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Waiting for Departure

By halfbyte on May 3, 2024 5:41 pm

The base of this is the weird percussion/drum loop that I constructed from some samples I recorded when sitting on deck of a ferry that would bring us back home from a short vacation. For a long time I had no idea where this is going but somehow this slightly jazzy downtempo jungle thing emerged.

Uses a sound from freesound: Catterline Harbour.WAV by inchadney -- https://freesound.org/s/95256/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

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May 6, 2024 11:16 am

scy

I really envy your ability to produce a full five-minutes-or-more track basically every week. The arrangement is top notch as always.

The one thing I'd change is probably the percussion loop, it sounds a bit too hollow to me. But I dig the piano chords!

The filter starting to open up at 3:05 was sooo satisfying smile

Also, did you turn one of the seagull screams into the melodic lead? (The one that starts at 1:59)

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May 6, 2024 2:41 pm

halfbyte

scy wrote:

I really envy your ability to produce a full five-minutes-or-more track basically every week. The arrangement is top notch as always.

Phew, thanks. I more or less take this WB year as an exercise in exactly that, I usually suck at arranging.

scy wrote:

The one thing I'd change is probably the percussion loop, it sounds a bit too hollow to me. But I dig the piano chords!

Fair, I am not super happy with it, The original samples are recorded with my phone on deck, so it's not exactly the best source material, but I could've probably treated them a bit better.

scy wrote:


The filter starting to open up at 3:05 was sooo satisfying smile

Also, did you turn one of the seagull screams into the melodic lead? (The one that starts at 1:59)

Hah, I wish. No, that's just a basic triangle, I think? Good idea tho.

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May 11, 2024 7:08 pm

emily

as someone who has not gone on an adventure in a while - this song gave me really nice adventure anticipation vibes! 

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