Herding Mythical Mountain Cattle
By jegasus on January 3, 2026 9:46 pm
### Lore
You raise the long floppy brim of your straw hat and try to assess where your animals are. These tree naps can feel pretty magical, but they do come at a cost. The cattle is scattered across all four floating mountains, hiding in the clouds. Or is it fog? Now that you think about it, there's not much of a difference in this place, is there?
Well, it's time to get to work! You break out the flute and start playing deep notes that resonate across all the valleys. Your third and fourth arms (and all eighteen fingers) reach for the koto that suddenly appeared on the ground next to the tree. As you continue playing, you enter a trance-like state and two people spring into existence in front of you: your copies, ready to help, one holding a banjo and the other a violin. You all play in unison and slowly but surely the separate animals move closer to each other. They gracefully coalesce into a single group, their movement somehow dictated by your magical tune. Life can't get any better than this.
### WB 2026, LET'S GOOOOOOO
Yoooo!!!! Look who's back for more!!! We at it again, Weekly Peeps!!!! I'm super stoked to be back for WB 2026! I originally wanted to kick things off like last year with a funny rap song, but I wasn't able to make that happen due to family holiday travels & whatnot. But worry not, I'll likely do at least one silly rap song throughout this year!
It's worth mentioning that, even though I'm super stoked to be joining in WB 2026, I am doing so by giving myself a lot more grace than I did in 2024. This means I am going to be much more willing to allow myself to simply not post during weeks when life gets in the way. I got the streak once, it felt awesome, and now I don't feel like I have anything else to prove to myself in that regard. So the point is to primarily have fun and, if I can't bring myself to have a little something ready on Sunday afternoon, that's just fine too.
Also, 2025 was a year of MAAAAAANYYYYY many 8 bar loops that never graduated into full songs, so I will definitely be going to that well for many of my submissions this year.
### Production details
I've been feeling in a bit of a creative rut recently. In 2025, I released new music on a consistent basis for the Unofficial M8 Community Jams, but more recently I've been feeling super formulaic about my sound and song structure, and have found it kind of hard to break through. Luckily, I've had the opportunity to take several days off work, and I think that has helped a bit. I've been trying to force a few different things in my M8 workflow, and I think it's starting to pay off. Just a few nights ago I was lying in bed before sleeping and was able to create something like four or five kernels of something fun.
Anyways, this particular song ended up coming about during a trip back home. I started at the airport and did most of the fun stuff up in the air. I think it took me about 3h to get the main pieces in the right place and sounding how I wanted them. I then spent a few more hours with super minor sequencing and arrangement tweaks and then recording the video using an updated version of m8gd. The whole track was made on the Dirtywave M8 and what you're hearing is a direct render from the machine that I just converted to mp3.
Many of the sounds here are from a sample pack called "MGF Audio Mega Pack", which you can find on gumroad with a quick search. I love how old videogame-y they sound, it's awesome!
I just want to reiterate how happy I am to be back!!!! Really looking forward to hearing some good old musical weirdness from y'all. The year off was very nice, but I'm ready to be back!
Ok, that's enough writing from me. See y'all soon!!!
PEACE!!!
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Love the pluck sample too! Great job!
