Dennis Soda
By jetjaguar on January 2, 2026 7:19 pm
Aims for this week
Week one, here I am trying to do something I like that's not like the music I usually release:
30+ BPM faster than I usually work
Very little in the way of pads or sustained sounds
Almost no delay fx or dub influences - there's one part with delay on it, two sounds with reverb
Focused on the body more than the brain
Very little textural / timbral changes, almost all changes that happen over time are just to volume. Sometimes I send the drums into a phone-line amp emulation and the last stab sound that arrives in the track has some evolving pulse width that changes its timbre each time.
I do routinely use field recordings in my music. For this one I recorded my cat Dennis purring himself to sleep and because it's the middle of summer the sound of soda poured over ice. But again, timbre-wise, I really left these alone. No echoes even! There's volume ramps on the purring to bring it in and out every half bar, and I play the soda recording backwards as an outro.
I'm not sure I know much about how to mix dance music, but I was thinking about bone dry and kinda raw mixes from what got called microhouse about 20-25 years ago on labels like Perlon and Playhouse. Doing great mixes is also not one of my aims from trying to do Weekly Beats.
Name confusion
I changed the name of the track from Purring, Pouring to Dennis Soda but didn't realise the change wouldn't take in the file name and the page URL. Ah well.
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