graviton Beam which is about the graviton, which is a hypothetical undiscovered boson that supposedly mediates the force of gravity. This week we're tackling fermions and the track is about the neutrino, which is the most abundant massive particle in the universe and which passes unhindered through most matter. Hence the "neutrino cloud" is actually my way of saying the universe at large. Quadrillions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body right now and you would never know!
This week I'm playing around with something known as the Royal Road Progression, which is a popular progression in japanese pop music. In this song it goes under the main melody with a progression of Cmaj7 - D7 - Bmin7 - E minor - the chords being reinforced by the arps due to polyphony limitations. The progression is IVmaj7 - V7 - iii7 - VI so be sure and mess around with it too. In fact we don't get to the root chord until the B part or chorus. Started out with a WAV channel synth up in a higher register as a nice change of pace and some fun mid level stereo panned arps that continue for a good deal of the song. After the intro, the lead melodies use a simple pulse wave patch that uses W commands in a table to change duty cycles each time the notes are triggered, creating a nice variation to all of the phrases as well as giving each note a distinct quality which lets it cut through the mix. In the middle section I again use two pseudo delayed chains to create a delay effect on the major and minor seventh arp runs. I use some noise channel swells to emphasize transitions and of course I have some parts where the drums drop away.
Overall, I'm very happy with how this one came out. I'm proud of the melody work, having used a lot of grace notes, L commands for bends, and vibrato swells in the phrasing for those chippy leads.
In other news, I recently finished editing and doing the motion graphics for a short promo video for Wood Chip Fest 2026. Wood Chip Fest is an amazing and chill chiptune festival that takes place every year in Kastrup Forest in Ringsted, Denmark. I've played there the past two years and am invited back to play again in June of this year. Please check out the video below and get hyped up for chiptune!
As always, thanks for listening!
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