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Ciento treinta y dos

By laguna on February 8, 2026 11:56 pm

For those who don't speak Spanish, this week's title means "One Hundred and Thrirty Two", the actual BPM of my track.

I'm getting out of my confort zone, for sure. I'm a huge, HUGE techno/house lover, though every time I try to dip my toes on the genre the results are quite lame and boring. I'm so used to work on my downtempo stuff, that usually I'm a little bit lost when it comes to building a proper club track.

It all started with Renoise version 3.11, the last version which supports 32 bit plugins and also some sort of "baseline" for me. I make all my instruments there so they're portable across multiple platforms.

I was messing with a bunch of Roland TR 909 samples from various sources, trying to achieve that punch and swing. I made almost all the beat programming on Renoise 3.11, but then I needed a couple of synths and that version does not support VST3 plugins, so I continued on Renoise 3.4.4, did my best to structure the song until I really run out of tricks to properly compress and limit the track properly.

I spent almost all Saturday and Sunday on Renoise and when I finally bounce the project to stems, my trusty Mid 2012 Macbook started behaving funny, mainly because it has 2 hard drives inside and one of them - the mechanical one - is in its last legs, I think.

Well, long story short : this was mastered in less than 50 minutes. I'm not really happy with the "chorus" (some FM Dexed patch I created without really understanding all those Yamaha envelopes). At least the basic bassline has some swing IMHO.

I wanted to add some other synths here and there, like soft high arpeggios, or even better, a floating pad but... I run out of time. It's quite incomplete, as I see it, but his is Weeklybeats.

Any advice on the mix or the arrangement? Suggestions are welcome smile

I'll try to catch up with all those great comments. Real life brought me some serious boring stuff I had to take care, and now finally I have a break.

You are all wonderful, WB People. Please take care and be happy !!!

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February 9, 2026 6:24 am

franky

Your drum programming is fantastic, step out of your comfort zone more often. I would love to hear more songs like this. 

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February 10, 2026 3:15 pm

MRDRCAT

Agree with franky, these drums are great! Nice full sound all around. It would be cool to hear your vision with synths/arps/pads added, but as it is, this track moves and grows well and could just be minimalist.

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February 10, 2026 3:43 pm

Tone Matrix

excellent drums indeed! sweet transitions and intricate fills. I agree with mrdrcat that it could also just be minimalist. It gave me some Underworld vibes too.  well done!

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February 10, 2026 5:01 pm

laguna

franky wrote:

Your drum programming is fantastic, step out of your comfort zone more often. I would love to hear more songs like this.

Thanks a lot for the trusty words. Means a lot. I'll try to go to the "uptime place" more ofter, from now on smile

MRDRCAT wrote:

Agree with franky, these drums are great! Nice full sound all around. It would be cool to hear your vision with synths/arps/pads added, but as it is, this track moves and grows well and could just be minimalist.

I've been doing some subtle arrangements in the mix. Basically adding some soft sidechain and EQing here and there. Maybe I could improve this or just create another song.

Thanks a lot for listening and the encouragement smile

Tone Matrix wrote:

excellent drums indeed! sweet transitions and intricate fills. I agree with mrdrcat that it could also just be minimalist. It gave me some Underworld vibes too.  well done!

Hey, Underworld !!! That's a hell of a compliment in my book: one of my favourite electronic bands ever.

I'm glad you liked the drums. I was afraid I abused the "crash rise" too much, though it seems to work every time. I've improved the dynamics a little bit, and the whole "wub wooub" bassline got a simple improvement adding a little bit more delay. Anyway... I'll try to revisit this techno vibe more often.

Thanks a lot for the kind words, Eric smile

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February 12, 2026 3:01 pm

jwh

Esto es tan nítido y claro heart

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February 13, 2026 7:33 pm

NeonRebar

Great tune! Love the floaty thing moving around the kick. I used love to listen to house in my IT days. Now I still listen when doing my home IT chores in Proxmox and OPNsense. I doing a backup right now! woohoo@!

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February 15, 2026 5:53 pm

emily

this is fun

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February 16, 2026 11:14 am

2haf

The soundscape tickles my brain and makes me think of dark futuristic cities. Hihats crispier and fresher than a stick of celery.

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