six fathoms deep - featuring JWH (spooky season five)
By neon liminal on November 3, 2024 10:48 pm
A huge thank you to my good friend the fantastically talented JWH who graciously lent me his vocals and a couple of his lyrics for this weeks track and I confess - I'm not sure I did them justice, they sound so good, and spooky as per the spirit of the season! I have long wanted to compose an echo or response of Josh's track whispering xians, and while I'm not sure this is that echo, I felt like I needed to borrow a couple lines from his song at least once for spooky season, because it's truly a chilling, haunting melody.
This track is not really that haunting or chilling lol. But it's a bit spooky. Composed entirely on the M8, and rendered from there straight to a master - no time to mix in DAW this week. The M8 is a fantastic tool for this kind of music - there's things you can do on it (namely switching instruments on a per-note basis within the same track) that you simply can't do in most DAWs, and it really lets you play around with the glitchy interrupted motif a lot of mid-tempo bass music employs. It's also making me wish I had a larger sample library lol.
After a month of diving into mid-tempo bass/techno, I've learned a lot and come to a couple of conclusions - there's way more to learn, and a week - with my time constraints - is not enough time for me to execute successfully on this genre. The more I learned, the more scrutinizing I became of the arrangement and while I made gains, these last few tracks have been right up against the wire to upload, at a cost of critical listening time and a deeper mastering effort. I'm gonna keep at this type of music because I really enjoy it and it's a great intellectual challenge, but I'm gonna give myself a little more time to work on whatever I try next for it. Thank the elder gods for the gift that is the M8.
Rambling. This coming week might be something less stressful and more ambient lol.
› Lyrics, by me with contributions from JWH in italics
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