This track was inspired by a thought experiment I did a month or so ago: https://soundcloud.com/unexploration/indie-pop-is-basically-a-remix-of-the-80s

Turns out that 80s rock and indie pop aren't all that different. I thought--OK, I still think that this is a pretty kickass revelation. After that thought experiment, I decided to kick it up a notch and make a whole damn song out of it. I remixed "Let's Dance" by David Bowie because I already had the vocal stem for it, because of this thought experiment. Also, it's a kickass song.

The chord sound was an attempt to emulate the chord sound from this track: https://soundcloud.com/ambalogic/your-love-finest-thing . I got close-ish, although I did some different stuff with the echoing.

I was originally trying to go for a Radio Mirror Park hipster-indie style, but that chord sound and the nifty dry disco-y snare I made for the verse sections (I made the reverb-y 80s drums later) pulled the remix into Com Truise/Trevor Something territory. Which I was totally cool with.

That last line is Herbie Hancock about the Fairlight CMI. 

This is the first track I can think of where I made heavy use of sung vocals--rather, vocals that were ever uttered by humans. (The RapBot is different....and IT SHALL RETURN! Someday.)

I'm getting better at mixing and mastering, which I'm super happy about. I hope you like this remix as much as I liked making it.

David Bowie - Lets Dance (Unexploration Remix)

I started working on this beat around 8:00 PM today. (I'm posting this at 9:45 PM.) I felt like sampling a Bollywood track, so I Googled "best bollywood music 1970s" and found...this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpM0jPd6-7w

"Chingari Koi Bhadke," by Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore, from the movie Amar Prem. 

I just took the intro from that track, looped it, and added BEATS and BASS.

I also managed to make a synth patch that kinda-sorta emulates that classic, perfectly-distorted old-school Bollywood string sound. (I maintain it's probably the best lead sound that exists anywhere.) I still haven't gotten Bollywood melodies down, but that's just time and practice.

For less than two hours' work, I like where this went.

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Messing around wiht the OP-1 as always. I started by playing around with fancier chords than I'm used to. I realized I was out of my depth, so I stuck to 6 and 7 chords, and made a DnB thing with a tinky piano.

Then I found this preset patch called "TWANKLE" and it sounded rad as fuck. So I made a kinda-CoD-ish??? movie-ish??? theme with it. mwahahaha

Also all hail the Amen break.

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Isometricus Voice Work

A Southern Gothic tribute to the dystopian future's most interesting trucker, Dak Rambo.

Featuring my wonderful gf on the autoharp

lyrix and chords

Am
I want to confirm that Beans is dead
I shot that man twice in the head 

Am
From coast to coast in Xanadu
Leaving broken bones in my rear view 

C
I know every damn soul in a fifty-mile spread 
Dm
Half are my friends, the rest are dead

Am
Cuz I'm Daaaaaaaaaaak Rambo 
C
The open road's my range
Dm
A loaded gun's my game
Am

Am
With my buddy Tech here by my side
There ain't no way I'm gonna die

Am
And with Pocks and Z kicking ass with me
No Lone Star chump's gonna get to me

C
If you make a move at my sister's kid
Dm
I'll make sure it's the last thing you did 

Am
Cuz I'm Daaaaaaaaaaak Rambo 
C
The open road's my range
Dm
A loaded gun's my game
Am

Daaaaaaaaaaak Rambo

NeoScum, thanks to the rock-and-roll leanings of its GM @gannon-reedy , has made a new push to (at least for its world) reshape the sound of the magic-cyberpunk aesthetic. Now, the NeoScum hack and < HAX > and slash to punk rock, all screaming guitars and clipped-out drums.

Which got me thinking: I'm putting together a D&D world set in a Fantasy India and grappling with faith and technology, and why not ditch the tablas and Urdu singing for ANGRY ANGRY SYNTH MUSIC?

So here's some initiative music, if this ever becomes a podcast.

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Jeremy Blake made me realize i can sing into an OP-1.
So i ripped off his latest track "Magic"

I had a shawn-wasabi style chord patch loaded in (another idea stolen from Jeremy Blake)...unfortunately i don't remember the chords this thing does.

but hey i sang and it's a public thing thats kinda vulnerable right?

Also i wrote lyrics for the first time in a while

Lyrics:

I want your all
Your breathing
Your heart

It’s been too long
That we’ve been
apart

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I use real name now. I mature artist now.

Ajey Pandey

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