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The Long Night

By onezero on December 21, 2014 5:59 pm

A very unintentional track--based on a comment a friend made about wanting to stop listening to noise and start listening to disco, I thought "what about noise disco?" So I came up with some very inside beats which I bitcrushed.  I added some bass, which didn't sound right with the bitcrushing, so that just got some distortion (Amp on Bass O))) setting).  Added a bit of crushed Operator for organ and Electric for a key accent, some guitar and baritone guitar (not crushed, but one channel of guitar got a lot of Reuss RF-01), put it together, and here we are.  (Not totally happy with this one, but it has elements that work.)

Title from the fact that this is the solstice and the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere, but it's also, apparently, the longest night ever in the history of the planet.  Makes you think.

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An unusual, but very cool combination of musical elements. Noise disco is definitely a genre with potential!

Plantrain wrote:

An unusual, but very cool combination of musical elements. Noise disco is definitely a genre with potential!


Thank you!  On the way in to work I was listening to it, and I realized...that I totally forgot to pan anything.  (Needed to finish up to keep up with the kids.)  This is essentially a mono mix.  So I'm going to have to see if I like it better with separation. 

Industrial disco -- most definitely! What about crushing the (usually insipid) vocals as well?

Jim Wood wrote:

Industrial disco -- most definitely! What about crushing the (usually insipid) vocals as well?


I totally missed that--of course this needs a bit-crushed vocal!

I think DFA would approve !!! Be careful or noise-disco would be taken away from you and put in silver characters on a Vice cover smile

Great concept, unexpected track, bass tight as f**k smile Really nice work

About the mix I am definetely hearing some snares on the left side, for sure... Anyway, I forgot to master my track, so I feel you, man

works really well!

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