All in my Head

Me & Mine also carries with it much symbolism. I wanted to somehow portray an experience of diving into a pool of strange liquid that also can affect time. The senses are affected immediately, giving every vibration a strange underwater echoing aftereffect that reverberates and bounces back after a short time. This song again symbolically pits three against three. The first half belongs to the modal 4-note voiced synth pads, synth lead, and drums, and the second half belonging to the humans; Inho Park on bass, Malcolm Engel on congas, and the original drumbeat minus snare (me). The synth-lead line of the first half is constructed of a pattern that moves up a perfect fifth and down a whole step over and over, except for the two occasions when the interval changes from a perfect fifth to a tritone in order to reach the peak note (F#) before descending back down again. You could say this is my personal interpretation of dubstep (wub). The piece then reaches its halfway point, going into a break down that revisits the rhythmic drop in the beginning. Park and Engel came to me separately within the same day, and I was able to witness and aid in the construction of a long-distance homage to OG drum and bass tracks that once started an EDM revolution (I’d agree there is something very primal about it). The childish side of me likes to think of this song as a comic book challenge between the robots vs. humans doing musical battle. Who will prevail?? You decide!

All in my Head

Aaron Gamalinda