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we know where you'll go (unknown light - spooky season three)

By neon liminal on October 20, 2024 8:28 pm

Welcome to spooky season week three!

My dear friend Diana, a great and powerful witch, provided vocals for this week's mid-tempo spooky techno track and they are absolutely terrifying. Thank you Diana! It's good to know someone will know where I'll go when I die.

Created on the M8 once again, which will finally get its battery replaced if I get time today now that the song is safe and sound. I am pushing the 8-track limit a little. Final mix was done in Ableton, the creepy poetry added there as well.

No Jenny Holzer truism this week - kind of made my own, as you'll hear.

› Creepy poetry, by me, read by Diana

Two more weeks of this ... exhausting but fun! Stay spooky, weirdos.

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i don't know whether to cry, dance, run, scream, break something, or all of it
this. is. fucking. incredible

wow. Those vocals! Diana killed it. Love the switch up around 3min. This is amazing

Blown away at all the sections in this. Love the intro, and when the beat first asserts itself at 1:05. Great writhing, grindy goodness. Kicks everything up a notch at 2:15-2:20 with overblown tones...that scream was awesome...and then all the lushness at 3:00. Great circling back to the aggressive beat at 4:40....and ending with that whisper.

Amazing. This is a mid-tempo techno suite. It has movements.

When everything goes dry after the first minute, it's got really chilling effect. Excellent idea!

Dope track.  The little stutter at 1:26 is awesome, and bass that kicks in at 2:20(ish) a killer reese. 

oooo i really love that growing distorted bass. very smart to give that lots of room to shine. can i just say, this is an incredible mix, so much space and depth and atmosphere. the piano-ish chords are dope with the noisy pads swirling, definitely my favorite part. epic. I think you are really good with this spooky season theme and inspiration. You don't over do it which i think a lot of people do to try to sound spooky, you are just really good at it. favorited!

I've listened to this a couple times this week. It's so so good. The intro poem is magic and the entire song reeks of Dragula in the best possible way.
Magnifique.

Ooof the intro reminded me a bit of GUNSHIP's "Tech Noir".  The spooky apocalyptic filtery feel of the intro gets your attention right away.  Some awesome industrial feels when that huge synth gets going ooooh and then the bouncy bass arp line rockets everything into epic territory. Ohh yais and the housey cymbal loop with those gritty synths \m/  Always a fan of how thick you get your synths to sound.  Love how the bass just hovers there at the end like a bad ace.  Excellent work!

jwh wrote:

i don't know whether to cry, dance, run, scream, break something, or all of it
this. is. fucking. incredible

Thank you heart also a normal reaction to most things I create!

SQF wrote:

wow. Those vocals! Diana killed it. Love the switch up around 3min. This is amazing

Thank you! Diana had a whole factory to scream in, it was fantastic.

Paisleyfrog wrote:

Blown away at all the sections in this. Love the intro, and when the beat first asserts itself at 1:05. Great writhing, grindy goodness. Kicks everything up a notch at 2:15-2:20 with overblown tones...that scream was awesome...and then all the lushness at 3:00. Great circling back to the aggressive beat at 4:40....and ending with that whisper.

Amazing. This is a mid-tempo techno suite. It has movements.

Thank you! Yes we did a little synthwave diversion here for fun. My original concept had been all static and screaming but I realized it needed some fun too lol.

rplktr wrote:

When everything goes dry after the first minute, it's got really chilling effect. Excellent idea!

Thank you! So much of mid-tempo seems to be about interruption, drop and glitch, it's very complex and fun to learn.

Napear wrote:

Dope track.  The little stutter at 1:26 is awesome, and bass that kicks in at 2:20(ish) a killer reese.

Thank you! Reese definitely inspired by your comments last week lol

nedsferatu wrote:

oooo i really love that growing distorted bass. very smart to give that lots of room to shine. can i just say, this is an incredible mix, so much space and depth and atmosphere. the piano-ish chords are dope with the noisy pads swirling, definitely my favorite part. epic. I think you are really good with this spooky season theme and inspiration. You don't over do it which i think a lot of people do to try to sound spooky, you are just really good at it. favorited!

Thank you, means a lot to hear really appreciate the deep listen heart I struggled with the mix and master on this one so I'm very glad it turned out well in the end.

BarristerPlong wrote:

I've listened to this a couple times this week. It's so so good. The intro poem is magic and the entire song reeks of Dragula in the best possible way.
Magnifique.

Thank you! It probably needs more filth! It's got a good amount of glamour and horror though.

Tone Matrix wrote:

Ooof the intro reminded me a bit of GUNSHIP's "Tech Noir".  The spooky apocalyptic filtery feel of the intro gets your attention right away.  Some awesome industrial feels when that huge synth gets going ooooh and then the bouncy bass arp line rockets everything into epic territory. Ohh yais and the housey cymbal loop with those gritty synths \m/  Always a fan of how thick you get your synths to sound.  Love how the bass just hovers there at the end like a bad ace.  Excellent work!

Absolutely a fave GUNSHIP track - love the John Carpenter opening and yes, definitely inspired most of this month's tracks. I'm running with the industrial feel lol - I was noticing a lot of early NIN in REZZ tracks and decided to throw some early NIN and early REZZ onto the same playlist on shuffle and I gotta say ... 50% of time time I can't tell which is which in the first 30 seconds if no one is singing lol. There's a huge connection there.

Synths are all M8 native stuff - along with the M8s distortion/saturation options and filters you can make some really deep, filthy thick bass synths, it's fantastic. Thank you heart

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