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Perfect

By formalprocess on March 3, 2026 1:57 am

It just has to be.

This was made in trains, stations, and hotels, while on travel. 

Q: But K, I thought the m8 was your travel buddy - why did you take the polyend?
A: My m8 was on "performance pause" because I was getting ready to use it in a local show (which went well). Plus the polyend has a radio sampler, which was used to get that vocal chop while I was briefly in Dublin.

Q: This one has a lot of unnecessary ideas in it that make difficult to follow as a listener, why not simplify it?
A: Have you listened to my other work? Let me cook the stew with the ingredients chosen for the moment.  It's more about a place & time & feeling than a genre purist experience.  My world is a chaotic, messy, scary place right now and the music is going to reflect that.

Visuals made from footage from trains into London:

Polyend Tracker - literate station

Audio works licensed by author under:
Copyright All rights reserved

That sample is awesome! Love that the polyend can actually pick up radio. Great beat, love the staccato feel. Sample was the perfect cherry on top.

Paisleyfrog wrote:

That sample is awesome! Love that the polyend can actually pick up radio. Great beat, love the staccato feel. Sample was the perfect cherry on top.

Thank you.  Radio sampling while on travel is so entertaining. I'm a bit hesitant to officially publish using any recorded samples but for things like this, sampling is so fun to utilize.

formalprocess wrote:
Paisleyfrog wrote:

That sample is awesome! Love that the polyend can actually pick up radio. Great beat, love the staccato feel. Sample was the perfect cherry on top.

Thank you.  Radio sampling while on travel is so entertaining. I'm a bit hesitant to officially publish using any recorded samples but for things like this, sampling is so fun to utilize.

I get the concern. Skinny Puppy always used to have a radio as a part of their live set - they would run it with a gate sidechained to the drums hits, so you'd have rhythmic, unique radio soundscapes depending on what moment it happened. I love the ephemeral nature of radio that way - you caught a moment in time with that sample, and I wish it was easier to incorporate into art like this.

Paisleyfrog wrote:
formalprocess wrote:
Paisleyfrog wrote:

That sample is awesome! Love that the polyend can actually pick up radio. Great beat, love the staccato feel. Sample was the perfect cherry on top.

Thank you.  Radio sampling while on travel is so entertaining. I'm a bit hesitant to officially publish using any recorded samples but for things like this, sampling is so fun to utilize.

I get the concern. Skinny Puppy always used to have a radio as a part of their live set - they would run it with a gate sidechained to the drums hits, so you'd have rhythmic, unique radio soundscapes depending on what moment it happened. I love the ephemeral nature of radio that way - you caught a moment in time with that sample, and I wish it was easier to incorporate into art like this.

Yeah I agree that live shows are a good place for this type of license-questionable samples.  I used that 'perfect' sample in another track for a live event last month

Appreciate the Q&A! I strongly believe there is a space between straightforward genre-abiding and non-sensical chaos. It might be a small zone, or a thin line, but it exists, and I think that this track is there as well!

Ashtom wrote:

Appreciate the Q&A! I strongly believe there is a space between straightforward genre-abiding and non-sensical chaos. It might be a small zone, or a thin line, but it exists, and I think that this track is there as well!

Thank you. I'm certainly up for plenty of nonsensical chaos.

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