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Power Starving

By noggin on June 17, 2022 1:08 am

Leaning heavy into FM and some beta features on the m8 again this week. Made 100% from FM instrument, then slightly-slowed in audacity to get some resampling grit, just to give it a slightly different flavour than the raw m8 recording (+ a dose of numerology).

This one was definitely inspired by some early electronic pioneer sounds. Kind of interesting how different 'chip' sounds become when the focus is on fm vs steppy oscillators. Still sounds chippy to me, but definitely not like something you'd hear in an 80's living room.

Hope yall enjoy

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Was going to ask if the runtime was an accident then read the numerology bit.

Really lovely, this, Detroit vibes, that damn slide on the pads + those FM percussives are really really dope.

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Excellent! I like how the (very pretty) lead lingers in the background.

not a lot of layers, but nice attention to detail/contrast between them.  the small-scale chippy bleeps (which still gets some elaboration midway through), the medium-scale bass groove, the longer-profile spatial pads gluing things together.

ilzxc wrote:

Really lovely, this, Detroit vibes, that damn slide on the pads + those FM percussives are really really dope.

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zpeisman wrote:

Excellent! I like how the (very pretty) lead lingers in the background.

Thank you! Hadn't considered it in terms of linger and I really am glad you said that now.

wangus wrote:

not a lot of layers, but nice attention to detail/contrast between them.  the small-scale chippy bleeps (which still gets some elaboration midway through), the medium-scale bass groove, the longer-profile spatial pads gluing things together.

Thank you. The minimal minimalism was by design, so happy you have picked up on and appreciate that.
Thank you.

Thank yall for the comments - this is one of my favorites.

Checking out the original tune after the excellent ilzxc rejiggle. Would be a toughie to pick the favorite. Love the lead and the general structure is top notch from my pov. I'd slap the young self for thinking FM sounds simplistic. The older I am, the more I love it. Especially for the low frequencies.

jimmac wrote:

Checking out the original tune after the excellent ilzxc rejiggle. Would be a toughie to pick the favorite. Love the lead and the general structure is top notch from my pov. I'd slap the young self for thinking FM sounds simplistic. The older I am, the more I love it. Especially for the low frequencies.


Same! This is a groove right here!

came here from the remix, nice bass. like the triple breakdown.

jimmac wrote:

Checking out the original tune after the excellent ilzxc rejiggle. Would be a toughie to pick the favorite. Love the lead and the general structure is top notch from my pov. I'd slap the young self for thinking FM sounds simplistic. The older I am, the more I love it. Especially for the low frequencies.

This whole track was sort of an excuse to make myself appreciate FM even more. Not that I don't, I've done entire projects where I have limited myself to FM and that really helped. This one in particular was to try out the new CLK shapes.

Ipaghost wrote:

Same! This is a groove right here!

Appreciate the grooving! I have been appreciating your FLP files lately - thanks for those! Love the tunes.

gesceap wrote:

came here from the remix, nice bass. like the triple breakdown.

Thanks homey - appreciate that. Restricting it to FM really made me feel at home in a nanoloop way with the sounds.

noggin wrote:

Ipaghost wrote:

Same! This is a groove right here!

Appreciate the grooving! I have been appreciating your FLP files lately - thanks for those! Love the tunes.


Thanks! Glad to see some other FM aficionados here!

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