Get that fresh clean feeling!

Imagine you found some really trippy spaced-out ambient glitchy music on a really old record.

Now imagine that I totally made up the whole thing.

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The only explanation I have for this title is that this track sounds very reminiscent of BBC Radiophonic Workshop music in their more textural, less composery-themey moods. That therefore clearly leads to thoughts of cheap BBC scifi shows, and their associated cheap costumes and FX.

I suppose that means I could have just as easily titled this track “Look, A Walking Cardboard Box”.

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One of FL Studio’s strengths AND weaknesses is all of the different ways you are presented to export audio out of a project. It’s relatively straightforward to pull individual elements out of a mix, and it’s fairly simple to pull different drafts out of your project.

It’s also pretty easy to completely screw up your export before you close your project without saving, leaving you with a small audio file that has absolutely nothing to do with what you were trying to accomplish, forcing you to redo your project and release a vastly inferior second take.

Because its never as good the second time.

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Heh, see what I did there?

It’s repetitive, it’s maddening, it stretches (dunno how that happened), and if you’re patient, you’ll see why I called it that.

Music To Go Crazy To(tm).

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To continue on the naming scheme, this is Yettu. Yettu is Malayalam for the number eight. I chose this name because it sounded pretty. (Also, I’m an irrationally big fan of Yatta.)

You may have noticed a meta-naming-scheme thing going on, whereas this and the three previous pieces are all numerical. It’s not spooky. The reason is because I dug up these four tracks from the depths of my hard drive, and they were called Dragged Sample 4, 6, 7, and 8. That’s all. That’s it. There’s no rhyme or reason to this. It’s all just an excuse to fill in fields so I can put ambient music I don’t even remember making on the internet.

Just listen.

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For this piece, I decided to bow to the ambient musicians that have come before me and make up a word that sounds cool, but has very little meaning.

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Drone 6 is very much a drone. I find it hard to come up with a plausible story for a piece of drone music to tell, for mine or others. Lets see…

Grooving along…

Stuff is mellow and good…

Oh crap what’s that?

Cool!

See? it doesn’t work.

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So, ok, like, imagine you’re on a big fuckin’ ship, right? Air, water, space, whatever, doesn’t matter, it just has to be big. And imagine that you went and you were just totally tripping out on the whole ride, right? And, like, the only thing that could possibly make it better would be to get totally stoned, right? Completely wasted, just tear a hole in the fuckin’ universe annihilated.

And so, you’re tripping out on this big ship, right? So imagine the captain catches you, and he’s a total jerk, right? He can’t stand that you’re blowing your own mind, so he decides you need to learn a lesson, and throws you into the engine room to “cool off”. And in the engine room, the engines produce these massive huge EM fields, and the whole thing starts duking it out with your high, man, and you’re caught in the middle.

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This is a piece of what I’ve learned is probably Dark Ambient music, and it possibly could even be classified as Isolationism, since to me it sounds like you’re trapped in a confined, loud space, and there’s something out to get you. I don’t know when I made this, but it’s awesome.

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It’s smooth, it’s sad, and the swirling LFO will eat your brain like a zombie.

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I know, it’s a little early.

I named this track “Summer Solstice” ultimately because I grew up in Pennsylvania and that’s where I learned what summer was supposed to be. To me, this track sounds like that hard, bright sunlight of June feels like, and the intensity of everything growing around you is visceral, when it’s hot but not oppressive and viscous like August often is.

Once again, this is one synth, one take. Enjoy.

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