Cordyceps Rhizome Up Version
By miraclemiles on May 10, 2026 11:42 pm
This week's track is also my contribution to this week's Disquiet Junto project. The assignment: Record the final third of a trio. I look forward to participating in this asynchronous collaboration every year. I was reminded again this week that I love collaboration, async or in sync. We all have our skills and perspectives. Nice to bring them together. I could not play this bass line, and I loved listening to and playing along with it.
The collaborators are: Daniel Diaz's part 2 or 3 "Cordyceps Dub." He said: "I initially wanted to push it into a dub direction — not sure it fully works — but I had fun adding delays and plate reverbs to bring out that feel." and Benn DeMole's 1 of 3 "Cordyceps". It looks like he didn't post any notes, but his part is the tubuler(?), resonating and bell like main percussion.
This isn't the first year I have async collabed with these artists, they are great, check them out.
I also thought dub direction, but also, not sure what it really is other than what it is, the thing that it is. I played drums, added rhythm chords, voices, percs, and other little bits of auditory mycelium. Spread verb and delay. Used a comping drum process I like when playing on a new song with limited time. Looped phrases and recorded multiple takes, then using Ableton's take lanes to pick which is best and repeating through the song. Best to stop as soon as something tickles.
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funky bass and chill melodica that had me grooving with the awesome drums. Excellent work!