Warming Cider
By FrogCity on December 31, 2025 5:13 am
Great first week. After gearing up hard in December 2024 only discover there was no weeklybeats come week one of January 2025, I've been waiting in vengeance with a thirst for the beat. I did use the time to work on and put out two albums I was pretty stoked on, a lot of which happened during RPM in February which had a similar vibe to weeklybeats and was enjoyable. Weeklybeats is better in the weekly cadence and relationships that naturally develop, seeing myself and others grow every week with every submission and in it together is really cool.
2026 I am committed to beating and extracting weekly for 26 weeks. Starting it off right with a weekly beet extract to the rim and weekly beat upload also filled to the 16MB rim. Another first, submitted on a Tuesday instead of minutes before the deadline!
Vision when making this one:
1. x:xx Inevitable brotherly death with visceral brutal melodies, dropped into immediate battle and chaos
2. x:xx Starting to get the hang of things, more organized, more teamwork, let's go y'all, ONWARD!
3. x:xx Onto the boats in rough waters, braving the wind storm, in some ways worse than the battle. All of a sudden the sun comes out, arms are locked, and we are skipping around the boat that we're still alive. Then things get a little mischievous when someone discovers the ale barrels were unharmed in the storm! But uh oh, it was the eye of the storm so here we go again. It's weary but manageable if we did it once we can do it again.
4. x:xx Flash back to a scene in a hut in the mud with a cauldron boiling bright, bubble up bubble up, round and round I stir into the night, dusting off my old tome with coffee stains filling the pages. Stir stir round and round, drop wishes in, stir and stir, the memory begins to blur, the giant wolf outside watches from the firs.
5. x:xx A jolly return to land, fresh food, and easy waters, the end of this journey, so much has happened in just one week.
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Sure woke me up, haha. A speed metal intro definitely works in this medley, and almost makes the rest feel "slow" even though none of it is!
, moreso on the vocal expression skill side of things like Adele is an all time favorite. Taylor Davis I’ve listened to everything she’s put out both because the violin expression is insane as well as I’m a Zelda VGM nut. I can play nearly all the N64 OoT Zelda tracks on the piano which influenced a lot of the way I think about music, maybe weakly connected here in the Dorian sections of the movements as Zelda OoT had a lot of Dorian surprises loaded into the music. Not that my fingers knew it was called Dorian at the time but habits all the same.