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Ghosts

By NickLong on June 21, 2026 8:51 pm

This weeks weekly beats is a bit random.
I hadn't done anything at all this week (I wasn't busy it was just nice weather and I had some spiced rum in the fridge).

With only a few hours left I started playing with the awesome new sampler features in Bitwig 6.1 which I'm very impressed with and cut up some random samples including a guitar, flute and some African drums, then added the built in Bitwig 808.

That all sounded quite jolly, but then I decided to layer some super dark synthwave synths with Sublab and Proxima and then add some vocals from Kasane Teto about being haunted.

My daughter has been on at me to get Teto for ages and I finally caved as I want to put some Japanese lyrics into a project I'm working on.
I put Hxvoc in as backing vocals as my daughter suggested it.

Does it work together?

You be the judge. It's kind of a sketch rather than a proper song and weirdly reminds me of 80's Peter Gabriel in some way (maybe the world music elements).
The song is just C, F, Am with a D hanging over every chord for some harmonic interest then a super cheesy chromatic mediant bit for the B section which is maybe a bit more musical theatre than I was going for.

Honestly the bass all by itself sells it for me but apparently I am just that kind of (insert expletive here thats probably not appropriate for wb). I like all the juxtapositions and I thinj there's some really interesting interactions between the traditional instruments and that meaty bass.

It's fun and catchy and I like mix of digital and traditonal instruments. I think the ghost won't leave me alone will be stuck in my head. Great job.

Oh damn this sounds great - especially for a couple of hours as well! Love the percussion. Layers, but agree with Neon - that bass sells the song all by itself. I think you could layer any song with that bass and I’d be like TAKE MY MONEY. Continue to be impressed with what you can do with vocal synths - I might need to break down on one of those eventually smile

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