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Captain Marshmallow's midnight cruise

By haleja on April 10, 2022 11:41 pm

I spent the week playing with song ideas and forgot to do a Weeklybeats, so I threw this together yesterday arvo. Ultimately a great problem to have. Weeklybeats has kept my musical muscles engaged, and continues to fuel my compositional journey.

This track was interesting to write. It was quite formless, and just a bunch of melodies, until it wasn't.
Sorta like, putting a puzzle together that visually makes no sense. Every piece depicting squiggles, lines and colours until the last piece goes in, then bam! a picture of a hot air balloon (or whatever).

I totally know that feeling of everything being amorphous and not really feeling like a song until the last piece comes into place.

Beautiful hot air balloon you have here, though! The layered synths fit great together. Lots of auditory interest. Sweet!

Rad beats and stereo effects in the mix.  I like the way it wanders through different variations always changing but always fun.

So cool how you pieced it together! Puzzle songs about marshmallows are the shiz. Lol, but I do get you on the puzzle, sometimes it is hard to see the big picture when working on the minutia!!

Dig the sound here, good stuff!

I think this came together really nicely! Super groovy track and I like the melodic ideas in here a lot as well. Also I really like how everything is mixed. Super fun track, nice work!

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