Thanks for sharing the story behind the track, it makes it even more intense to listen to.... It's probably time for me to "decaf" as well...

😌the the changes and the sounds are so relaxing, love you're work man keep it up <3

Decaf was born the same weekend I decided to stop drinking coffee  (after about 10 years and thousands of double expressos - I needed a break for a while). 

This song and my experience in quitting coffee lived almost parallel lives, the first week I had headaches, I was agitated and didn't sleep too well. During this time I was working on this track, frustrated with the ideas, and putting in a lot of hours and making no progress. Things continued like this throughout the week and I considered just putting this song into the "in progress" folder where it likely would be forgotten forever.
 
After that first week, In a last attempt to salvage something from the work I had done I scrapped the core of the track(which at this point was some chord stabs and a big sequenced part from the Moog Matriarch synth) - I removed the tracks and practically started again, keeping the chords but moving from stabs to huge long decaying pad sounds - the sequenced melody remained but now for just 1 bar of the song (before the second verse). Suddenly the track built itself over a few evenings - at the same time, I was no longer feeling so agitated or suffering caffeine withdrawal headaches. 
 
The song, whilst it was so close to being dumped after the first week suddenly started sounding good to my ears again - I guess in some way it was the difficulties and progressions of quitting coffee portrayed into music production.  
Anyway - I hope you enjoy it.

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Decaf

NiElsir / Niall Mulcahy.

I started producing music when I was 14 back in 2004 - at the time free time was all I had and I enjoyed every minute of it - as I got older - life, work, studies all started to take over and for too long I did not have the time to focus on my passion - making music. 

In 2019, I decided to take time off work and focus 100% again on making music - to see if I could get anywhere and enjoy my passion again. I mostly produce electronic music these days - if you want to follow my music journey feel free to follow! 

And if you check out my music, thank you so much!

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