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poly dream

By Jason Nijjer on May 17, 2026 7:56 pm

Listening to Virtual Dreams (Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997) all week, such a great compilation with lovely tracks.  Inspired by those tunes to try something similar but a little more beat driven.  To try and capture that old sound pulled out the Boss Dr-770 (thankfully it still fired up) and recorded all the drums from it.  Sequenced the midi in ableton, so much easier and quicker then trying to program that drum machine.  All the synths were recorded from Polyend Synth and the vocals were sampled from splice.  Everything was arranged and recorded into Ableton to add a bunch of effects plugins to liven things up a bit.  Hope you enjoy this nostalgic tune.

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I like the sound design a lot. The opening immediately grabs my attention. The arrangement is also really good! The track has a nice laid-back feel to it. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

The voices on the off beat sound great

This is dreamy. Really interesting work on the drums with the snare repeats. The high synth gives a pretty vibe to this track. I like how you increase the reverb to close the track, getting a feeling we are going further and further away from the music.

Was not prepared for those gorgeous chords dropping in at 1:20. Such a cool track, love how you keep it super mellow while constantly changing it up and keeping it fresh. Beautiful work!

Love how the drums sound with the filter.  Those dreamy pads are so soothing.  The bass keeps the groove going and such a sweet outro.  Excellent work!

yes yes yes
that snare is so badass sounding. really nice mix, Jason!

What a truly lovely track


Like a lovely pulsing purple soup of swimming synth goodness.

These synths are just pure bliss. I agree with jwh the snare is really killer too. kind of a perfect track and mix right here

Ooh fancy old toy like the hats

Various synth layers connect really nicely

Wow splice vocals too huh I haven’t often reached for those but they sound so nice here and you’ve anonymized them really well with the processing maybe I need to play around more there to save the listeners from hearing mine all the time

Great nostalgic tune. Love those drums sounds you got out. The synths sounds great from the Play, seem to nod to your source of inspiration for sure, I'd like to check out those tunes you referenced, thanks for sharing.

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