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much was decided before you were born (spectral door - spooky season two)

By neon liminal on October 13, 2024 9:30 pm

Spooky season week two was a struggle - my M8 battery is suddenly not holding charge longer than an hour, I can't seem to hear anything accurately, and it took three masters to get something that was listenable ... I just don't have the time I need to focus.

I'd aimed for something a little more low-key and open mix this week but I've arrived somewhere busier than I'd like. It's a learning process. It's also descending rapidly into industrial which I don't mind, but there's things I want to learn about mid-tempo bass techno that I'm missing.

Jenny Holzer truism this week is "MUCH WAS DECIDED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN".

Creepy spoken spooky poetry, by me:

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It might not have been your original target, but I absolutely LOVE your industrial flavored dance tracks.

That trashy drum is great. Synthetic sounding BG vocals are fantastic. So much texture. I want to roll around in this track. Love how this has a solid dance feel, but brings the grit and texture. Amazing. Can Spooky Season be all year?

That ending vocal is everything.

MOAR PLEASE.

1st off - WOWZA. i know you had some struggles last week and this wasn't quite what you were wanting to make, but sometimes songs are unwieldy & have plans of their own. i personally love where this went and it feels like the perfect next scene building on last week's track. seriously, SO GOOD.

i think i mentioned to you elsewhere, but i've also had some weird hearing issues this past week. particularly with low freqs. feeling more back-to-normal today, and listening to this today vs last night was a much different experience.

the phrase "much was decided before you were born" - in addition to being so evocative - has such a great rhythm to it. i swear i was hearing it yelled in my head after you spoke it and the beat kicked back in. talk about spooky!

i'm excited to listen in on this journey  \m/

Very cool snare, and the eerie atmosphere is great! The synthetic sharply cut distortions are particularly delicious.

I agree, definitely more industrial than mid-tempo, but still very dope... The pads and melodic elements in this track are just so nice though.  Great dark tone, spooky ambiance... like if you pushed this more toward mid-tempo bass musicy vibes, I think a big gnarly reese bass way forward in the mix would pull away from those awesome pads and textural elements.  Sometimes you just gotta follow where the music wants to go... and this one seems to have lead you someplace pretty awesome. 

Love the industrial sound to this that gave me some 90s NIN Vibes.  The drums sound so good in this especially on those snare hits.  With the transformer-esque synth lines that cut thru ooof yais!  The pad progression toward the end is spot on with those outro vocals.  Goosebumps on ma neck there yikes Def enjoyin these mid-tempo grooves. 

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