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Double Trouble

By zpeisman on February 20, 2022 11:11 pm

This week I was back in music mode, so I started early making a tune on the Game Boy using LSDJ. I was finished by the weekend and still inspired to make more, so I used the deadline as a motivator to do yet another tune.

Recorded straight from the DMG in glorious mono with some mastering applied in the computer.

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Epic tune(s)! Very fat sounds and cool spacious arrangement.

great warble on those lead instruments smile love the bass instrument in the second half too!

First lsdj track i enjoyed for a while, good use of triangle wave and wave channel, nice shuffle, lead NOT overused, just right.

Second half I didn't really get to hear

(Track 1) The most baroque-sounding 1:13 "left-hand ostinato" into that funk is something else, kind of genius -- musically satisfying but also a meta/extra-musical genre joke of sorts...
(Track 2) Since hearing the "chorus" functioning melody at 3:06, been waiting the whole song for it to modulate, and the 4:30 moment is an effective way of wrapping that up without adhering to a formal cliche (bridge) -- really love the idea of doing the final transformation at the end without over-emphasizing it.

Really admire your instrumentation / orchestration skills and steady-hand writing throughout your submissions. heart

Definitely sounds like you were in the zone this week.  Both sections have appealing melodies and nice energy.  Gotta love the nostalgic sounds as well.

They both sound glorious.

Dig the nasal quality of that bass tone.  Pokes through the mix.

Sorkfot wrote:

Epic tune(s)! Very fat sounds and cool spacious arrangement.

spry wrote:

great warble on those lead instruments smile love the bass instrument in the second half too!

gesceap wrote:

First lsdj track i enjoyed for a while, good use of triangle wave and wave channel, nice shuffle, lead NOT overused, just right.

Second half I didn't really get to hear

Ipaghost wrote:

ilzxc wrote:

(Track 1) The most baroque-sounding 1:13 "left-hand ostinato" into that funk is something else, kind of genius -- musically satisfying but also a meta/extra-musical genre joke of sorts...
(Track 2) Since hearing the "chorus" functioning melody at 3:06, been waiting the whole song for it to modulate, and the 4:30 moment is an effective way of wrapping that up without adhering to a formal cliche (bridge) -- really love the idea of doing the final transformation at the end without over-emphasizing it.

Really admire your instrumentation / orchestration skills and steady-hand writing throughout your submissions. <3

Thank you for the feedback! Glad to hear the ending of track 2 worked out. That song was too much work in too little time, so I never got the distance to it to know what actually made sense and what just seemed to work due to the brain -> music feedback loop that can happen when you get too much into what you’re doing. smile

CosmicCairns wrote:

Definitely sounds like you were in the zone this week.  Both sections have appealing melodies and nice energy.  Gotta love the nostalgic sounds as well.

Devieus wrote:

They both sound glorious.

rdomain wrote:

Dig the nasal quality of that bass tone.  Pokes through the mix.

Thank you all for the comments, glad you enjoyed. smile

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