you wanna dance? (REDTRASH)
By neon liminal on February 15, 2026 11:15 pm
We get closer and closer to the deadline every week, and this week was hell.
Retro Deep House part deux with a healthy dose of Chicago and a nod to Green Velvet. Continuing my "Love, Sex and Longing in the Void" space-music-deep-house-dub-techno theme, the vibe here is a little dark, the vocal a little ... simple-but-does-the-trick, but it'll get ya groovin'.
› If you'd like a little taste of Green Velvet and Chicago house...
This was made on the Dirtywave M8, with a guest performance from Grandmother - something the M8 excels at is sampling, not only just using samples, but editing, processing and recording. It's weird and amazing that I can plug the M8 into an audio-in from Grandmother and multisample that synth, process the samples, and use them in a song faster than I could if it were hooked up to my DAW on PC. And thus, I multisampled a gigantic three-octave, 8 note chord from the Grandmother, merged all the individual note samples together on the M8 (which uses 32 bit float processing so no need to worry about clipping during this process), and make a GIGANTIC MEGA Fmin7+9 PAD which features extensivelyly in this track. It was super fun and sounds amazing.
Also featured is some new methods of making complex evolving dub-chords on the M8 (or any sampler) that was quite fun, basically just recording a nice long chord-pad using wavetables and filters etc... and then modulating the start point on the M8. Every chord is a little different.
And then last, my fave Green-Velvet-inspired distorted bass features during the breakdown. This was something I made using the macrosynth in the M8 and I think it sounds awesome.
I should stop talking before I hit the deadline lol.
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