Defense Against the Neutral Arts (WB22)
By spry on June 5, 2022 5:42 pm
Had LSDJ on my Gameboy out because I'm prepping to play a festival and came across a partially completed song that would have never seen the light of day otherwise and decided it was going to be the skeleton for my weeklybeat!
Recorded the patterns out of LSDJ and lined them up to a basic beat in Ableton. Laid down a bass track and a drum track with a Turkish darburka to fill out the percussion both in single takes (!) and then did two vocal takes to lay over each other for harmony. I mixed each track as I recorded it so I could record listening to all the previous parts. That made harmonizing a lot easier it turns out (duh). A nice chunk of reverb and several compressors and were done in about 3 hours!
Lyrics:
Did you find out
What this thing is all about?
Are you willing to pretend
That this will never end?
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Listening back to this, I'm really liking the juxtaposition of the arps with the analog bass and live percussions
