Trauma Archeology
By orangedrink on March 16, 2024 4:47 am
Random note: This song features a subwoofer tone that may not show up on your system!
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Neat companion track to last week's tune! Digging the changeup in the rhythm of the guitar strums. 
This one has a nice groove to it. I like the hip hop feel you have going on. The guitar chord stabs sound really nice. I like how you used them like a drum kit piece.
drums feel so tight, love the application of those short delay times to some of the hits.
very evocative track title.
Cool little sound effects on the 2 and 4. I like how sometimes it rattles, like at 1:46, and other times just clicks. Same thing with the kick drum sound on 1s and 3s, sometimes they rattle or drag. Keeps it mixed up.
Very chill beats. Always a pleasure listening to your stuff, OD :-)
The loop becomes quite hypnotic as it goes on and the skittering percussion was cool.
Really cool groove, the drums are really interesting to me and as usual the mix sounds solid and great
That tight beat against the weird lazy piano is just perfect. This is like a party at a zombie club, with zombies clumsily lurching around, yet they are ALWAYS right on the beat. Really cool atmosphere you built there. I would not mind a hapsichord solo midpoint or maybe some trumpet, just to add some random texture. Perfect outro track for a gig.
I'm not hearing it I think, and it makes it feel monotonous maybe
It's also a little too anxiety inducing for me
- Ebrit
Oooooh I hears it. Gave me some dark reznor vibes when it thickens the whole mix up. I like the stuttery parts that become their own lil breaks/fills. This has a prelude/intro-ey feel to last week's track. I appreciate the dark hypnotic vibes 
beautiful transition into the beat. I was just watching some j dilla stuff explaining about weird timings. feels like this one has some spiritual connection to those, maybe direct or maybe indirect thru the genre.
feels a bit like one of his beat tapes, i.e. not quite a full song but a great vibe. nice playing the effects, the delay and whathaveyou from the middle of the track. I didn't watch the video this time. I couldn't hear the sub on the studio monitors but I could kinda hear it on my trusty old shitty headphones. well done!
Love the groove on this one!! Rad jam. Love the video too - cross-off at the end is classic! hehehe
That initial guitar tone drowned in reverb is straight early Dead Can Dance (like in "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated", or "Ocean", or "Indoctrination (A Design for Living)"). That's some powerful memories right there! Even the title you chose would fit the DCD vibe.
Getting a subwoofer in my studio was ear-opening to me, if I can butcher the phrase so. So yeah, I do hear the low tone! It doesn't translate to the phone, which I had issues with on tracks of my own. I solve this with the Waves Renaissance Bass plugin, which adds some of that sub-bass content into the bass spectrum that's well reproduced on laptops, small earphones, and Bluetooth speakers. It's easy to overdo it so I typically dial the big fader down to like -6 dB or even -9 dB. But it helps a lot, you can hear it in all of my tracks essentially.
I like the guitar drone loop here. I think if you interrupted it with some "B Theme" in the middle of the track, the return of it would feel welcome and powerful. But I'm nitpicking!
Love that washed out guitar sample that opens up the track. Nice jam!
