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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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Wow, a bitrave sounds awesome! So does this song. Love the hard panned arps. I don't think it needs a slowed-down part, the drop at 2:50ish kind of accomplishes that already? But whatever you do with it, I'm sure it will sound amazing!!! thank you!

I love the stereo effects that you created on this one! The melodies are also stellar again! I've really been enjoying your submissions a lot. They are one of the first things I turn to once a new week starts.

oh yeah! I'm liking this!! Powerful, energetic and charming. Listening for the 3rd time now. The end of this comes too soon for my liking. The drums suggest there is more to come and then it ends. Rather neatly, actually. I just want more! Anyway, very well done indeed!!

fetalface wrote:

Wow, a bitrave sounds awesome! So does this song. Love the hard panned arps. I don't think it needs a slowed-down part, the drop at 2:50ish kind of accomplishes that already? But whatever you do with it, I'm sure it will sound amazing!!! thank you!

Thanks!  The slowed down part would be because it reminded me of Gogol Bordello.   They have a lot of songs where the beat slows down and then slowly gets faster and faster like a lot of Eastern European folk music.  Thought one of the refrains where the lead melody part plays could do this and only marginally increase the length of the total song.   Glad to know it doesn't need it but I'm very tempted to add something like this to the final polished version.  Thanks for listening!

WahSp wrote:

I love the stereo effects that you created on this one! The melodies are also stellar again! I've really been enjoying your submissions a lot. They are one of the first things I turn to once a new week starts.

Aw thanks for the kind words!   That really makes my day to know people are checking in to my WeeklyBeats week after week!   That means the world!   Cheers!

electronic_tiger wrote:

oh yeah! I'm liking this!! Powerful, energetic and charming. Listening for the 3rd time now. The end of this comes too soon for my liking. The drums suggest there is more to come and then it ends. Rather neatly, actually. I just want more! Anyway, very well done indeed!!

Thanks!  Yeah i kinda ran out of steam towards the end.   When I polish this track up I'm gonna deep clone all the repeating melodies and vary them slightly on the long drawn out notes and I'll also probably massage the ending.   I didn't know how to end it and I very much just wanted to submit it and be done with it.

I don't trust them, they make up everything

Nice chiptune work on display.
- Spider

This is a bop

Love that opening bassy groove and then how it transitions into the next section at 1minish.  Oooh yais love that grittiness at 3min.  Awesome full sounding mix too.  Such a fun listen from beginning to end.  Well done!

what a surprise, another kick-ass chiptune by disposable planet! love it

That bass ain’t no joke! And lovin’ that main melody, makes me wanna get more adventurous with duty cycles.

DESLRV wrote:

I don't trust them, they make up everything

Nice chiptune work on display.
- Spider

vinh.ty wrote:

This is a bop

Tone Matrix wrote:

Love that opening bassy groove and then how it transitions into the next section at 1minish.  Oooh yais love that grittiness at 3min.  Awesome full sounding mix too.  Such a fun listen from beginning to end.  Well done!

monstret wrote:

what a surprise, another kick-ass chiptune by disposable planet! love it

rayjkayj wrote:

That bass ain’t no joke! And lovin’ that main melody, makes me wanna get more adventurous with duty cycles.

Thanks for the comments all!  And thanks so much for listening!

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