Namesake Ft. Chemical Gremlins
By Earp Lug on March 28, 2026 5:25 pm
This is the first song created by my buddy Aaron (of The Video Wizards) and I. We wanted to make a band called Chemical Gremlins but we needed a song to release under the name, and I also need a song to make this week, so let's kill some birds with some stones as a professor I had in college used to say. He was kind of a goofball but I honestly think he just didn't care about anything (including our class) which I am now starting to respect.
Back to the song.
Aaron recorded us saying "Chemical Gremlins" a bunch of times right before he was going to leave for the night after we ate celebratory burgers for helping me do my Napkineater live show for iNept Social on Channel 29 last week. Aaron was dancing around in the background dressed as a wizard of course, and I'd literally called him an hour before the show started. Real pal type stuff.
Anyway, Aaron took the recording and processed it in a bunch of esoteric ways that made it sound sort of drippy and distorted, and you couldn't make out that it was us talking anymore.
I took that recording and a second version that was even more processed and played it over a strange drone piece.
To make the piece, I pressed a single note on my MicroKorg over and over for like seven minutes while messing around with the cutoff, resonance, and attack. I took the feed and ran it through a reverb pedal, then my new harmonizer pedal. I shifted the harmony up and down and all around while the note played through it, creating additional voices that interacted with the droning sound.
I combined two recordings of this and slowly faded between the takes to add additional texture. I may have accidentally done one with another key, but I can't remember. It may just be the harmonizer pedal pushing it down an octave or something. One of the takes was actually an arpeggio playing just that one note, so I may have accidentally shifted the octave or hit the wrong note or something. Who cares, it's still cool.
For the video, I created a feedback loop with a video camera pointed at a TV screen. I sent the camera through a video mixer that inverted the colors, as well as a few color modifiers that decreased the saturation and increased the sharpness until those cool little noodles started to appear. I also slowed the video down so it wouldn't flash quite so fast with a couple effects on the video mixer.
When I recorded the video, I played the audio while holding the camera and moving it around in front of the TV, then synced them back up in my editing software. I added a little contrast and removed some additional saturation that appeared at the edges of one of my hardware color modifiers, slightly retimed the ending to match the end of the music better, and here we go another music video for another week isn't life just grand
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