same stars (BLUE ENIGMA)
By neon liminal on May 24, 2026 8:32 pm
MOAR TRANCE. Mostly M8, vox and fills and builds in Ableton along with the mix and master. Trance is basically a playground right now for me, some things work, some things don't, but it's actually a very 'forgiving' genre in terms of what you can do sound-design-wise so it's well set for experimentation. There are conventions to the arrangement too but a lot of flexibility there as well.
It's tricky to master though, because it's basically a wall of sound with precise percussion. The high end is sounding loud to me right now Sunday afternoon on my "makes everything brighter" headphones, but I think it's okay.
This track started out very dub-techno sounding because of some cinematic improv samples I used for the pad, which again, goes to show how the tools can turn something completely different into trance music. The vocals are doing their thing effectively but I'm not satisfied with this treatment yet, more to learn, a lot of variables that can fuck it up.
There will be more trance music to come - the M8 is really suited to building this stuff - but this following week I gotta finish my entry for the Red Means Recording Discord challenge, "found sound ambient", and we are going horror-ambient. I'd planned a horror-ambient cycle at some point anyway so might as well get a start, though we might be alternating genres a bit for a while.
Meanwhile, the horror-ambient stuff is gonna be proving ground for a setup for Starry Night Cowboy.
I ramble because I am exhausted and largely traumatized! Hooray!
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