They Are Stealing Your Attention (Ft. evilyn)
By Earp Lug on January 7, 2026 12:17 am
I am immensely inspired by Slay Bells's "Treats" if you can't tell.
For this one I preprogrammed certain drum sequences on my Roland TR-8. I then created a patch that synchronised my Stylophone DS-2 to the TR-8's tempo using my Volca Drum and a sequencer sending a signal every four bars to the reset function on the DS-2, and then sent one of the DS-2's oscillator's output into my Behringer Neutron's overdrive input. I gave it a higher range than all the following kicks so the beat would really blast your speakers in combination with the following low-end kicks. I then split the reset signal coming from the sequencer and used it to trigger the filter on the Neutron, and gave it a short attack and decay in order to make it a fairly snappy kick.
I then used the other oscillator to make a low kick, pulled a kick from my TR-8, and created a kick from the Volca drum for good measure. I ended up taking one of the low-end kick tracks out because it was totally blowing out the track, but I'm not sure which one.
I synchronised my MicroKorg's arpeggiator with the TR-8.
When I recorded, I played some keys, brought in drums, and noodled around to make the music feel layered without (hopefully) feeling overly complicated.
Finally, I mixed the final results, mostly adjusting volumes and EQ to clean up the various tracks, and added my wife's voice singing the lyrics. I pitch-shifted her singing, added a little reverb, and automated the volume so her voice would come in and out like an instrument.
For the music video, I made a digital collage using royalty-free assets and a heavy use of the Threshold effect in Photoshop inspired by the work of Alfred Valley, inverted the colors, and then moved the image around to the beat in Premiere Pro. I edited it at 640x480 and I didn't like how Premiere scaled up the image so it felt softer, so I added an additional threshold layer using color curves to make the lines feel sharper. It also made some of the moving lines twinkle in a way that I thought was cool, sorta reminiscent of old computer graphics.
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