Quark Rifle
By Disposable Planet on March 15, 2026 6:17 pm
Welcome back to another week of elementary particles! This week is the penultimate particle of the album, the quark, the same namesake of Deep Space Nine's eponymous Ferengi bartender. Quarks are fermions that make up larger particles like protons and neutrons, for example. There are six types of quarks. Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, and Charm based on their different spin and characteristics. Different combinations of these make up heavier particles. Quarks are held together in subatomic particles by the boson known as the gluon, which is next week's last and final particle in the album.
This tune came out sounding very Eastern European, almost like Gogol Bordello. It's 4 to the floor and I thought about having a part where it slows down and speeds up slowly but I ran out of steam this week so maybe I'll add that to this before polishing it up for the final album release. The bass is a simple hand drawn waveform that changes into a funkier waveform later on in the song. Hardpanned arps abound. The lead uses the same trick of switching duty cycles in a stepwise table. There are some heavily vibratoed chords panning as well. Overall I'm happy with it as I needed one more darker boss battle-like themed song for the album to make 5 happy songs and 5 more aggressive songs.
9 down, 1 to go! Next week is the last song for the album and will be the gluon. I'll try to make one more happy song with a real chippy vibe. Hopefully it will turn out good. Overall I'm super psyched to release this album soon. After next week give me a few weeks to polish and master it, make an album video and get it ready to put on Bandcamp and streaming.
In other news, Boston Bitdown was totally amazing! My shows went really well and everyone seemed to love them! For the Bitrave - I've never played a venue that large before and there were tons of people and everyone dancing so I had a blast! Thanks to DadBoy, s0nixaftersh0ck, Nullsleep, FLOOR BABA, & Donutshoes!
As always, thanks for listening!
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