orbital cruise (DARKLOVE)
By neon liminal on February 8, 2026 7:41 pm
First M8 track of the year, aimed for sorta-retro-dub-techno, landed on retro-deep house. There's just a few too many limitations on modulating the M8's delay to really hit dub-techno out of the box.
The title is absolutely a play on words. (btw, M8 tracks get their random-generated titles in all caps cuz they're fun and also makes it easier for me to track them down later lol)
Related to that - I'm now helping with the Red Means Recording monthly Discord challenges on the RMR discord, which is a fun monthly song-writing challenge based on a prompt, technique, genre, etc... Last month's challenge was all about granular synthesis, you can watch the stream here:
RMR Monthly Discord Challenge January 2026 - Granular Synthesis
Many of the challenges are theme-based, but we try to make them as educational as they are fun - last year the Chicago House challenge was one of my faves, it was a genre WAY out of my wheelhouse but I learned a lot and made some awesome tracks. Some of that definitely spilling into this week's song.
Which, is also related, because the discord theme for this month is "love" (with plenty of room for interpretation and cynicism if desired lol), and I decided - barring disaster - that I'd theme the next few weeks of tracks as "Love, Sex and Longing in the Void" - space music, and probably space-dub-techno-house nonsense too.
On the notes of barring disaster, it's been a bad week, and it's gonna be another bad week, but we will see how we get through it.
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. The bass is on turbo boost. I really have to learn to program synths like this. Nice work. 
One groovy cruise through the galaxy, please!
