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Rhythmic parts made with Tidal Cycles, editing and the final section finished in Ableton. The track samples Hofa's Santa Claus Is Coming.

Tidal project code available below (illustrative, as source samples will be missing of course):

d4 $  slow 4 $ loopAt "[6,2,8]" $ chop "<4 2>" $ sound "Hofa:6*2" # cut 1 # amp 0.7

d6 $ hurry 0.5 $ slice 8 "<~[4 5 2 6] ~ [[4 ~] 5 6 7]>" $  sound "Hofa:1"
# legato 1.1 # gain 1  # hpf 350 # room 0.6 -- # speed 0.5  -- # attack 0.1

d1 $ slow 4
$ slice 8 "3 5 0 2 3 5 2 7"
$ sound "Hofa:3" # legato 0.8 # amp 0.6

d3 $ hurry "0.5 ~ [< 1 4 3 8>]*3" $ juxBy 0.8 rev
$ slice 8 "3*3 5 0 ~ 3 5 ~ 0"
$ sound "Hofa:7" # legato 0.7 # speed "0.5 2"
-- # amp 0.75 # attack "0.025"

d2 $ every 4 (ply "<[1 5] 1 [1 7]>") $ "kick:5(3,8) [~ [kick:5 kick:10]]"   # lpf 550

d7 $ "perc:2(3,8,2) [< Hofa:10 Hofa:12> ~]"  # amp 0.8
      -- # crush 4.5 # hpf 40 -- # squiz 10  # lpf 10500

d5 $ hurry 2 $ every 4 rev $ squiz "5(3,8) 2 10" # n "2 5 1 10" # s "Hofa:0" # offset 0.2 # legato "0.5 1"
      -- # smear 0.2 -- # speed 2

d8 $ splice 8 "0 2 [2 0 1 4 3] 5" $ sound "break:4" # amp 0.6     --  $ hurry "4 1 0.5"
d8 $ hurry "4 1 0.5" $ splice 8 "0 2 [2 0 1 4] 3 5" $ sound "foley:10 break:4 " # amp 0.6  # attack "0.08"

FOHA

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