Climb the Spire
By ViridianLoom on December 4, 2022 7:50 pm
Synthwave, baby.
I've been listening to Synthwave music on and off since around the time Hotline Miami first came out and I was introduced to the genre through it's bad ass soundtrack, but I haven't really made many attempts at it. I made one track back in 2020 called Beyond the Neon Lakes which I was pretty happy with but I figured it's time I try again. I went with a pretty basic beat for a majority of this song just to establish a baseline for writing in this genre. I also bought plogue chipsounds during black friday and figured this would also be a good opportunity to incorporate some chiptune aesthetics. For this song I imagined some kind of action hero climbing a hellish spire (very Mandy-ish vibes in my mind) with the goal of killing it's demonic lord. Really dorky shit, haha. So I had some fun with layering in samples, taking quite a bit of inspiration from Kedbreak's narrative approach . Anyways, this was a lot of fun and I could see trying to write some kind of synthwave/chiptune prog-concept album in the future.
(my favorite part is the villain being thrown from the spire)
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