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Cold Open

By ineff on January 4, 2026 10:31 pm

🎉 Welcome to Weeklybeats 2026, everyone! 🎉


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100% made and mixed on a Dirtywave M8 Tracker

Awesome upright bass line.   Love all the little details in this one.   Also dig how it has a slightly off kilter feeling at first then comes home with the vocal harmony bit and the jazzy melody before launching into some house/techno jazz mashup.

oh wow this is so cool!!

Great track! Loved the final minute's full chip vibe!

yay breakbeats
enjoy the little lead melody added around 43
great transition into pumping bassline at 56
leads get more engaging through this section, the vibrato and thick reverb is really working with the bassline

fun chip outro and definitely did not see that coming heart

Love the d n b mix with that Jazzy upright bass. Super creative mix.

Very nice. Some MJ Thriller vibes at 1m15.

Great arrangement! Vaguely scandinavian energy to my ear. This was a good segue from 0ctothorpe's submission on the autoplayer.

Super cool vibe on this one.  Love how it starts a little formless and the bursts into being.  Great bass sound.  It takes some interesting twists and turns into some different and unexpected places along the way as well.  I didn't predict at all where we were going to end up.

I don't think I will EVER stop being impressed with your incredible M8 chops, holy fuck man... This sounds so absurdly fresh! Amazing work!!! The female choir-like vocals are especially lovely.
OMG THERE ARE CHIPTUNE SOUNDS TOO!?!??!?! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic start to 2026!!!! I cannot wait to hear what else you make, especially given such a strong start!!!

I wanted to call a track “cold open” for a while, kudos on the title.

Secondly, WHAT A BADASS TUNE. Love those drum chops, the drum work is A+++. Impeccable progression of the track, and I find it this really quite inspiring for how dramatic the changes are while the core identity stays the same. Really, sincerely, spectacular: from crazy drums to the vocal chorus to the housy groove to the chip breakdown: not one of them underdeveloped, every one convincing AF.

FAVORITED + SAVED.

Stoked to be doing this year with you, gonna need to take notes. heart

This is awesome!  Love the breaks and the way it drops to 4 on the floor is great.  I can't believe you sequenced this completely on the M8... what a mission.  Great use of filters in this one. And a cheeky lil pulse wave at the end hehehe.

You pulled the audience directly with that slick upright bass intro. It’s like you pull us by the collar into a smoky bar. You can’t see the musicians with all the smoke but boy is the music groovy. The beat is contagious. I especially dig the vocal elements you put there, it’s so tastefully executed. This whimsical high synth adds a layer of lightness. And then chiptune? Wow what a trip! Thank you for this track, way to start the year!

Oooh slick upright bass and then those breakbeats got me groovin right away.  The vocals take me back and love how you switched it up from the breakbeats to the next section.  Dreamy lead lines drive the track further.  The bass is so catchy when it comes back in around 3min mark.  Hell yea chip tune goodness to round it out.  \m/

hot damn, totally warped me out of a work chat when this hit. This is fire, then again not surprised when I saw the artist tag, welcome back!

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nice groove! Love the wispy sounds and the basses

Heck yes, I love the oldschool dnb vibe at the start and everything this track morphs into. This hypnotized me

Oh yeaaaaaaaaahhh! That baseline is killer, as are the drums and every damn other thing about it. Excellent!

These drums are wild, love it, this is so dope, so many good sounds on here and great transitions, never gets stagnant.

Love every bit of this, all the little ear candies leading to a really nice head bopper. also the chip flavour is a nice touch. good to see you in 2026

Elevator music on steroids

WoW. This is fantastic. Happy new year 2026

What a journey through the different parts. In the beginning I felt like listening to an old Ninja Tunes compilation, in the middle like being in a future arcade and in the end like playing SEGA smile

umm...

WOW
this rules. i shaked my butt over here

Amazing song! The sound has a gentle controlled energy, and I love your melodies.

This is like a lost song from a '70s describing a future we were denied. I appreciate the careful lead melody programming, feels really organic. The unexpected full turn into chiptune weirdly belongs so well here.

Impressive work and such a unique result. No notes, five stars!

This is so fun ineff! 
Happy New Year to you & your fiance!

Holy Moly!

That sounds amazing!!

Love the first section, would love to sample it.

Sucker for upright bass this rocks

Jump up and DANCE!

you got my head bobbin'! i agree, that upright bassline makes the song work right away, but the arpeggiated bassline seals the deal, as well as the transitions etc niiiice

Damn this is mad

this seamlessly transitioned to different worlds - incredible cold open!

The twist and turns grabs my attention, while the returning elements glues it together as a whole. My favorite ingredient is the high sine-like lead.

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