America Is Determined (For War)
By MRDRCAT on November 3, 2024 11:08 pm
I try to keep my politics to myself but I hit a wall this week after digging into some history. Some things never change. Vocal chops are all from a public domain Coast Guard propaganda newsreel called "Carry the Fight". One of the quirks of how I'm wired is that I tend to remember & internalise things that affect me deeply, like when, at age 9, an amazing schoolteacher spent a 30-minute class period explaining to a bunch of kids how advertising works, why it's effective, and how to look out for it. Ever since then I ask myself: "Who is the audience and in what direction are they getting steered?"
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There's a LOT of propaganda in the US, much of it as blatant (or more so) than the vocal clips in this track. It makes for some scary people. I currently live here in a swing state, so every single day for the past 2 months I've received no fewer than 5 political postcards and 4 text messages (not hyperbole), many of them filled with blatant lies vying for my attention. This country balks at the idea of public health care (or honestly even proper health care for the military veterans they lionise) while there's an endless supply of tax money available to feed the military machine - and via that, the pockets of well-oiled cronyism. I'm just very, very tired. The more I worked on this track the angrier I got because in the 81 years since this newsreel came out, the messaging hasn't changed.
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Sorry. There are feelings. I do like how this one turned out. It's a little cluttered (as is my usual) but has a bit more structure and percussion variety than what I usually do, all of it actually on purpose for a change! I tried to include a few more sounds and a few more themes to play off each other. Most of the patches are my own with the exception of the lead, which is a Wavsynth-based Juno patch called "JunoWave" from Avrildacabra's Modern pack that I've tweaked enough to make worse.
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