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Duck and Cover!

By MRDRCAT on November 17, 2024 11:26 pm

This one was thrown together during a particularly hectic day of delayed flights, airport sitting, turbulence, etc. This is what the M8 was made for! I was able to get this almost done, last week's track most of the way there, and two others sketched in.

I was tickled when my twitchy sampling of vintage newsreels inspired mukti to use the Duck and Cover newsreel in their track. Had I not swapped tracks to post Out of Space last week there would have been two tracks with these samples! Anyway. While mukti's PRETA uses these samples ominously in a nice, dark track (it's excellent, please listen to it), I went the exact opposite way to create something cartoonish and silly. Looking back with what we know about the atomic bomb these days, it's a ridiculous "informational" newsreel that in one breath tells how the bomb will blow entire buildings down, and yet in another explains that even a newspaper will help protect you.

This is why I have trust issues (and a dark sense of humour).

I had fun randomising the note slides on a bass patch to create weird bubbly things.

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In hindsight, Daffy Duck doing propaganda videos seems uniquely appropriate.

Love the rubbery bass. And the cartoonish silliness, at least to me, works to amplify the dark subtext by means of the start contrast between the message and its delivery.

Once again, it’s a nicely crafted, cohesive whole. I like how it evolves over time but still stays familiar.

Fantastic. This feels like a great continuation of your Propaganda track (because that’s what duck and cover was LOL). The cheery feel is perfect companion to the whole idea of duck and cover. A little feel of “there is no war in Ba Sing Se” sort of thing, that denial of reality. Cheery yet depressing. Great stuff.

The little breakdown at 1:45 is so fun!!!
Also, great sound design choices all around. It all feels super bubbly and wobbly, hahahaha... That ending was so great too! Hahahah, awesome!

Love the energy of this! The sample treatment works really well with this palette of sounds.

Duck and cover. I remember that from grade school in the 50s the late 50s and also the difference between different schools in the continental United States and other places. I was a military kid (Navy)

Our take on duck and cover was different I think.

We didn’t panic many of us looked out the window, knowing already that we might as well. Look at the mushroom cloud as Cower under our desk.

I laughed throughout this and enjoyed it very much. One thing about news reels they showed us a news reel of an underwater explosion that took out ships or underground explosions that took out houses. then they showed us a news reel of children hiding under their desks. We weren’t stupid. We had some nice arguments with our teachers.

Great work.

Awesome use of the film samples! Super fun, and the chippy bits over the bouncing baseline made me think of the Animaniacs delivering the lines 😂

The synths and sounds really work well together, great stuff!

This is so perfectly absurd and ridiculous and wonderful and completely terrifying. I love it when music keeps me thinking "wow i would have never thought to do that and its awesome" and this is overflowing with those surprises. Well effing done!

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