taro frappé (how could they do this to our stupid man)
By wangus on September 11, 2022 4:54 am
more description to come later maybe
LSDJ
a trek
come thru on wed if ur in seattle. see M8 discord #general-chat
edit 2022-09-19 hahahahahhohohohoho
the meetup was awesome, so cool to catch people irl.
re: this track. i had been planning to revive an old jam from insta on the gameboy for a bit. seemed like a simple vibe that could work well in a lowkey chippy setting.
[meta notes re: that track: iirc i impromptu made it at a friend's "come hang out and do something creative" group hang. i had the OP-1 NITRO filter envelope-following the chords, so it could get really dynamic with subtle live articulation variations. and i love the turn of the lead into the strange Fmaj (? i forget) chord. big Shrug energy into the V-i cadence.]
it didn't work. i should have known, with how wedded i was to the OP-1 instrumentation, that i wasn't going to satisfyingly port it to LSDJ. as a last ditch, i tried some 32nd note arpeggiation patterns. but then i found it sounded Sick slowed down, and it was the seed for this track here. then some cracked-out calls out to the original song's lead melody settle this as a Edgy-Remix-of-a-Track-That-Doesn't-Exist. sort of like mesadata ( @modalmodule described it like that there first )
the arp lent itself to almost hypnotic repetition. kind of strange track structure as a result (the 4-on-floor bass drum beat doesn't deliver until the final minute of the track).
i spent way too much time crafting the breakdown chatter instruments. what sounds like a swept-rate LFO is actually a bunch of HOP loops of progressively longer period. (only two tables total—one that starts fast and slows down, and a complementary one that starts slow and speeds up). if i had more time, i would have added some more bass modulation to further thicken the sound.
i wasn't expecting the callback midsection to get so feverish. it's too busy lmao.
also i fuckin love getting thrown into a blender at the end
edit edit: hohohohhehehehahaahhahahaha
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