I had a lot of fun last week chopping up random samples and I decided to do the same for this track. I went into my Splice library and selected different keys to see if I had at least a handful of samples I could work with. I liked what I had under E minor and dragged four loops into Ableton on four different tracks each with a Simpler device in slice mode. I also found a kick, snare, hi hat and percussion sound to create the beat on four additional tracks. I really liked the new single from Caribou called "Honey" that came out last week and the dance beat with the ghost notes on the snare was my inspiration. After I built out the track more, I felt like I had too many sounds and the mix was just too cluttered, so I opted to make a second part and that is where the A-B-A-B song structure came from. I spent more time in Session View this week than I usually do and only went to arrange the track on the timeline Saturday night. I am not sure if that helped or hurt me, but it was an interesting experiment. Thank you for listening!

Tags: electronic, week 15 2024, View by:thgirwnhoj