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Dancing in My Mind With Karma

By geopet on February 1, 2026 6:41 pm

This is the final track that I produced after 31 tracks of Jamuary this year. Jamuary tracks are interesting to me because they're not an exercise in production quality due to the time constraints, but they do force me to make fast choices and move forward.

This song was inspired by almost a request from a friend who had been following me throughout this past month. They were asking for me to do a chop of this classic song and then do something with it. I chose to go down a different path but with the same spiritual intent.

This song took me way out of my comfort level. What you'll hear are my vocals that have been very lightly treated and with a little reverb added to them. The tonal shift to the song was something that came later in the process, I thought it was fun at the time, but if it hadn't been a Jamuary, I'm not sure if I would have stayed with that path or if I would have gone even harder into it.

I stayed working within Ableton again this week. It really allowed me to change my music production thinking.

Without Jamuary to pressure me to make music, I'm both excited and a bit worried about what future weeks will look like this year. It should be an adventure.

Thanks for listening. Have a great week!

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Love the journey you take us on here, and to round it out with that double-time-beat near the end was the perfect compositional choice heart

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

Love the journey you take us on here, and to round it out with that double-time-beat near the end was the perfect compositional choice heart

Wow! Thanks for the kind words and for giving it a listen! I appreciate it. big_smile

Jamuary seems too intense for me, I can't spend days making patches. Doing a patch a day would be crazy indeed. Congrats, really enjoyed this, vocals are perfect, love the tension and interplay of all the elements.

The synths have an appealing texture and progression.  The vocals are a great addition and the speed-up at the end was a nice surprise.  Fun video, too.  I agree with mzunguko though, Jamuary sounds crazy.

mzunguko wrote:

Jamuary seems too intense for me, I can't spend days making patches. Doing a patch a day would be crazy indeed. Congrats, really enjoyed this, vocals are perfect, love the tension and interplay of all the elements.

Thanks for listening! I appreciate the feedback on the vocals, too. Music production and sharing it is always a weirdly uncomfortable thing for me. But doing vocals just takes it to another level. I'm glad you thought they worked! smile

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

The synths have an appealing texture and progression.  The vocals are a great addition and the speed-up at the end was a nice surprise.  Fun video, too.  I agree with mzunguko though, Jamuary sounds crazy.

I appreciate you giving this a listen! I'm glad you enjoyed the build up as well. It was just where the song went while I was trying to find a way to really make this a track.

You and mzunguko are both right. Jamuary is pretty intense. But it really pressures you out of your comfort zone, and if you do it the way I did, it forces you to try techniques you normally wouldn't just to keep things fresh. This is the second time I've done the full month, and it gave me such an interesting sense of relief and pride that it was over. hahahah!

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