This Is No Mountain [Collab with Cailen]
By Kedbreak136 on May 15, 2022 2:22 am
This week's track was a collab with Cailen (https://weeklybeats.com/cailen). It did take longer than a week because I am a pretty bad collaborator when it is about reverting promptly, but the experience was fun and I like the result.
We started from trying to get an image as a seed for the concept. Here is the image we ended up with:
(Image from Art Station, by Daniele Gray)
This mix of ancient mechs sleeping in a medieval world were also reminiscent of the Castle in the Sky movie by Ghibli, or also Nausicaa, which both deal with ancient civilizations with war robots which ended up destroying themselves.
Cailen came up with very cool piano melodies and some beats that are definitely not something i'd come up with (as i know only two time signatures - 4/4 and 6/8). There is some Buckethead like robotic riff in there also, that was just so appropriate. We exchanged a few rounds of additional melody ideas and instruments before Cailen did the bone structure of the song.
I iterated on it based on the following story - an indigenous tribe celebrates a festival with drums, singing, and flutes but the beat happens to awake what seemed to be a mountain. The robotic heart starts beating, and it starts to raise, break the surrounding rocks, and finally get free. And it goes on doing what good old human technology at its pinnacle does - shoot everybody in sight with pew pew lasers before overheating its ancient core and self-destroying in a bright orange fireball.
Thanks Cailen for the collaboration, sorry for always being late! I enjoyed it, let's do it again in the future! 
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