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False Suffocation Alarm Theory

By sleepside on April 26, 2026 11:27 pm

Noisy drum and bass/panic attack simulator. This one is named after DF Klein's 1994 hypothesis that panic attacks are caused by a hypersensitivity to carbon dioxide buildup, which makes your body think you are suffocating.

Assembled on my Dirtywave M8, but I got to mix in some fun samples for this one.
* Bass is a pitched-down sample of the tannerin side of a Stylophone Theremin
* Kick is the same trash can hit from "A Short Ride in a Hell Machine."
* Claps are the same set of stairwell-recorded claps I've been using this year
* Crash is from a Casio SA-39, extended with retriggers/ratchets
* Nasty chord is a cheap melodica, already out of tune with itself, blown in C Db Gb cluster
* Bottle rocket sound is M8 FM, algo A>B>C>D
* Hats are noise (Wavsynth Noise)
* Arps are wavetables (Wavsynth WT-OSC: Folding)

Bundle link (will include bundles for all my WB M8 Tracks)

Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

So many amazing sounds here! Like really, just a masterclass. Each has its own texture and sits in its own space, but doesn’t really compete for the spotlight — despite many of them being quite bold and attention grabbing. Just a joy to listen to. I finished and queued it right back up again from the top.

I LOOOOVE this. So many coool ass sounds. The super detuned insane synths, the crunchy tom sound, the noise hats, everything. SO GOOOOOOOD.

dude, you're able to mic SUCH wildly different elements in here and still keep the whole thing cohesive as HELL. what is this wizardry?!?! I'm especially a fan of those loud alarm sirens that hold, then bend down.  super cool, man!!!

Sick. this rips.

used to have a Casio SA-35 which has the same sounds as the Casio SA-39. I've been working with samples from that thing recently too. Delightfully lofi.

this is so good!! love that WEE WEE WAOOOOO synth

As everyone else has mentioned there is a great variety of cool sounds side by side playing well together.  I feel like there's a pretty solid groove carrying everything along as well.  Nice one.

This is creepy and intense!

It really ratchets up the tension.

I like how it's almost got a shred solo in it.

You really captured that anxious feeling of time running out. So many cool sounds in this one too. Really love the unusual filter movements on the bass, and the lazergun pew pew going into the dissonant riser.

Man, that filtery, crawly bass at the opening is just amazing. This is such a crazy collage of sounds, but it all ties together perfectly. Really nice work.

jemmons wrote:

So many amazing sounds here! Like really, just a masterclass. Each has its own texture and sits in its own space, but doesn’t really compete for the spotlight — despite many of them being quite bold and attention grabbing. Just a joy to listen to. I finished and queued it right back up again from the top.

Thank you! Working in this kind of "noise" mode feels easier for me to balance sounds because I'm not worried as much if an instrument sounds "right" if I move it up or down an octave

0x_colt wrote:

I LOOOOVE this. So many coool ass sounds. The super detuned insane synths, the crunchy tom sound, the noise hats, everything. SO GOOOOOOOD.

Thank you! The crunchy tom is actually the same sample as the kick, just pitched up. Also, I think you were interested in the bundle on stream? I've edited in a link in the description

jegasus wrote:

dude, you're able to mic SUCH wildly different elements in here and still keep the whole thing cohesive as HELL. what is this wizardry?!?! I'm especially a fan of those loud alarm sirens that hold, then bend down.  super cool, man!!!

Thanks, jegasus! I think the alarm siren is what I called a "bottle rocket," which is FM with the feedback turned up on most of the operators. I think it was a "mess around until you like it" kind of sound, could not explain why it works big_smile

ENC_ wrote:

Sick. this rips.

Thank you! I need to go back through your songs to see where you've used the SA-35. Not here, but I've gotten a surprising amount of mileage out of pitching down the Casio "Cosmic Sound"

dreeks wrote:

this is so good!! love that WEE WEE WAOOOOO synth

Thank you! That's the nasty out of tune melodica sample. It feel like a lot of samples (including the bass here) that work for me are kinda obnoxious raw.

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

As everyone else has mentioned there is a great variety of cool sounds side by side playing well together.  I feel like there's a pretty solid groove carrying everything along as well.  Nice one.

Thank you! Listening back to it, that drum groove sound to me like a mutant cousin of "Hey Mickey." Weird!

NickLong wrote:

This is creepy and intense!

It really ratchets up the tension.

I like how it's almost got a shred solo in it.

Thank you! And like a lot of shred solos, it's mostly the same arp shape moved around big_smile

Dustsucker wrote:

You really captured that anxious feeling of time running out. So many cool sounds in this one too. Really love the unusual filter movements on the bass, and the lazergun pew pew going into the dissonant riser.

Thank you, and high compliment from a bass master. The bass filter has a modulating modulator on the cutoff

deeckzeven wrote:

Man, that filtery, crawly bass at the opening is just amazing. This is such a crazy collage of sounds, but it all ties together perfectly. Really nice work.

Thank you! I was not expecting the harmonically-noisy tannerin to be a good bass, so I gotta give credit to Trash80's filters

sleepside wrote:

ENC_ wrote:

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Thank you! I need to go back through your songs to see where you've used the SA-35. Not here, but I've gotten a surprising amount of mileage out of pitching down the Casio "Cosmic Sound"

It's gotten used in this week's song (week 18) w/ the Honky piano, Synth brass, and E-piano. I had been playing with my SK-1 the prior week and it made me seek out SA-35 samples out of nostalgia. The early casio SA series has a pretty nice sound to them despite being toy keyboards.

I have a PT-100 I wanted to sample and explore a bit of too but it needs an output jack installed first unless I want to mic it up tongue

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